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    "localId": "144705",
    "label": "Carnival in the Snow",
    "core": "obj",
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    "id": "144705",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "title": "Carnival in the Snow",
    "description": "In this watercolor, acrobats and circus jugglers emerge from a complex pattern of shapes and colors. Two jugglers share a face and torso. A member of Der Blaue Reiter group in Munich, Paul Klee believed that the elements of color and shape alone could carry connotations of emotions, moods, and subjective feelings. His method was to begin painting without a subject, only settling upon something that could be recognized after layering colored form upon colored form.",
    "date": "1923",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.46",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79922241"
    ],
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        "Drawing"
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.46/1969.46_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Sheet: 24 x 23.5 cm (9 7/16 x 9 1/4 in.); Secondary Support: 34.5 x 29.3 cm (13 9/16 x 11 9/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Germany, 20th century"
    ],
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    "tec": "watercolor",
    "tombstone": "Carnival in the Snow, 1923. Paul Klee (German, 1879–1940). Watercolor; sheet: 24 x 23.5 cm (9 7/16 x 9 1/4 in.); secondary support: 34.5 x 29.3 cm (13 9/16 x 11 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.46",
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        {
            "description": "beige(1) laid paper laid down on beige(1) wove paper discolored to yellow-beige (artist's mount)"
        }
    ],
    "collection": "DR - German",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "signed, upper left, in brown ink: Klee ; SECONDARY SUPPORT, by artist, lower center, in brown ink: 1923  ///   40     Karneval im Schnee [slashes part of inscription]"
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 196",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n220"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Art of the Twentieth Century in the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Dept. of Art History &amp; Education, CMA, 1969.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 1",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/20thCenturyArtCMA/page/n1"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Kupka, Frank, Paul Klee, Larry Poons, Richard Hunt, and Edward B. Henning. “A Group of Twentieth-Century Works of Art Recently Acquired.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 57, no. 4 (April 1970): 107–126.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 112-117, fig. 9",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152324"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 246",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n266"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Henning, Edward B. <em>The Spirit of Surrealism</em>. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 108, 173; Reproduced: p. 108"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Henning, Edward B. <em>Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1987.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 130, no. 39"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.46",
    "creditline": "Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:26:17.103000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.46/1969.46_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 144705,
    "dept": "Drawings",
    "coll": "DR - German",
    "med": "watercolor",
    "creatorTags": [
        "male"
    ],
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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