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        "tombstone": "My Home Town, 1998. Michelangelo Lovelace (American, 1960\u20132021). Acrylic on canvas; unframed: 139.7 x 243.8 cm (55 x 96 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Artist, Michelangelo Lovelace, Sr., 2015.83",
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        "title": "My Home Town",
        "creation_date": "1998",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1998,
        "creation_date_latest": 1998,
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            "America, Ohio, Cleveland"
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        "technique": "Acrylic on canvas",
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        "department": "Contemporary Art",
        "collection": "CONTEMP - Painting",
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        "measurements": "Unframed: 139.7 x 243.8 cm (55 x 96 in.)",
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        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 668192,
                    "title": "Michelangelo Lovelace: Art Saved My Life",
                    "description": "<i>Michelangelo Lovelace: Art Saved My Life</i>. Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH (organizer) (May 4-August 18, 2024) https://akronartmuseum.org/media/exhibition/michelangelo-lovelace-art-saved-my-life/.",
                    "opening_date": "2024-05-04T04:00:00"
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                "description": "Collection of the artist, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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                "date": "2015",
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            },
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        "did_you_know": "In Lovelace's painting, the city's east-west orientation is reversed on the upper half of the painting versus its lower half.",
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        "description": "Lovelace dedicated most of his career to depicting Cleveland\u2019s urban landscape; many of the city\u2019s iconic destinations are visible in the background of <em>My Home Town.</em> His paintings can be read as vibrant and candid commentaries on the city\u2019s sociopolitical and cultural heritage. This work\u2019s panoramic scene combines different local neighborhoods, represented as storefronts. Lovelace said, \u201cI painted the way I remember Cleveland being\u2014white on the west, black on the east, and with downtown where people came together in the middle.\u201d",
        "external_resources": {
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60482459"
            ],
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        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 77",
                "url": ""
            },
            {
                "citation": "Rutland, Beau. \u201cAcquisitions 2015: Contemporary Art.\u201d <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 56, no. 2 (March/April 2016): 26-27.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 27",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2016-02"
            },
            {
                "citation": "Kraynak, Scott, Henry Adams, Douglas Max Utter, William G. Scheele, R. A. Washington, and Mike Hudson. <em>The Heart of Cleveland.</em> Shaker Hts, OH: Red Giant Books, 2018.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: P. 109, fig. 88",
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            }
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        "creditline": "Gift of the Artist, Michelangelo Lovelace, Sr.",
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        "sortable_date": 1998,
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        "updated_at": "2026-07-21 11:12:35.213000"
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