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        "tombstone": "My Father, 1986. John Bellany (British, 1942\u20132013). Etching; sheet: 49.9 x 65 cm (19 5/8 x 25 9/16 in.); platemark: 33.1 x 49 cm (13 1/16 x 19 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of 15 members of The Print Club of Cleveland's 1997 United Kingdom trip, 1997.234",
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        "title": "My Father",
        "creation_date": "1986",
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        "culture": [
            "England, 20th century"
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        "department": "Prints",
        "collection": "PR - Etching",
        "type": "Print",
        "measurements": "Sheet: 49.9 x 65 cm (19 5/8 x 25 9/16 in.); Platemark: 33.1 x 49 cm (13 1/16 x 19 5/16 in.)",
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            {
                "inscription": "numbered, signed and dated in graphite, below image; etched in image, lower left: \"3/100 / John Bellany / \"My Father\"",
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            }
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                {
                    "id": 188479,
                    "title": "From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg:  Recently Acquired Prints",
                    "description": "<i>From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg:  Recently Acquired Prints</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17-November 26, 2000).",
                    "opening_date": "2000-09-17T00:00:00"
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                {
                    "description": "Cleveland, Ohio:  The Cleveland Museum of Art; September 17 - November 26, 2000.  \"From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg:  Recently Acquired Prints.\"",
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        "description": "Although abstraction has dominated modern art, many British artists continue a long tradition of interest in the figure.  Bellany's portrait of his father, a fisherman, surrounded by the ship models he made as a hobby, exemplifies the work of this well-known Scottish artist.  Bellany began etching seriously in the early 1970s and developed a very individual and expressive scraggly, skittish line.",
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        "accession_date": "1997-12-01T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1986,
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        "updated_at": "2026-03-26 23:59:33.543000"
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