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        "tombstone": "Blue Rational/Irrational (right panel), 1969. Al Loving (American, 1935\u20132005). Acrylic on canvas. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the KeyBank Collection, 2019.58.b. \u00a9 The Estate of Al Loving and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York",
        "current_location": "224A Contemporary Corridor",
        "title": "Blue Rational/Irrational (right panel)",
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        "creation_date_latest": 1974,
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                    "title": "Contemporary Installation",
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                    "opening_date": "2021-04-12T04:00:00"
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                    "description": "<em>Alvin Loving: Paintings</em>. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (December 19, 1969\u2013January 25, 1970).",
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        "did_you_know": "This was included in <em>Al Loving: Paintings </em>(1969) at the Whitney Museum, the museum\u2019s first solo exhibition of work by an African American artist.",
        "description": "Across both canvases of this large-scale diptych, Loving evokes a three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface through strategic layerings of cubic forms and carefully calibrated color juxtapositions. Around the time Loving made this work he wrote, \u201cI am tired of objects on walls. The wall must be pierced, brought forward, pushed back.\u201d <em>Blue Rational/Irrational</em> is a bold manifestation of this sentiment.",
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            {
                "citation": "Cooke, Lynne, and Douglas Crimp. Outliers and American Vanguard Art. 2018.",
                "page_number": "96-97",
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            },
            {
                "citation": "Bowling, Frank, and Kellie Jones. Energy/Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction 1964-1980 : Frank Bowling, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Ed Clark, Melvin Edwards, Fred Eversley, Sam Gilliam, Daniel LaRue Johnson, Tom Lloyd, Al Loving, Joe Overstreet, Howardena Pindell, Haywood Bill Rivers, Alma Thomas, Jack Whitten, William T. Williams ; [Guest Curator Kellie Jones]. 2006.",
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        "creditline": "Gift of the KeyBank Collection",
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        "gallery_donor_text": "Betty and Max Ratner Gallery",
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