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        "tombstone": "Sestina II, 1958. Adja Yunkers (American, 1900\u20131983). Pastel; framed: 168.2 x 121.9 cm (66 1/4 x 48 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Agnes Gund, 2017.129",
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        "title": "Sestina II",
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                "inscription": "Signed and dated in pastel, lower right: Yunkers 58",
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                    "id": 222695,
                    "title": "To Invent a Garden:  Adja Yunkers Retrospective",
                    "description": "<i>To Invent a Garden:  Adja Yunkers Retrospective</i>. Bayly Art Museum of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (March 24-June 11, 2000).",
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        "description": "Adja Yunkers revolutionized the medium of pastel in the 1950s with gestural strokes of color that emphasized pastel\u2019s painterly qualities, presented on an unprecedented scale. <em>Sestina II </em>refers to a type of sung poetry common in Italy and France in the 1500s and 1600s and associated with troubadours. Yunkers\u2019s composition may be more concerned with capturing the romantic spirit of the poetry than its rigid structure.",
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                "citation": "Henning, Edward B. Fifty Years of Modern Art, 1916-1966. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
                "page_number": "pp. 162 and 208",
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