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        "tombstone": "Vaishnava Devotee with Two Women, c. 1890. Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat. Gum tempera, graphite, ink, and tin on paper; painting only: 45.4 x 27.8 cm (17 7/8 x 10 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of William E. Ward in memory of his wife, Evelyn Svec Ward, 2003.101",
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        "title": "Vaishnava Devotee with Two Women",
        "creation_date": "c. 1890",
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        "type": "Painting",
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                {
                    "id": 200105,
                    "title": "Indian Kalighat Paintings",
                    "description": "<i>Indian Kalighat Paintings</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 1-September 18, 2011).",
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                "description": "William E. Ward [1922-2004], Solon, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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        "description": "Here a devotee of Vishnu is wearing shoes and is depicted with some irony as being a fashionable devotee, or perhaps merely posing as orthodox. Kalighat artists often targeted hypocritical Vaishnava mendicants whose intentions with unsuspecting women were far from innocent. On his forehead one finds sectarian marks worn by worshippers of Vishnu. The man\u2019s right hand and one of the women\u2019s left hands, both held aloft, are colored red, possibly to indicate that they were adorned with henna.",
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