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        "title": "Drypoint - Ocean Surface - Second State",
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        "measurements": "Sheet: 60.8 x 48.1 cm (23 15/16 x 18 15/16 in.); Platemark: 19.7 x 25.1 cm (7 3/4 x 9 7/8 in.)",
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        "edition_of_the_work": "55 plus 12 artist's proofs and 6 edition proofs",
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        "inscriptions": [
            {
                "inscription": "center left, in graphite: 49/55 ; signed, center right, in graphite: V. Celmins ; VERSO, lower left, in graphite: VC84-3101 ; lower left, stamp in gray ink: \u00a9 Gemini G.E.L. Los Angeles",
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                    "description": "Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 229): June 27, 2011 - September 14, 2011.",
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        "description": "Vija Celmins's work is obsessively detailed and meticulously crafted, revealing her devotion to the act of making art. Printmaking appealed to Celmins in part because she enjoyed practicing the same techniques that artists utilized centuries ago. She once said, \"A lot of us have lost of lot of skills over the years.\" Working from photographs taken near her home in Venice, California, she made several graphite drawings and prints of the ocean. Celmins's choice of ocean imagery is not driven by its potential to suggest place and evoke meaning, but rather by the artistic opportunities it offers. \"I like looking and describing, using images to explore the process of making.\"",
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                "citation": "\u201c1993 Annual Report.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 81, no. 6 (July 1994): 143\u2013218.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 167",
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        "creditline": "John L. Severance Fund",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:51:45.965000"
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