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        "tombstone": "In Blue, 1996. Jim Hodges (American, b. 1957). Silk flowers and thread; overall: 396 x 259 cm (155 7/8 x 101 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Agnes Gund in honor of Katharine Lee Reid, 2005.140. \u00a9 Jim Hodges",
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        "title": "In Blue",
        "creation_date": "1996",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1996,
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        "technique": "silk flowers and thread",
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        "department": "Contemporary Art",
        "collection": "CONTEMP - Installation Media",
        "type": "Textile",
        "measurements": "Overall: 396 x 259 cm (155 7/8 x 101 15/16 in.)",
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        "copyright": "\u00a9 Jim Hodges",
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                {
                    "id": 231666,
                    "title": "Floating a Boulder: Works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Jim Hodges",
                    "description": "<i>Floating a Boulder: Works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Jim Hodges</i>. FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY (organizer) (October 1, 2009-January 31, 2010).",
                    "opening_date": "2009-10-01T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 202597,
                    "title": "Imagining the Garden",
                    "description": "<i>Imagining the Garden</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24, 2015-March 6, 2016).",
                    "opening_date": "2015-10-24T00:00:00"
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                {
                    "description": "<em>Landscape Confection.</em> Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (Jan. 30 - April 27, 2005).",
                    "opening_date": "2005-01-30T00:00:00"
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                "description": "Agnes Gund, New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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                "date": "2005",
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                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "date": "2005\u2013",
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        "description": "In his work, Jim Hodges reveals qualities of beauty and grace in the most unassuming materials. Through relatively simple acts of manipulation and reappraisal, he invests the man-made with a previously absent level of emotion and authenticity. In Blue is a diaphanous curtain of lush, tropical colors that is both imposing for its monumental scale and delicate in its fragility. Activated by the slightest breeze, its artificial elements ripple with the movement of natural life forms. To create In Blue, Hodges took apart hundreds of silk flowers, flattened and ironed each element, pinned the pieces together, and then carefully hand-sewed them into a scrim.",
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            {
                "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 123",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:52:33.503000"
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