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        "tombstone": "Vincent Longo and Pat Adams, 1962. Sylvia Sleigh (British, 1911\u20132010). Oil on canvas; 66 x 76.2 cm (26 x 30 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Estate of Sylvia Sleigh, 2017.124",
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        "title": "Vincent Longo and Pat Adams",
        "creation_date": "1962",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1962,
        "creation_date_latest": 1962,
        "artists_tags": [
            "female"
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        "culture": [
            "Britain"
        ],
        "technique": "oil on canvas",
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        "department": "Contemporary Art",
        "collection": "CONTEMP - Painting",
        "type": "Painting",
        "measurements": "66 x 76.2 cm (26 x 30 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
            "No Extent Specified": {
                "height": 0.66,
                "height_inch": 26,
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                "width": 0.762,
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                "width_inch_fraction": 0.0
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        "did_you_know": "The subjects in this painting are a real-life married couple.",
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        "description": "A Welsh painter, Sylvia Sleigh moved to the US in the 1960s where she became known for her series of portraits of friends living in New York\u2019s Lower East Side and SoHo neighborhoods. This is a portrait of fellow artists Vincent Longo and Pat Adams. Sleigh\u2019s decision to paint from life was an intervention in traditional modes of art making, which often did not afford women the opportunity to use models. She says, \u201cOnce I became aware of this situation in the \u201960s, I made a point of finding male models and painting them as portraits.\u201d",
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60482902"
            ],
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        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Th\u00fcring, Reto and Liebert, Emily. \u201cAcquisition Highlights: Contemporary Art.\u201d <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 58, no. 2 (March/April 2018): 24-25.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 25",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2018-02/page/n11/mode/2up"
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        "creditline": "Gift of the Estate of Sylvia Sleigh",
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                "description": "Sylvia Sleigh (British, 1911\u20132010)",
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                "biography": "Welsh painter and draftsman, ca. 1916-2010, active in the United States",
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        "accession_date": "2017-09-11T00:00:00-04:00",
        "sortable_date": 1962,
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:53:48.982000"
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