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"title": "From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints",
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"title": "Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern",
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"description": "Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1999, Along Ipswich River: The Color Woodcuts of Arthur Wesley Dow, no. 39, p. 31 fig. 21, illus.",
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"description": "In his dual roles as artist and teacher, Dow was instrumental in reviving the color woodcut in America at the turn of the 20th century. Impressed by the flat, simplified compositions of Japanese color woodcuts, or ukiyo-e prints, Dow abandoned Western naturalism, with its linear modeling and one-point perspective, in favor of the basic elements of Japanese design: line, form, color, and notan\u2014the harmonious arrangement of dark and light. Although in Japan the artist only executed the drawing\u2014the carving and printing were carried out by craftsmen\u2014Dow did everything himself. Like the Japanese, however, he printed by hand on mulberry paper. The picturesque Massachusetts fishing village of Ipswich and the surrounding area were Dow's subjects. The town is separated from the sea by sprawling salt marshes that are divided by canals and rivers. Dow expressed the changing effects of atmosphere and light by experimenting with color, which resulted in unique impressions.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \u201cRecent Acquisitions Press Release,\u201d March 17, 2000, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
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"citation": "Glaubinger, Jane. \"The Printmaker's Art.\" Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 40, no. 7 (September 2000): 8-9.",
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