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        "tombstone": "Plate Distortion III, 2011. Tauba Auerbach (American, b. 1981). Color aquatint and chine coll\u00e9; image: 86.4 x 62.2 cm (34 x 24 1/2 in.); sheet: 111.8 x 85.1 cm (44 x 33 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Charlotte Ekker and Charlotte Van der Veer Memorial Fund, 2019.226. \u00a9 Tauba Auerbach",
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        "title": "Plate Distortion III",
        "creation_date": "2011",
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        "department": "Prints",
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        "measurements": "Image: 86.4 x 62.2 cm (34 x 24 1/2 in.); Sheet: 111.8 x 85.1 cm (44 x 33 1/2 in.)",
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        "edition_of_the_work": "edition of 15",
        "copyright": "\u00a9 Tauba Auerbach",
        "inscriptions": [
            {
                "inscription": "inscribed in pencil at lower left: AP IV; signed and dated in pencil at lower right: TAUBA AUERBACH 2011; blind stamped at lower right: chop mark of Paulson Bott Press",
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        "exhibitions": {
            "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": "(The Bott Collection, Berkeley, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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        "did_you_know": "Tauba Auerbach created <em>Plate Distortion III</em> while working with printer Renee Bott to find a way to fold a copper plate.",
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        "description": "For over a decade, Tauba Auerbach has explored systems of representation and three-dimensional space in her prints. <em>Plate Distortion III</em> belongs to a series that she created by folding and bending a thin sheet of copper foil covered in grainy aquatint. The material was then affixed to a sturdier plate and printed, so that the effects of Auerbach\u2019s manipulation became the image itself, referencing the history and experimental potential of printmaking materials and tools.",
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        "creditline": "The Charlotte Ekker and Charlotte Van der Veer Memorial Fund",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:54:04.840000"
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