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    "localId": "144601",
    "label": "Chestnut and Pine",
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    "id": "144601",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "title": "Chestnut and Pine",
    "description": "Primarily self-taught, Johnson’s only formal training was a few lessons with Jasper F. Cropsey (also in this gallery). Johnson was, however, a devoted student of nature.\r\n\r\nAs was typical of artists of the Hudson River school, he constructed his paintings in the studio with the\r\naid of detailed drawings he had made directly from nature. Probably drawn in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, this sheet pairs two distinct species of tree--a pine and a chestnut--in a harmonious composition.",
    "date": "1869",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.241",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Sheet: 30.5 x 46.9 cm (12 x 18 7/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
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    "accession": "1969.241"
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    "tec": "graphite",
    "tombstone": "Chestnut and Pine, 1869. David Johnson (American, 1827–1908). Graphite; sheet: 30.5 x 46.9 cm (12 x 18 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection, 1969.241",
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            "description": "cream(2) wove paper (margins discolored to light yellow)"
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    "collection": "DR - American 19th Century",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "signed, lower right, in graphite: DJ. [artist monogram] 69. ; by artist, lower left, in graphite: Chesnut. ; by artist, lower right, in graphite: -Pine- ; VERSO, upper left, in graphite: 150 ; lower right, in graphite: 150.  17035"
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    "creditline": "Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:25:42.291000",
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