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        "tombstone": "10 x 10: William King (born 1925), 1981. Elliott Erwitt (American, 1928\u20132023). Gelatin silver print; image: 25.4 x 34.3 cm (10 x 13 1/2 in.); paper: 27.9 x 35.4 cm (11 x 13 15/16 in.); matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Given by Helen A. Weinberg in loving memory of her husband Kenneth G. Weinberg, 1999.271.2",
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        "title": "William King (born 1925)",
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        "department": "Photography",
        "collection": "PH - American 1951-Present",
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        "measurements": "Image: 25.4 x 34.3 cm (10 x 13 1/2 in.); Paper: 27.9 x 35.4 cm (11 x 13 15/16 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)",
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                "inscription": "Written in ink on recto:  \"11/50 Elliott Erwitt [signed]\"",
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                    "id": 185439,
                    "title": "Artists Photographing Artists",
                    "description": "<i>Artists Photographing Artists</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 2001-February 27, 2002).",
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                    "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art; 10/13/01-2/27/02.  \"Artists Photographing Artists,\" no catalogue.",
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                "description": "Helen A. Weinberg [1927-2012], Shaker Heights, OH",
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                "date": "March 15, 2000",
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        "description": "Having enjoyed a long, successful career as a photojournalist and commercial photographer, Erwitt is perhaps best known for his personal work. Both people and dogs are presented in humorous images that record unexpected or incongruous juxtapositions of subject, setting, and situation. His innate wit is clearly at work when he cleverly posed and dramatically lit the sculptor William King surrounded by a host of vinyl figures in his East Hampton, Long Island, studio. Widely recognized, King creates witty figurative sculptures in all manner of materials that reflect his sharp insight into the human condition and ability to make forms imbued with a strong sense of line, gesture, and grace. It was only fitting that Erwitt should have made King's portrait, since both are so identified with successfully combining humor and art.",
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        "creditline": "Given by Helen A. Weinberg in loving memory of her husband Kenneth G. Weinberg",
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                "description": "Elliott Erwitt (American, 1928\u20132023)",
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                "biography": "Elliott Erwitt (American, b. France, 1928\u20132023). Elliott Erwitt was known for the wry sense of humor and irreverent view of the world revealed through his personal work. Born in Paris, during the 1940s he studied photography at Los Angeles City College and film at the New School for Social Research in New York. He worked as a cameraman in France (1949-50), as a staff photographer for Roy Stryker for the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and the Pittsburgh Photo Library (1950-52), and as a photographic assistant in the U.S. Army Signal Corps (1951-53). After settling in New York City in the 1950s, Erwitt joined the magnum photo cooperative and began work as a photojournalist and commercial photographer. He is best known, however, for his personal photographs: humorous images of people and/or dogs that record unexpected or incongruous juxtapositions of subject, setting, and situation. Erwitt's pictures have been featured in one-person exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1964), the Art Institute of Chicago (1974), and the International Center of Photography, New York (1989), as well as in numerous group exhibitions. He has also made several documentary films, including Beauty Knows No Pain (1973), Arthur Penn (1970), Red, White, and Bluegrass (1973), and Beautiful, Baby, Beautiful (1980). M.M.",
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