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        "accession_number": "2018.210",
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        "tombstone": "Cotton, 1997. Kara Walker (American, b. 1969), published by Landfall Press. Etching and aquatint with spitbite, printed chine coll\u00e9, on white wove paper; platemark: 30 x 22.5 cm (11 13/16 x 8 7/8 in.); sheet: 46.3 x 37.4 cm (18 1/4 x 14 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund, 2018.210. \u00a9 Kara Walker",
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        "title": "Cotton",
        "creation_date": "1997",
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        "technique": "etching and aquatint with spitbite, printed chine coll\u00e9, on white wove paper",
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        "department": "Prints",
        "collection": "PR - Etching",
        "type": "Print",
        "measurements": "Platemark: 30 x 22.5 cm (11 13/16 x 8 7/8 in.); Sheet: 46.3 x 37.4 cm (18 1/4 x 14 3/4 in.)",
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        "edition_of_the_work": "6/35",
        "copyright": "\u00a9 Kara Walker",
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            {
                "inscription": "In graphite in lower left on recto: \u201c6/35\u201d",
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            },
            {
                "inscription": "In graphite in lower right on recto: \u201cKW97 (initialed)\u201d",
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            },
            {
                "inscription": "Stamped in ink in lower left on verso: \u201cCOPYRIGHT 1997/LANDFALL PRESS INC./329 W. 18th STREET/SUITE 601/CHICAGO, IL 60616\u201d",
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            },
            {
                "inscription": "In graphite in lower left on verso: \u201cKW-96-05 A\u201d",
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        ],
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            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 438968,
                    "title": "Women in Print: Recent Acquisitions",
                    "description": "<i>Women in Print: Recent Acquisitions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 16-June 19, 2022).",
                    "opening_date": "2022-01-16T05:00:00"
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                "description": "Charles M. Young Fine Prints, Portland, CT",
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                "description": "the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "date": "September 4, 2018",
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        "description": "Since the early 1990s, Kara Walker has explored issues of race, gender, and power throughout American history\u2014especially the antebellum South. This print is one of many works in which she referenced silhouettes, a traditional art form during the 19th century. With violence that contrasts the medium\u2019s gentility, a woman falls into a massive basket of cotton bolls, commenting on the violence inflicted upon African slaves.",
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        "creditline": "Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund",
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        "accession_date": "2018-09-04T00:00:00-04:00",
        "sortable_date": 1997,
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        "impression": "6",
        "alternate_titles": [],
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        "updated_at": "2026-03-27 00:09:21.727000"
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