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        "tombstone": "Winter Branches #4, 1953. Norman Lewis (American, 1909\u20131979). Ink on paper; sheet: 66 x 101.6 cm (26 x 40 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Estate of Norman W. Lewis, 2017.2. \u00a9 Estate of Norman W. Lewis; Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY",
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        "title": "Winter Branches #4",
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        "measurements": "Sheet: 66 x 101.6 cm (26 x 40 in.)",
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        "copyright": "\u00a9 Estate of Norman W. Lewis; Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY",
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                {
                    "id": 298005,
                    "title": "Inspired by Chinese Landscape and Art \u2013 Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c",
                    "description": "<i>Inspired by Chinese Landscape and Art \u2013 Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 14, 2017-February 5, 2018).",
                    "opening_date": "2017-08-14T04:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 443702,
                    "title": "Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus",
                    "description": "<i>Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20-June 26, 2022).",
                    "opening_date": "2022-02-20T05:00:00"
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        "description": "Lewis\u2019s <em>Winter Branches #4</em> belongs to a series of drawings based upon black-and-white photographs of barren trees against the cloudless sky. The Harlem-based artist\u2019s interest in landscape was further fueled by his study of Chinese painting, whose influences are readily seen in the spare calligraphic lines and brushwork characterizing this series.",
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                "citation": "Lewis, Norman. <em>Norman Lewis: Looking East</em>. New York: Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, 2018.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: P. 41",
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                "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Currents &amp; Constellations: Black Art in Focus</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 3",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:53:46.447000"
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