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        "tombstone": "Jitterbugs III (recto), 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.a",
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        "title": "Jitterbugs III (recto)",
        "creation_date": "c. 1941",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1936,
        "creation_date_latest": 1946,
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            "America"
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        "department": "Prints",
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        "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.)",
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        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 200402,
                    "title": "William H. Johnson: An American Modern",
                    "description": "<i>William H. Johnson: An American Modern</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 3, 2012-January 27, 2013).",
                    "opening_date": "2012-10-03T00:00:00"
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                    "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art (10/03/2012 - 01/27/2013); \"William H. Johnson\"",
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        "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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        "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": {
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80079319"
            ],
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            {
                "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine.</em> Vol. 53 no. 02, March/April 2013",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 10 & 12; Reproduced: p. 12",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2013-02/page/n11"
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        "creditline": "The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund",
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                "description": "William Henry Johnson (American, 1901\u20131970)",
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        "accession_date": "2012-03-05T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1936,
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        "date_text": "c. 1941",
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        "cover_accession_number": "2012.9",
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        "alternate_titles": [
            "Jitterbugs IV"
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:53:21.238000"
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