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        "accession_number": "1995.74",
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        "tombstone": "Abstract Painting (750-1), 1991. Gerhard Richter (German, 1932-). Oil on canvas; framed: 260 x 200 x 3.5 cm (102 3/8 x 78 3/4 x 1 3/8 in.); unframed: 260 x 200 cm (102 3/8 x 78 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund, 1995.74. \u00a9 Gerhard Richter",
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        "title": "Abstract Painting (750-1)",
        "creation_date": "1991",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1991,
        "creation_date_latest": 1991,
        "artists_tags": [
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        "culture": [
            "Germany, 20th century"
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        "department": "Contemporary Art",
        "collection": "CONTEMP - Painting",
        "type": "Painting",
        "measurements": "Framed: 260 x 200 x 3.5 cm (102 3/8 x 78 3/4 x 1 3/8 in.); Unframed: 260 x 200 cm (102 3/8 x 78 3/4 in.)",
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                "height": 2.6,
                "height_inch": 102,
                "height_inch_fraction": 0.375,
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                "width_inch": 78,
                "width_inch_fraction": 0.75,
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                "depth_inch": 1,
                "depth_inch_fraction": 0.375
            },
            "unframed": {
                "height": 2.6,
                "height_inch": 102,
                "height_inch_fraction": 0.375,
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                "width_inch": 78,
                "width_inch_fraction": 0.75
            }
        },
        "state_of_the_work": null,
        "edition_of_the_work": null,
        "copyright": "\u00a9 Gerhard Richter",
        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [],
            "legacy": [
                {
                    "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art (06/01/2007); \"CMA @ Akron\"",
                    "opening_date": "2007-06-01T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "description": "<em>Gerhard Richter: Painting in the Nineties</em>. Anthony d\u2019Offay Gallery, London (June 1-August 4, 1995)",
                    "opening_date": "1995-06-01T00:00:00"
                }
            ]
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            {
                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, purchased from the artist",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": [],
                "date": "1995 -",
                "sortorder": 1
            }
        ],
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        "did_you_know": "The stunning overlapping colors and textures are created by covering each thin layer of paint with a sheet of plastic that was pulled away from the canvas.",
        "early_education_description": null,
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        "description": "Among the most recognized and influential artists working today, Gerhard Richter is difficult to classify because he simultaneously paints in a staggering variety of styles, veering freely from realism to abstraction. Abstractions such as this one have constituted a large part of his production since the mid 1970s. <em>Abstract Painting (750-1)</em> is from a series that Richter created between 1988 and 1991. Beginning with a ground of bright colors, such as red, yellow, blue, or green, he applied additional coats of pigment. He covered each thin layer of paint with a sheet of plastic that was pulled away to create a blend of overlapping colors, textures, and shapes. Richter applied the paint quickly, but the process was time consuming, allowing the artist the opportunity to evaluate and change each work as it evolved. Although this dense composition has no recognizable imagery, it conveys a sense of movement not unlike the experience of looking out of a car window at the landscape streaking past.",
        "external_resources": {
            "wikidata": [
                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60477246"
            ],
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        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Richter, Gerhard, and Peter Gidal. <em>Gerhard Richter: Painting in the Nineties</em>. London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1995.",
                "page_number": "Referenced: pp. 38-39",
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \u201cThe Cleveland Museum of Art Acquires Major Works,\u201d December 20, 1995, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
                "page_number": null,
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/cmapr4002"
            },
            {
                "citation": "Liebert, Emily. \u201cA Bright New Welcome: The corridor in the museum's main entrance will be flooded with light and color by Spencer Finch's <em>Color Test 210 (9 Permutations)</em>.\" <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 58. no. 2 (March/April 2018): 30-31.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: P. 31; Mentioned: P. 30",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2018-02/page/n15/mode/2up"
            }
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        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.74",
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        "creditline": "Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund",
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                "description": "Gerhard Richter (German, 1932-)",
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                "birth_year": "1932",
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        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "1995-12-04T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1991,
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        "date_text": "1991",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:52:02.209000"
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