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        "accession_number": "2014.394",
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        "tombstone": "just the two of us, 1982. Julia Wachtel (American, b. 1956). Acrylic on canvas; unframed: 187.9 x 198 cm (74 x 77 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dorothea Wright Hamilton Fund, 2014.394",
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        "title": "just the two of us",
        "creation_date": "1982",
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        "creation_date_latest": 1982,
        "artists_tags": [
            "female"
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        "culture": [
            "America"
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        "technique": "acrylic on canvas",
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        "department": "Contemporary Art",
        "collection": "CONTEMP - Painting",
        "type": "Painting",
        "measurements": "Unframed: 187.9 x 198 cm (74 x 77 15/16 in.)",
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            "unframed": {
                "height": 1.879,
                "height_inch": 74,
                "height_inch_fraction": 0.0,
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                "width_inch": 77,
                "width_inch_fraction": 0.9375
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        },
        "state_of_the_work": null,
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        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 205223,
                    "title": "Julia Wachtel",
                    "description": "<i>Julia Wachtel</i>. Transformer Station, Cleveland, OH (October 11, 2014-January 4, 2015).",
                    "opening_date": "2014-10-11T00:00:00"
                }
            ],
            "legacy": [
                {
                    "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art (10/11/14 - 1/17/15); \"Julia Wachtel\"",
                    "opening_date": "2014-10-11T00:00:00"
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            ]
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        "did_you_know": "Both figures in this painting are based on greeting card images.",
        "early_education_description": null,
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        "description": "Emerging in the 1980s, Julia Wachtel became known for her paintings employing cartoon characters appropriated from sources as every day and relatable as greeting cards and magazines, deliberately commenting on our quickly evolving visual culture. One of Wachtel\u2019s earliest paintings, Just the Two of Us shows two young women, one in an elaborate gown reading a letter and the other a school girl standing in front of the moon; both figures are based on images from greeting cards. That both of the female subjects are shown as desirable or sexualized is not a coincidence, speaking to the ways that representations of women have been formed by the appetites of men.",
        "external_resources": {
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60482439"
            ],
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        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Rutland, Beau and Th\u00fcring, Reto. \u201cAcquisition Highlights 2014: Contemporary Art.\u201d <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 55, no. 2 (March/April 2015): 25.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 25",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2015-02"
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        "creditline": "Dorothea Wright Hamilton Fund",
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                "description": "Julia Wachtel (American, b. 1956)",
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                "birth_year": "1956",
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        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "2014-12-01T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1982,
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        "date_text": "1982",
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        "is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
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        "alternate_titles": [
            "Just the two of us "
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:53:29.304000"
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