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        "tombstone": "Violet Blue, 1959. Norman Bluhm (American, 1920\u20131999). Watercolor, ink and acrylic; sheet: 67.7 x 101.6 cm (26 5/8 x 40 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Delia E. Holden Fund, 2001.125",
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        "title": "Violet Blue",
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                "description": "wove medium-weight watercolor paper",
                "watermarks": []
            }
        ],
        "department": "Drawings",
        "collection": "DR - American 20th Century",
        "type": "Drawing",
        "measurements": "Sheet: 67.7 x 101.6 cm (26 5/8 x 40 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
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                "height": 0.677,
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                "description": "(Washburn Gallery, New York, NY)",
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                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "date": "December 3, 2001",
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        "description": "Norman Bluhm belongs to the group of painters frequently referred to as the \"second generation\" Abstract Expressionists, artists who developed the gestural style pioneered by Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning in the 1940s and early 1950s. This watercolor falls early in Bluhm's career, at a time when the practices and ideas of the first Abstract Expressionist painters were beginning to influence a number of younger artists. Bluhm's work is characterized by a strong color sense as well as a refined gestural style of brushwork and dripping. We find here a balance between chance splattering and dripping and a controlled, almost calligraphic approach to composition. This is evident in the strokes of white paint\u2014the last applied to this rich and dense composition\u2014which undulate across the paper in rhythmic curves and reversals, but which also drip down the surface.",
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        "creditline": "Delia E. Holden Fund",
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        "accession_date": "2001-12-03T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1959,
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        "date_text": "1959",
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        "updated_at": "2026-08-03 14:23:48.721000"
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