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        "accession_number": "2021.152.4",
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        "tombstone": "Haiga Portfolio: A cloud of cherry blossoms; a temple bell, is it from Uero, is it from Asakusa, 1966\u201367. Stanton Macdonald-Wright (American, 1890\u20131973), printed by Clifton Karhu (American, 1927\u20132007). Color woodcut; image: 40.9 x 50.7 cm (16 1/8 x 19 15/16 in.); sheet: 45.4 x 54.4 cm (17 7/8 x 21 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Estate of Stanton and Jean Macdonald-Wright, 2021.152.4",
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        "title": "A cloud of cherry blossoms; a temple bell, is it from Uero, is it from Asakusa",
        "series": "Haiga Portfolio",
        "creation_date": "1966\u201367",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1966,
        "creation_date_latest": 1967,
        "artists_tags": [
            "male"
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            "America"
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        "technique": "color woodcut",
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        "department": "Prints",
        "collection": "PR - Woodcut",
        "type": "Print",
        "measurements": "Image: 40.9 x 50.7 cm (16 1/8 x 19 15/16 in.); Sheet: 45.4 x 54.4 cm (17 7/8 x 21 7/16 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
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        "edition_of_the_work": "edition of 50",
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        "inscriptions": [
            {
                "inscription": "Red ink stamp, recto, lower left",
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            {
                "inscription": "Written in pencil on recto: \"2. A cloud of cherry blossoms; a temple bell, is it from Uero, is it from Asakusa\"  Basko 7/50 1966-67\"",
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            {
                "description": "Stanton Macdonald-Wright (the artist) [189-1973]",
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                "date": "1967\u201373",
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            {
                "description": "(Macdonald-Wright Estate)",
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                "date": "1973-2021",
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                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "September 6, 2021",
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        "did_you_know": "The artist wrote of the works in this portfolio: \u201cI have attempted to pictorialize these haiku psychologically and thus complete the verses by making the illustrations as modern as the verses will always remain.\u201d",
        "description": "Modernist painter Stanton Macdonald-Wright developed the <em>Haiga portfolio</em> out of his admiration for <em>haiga</em>, the traditional art of haiku illustration. Produced in Japan using traditional Japanese printmaking technique (ukiyo-e), the artist challenged the typically minimalist, black and white approach to haiku illustration. While many of the works in the portfolio employ the lively colors and patterns of Synchromism\u2014an art movement MacDonald-Wright founded in 1910 seeking to apply color theory to music and rhythm\u2014others are more contemplative, while still retaining a connection to abstract modernist optics.",
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        "creditline": "Gift of the Estate of Stanton and Jean Macdonald-Wright",
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                "description": "Clifton Karhu (American, 1927\u20132007)",
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                "role": "printer",
                "biography": "Works in \"Sosaku hangu\" style, making woodblock prints of typical Japanese scenes, often old Japanese houses or details taken from old houses, especially those of Kyoto.",
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                "birth_year": "1927",
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        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "2021-09-13T04:00:00Z",
        "sortable_date": 1966,
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        "date_text": "1966\u201367",
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        "cover_accession_number": "2021.152",
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        "updated_at": "2026-03-27 00:03:08.162000"
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