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        "tombstone": "An Afternoon at Max's, c. 1932\u201333. Robert Riggs (American, 1896\u20131970). Lithograph; sheet: 43 x 57 cm (16 15/16 x 22 7/16 in.); image: 38.2 x 52.6 cm (15 1/16 x 20 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John Bonebrake, 2012.276",
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        "title": "An Afternoon at Max's",
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        "department": "Prints",
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        "measurements": "Sheet: 43 x 57 cm (16 15/16 x 22 7/16 in.); Image: 38.2 x 52.6 cm (15 1/16 x 20 11/16 in.)",
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                "inscription": "signed lower right in pencil: Robert Riggs\r\ninscribed lower left in pencil: An Afternoon at Max's",
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                {
                    "id": 199964,
                    "title": "A Passion for Prints: The John Bonebrake Donation",
                    "description": "<i>A Passion for Prints: The John Bonebrake Donation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 2, 2011-January 29, 2012).",
                    "opening_date": "2011-10-02T00:00:00"
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                "description": "Herbert Halpern Fine Art, New Orleans; John Bonebrake",
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        "description": "Although Riggs supported himself by working as an illustrator for Fortune, Life, The Saturday Evening Post, and other popular magazines, he began making lithographs in 1932 and enjoyed printmaking into the late 1940s. Because he liked pageantry, crowds, noise, and the atmosphere of smoke-filled interiors illuminated by harsh, bright lights, Riggs depicted the circus or boxing ring with a stark, gritty realism. Perhaps Riggs was interested in boxing scenes because of George Bellows\u2019s print of 1916, Stag at Sharkeys, which he might have seen at an exhibition of the artist\u2019s lithographs at the Print Club in Philadelphia, where he lived.",
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        "accession_date": "2012-12-03T00:00:00",
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        "date_text": "c. 1932\u201333",
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        "updated_at": "2026-03-27 00:02:18.778000"
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