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  • Elizabeth Catlett: An American Artist in Mexico by Herzog, Melanie Anne
    Melanie Anne Herzog

    Elizabeth Catlett: An American Artist in Mexico

    Elizabeth Catlett, born in Washington, DC, in 1915, is widely acknowledged as a major presence in African American art, and her work is celebrated as a visually eloquent expression of African American identity and pride in cultural heritage. But this is not the whole...
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  • Modern Art 1851-1929: Capitalism and Representation by Brettell, Richard R.
    Richard R. Brettell

    Modern Art 1851-1929: Capitalism and Representation

    Richard R. Brettell's innovative and beautifully-illustrated account explores the works of artists such as Monet, Gauguin, Picasso, and Dali--as well as lesser-known figures--in relation to expansion, colonialism, nationalism and internationalism, and the rise of the museum. Beginning with The Great Exhibition of 1851 in...
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  • American Workman: The Life and Art of John Kane by King, Maxwell
    Maxwell King

    American Workman: The Life and Art of John Kane

    American Workman presents a comprehensive, novel reassessment of the life and work of one of America's most influential self-taught artists, John Kane. With a full account of Kane's life as a working man, including his time as a steelworker, coal miner, street paver, and...
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  • Where Art Might Happen: The Early Years of Calarts by Vegh, Christina
    Christina Vegh

    Where Art Might Happen: The Early Years of Calarts

    From Fluxus to conceptualism and feminism, an inside look at how California's legendary school nurtured a generation of exciting, experimental artists. Founded in 1970 by Walt Disney, CalArts was envisioned as a place where students could exchange ideas and learn multiple means of self-expression...
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  • Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires & Riots: California and Graphic Design, 1936-1986 by Sandhaus, Louise
    Louise Sandhaus

    Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires & Riots: California and Graphic Design, 1936-1986

    The essential record of America's most American design movement, in a form that perfectly matches its content. -- Michael BeirutEarthquakes, Mudslides, Fires & Riots is the first publication to capture the enormous body of distinctive and visually ecstatic graphic design that emanated from California...
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  • Once Upon a Time: The Way America Was by Sloane, Eric
    Eric Sloane

    Once Upon a Time: The Way America Was

    "This book is about once-upon-a-time in America." -- Eric Sloane. Writer and artist Eric Sloane had an abiding love for America and worked throughout a long and productive life to capture the American spirit in word and picture. The America Sloane loved was rooted...
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  • We the People: Portraits of Veterans in America by Whyte, Mary
    Mary Whyte

    We the People: Portraits of Veterans in America

    We the people--these words embody the ethos of what it means to be an American citizen. As individuals we are a tapestry of colors and creeds; united we are a nation committed to preserving our hard-earned freedom. In this heart-stirring collection of watercolor portraits...
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  • Down Bohicket Road: An Artist's Journey. Paintings and Sketches by Mary Whyte, with Excerpts from Alfreda's World. by Whyte, Mary
    Mary Whyte

    Down Bohicket Road: An Artist's Journey. Paintings and Sketches by Mary Whyte, with Excerpts from Alfreda's World.

    Artist Mary Whyte's Down Bohicket Road includes two decades worth of watercolors--depicting a select group of Gullah women of Johns Island, South Carolina, and their stories. In 1991, following Whyte's recovery from a year of treatment for cancer, she and her husband moved to...
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  • Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection by Torrence, Gaylord
    Gaylord Torrence

    Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection

    A fresh exploration of Native American art that positions the work within the broader context of North American art history This landmark publication presents Native American art within the broader context of American art history, through an examination of notable works from a major...
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  • Color Symbolism: The Eranos Lectures by Ottmann, Klaus
    Klaus Ottmann

    Color Symbolism: The Eranos Lectures

    Seven papers originally delivered at the annual Eranos conference in Ascona, Switzerland, August 1972. This revised and expanded edition includes, for the first time in English translation, Gershom Scholem's paper on "Colors and their Symbolism in Jewish Tradition and Mysticism" and Henry Corbin's paper...
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  • Agitate! Educate! Organize!: American Labor Posters by Cushing, Lincoln
    Lincoln Cushing

    Agitate! Educate! Organize!: American Labor Posters

    "We seek to inform as well as to celebrate. The best posters about American workers and the jobs at which they labor make up a visually fascinating body of work that rewards our attention. The posters were produced with a dual purpose: to entertain...
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  • John Waters: Indecent Exposure by Hileman, Kristen
    Kristen Hileman

    John Waters: Indecent Exposure

    It has been more than fifty years since John Waters filmed his first short on the roof of his parents' Baltimore home. Over the following decades, Waters has developed a reputation as an uncompromising cultural force not only in cinema, but also in visual...
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  • Wayne Thiebaud: 1958-1968 by Teagle, Rachel
    Rachel Teagle

    Wayne Thiebaud: 1958-1968

    Wayne Thiebaud: 1958-1968 examines Thiebaud's ongoing impact on contemporary art through in-depth analysis of the paintings and drawings made at the launch of his career, at a seminal moment when the art world was moving beyond Abstract Expressionism and redefining itself. By questioning Thiebaud's...
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  • Modern Architecture by Colquhoun, Alan
    Alan Colquhoun

    Modern Architecture

    Colquhoun, an eminent scholar in the field of architecture, offers here a new account of international modernism that explores the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assesses its triumphs and failures. The book focuses on the work of the main architects of the...
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  • The Incredibly Painful Slit-Fit-Chair by Waltz, Eike
    Eike Waltz

    The Incredibly Painful Slit-Fit-Chair

    Eike "Ike" Waltz MdesRCA (Master design Royal College of Art) pays homage to all the designers who attempted or completed a successful or a failure of a sleek indoor-outdoor chair design. The Slit-Fit-Chair (2014) weaves together the lower back silhouette of a potential client...
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  • Stockyard Institute: 25 Years of Art and Radical Pedagogy by Rodrigues Widholm, Julie
    Julie Rodrigues Widholm

    Stockyard Institute: 25 Years of Art and Radical Pedagogy

    Author: Julie Rodrigues WidholmISBN-10: 0578827786ISBN-13: 9780578827780Publisher: Dapaul Art MuseumLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/02/2021Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 9.70h x 7.10w x 0.80d
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  • Georgia O'Keeffe by Herreros, María
    Mar? Herreros

    Georgia O'Keeffe: A Graphic Biography

    A graphic biography of Georgia O'Keeffe, one of the most significant artists of the 20th century, known for her paintings of enlarged flowers and renowned for her contribution to modern art. Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), the American artist known for her paintings of enlarged flowers,...
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  • The Art of Looking: The Life and Treasures of Collector Charles Leslie by Clarke, Kevin
    Kevin Clarke

    The Art of Looking: The Life and Treasures of Collector Charles Leslie

    Have you heard of Charles Leslie? Thomas Mann pinched his butt. He has the biggest penis collection in the world. He is one of the fathers of modern New York SoHo. And he's the co-founder of the first museum for gay and lesbian art....
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  • Jane Dickson in Times Square by Dickson, Jane
    Jane Dickson

    Jane Dickson in Times Square

    Artist Jane Dickson is a deep-rooted and central voice in New York City's complex creative history. In the late 1970s and early '80s, she was part of the movement joining the legacies of downtown art, punk rock, and hip hop through her involvement with...
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  • Inventing the American Flag: How the Stars and Stripes Was Woven from Symbols by Moeller, Henry W.
    Henry W. Moeller

    Inventing the American Flag: How the Stars and Stripes Was Woven from Symbols

    A treasure hunt for the hidden meaning of the symbols that appear on America's beloved national flag."The best book on the American flag's origins. . . No one knows the ins and outs of the origins of the flag of the United States as...
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  • Audubon: Life and Art in the American Wilderness by Streshinsky, Shirley
    Shirley Streshinsky

    Audubon: Life and Art in the American Wilderness

    The compelling story of a legendary artist and an eternal American hero.Author: Shirley StreshinskyISBN-10: 1618580256ISBN-13: 9781618580252Publisher: TurnerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/03/2013Pages: 528Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.46lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.18d
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  • Russel Wright: The Nature of Design by Albrecht, Donald
    Donald Albrecht

    Russel Wright: The Nature of Design

    Donald Albrecht has curated exhibitions that have ranged from overviews of cultural trends to profiles of individual design firms and artists. He teaches in the Masters Program in the Decorative Arts at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and lectures frequently about architecture and design...
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  • America's Art Museums: A Traveler's Guide to Great Collections Large and Small by Loebl, Suzanne
    Suzanne Loebl

    America's Art Museums: A Traveler's Guide to Great Collections Large and Small

    Much more than a simply practical guide, this book is a knowledgeable and enthusiastic tour not only of this country's great museums but also of the history of art in America. Suzanne Loebl is the perfect, passionate companion, as she takes you from the...
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  • The William Morris: An Assortment of Fictitious Lives by Yood, James
    James Yood

    The William Morris: An Assortment of Fictitious Lives

    This volume presents some of the more recent work in glass by American artist, William Morris. The sculptures explore themes related to archaeology, animals, and the hunt combining Morris' interest in myth and ancient history with his keen understanding of the natural world.Author: James...
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  • Goreys Worlds by Monroe, Erin
    Erin Monroe

    Goreys Worlds

    An exploration of the artistic and cultural influences that shaped writer and illustrator Edward Gorey The illustrator, designer, and writer Edward Gorey (1925-2000) is beloved for his droll, surreal, and slightly sinister drawings. While he is perhaps best known for his fanciful, macabre books,...
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  • The Lindquist Legacy: A History of the Us Studio Woodturning Movement by Robinson, Seri C.
    Seri C. Robinson

    The Lindquist Legacy: A History of the Us Studio Woodturning Movement

    The first book about Mark Lindquist's impact on the rise of woodworking from the studio craft movement to high art. Carefully researched and beautifully illustrated, this history reveals a clearer understanding of the art of woodturning and its current position in the United States...
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  • The Story of the Rockport-Fulton Art Colony: How a Coastal Texas Town Became an Art Enclave by Betz, Kay Kronke
    Kay Kronke Betz

    The Story of the Rockport-Fulton Art Colony: How a Coastal Texas Town Became an Art Enclave

    When Coastal Living Magazine listed Rockport, Texas, among its "Top 10 Coastal Artists' Colonies" with more well-known art communities such as Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, and Monhegan Island, Maine, many art lovers may have been surprised. But Rockport's inclusion represented an emerging Texas Gulf Coast aesthetic...
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  • Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera by Schick, Ron
    Ron Schick

    Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera

    Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera is the first book to explore the meticulously composed and richly detailed photographs that Norman Rockwell used to create his famous artworks. Working alongside skilled photographers, Rockwell acted as director, carefully orchestrating models, selecting props, and choosing locations for...
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  • Walls of Empowerment: Chicana/O Indigenist Murals of California by Latorre, Guisela
    Guisela Latorre

    Walls of Empowerment: Chicana/O Indigenist Murals of California

    Exploring three major hubs of muralist activity in California, where indigenist imagery is prevalent, Walls of Empowerment celebrates an aesthetic that seeks to firmly establish Chicana/o sociopolitical identity in U.S. territory. Providing readers with a history and genealogy of key muralists' productions, Guisela Latorre...
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  • Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman's Words: Writings and Interviews by Nauman, Bruce
    Bruce Nauman

    Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman's Words: Writings and Interviews

    The most comprehensive collection to date of the artist Bruce Nauman's writings plus all of his major interviews from 1965 to 2001.Since the 1960s, the artist Bruce Nauman has developed a highly complex and pluralistic oeuvre ranging from discrete sculpture, performance, film, video, and...
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  • Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America by Doss, Erika
    Erika Doss

    Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America

    In the past few decades, thousands of new memorials to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tribute to civil rights, organ donors, and the end of Communism have dotted the American landscape. Equally ubiquitous, though until now...
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  • A Generous Vision: The Creative Life of Elaine de Kooning by Curtis, Cathy
    Cathy Curtis

    A Generous Vision: The Creative Life of Elaine de Kooning

    The first biography of Elaine de Kooning, A Generous Vision portrays a woman whose intelligence, droll sense of humor, and generosity of spirit endeared her to friends and gave her a starring role in the close-knit world of New York artists. Her zest for...
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  • From the Schuylkill to the Hudson: Landscapes of the Early American Republic by Marley, Anna
    Anna Marley

    From the Schuylkill to the Hudson: Landscapes of the Early American Republic

    From the Schuylkill to the Hudson delves into the important and under-explored tradition of landscape painting in Philadelphia from the early American Republic (1775) to the Centennial International Exposition (1876), and how that corpus shaped the better-known Hudson River School. Examining for the first...
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  • Edward Borein: Cowboy Artist by Davidson, Harold G.
    Harold G. Davidson

    Edward Borein: Cowboy Artist

    John Edward Borein (1872-1945) was the oldest of five children, born into a politically inclined family in San Leandro, then a Western cow town on the main northern California cattle trail not far from Oakland. The constant stream of cattle and 'vaqueros' moving through...
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  • Childe Hassam: At Dusk: Boston Common at Twilight by Hassam, Childe
    Childe Hassam

    Childe Hassam: At Dusk: Boston Common at Twilight

    In this vivid account of one of Boston's best-loved paintings, leading American art specialist Erica E. Hirshler illuminates the context of Childe Hassam's 1880s city scene. With its rosy rust tones, intimate familial vignette and quiet expanse of snow-laden park, today "At Dusk (Boston...
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  • Lady Liberty: An Illustrated History of America's Most Storied Woman by Dim, Joan Marans
    Joseph Berger

    Lady Liberty: An Illustrated History of America's Most Storied Woman

    Magnificent art complements an unvarnished history of the Statue of Liberty and its relationship to immigration policy in the United States throughout the years. What began in 1865 in Glatigny, France, at a dinner party hosted by esteemed university professor douard Ren de Laboulaye...
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  • Georgia Quilts: Piecing Together a History by Holmes, Catherine
    Catherine Holmes

    Georgia Quilts: Piecing Together a History

    This abundantly illustrated volume arises out of the painstaking work of the Georgia Quilt Project, the most authoritative survey of quilts and quiltmakers ever undertaken in the state. Georgia Quilts showcases the diversity of quilting materials, methods, and patterns used in the state from...
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  • Fanny Palmer: The Life and Works of a Currier & Ives Artist by Rubinstein Charlotte Streifer
    Rubinstein Charlotte Streifer

    Fanny Palmer: The Life and Works of a Currier & Ives Artist

    As one of Currier & Ives's leading artists, Frances ("Fanny") Bond Palmer (1812-1876) was a major lithographer whose prints found their way into homes, schools, barns, taverns, business offices, yacht clubs, and elsewhere, reaching a mass audience during her day. Her life was a...
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  • Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s by Cogdell, Christina
    Christina Cogdell

    Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s

    In 1939, Vogue magazine invited commercial designer Raymond Loewy and eight of his contemporaries--including Walter Dorwin Teague, Egmont Arens, and Henry Dreyfuss--to design a dress for the "Woman of the Future" as part of its special issue promoting the New York World's Fair and...
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  • Beyond Madness: The Art of Ralph Blakelock, 1847-1919 by Geske, Norman A.
    Norman A. Geske

    Beyond Madness: The Art of Ralph Blakelock, 1847-1919

    This book, featuring the life and works of Ralph Blakelock, situates him in the context of American art. Representing over twenty years of study and the examination of several thousand works attributed to him, Beyond Madness reveals the unusual nature of Blakelock's life story...
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  • Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975 by Ho, Melissa
    Melissa Ho

    Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975

    How the Vietnam War changed American art By the late 1960s, the United States was in a pitched conflict in Vietnam, against a foreign enemy, and at home--between Americans for and against the war and the status quo. This powerful book showcases how American...
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  • Harvey Quaytman: Against the Static by Diquinzio, Apsara
    Apsara Diquinzio

    Harvey Quaytman: Against the Static

    Harvey Quaytman's paintings are distinct for their inventive, whimsical exploration of shape, meticulous attention to surface texture, and experimental application of color. While his works display a rigorous commitment to formalism, they are simultaneously invested with rich undertones of sensuality, decorativeness, and humor--expressed, too,...
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  • Drawing the Line: The Early Work of Agnes Martin by Rosenberger, Christina Bryan
    Christina Bryan Rosenberger

    Drawing the Line: The Early Work of Agnes Martin

    Agnes Martin's (1912-2004) celebrated grid paintings are widely acknowledged as a touchstone of postwar American art and have influenced many contemporary artists. Martin's formative years, however, have been largely overlooked. In this revelatory study of Martin's early artistic production, Christina Bryan Rosenberger demonstrates that...
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  • Envisioning Howard Finster: The Religion and Art of a Stranger from Another World by Girardot, Norman J.
    Norman J. Girardot

    Envisioning Howard Finster: The Religion and Art of a Stranger from Another World

    The Reverend Howard Finster (1916-2001) was called the "backwoods William Blake" and the "Andy Warhol of the South," and he is considered the godfather of contemporary American folk and visionary art. This book is the first interpretive analysis of the intertwined artistic and religious...
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  • True to Life: Twenty-Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney by Weschler, Lawrence
    Lawrence Weschler

    True to Life: Twenty-Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney

    Soon after the book's publication in 1982, artist David Hockney read Lawrence Weschler's Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin and invited Weschler to his studio to discuss it, initiating a series of engrossing...
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  • Hockney's Portraits and People by Livingstone, Marco
    Marco Livingstone

    Hockney's Portraits and People

    Ever since he made his first portraits and self-portraits at the age of sixteen, David Hockney has been fascinated by people--"the human clay," as W. H. Auden put it--and how they have been represented throughout the history of art. As much as any other...
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  • The Gentle Art of Making Enemies by Whistler, James
    James Whistler

    The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

    The Gentle Art of Making Enemies is a book by the painter James McNeill Whistler, published in 1890. The book was in part a response to, in part a transcript of, Whistler's famous libel suit against critic John Ruskin. Ruskin, in a review of...
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  • Frederic Remington: 113 Paintings and Drawings by Tsaneva, Maria
    Maria Tsaneva

    Frederic Remington: 113 Paintings and Drawings

    Frederic Sackrider Remington was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in depictions of the Old American West, specifically concentrating on the last quarter of the 19th-century American West and images of cowboys, American Indians, and the U. S. Cavalry. His style...
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  • Distinctly Kentucky: Coloring Book by Powell, Robert a.
    Robert a. Powell

    Distinctly Kentucky: Coloring Book

    This fantastic collection of sketches by Robert A. Powell represent scenes that are Distinctly Kentucky. The symbols and subjects cover the diverse natural and man-made landmarks as well as activities that depict the colorful heritage of Kentucky. To fully represent our great state, subjects...
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  • Tyree: Artist of the South Pacific by Cook, Cj
    Cj Cook

    Tyree: Artist of the South Pacific

    Double Gold Medal Winner: The Benjamin Franklin Awards for Best Biography and Best CoverThe World War II US Marine-turned-painter who helped popularize South Pacific and Tiki art and later the plight of endangered speciesRaised in Central California, American artist Ralph Burke Tyree was the...
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