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        "accession_number": "2011.42",
        "share_license_status": "Copyrighted",
        "tombstone": "View of a Factory, 1911. Albert Bloch (American, 1882\u20131961). Oil on canvas; unframed: 60.6 x 75.6 cm (23 7/8 x 29 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Dr. Paul J. Vignos Jr., 2011.42",
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        "title": "View of a Factory",
        "creation_date": "1911",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1911,
        "creation_date_latest": 1911,
        "artists_tags": [
            "male",
            "Jewish artists"
        ],
        "culture": [
            "America"
        ],
        "technique": "oil on canvas",
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        "department": "American Painting and Sculpture",
        "collection": "American - Painting",
        "type": "Painting",
        "measurements": "Unframed: 60.6 x 75.6 cm (23 7/8 x 29 3/4 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
            "unframed": {
                "height": 0.606,
                "width": 0.756
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        "copyright": null,
        "inscriptions": [
            {
                "inscription": "The painting is signed lower left on the obverse: \"Bloch.\"  On the reverse, it is inscribed, \"A Bloch 1911.\"  On the left stretcher is the inscription \"DBR Bloch 3,\" perhaps a reference to Der Blaue Reiter.",
                "inscription_translation": null,
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        ],
        "exhibitions": {
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        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "Bernard Black Gallery, New York; Dr. and Mrs. Paul J. Vignos, Jr., Chagrin Falls, Ohio [1964]",
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        "did_you_know": "Many early twentieth-century artists, like Bloch, regarded factories as potent symbols of modern life.",
        "description": "Bloch was the only American member of the famed avant-garde group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), which was centered in Munich in 1911\u201314. Members of the group sought an emotionally direct approach to art making that was spontaneous and intuitive. Such qualities are evident in <em>View of a Factory</em>, a subject rendered in bold expressive colors.",
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        "creditline": "Bequest of Dr. Paul J. Vignos Jr.",
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                "description": "Albert Bloch (American, 1882\u20131961)",
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                "birth_year": "1882",
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        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "2011-06-06T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1911,
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        "date_text": "1911",
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        "cover_accession_number": null,
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        "updated_at": "2026-03-27 00:10:10.439000"
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}