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        "tombstone": "Meditation, 1920. Max Weber (American, born Kingdom of Prussia [now Poland], 1881\u20131961). Color linocut on Chinese paper; image: 6.7 x 2.7 cm (2 5/8 x 1 1/16 in.); sheet: 23.8 x 16.5 cm (9 3/8 x 6 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Hanna Bartlett, 2018.1071",
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        "title": "Meditation",
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                "inscription": "In graphite at lower right below image on recto: \u201cMAX WEBER\u201d",
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        "did_you_know": "This print was reproduced as an illustration for a poem published in a 1922 issue of the avant-garde journal <em>Broom</em>.",
        "description": "The American artist Max Weber was deeply influenced by non-Western art, including African masks that he viewed at Parisian museums and Japanese prints, which he learned about as a student. Around 1919, he began to combine these interests in a series of relief prints, such as the one seen here. Weber deconstructed the human figure into component parts, emphasizing its simplicity and geometry.",
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                "citation": "\u201cOf a Day,\u201d <em>Broom: An International Magazine of the Arts </em>3, no. 1 (August 1922)",
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                "citation": "Rubenstein, Daryl R., Max Weber, Alan Hyman, and Alan Maxwell Fern. Max Weber: A Catalogue Raisonne\u0301 of His Graphic Work. 2013.",
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