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        "tombstone": "Peacocks with Cherry Tree, 1984. Joseph O'Sickey (American, 1918\u20132013). Pen and black ink and white gouache with bronze metallic paint on white wove paper; image and sheet: 35.5 x 43 cm (14 x 16 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift, 2020.147",
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        "title": "Peacocks with Cherry Tree",
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                "inscription": "signed and inscribed, lower right, in black ink: O\u2019Sickey \u201884",
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                    "id": 396695,
                    "title": "Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection",
                    "description": "<i>Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).",
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                "description": "(Kennedy Galleries, New York, NY, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Shaker Heights, OH)",
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                "date": "after 1984-1994",
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        "did_you_know": "Joseph O'Sickey described his process saying that \"every mark had to have its room and clarity.\u201d",
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        "description": "Joseph O'Sickey spent much of his life and career in Northeast Ohio, where he took classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art as a child and later taught at the Cleveland Institute of Art, among other institutions. This watercolor is one of many that the artist made, seeing the medium as well suited for his creative experimentation with color and form. O'Sickey favored vivid tones, such as the bright blue seen here, taking inspiration from European artists such as Henri Matisse.",
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q87481488"
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        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Adams, Henry. \"Joseph O\u2019Sickey.\" In <em>The Keithley Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art, </em>edited by Heather Lemonedes Brown, 186-191. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 186-191; Mentioned: p. 269",
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        "updated_at": "2026-06-11 12:17:40.749000"
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