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        "tombstone": "Mr. X, c. 1937\u201338. Dox Thrash (American, 1892\u20131965). Carborundum print; platemark: 16.6 x 13.2 cm (6 9/16 x 5 3/16 in.); sheet: 24 x 21.9 cm (9 7/16 x 8 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1996.277",
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        "title": "Mr. X",
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        "creation_date_latest": 1943,
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        "department": "Prints",
        "collection": "PR - Carborundum",
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        "measurements": "Platemark: 16.6 x 13.2 cm (6 9/16 x 5 3/16 in.); Sheet: 24 x 21.9 cm (9 7/16 x 8 5/8 in.)",
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        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 223580,
                    "title": "The Great Migration:  The Evolution of African American Art, 1790-1945",
                    "description": "<i>The Great Migration:  The Evolution of African American Art, 1790-1945</i>. Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH (organizer) (June 16-October 22, 2000).",
                    "opening_date": "2000-06-16T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 443702,
                    "title": "Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus",
                    "description": "<i>Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20-June 26, 2022).",
                    "opening_date": "2022-02-20T05:00:00"
                }
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            "legacy": [
                {
                    "description": "<em>Our Stories: African American Prints and Drawings</em>. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 26 - May 18, 2014).",
                    "opening_date": "2014-01-26T00:00:00"
                }
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                "description": "(Dolan/Maxwell, Inc., Philadelphia, PA)",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "?-1996",
                "sortorder": 1
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                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "September 16, 1996",
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        "did_you_know": "Dox Thrash used this print to debut his new carborundum printmaking technique to the public in a 1938 exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.",
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        "description": "The first African American artist to work at Philadelphia's Fine Print Workshop, Dox Thrash is known for inventing carborundum printmaking, the technique used here. A coarsely grained industrial product was burnished to create grays and highlights alongside rich, dark tones. This print, a self-portrait, was the first that Thrash made using his new and experimental technique. The artist looks slightly upward, boldly and directly, from within a stark field of black.",
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            ],
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            {
                "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Currents &amp; Constellations: Black Art in Focus</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 3",
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            }
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:52:03.904000"
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