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        "tombstone": "Atomic Mystic Cosmic 16, 2017. Polly Apfelbaum (American, b. 1955). Color woodblock monoprint; image: 81.7 x 53.5 cm (32 3/16 x 21 1/16 in.); sheet: 92.5 x 63.8 cm (36 7/16 x 25 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Margaret and Peter Dobbins, 2020.273. \u00a9  Polly Apfelbaum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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        "title": "Atomic Mystic Cosmic 16",
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        "copyright": "\u00a9  Polly Apfelbaum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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                "inscription": "Initialed and dated in graphite LR in image: PA17",
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                "inscription": "Verso, inscribed in graphite : 16",
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                "inscription": "Verso, stamped in black ink : \u00a9 2017 Polly Apfelbaum Durham Press, Inc",
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                    "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).",
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                "date": "December 7, 2020",
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        "did_you_know": "The \u201crainbow roll\u201d printing technique is responsible for the gradient effect of many of the colors seen on this print.",
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        "description": "Polly Apfelbaum\u2019s work builds upon the American abstract tradition of color field, pop, and abstract expressionist painting, while rejecting what she calls the \u201caggressive masculinity\u201d of these movements. <em>Atomic Mystic Cosmic 16 </em>was stimulated by a year Apfelbaum spent in Italy, when she became fascinated with drapery and colored fabrics depicted in Renaissance and Baroque paintings, as well as the decorative inlay of medieval mosaic floors. For the color, she employed the \u201crainbow roll\u201d technique, in which multiple colors are partially mixed to achieve a continuous gradient effect. The effect is one of dazzling color and pattern, while also creating spatial relationships that complicate the composition\u2019s hard-edged geometry.",
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        "creditline": "Gift of Margaret and Peter Dobbins",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:54:08.523000"
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