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			<title>Artwork of the week: July 12</title>
			<link>http://www.toledomuseum.org/2013/07/11/artwork-of-the-week-july-12/</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2013 12:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[The name Lakabi refers to an early form of Persian ceramics that was mostly made before 1200. It is characteristic of Lakabi ware to have deeply cut or raised outlines of images in order to keep the colors separate beneath the top coat of glaze. This would allow for many colors to sit side by [...]]]></description>
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			<title>Artwork of the Week: July 5</title>
			<link>http://www.toledomuseum.org/2013/07/03/artwork-of-the-week-july-5/</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 15:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[In a kind of free association sampler of the urban environment, Rauschenberg here combined spontaneous brushwork with silkscreened photos from mass media. With a palette of red, yellow, and blue printer’s ink, he recycled images—the Statue of Liberty, an army helicopter, a construction site, and a sail boat—from his other works of this period. Some [...]]]></description>
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			<title>Artwork of the Week: June 28</title>
			<link>http://www.toledomuseum.org/2013/06/27/artwork-of-the-week-june-28/</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jun 2013 12:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Marvin Lipofsky studied under Studio Glass pioneer Harvey Littleton at the University of Wisconsin in the late 1960s. Founder of the Glass Department at the California College of Arts and Crafts, Lipofsky is considered a pioneer himself, thanks to his efforts in teaching students and creating his own hot-formed glass sculptures. Filled with openings, curving [...]]]></description>
					<content:encoded><![CDATA[Marvin Lipofsky studied under Studio Glass pioneer Harvey Littleton at the University of Wisconsin in the late 1960s. Founder of the Glass Department at the California College of Arts and Crafts, Lipofsky is considered a pioneer himself, thanks to his efforts in teaching students and creating his own hot-formed glass sculptures. Filled with openings, curving [...]]]></content:encoded>
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			<title>Artwork of the Week: June 21</title>
			<link>http://www.toledomuseum.org/2013/06/20/artwork-of-the-week-june-21/</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 12:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>peggymikkelsen</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[A Pennsylvania native, Henry Ossawa Tanner was the son of a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and a former slave who escaped on the Underground Railroad. Here Tanner paints Jesus and his disciples in a boat on the Sea of Galilee. It is the moment after Jesus has miraculously walked on the rough [...]]]></description>
					<content:encoded><![CDATA[A Pennsylvania native, Henry Ossawa Tanner was the son of a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and a former slave who escaped on the Underground Railroad. Here Tanner paints Jesus and his disciples in a boat on the Sea of Galilee. It is the moment after Jesus has miraculously walked on the rough [...]]]></content:encoded>
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			<title>Artwork of the Week: June 14</title>
			<link>http://www.toledomuseum.org/2013/06/13/artwork-of-the-week-june-14/</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>peggymikkelsen</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[In honor of Father’s Day this Sunday, we present a vision of leisure with A Gentleman at Breakfast. The gentleman in question is depicted in an informal pose relaxing and reading the newspaper at the breakfast table with his dog in attendance. His clothing suggests he intends to go hunting later. Happy Father’s Day, Dads—may [...]]]></description>
					<content:encoded><![CDATA[In honor of Father’s Day this Sunday, we present a vision of leisure with A Gentleman at Breakfast. The gentleman in question is depicted in an informal pose relaxing and reading the newspaper at the breakfast table with his dog in attendance. His clothing suggests he intends to go hunting later. Happy Father’s Day, Dads—may [...]]]></content:encoded>
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			<title>Artwork of the Week: June 7</title>
			<link>http://www.toledomuseum.org/2013/06/07/artwork-of-the-week-june-7/</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[For La penna di hu, or “The Peacock Feather,” Frank Stella employed cages and frames that allow the viewer to look through the work, unlike the experience of viewing more traditional sculptures. He also designed the work to be hung on a wall. Stella believes that if a work of art functions pictorially and “floats” [...]]]></description>
					<content:encoded><![CDATA[For La penna di hu, or “The Peacock Feather,” Frank Stella employed cages and frames that allow the viewer to look through the work, unlike the experience of viewing more traditional sculptures. He also designed the work to be hung on a wall. Stella believes that if a work of art functions pictorially and “floats” [...]]]></content:encoded>
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			<title>Artwork of the Week: May 31</title>
			<link>http://www.toledomuseum.org/2013/05/30/artwork-of-the-week-may-31/</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 13:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Honegger-Lavater began her career as a painter, illustrator, and art director for a youth magazine in her native Switzerland. She began creating illustrated stories in long strips folded like an accordion around 1960. Her “Folded Stories,” like Homo sapiens?, open up into one, long, continuous story filled with imagery. Honegger-Lavater transformed familiar fairy tales and [...]]]></description>
					<content:encoded><![CDATA[Honegger-Lavater began her career as a painter, illustrator, and art director for a youth magazine in her native Switzerland. She began creating illustrated stories in long strips folded like an accordion around 1960. Her “Folded Stories,” like Homo sapiens?, open up into one, long, continuous story filled with imagery. Honegger-Lavater transformed familiar fairy tales and [...]]]></content:encoded>
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			<title>Artwork of the Week: May 24</title>
			<link>http://www.toledomuseum.org/2013/05/23/artwork-of-the-week-may-17-2/</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 13:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>peggymikkelsen</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Rebellion was common from the early stages of Barry Flanagan’s career. He chose to break away from conventional British sculpture by using unusual materials such as rope and sandbags. By 1982, when he made Large Leaping Hare, Flanagan had abandoned his unique choices of medium and switched to using bronze. However, his playfulness was still [...]]]></description>
					<content:encoded><![CDATA[Rebellion was common from the early stages of Barry Flanagan’s career. He chose to break away from conventional British sculpture by using unusual materials such as rope and sandbags. By 1982, when he made Large Leaping Hare, Flanagan had abandoned his unique choices of medium and switched to using bronze. However, his playfulness was still [...]]]></content:encoded>
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			<title>Artwork of the Week: May 17</title>
			<link>http://www.toledomuseum.org/2013/05/16/artwork-of-the-week-may-17/</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 13:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>peggymikkelsen</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[African American artist Art Smith made jewelry that was seemingly simple, but was often inspired by symbols of West African tribal jewelry. The solid half of this necklace actually replicates jewelry worn by the Asante court of Ghana. Smith’s creations are also unusually large due to his belief that the body should act as a [...]]]></description>
					<content:encoded><![CDATA[African American artist Art Smith made jewelry that was seemingly simple, but was often inspired by symbols of West African tribal jewelry. The solid half of this necklace actually replicates jewelry worn by the Asante court of Ghana. Smith’s creations are also unusually large due to his belief that the body should act as a [...]]]></content:encoded>
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			<title>Artwork of the Week: May 10</title>
			<link>http://www.toledomuseum.org/2013/05/09/artwork-of-the-week-may-10/</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 13:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>peggymikkelsen</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Happy Mother’s Day! A rare double portrait by Gainsborough, Hester, Countess of Sussex, and Her Daughter was painted in the fashionable, western England town of Bath. Here, we see the wife and daughter of Henry Yelverton, who became Earl of Sussex in 1758, placed by a tree. This portrait would have been painted when Barbara, [...]]]></description>
					<content:encoded><![CDATA[Happy Mother’s Day! A rare double portrait by Gainsborough, Hester, Countess of Sussex, and Her Daughter was painted in the fashionable, western England town of Bath. Here, we see the wife and daughter of Henry Yelverton, who became Earl of Sussex in 1758, placed by a tree. This portrait would have been painted when Barbara, [...]]]></content:encoded>
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