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        "tombstone": "Farm Yard, 1948. Milton Avery (American, 1885\u20131965). Oil on canvas; unframed: 80.3 x 121 cm (31 5/8 x 47 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift, 2020.170. \u00a9 The Milton Avery Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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        "title": "Farm Yard",
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        "measurements": "Unframed: 80.3 x 121 cm (31 5/8 x 47 5/8 in.)",
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        "copyright": "\u00a9 The Milton Avery Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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                "inscription": "Signed and dated, lower left: Milton Avery 1948",
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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).",
                    "opening_date": "2022-09-11T04:00:00"
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                "description": "Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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                "date": "2020",
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        "did_you_know": "Explaining why he was so quiet, Milton Avery said, \"Why talk when you can paint?\"",
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        "description": "Milton Avery\u2019s passion for bold color and elemental shapes infuses <em>Farm Yard.</em> Throughout his career, the artist sought inspiration from everyday life, which he carefully distilled into abstracted compositions that would capture, as he described, \u201cthe purity and essence of the idea expressed in its simplest form.\u201d This painting likely reflects Avery's fondness for folk art; indeed, the fowl with their simplified silhouettes resemble early American weather vanes.",
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q87481586"
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        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Brown, Heather Lemonedes, ed. <em>The Keithley Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art, </em>exh. cat.(Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022).",
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            },
            {
                "citation": "Kramer, Hilton, <em>Milton Avery: Paintings 1930-1960.</em> (New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1962).",
                "page_number": "Mentioned P. 29; Reproduced Plate 65.",
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            },
            {
                "citation": "Hobbs, Robert. \"Milton Avery.\" In <em>The Keithley Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art, </em>edited by Heather Lemonedes Brown, 162-165. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 162-165; Mentioned: p. 254",
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            },
            {
                "citation": "Brown, Heather Lemonedes. \u201cColor, Sensation, and Memory: Themes in the Keithleys\u2019 gift and promised gift.\u201d <em>Cleveland Art </em>62, no. 3, 2022",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: PP. 5, 6; Reproduced P. 6.",
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        "sortable_date": 1948,
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        "updated_at": "2026-09-19 12:14:14.677000"
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