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        "tombstone": "Mirrors & Eyes, 1994. John L. Moore (American, b. 1939). Oil on canvas; unframed: 203.2 x 172.7 cm (80 x 68 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Jane Farver, 2009.437. \u00a9 John L. Moore ",
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        "title": "Mirrors & Eyes",
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        "department": "Contemporary Art",
        "collection": "CONTEMP - Painting",
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        "measurements": "Unframed: 203.2 x 172.7 cm (80 x 68 in.)",
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        "copyright": "\u00a9 John L. Moore ",
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                {
                    "id": 219059,
                    "title": "From Then to Now: Masterworks of Contemporary African American Art",
                    "description": "<i>From Then to Now: Masterworks of Contemporary African American Art</i>. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-May 9, 2010).",
                    "opening_date": "2010-01-29T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 198152,
                    "title": "In Honor of The Cleveland Arts Prize",
                    "description": "<i>In Honor of The Cleveland Arts Prize</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 13, 2010-March 13, 2011).",
                    "opening_date": "2010-06-13T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 443702,
                    "title": "Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus",
                    "description": "<i>Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20-June 26, 2022).",
                    "opening_date": "2022-02-20T05:00:00"
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                {
                    "description": "MOCA Cleveland, OH (1/29/2010 - 5/9/2010):  \"From Then to Now: Masterworks of Contemporary African American Art\"",
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            {
                "description": "Artist's studio",
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                "date": "1994\u20132009",
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                "description": "Gift of Jane Farver [1947\u20132015]",
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        "did_you_know": "Ovoid mirrors are a hallmark of the artist's style and appear in much of his work.",
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        "description": "Moore blends recognizable images with abstraction to address memory and history. Here, the painting\u2019s turbulent surface suggests water, in which three oval mirrors--hauntingly without reflections--and four eyeballs appear to float. This imagery seemingly refers to loss of identity and life during the Middle Passage, whereby kidnapped Africans were shipped across the Atlantic to the Americas to be enslaved.",
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60480553"
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        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Lee, Key Jo. \u201cFour Curators, Four Favorites.\u201d <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>62, no. 2 (2022): 30.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 30.",
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        "creditline": "Gift of Jane Farver",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:53:02.344000"
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