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        "tombstone": "Black Moon , 1990s. Toshiko Takaezu (American, 1922\u20132011). Stoneware; diameter: 57.8 cm (22 3/4 in.); overall: 52.1 cm (20 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Artist, 2005.191",
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        "title": "Black Moon ",
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        "measurements": "Diameter: 57.8 cm (22 3/4 in.); Overall: 52.1 cm (20 1/2 in.)",
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                {
                    "id": 198203,
                    "title": "Toshiko Takaezu",
                    "description": "<i>Toshiko Takaezu</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20, 2009-May 15, 2010).",
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                    "id": 541933,
                    "title": "Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within",
                    "description": "<i>Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within</i>. The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, Long Island City, NY (organizer) (March 20-July 28, 2024) https://www.noguchi.org/museum/exhibitions/view/toshiko-takaezu/; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI (September 7, 2024-January 12, 2025); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (February 23-May 18, 2025); Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI (September 8-December 23, 2025).",
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        "description": "Shortly after studying in Japan, and while teaching at the Cleveland Institute of Art in the 1950s, Takaezu launched her signature series of closed vessels applied with painterly glazes. Constituting her primary output for nearly a half century, these works reveal her combined interests in Western and Eastern philosophies and aesthetics.",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-20 11:53:13.498000"
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