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        "accession_number": "2012.9",
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        "tombstone": "Jitterbugs III (recto); Jitterbugs III (verso), c. 1941. William Henry Johnson (American, 1901\u20131970). Hand-colored, double-sided screenprint; sheet: 40.6 x 27.9 cm (16 x 11 in.); image: 34.7 x 25.5 cm (13 11/16 x 10 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2012.9",
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        "title": "Jitterbugs III (recto); Jitterbugs III (verso)",
        "creation_date": "c. 1941",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1936,
        "creation_date_latest": 1946,
        "artists_tags": [
            "male",
            "Black American Artists"
        ],
        "culture": [
            "America"
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        "technique": "hand-colored, double-sided screenprint",
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        "department": "Prints",
        "collection": "PR - Screenprint",
        "type": "Print",
        "measurements": "Sheet: 40.6 x 27.9 cm (16 x 11 in.); Image: 34.7 x 25.5 cm (13 11/16 x 10 1/16 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
            "sheet": {
                "height": 0.406,
                "height_inch": 16,
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                "width": 0.279,
                "width_inch": 11,
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            },
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                "height_inch": 13,
                "height_inch_fraction": 0.6875,
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                "width_inch": 10,
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        },
        "state_of_the_work": null,
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        "copyright": null,
        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 381923,
                    "title": "Ashcan School Prints and the American City, 1900\u20131940",
                    "description": "<i>Ashcan School Prints and the American City, 1900\u20131940</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 18-December 26, 2021).",
                    "opening_date": "2021-07-17T04:00:00"
                }
            ],
            "legacy": []
        },
        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "Jacqueline Leavitt, Los Angeles until about 1970-72; Aim\u00e9e Brown Price and Monroe Price, Los Angeles and New York City; [Joseph Goddu Fine Arts]",
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                "footnotes": null,
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        ],
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        "did_you_know": "The artist printed on both sides of the sheet, adding musical instruments and slightly altering the color scheme in the final version (recto).",
        "early_education_description": null,
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        "description": "African American artist William H. Johnson\u2019s screenprint presents dancers enjoying the jitterbug, a dance craze that came out of Harlem, a predominantly African American neighborhood of Manhattan, just before World War II. The smartly dressed couple dances enthusiastically at one of Harlem\u2019s popular nightclubs\u2014perhaps the famous Savoy Ballroom\u2014while hints of live music appear in the form of two trumpet bells and piano keys. The sharp angles and kinetic stripes of the floor emphasize the dancers\u2019 fast pace. At the time, screenprinting was used as a commercial printing method and rarely for fine art. Johnson\u2019s technique, which he taught at the Harlem Community Art Center, includes the flat tonal areas typical of the medium.",
        "external_resources": {
            "wikidata": [
                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80079317"
            ],
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        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Cole, Mark. \"An American Modern.\" <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 52, no. 6 (November/December 2012): 4-6.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 9",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2012-06/page/n7/mode/2up"
            }
        ],
        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2012.9",
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        "creditline": "The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund",
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        "athena_id": 170502,
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                "description": "William Henry Johnson (American, 1901\u20131970)",
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                "birth_year": "1901",
                "death_year": "1970",
                "use_in_caption": true,
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        ],
        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "2012-03-05T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1936,
        "date_added_to_oa": null,
        "date_text": "c. 1941",
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        "is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
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        "alternate_titles": [
            "Jitterbugs IV"
        ],
        "is_highlight": false,
        "updated_at": "2026-05-15 11:48:15.446000"
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}