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        "tombstone": "American Pattern--Barn, 1940. Benton Spruance (American, 1904\u20131967). Lithograph printed in black and tan; sheet: 29.1 x 43 cm (11 7/16 x 16 15/16 in.); image: 19.5 x 35.3 cm (7 11/16 x 13 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1999.40",
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        "title": "American Pattern--Barn",
        "creation_date": "1940",
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        "department": "Prints",
        "collection": "PR - Lithograph",
        "type": "Print",
        "measurements": "Sheet: 29.1 x 43 cm (11 7/16 x 16 15/16 in.); Image: 19.5 x 35.3 cm (7 11/16 x 13 7/8 in.)",
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        "state_of_the_work": null,
        "edition_of_the_work": "45",
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        "inscriptions": [
            {
                "inscription": "below  image in graphite; numbered, titled, and signed; signed in the stone, lower right: BS; misc. graphite notations along the bottom right edge",
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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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                }
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        "description": "Benton Spruance was a celebrated painter in Philadelphia but his greatest contributions were to American printmaking--as a printmaker (evident in his over 500 lithographs) and as a teacher of the history and techniques of the graphic arts. This print reflects both the artist's interest in imagery relating to the American experience and his modernist sensibilities. The image of a typical American barn has been reduced to an arrangement of Precisionist geometric forms, enlivened by a rhythmic pattern of blacks, grays and tan, punctuated by the white, unprinted areas of the paper.",
        "external_resources": {
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        "catalogue_raisonne": "Fine and Looney 184",
        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.40",
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        "creditline": "Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland",
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        "accession_date": "1999-03-01T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1940,
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:52:17.100000"
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