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        "accession_number": "2020.247",
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        "tombstone": "Bedford Series: Sides of a River I, 1981. Joan Mitchell (American, 1925\u20131992). Color lithograph; sheet: 108.2 x 82.5 cm (42 5/8 x 32 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift, 2020.247. \u00a9 Estate of Joan Mitchell",
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        "title": "Sides of a River I",
        "series": "Bedford Series",
        "creation_date": "1981",
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        "artists_tags": [
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        "technique": "color lithograph",
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        "department": "Prints",
        "collection": "PR - Lithograph",
        "type": "Print",
        "measurements": "Sheet: 108.2 x 82.5 cm (42 5/8 x 32 1/2 in.)",
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            "sheet": {
                "height": 1.082,
                "width": 0.825
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        "edition_of_the_work": "55/70",
        "copyright": "\u00a9 Estate of Joan Mitchell",
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            {
                "inscription": "In pencil on recto, lower right: \"55/70 Joan Mitchell (signed)\"",
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            {
                "inscription": "Blindstamp lower right corner",
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            "current": [
                {
                    "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": "(Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH)",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "?-2011",
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            },
            {
                "description": "Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection, Cleveland, OH",
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                "date": "2011-2020",
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                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "September 14, 2020",
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        "did_you_know": "To make this print, Mitchell painted clear sheets of Mylar, which allowed her to layer colors for printing and retain a sense of immediacy.",
        "description": "Abstract painter Joan Mitchell\u2019s monumental lithographs convey her experience of the landscape and combine the complexity, intensity, and fluidity of abstracted lines that are fundamental to her work. In this lithograph, part of her <em>Bedford series</em>, 1981, heavily abstracted, dense bands of colorretain traces of the natural world, which can be seen as riverbanks. The expressive, gestural color marks are balanced by the white of the sheet, which also acts as the source of light or reflection off the water.",
        "external_resources": {
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106764579"
            ],
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        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Tyler, Kenneth E. Tyler Graphics: Catalogue Raisonne\u0301, 1974-1985. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1987.",
                "page_number": "366:JM4",
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "Roberts, Sarah. \"Joan Mitchell.\" In <em>The Keithley Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art, </em>edited by Heather Lemonedes Brown, 168-181. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 172-177; Mentioned: p. 267-268",
                "url": ""
            }
        ],
        "catalogue_raisonne": "366:JM4",
        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.247",
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        "creditline": "Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift",
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                "description": "Tyler Graphics Ltd.",
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        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "2020-09-14T00:00:00-04:00",
        "sortable_date": 1981,
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        "date_text": "1981",
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        "cover_accession_number": null,
        "is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
        "impression": "55",
        "alternate_titles": [],
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        "updated_at": "2026-03-27 00:01:21.604000"
    }
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