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        "tombstone": "Unit #167, from the Clavilux Home Instrument (First Home Lumia Instrument) Series, 1930. Thomas Wilfred (American, born Denmark, 1889\u20131968). Mixed media; overall: 85 x 55.8 x 39.6 cm (33 7/16 x 21 15/16 x 15 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Artist, 2000.129",
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        "title": "Unit #167, from the Clavilux Home Instrument (First Home Lumia Instrument) Series",
        "creation_date": "1930",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1930,
        "creation_date_latest": 1930,
        "artists_tags": [
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        "culture": [
            "America"
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        "technique": "mixed media",
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        "department": "American Painting and Sculpture",
        "collection": "American - Sculpture",
        "type": "Time-based Media",
        "measurements": "Overall: 85 x 55.8 x 39.6 cm (33 7/16 x 21 15/16 x 15 9/16 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
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                "height": 0.85,
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                "width": 0.558,
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        "state_of_the_work": null,
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        "copyright": null,
        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 310023,
                    "title": "Illuminations: The Art of Light",
                    "description": "<i>Illuminations: The Art of Light</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 22-November 29, 1987).",
                    "opening_date": "1987-09-22T04:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 205335,
                    "title": "Lumia: Thomas Wilfred and the Art of Light",
                    "description": "<i>Lumia: Thomas Wilfred and the Art of Light</i>. Yale University Art Gallery (organizer) (February 17-July 23, 2017); Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC (October 6, 2017-January 7, 2018).",
                    "opening_date": "2017-02-17T05:00:00"
                }
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        "provenance": [
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                "description": "Collection of the artist, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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                "date": "1930\u20132000",
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                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "2000\u2013",
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        "former_accession_numbers": [
            "17410/3"
        ],
        "did_you_know": "A curator of education bought this object in 1954 with the intention of making it a gift of the artist, but apparently the museum was perplexed over its status as a work of art, and did not formally add it into the collection until 2000.",
        "description": "Thomas Wilfred was a pioneer in using light as a primary artistic medium, and he coined the term <em>lumia</em> to describe his new art form. This early example is a cabinet with an interior mechanism incorporating a lightbulb, motor, hand-painted glass disc, and reflective surfaces, all of which operate in unison to project abstract images in motion and color against a screen. The viewer can turn exterior knobs to manipulate these projected compositions. The artist named this device a Clavilux, after a Latin word meaning \u201clight played by key.\u201d",
        "external_resources": {
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79984170"
            ],
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        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Orgeman, Keely, Thomas Wilfred, James Turrell, and Maibritt Borgen. <em>Lumia: Thomas Wilfred and the Art of Light</em>. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2017.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 102\u2013103, Plate 2",
                "url": null
            }
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        "creditline": "Gift of the Artist",
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                "description": "Thomas Wilfred (American, born Denmark, 1889\u20131968)",
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                "birth_year": "1889",
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        "accession_date": "2000-12-04T00:00:00",
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        "date_text": "1930",
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        "cover_accession_number": null,
        "is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
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        "alternate_titles": [],
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:52:18.247000"
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