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        "tombstone": "Father with Children, 1960s. Malick Sidib\u00e9 (Malian, 1936\u20132016). Gelatin silver print; image: 16.5 x 12.1 cm (6 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Whitehill Art Purchase Endowment Fund, 2022.245",
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        "title": "Father with Children",
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            "African (from 1900 to present)",
            "male"
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        "technique": "gelatin silver print",
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        "department": "Photography",
        "collection": "PH - Misc. 20th Century",
        "type": "Photograph",
        "measurements": "Image: 16.5 x 12.1 cm (6 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.)",
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                "description": "(Throckmorton Fine Art, New York, NY), sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "date": "?-2022",
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                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "December 5, 2022-",
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        "did_you_know": "In the 1990s, the international art world suddenly recognized that there had been a golden age of portrait photography in Mali, West Africa.",
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        "description": "Malick Sidib\u00e9 opened his portrait studio in 1962, two years after Mali gained independence. In this rigidly symmetrical family portrait, two daughters flank the father, while the son is seated on the ground holding a musical instrument. The whole family wears traditional African garb, although their jewelry and watches are Western in style. The sitters\u2019 expressions are solemn, as befits the formal occasion of having one\u2019s likeness recorded for posterity.",
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        "creditline": "Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Whitehill Art Purchase Endowment Fund",
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                "description": "Malick Sidib\u00e9 (Malian, 1936\u20132016)",
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        "accession_date": "2022-12-05T05:00:00Z",
        "sortable_date": 1960,
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        "date_text": "1960s",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:54:25.745000"
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