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        "tombstone": "A Word Made Flesh: Front, 1994. Lesley Dill (American, b. 1950), printed by Landfall Press. Photolithograph, aquatint, etching, and sandpaper; sheet: 72 x 54.5 cm (28 3/8 x 21 7/16 in.); secondary support: 76.2 x 57 cm (30 x 22 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1995.220.2",
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        "title": "Front",
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                "inscription": "signed, lower left, in graphite: LESLEY DILL 1994 4/25 ; VERSO, by workshop, lower left, in graphite: LD-94-02",
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                    "opening_date": "2015-03-22T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 455214,
                    "title": "Photographs in Ink",
                    "description": "<i>Photographs in Ink</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 20, 2022-April 2, 2023).",
                    "opening_date": "2022-11-19T05:00:00"
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                    "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art (4/19/97 - 7/21/97); \"Contemporary Prints:  Recent Acquisitions.\"",
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                "description": "Charles M. Young Fine Prints & Drawings, LLC, Portland, CT",
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                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "date": "December 4, 1995",
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        "description": "Lesley Dill makes full use of the photographic and printmaking possibilities of photomechanical processes. Each print here is produced with a variety of techniques layered atop one another. Similarly, the images are printed on different paper types stitched together with string. Technically and creatively, the artist weaves text throughout her work. The title of the suite comes from the Christian Bible (John 1:14) by way of poet Emily Dickinson: \u201cAnd the Word was made flesh,\u201d referring to Jesus as the embodiment of the Word of God. Passages from four Dickinson works are spelled out by Dill on images of a female body, combining photography, drawing, writing, and sewing to make new works.",
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