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        "title": "Many Cities",
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                "inscription": "Signed at lower right, in pencil: Ben Shahn",
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                "inscription": "Watermark: Arches",
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            {
                "inscription": "In folder printed on exterior: VII",
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                "inscription": "on interior, at left: One must be able to think back to roads in unknown regions,",
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        "description": "This print belongs to a series based on the German writer Rainer Maria Rilke\u2019s autobiographical novel <em>The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge</em>, which dealt with the challenge of artistic creation amidst feelings of loneliness, anxiety, and defeat. American artist Ben Shahn used evocative images to suggest rather than directly interpret the poet\u2019s words.",
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                "citation": "Prescott, Kenneth W., and Ben Shahn. The Complete Graphic Works of Ben Shahn. 1973.",
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