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ROBERT INDIANA: A-Z --
THE ALPHABET & THE ICONS

This new exhibition will premiere at the Munson Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY in October 2013 and then travel to the Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA in 2014. ROBERT INDIANA: A-Z follows the 77 year ongoing career of this seminal artist from 1934 to his current work in 2011/2012. Featured are his icons – EAT, LOVE and HOPE and his latest masterpiece, THE ALPHABET, in many ways, the culmination of a his journey as the world's premiere Word Artist. Presented are more than 70 works showcasing Indiana’s unique method of working on paper, canvas, print, and in 3 dimensions with the same image. Incuded is a monumental version of his HOPE sculpture. Indiana was one of the six founding fathers of Pop Art along with Andy Warhol. Indiana’s LOVE, conceived originally as a postcard for New York’s Museum of Modern Art, is one of the most recognizable works in American Art and was rendered as sculptures, paintings, drawings, and prints, globally exhibited, and also as a U.S. Postage stamp. Indiana’s work is in over 1000 collections in 100 countries including The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum, The Whitney Museum, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Stedelijk Museum and The Louvre. A full color catalog of the exhibition has been published. The exhibition is available for circulation worldwide through 2016.

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WOVEN TOGETHER:
ART & DESIGN IN SOUTHWEST
INDIAN TEXTILES
Organized by the Palm Springs Art Museum

Featured are sixty-eight Navajo, Pueblo, and Hopi blankets, rugs, and pictorial weavings dating from the 1870s to the 1970s which have been a part of the Palm Springs Art Museum’s collection since its earliest days. Examples from the late 19th century Classic and Transitional Periods through the Late Rug Period of the first half of the 20th century are included along a selection of historic Germantown and banded blankets from the Janet and Mark Hilbert Collection. “The art of weaving in the southwestern United States emerged from a deep tradition that developed over a long period of time,” said Christine Giles, Curator of Western Art. “By 700-1100 A.D., sophisticated fiber arts had become the hallmark of ancient Pueblo cultures and coveted articles of trade throughout the region.” In the mid-16th century, Spanish colonialists introduced sheep, and wool replaced cotton as the preferred weaving material. During the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, Pueblo Indians began migrating into Navajo territory and passed on their traditional weaving skills to the Navajo. Today we recognize the Navajo as the great masters of textile weaving in the Southwest. The exhibition was orgainzed by the Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA, where it premied in the Fall of 2012. A 24 page color catalogue of the exhibition has been published.

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THE ART OF ELIZABETH CATLETT
From the Samella Lewis Collection

The exhibition THE ART OF ELIZABETH CATLETT from the Collection of Samella Lewis will be presented at the August Wilson Center from this coming July. .Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012), a sculptor and printmaker, is widely considered one of the most important African American artists of the 20th century. Her work blended art and social consciousness and confronted the most disturbing injustices against African Americans. She is best known for her work during the 1960s and 70s, when she created politically charged, black expressionistic sculptures and prints. The exhibition premiered at the August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh, PA, in July 2013. The works comes from the collection of artist, educator and author, Samella Lewis, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, Art History, Scripps College, Claremont, CA. Lewis was a student of Catlett’s in the 1940’s and Catlett became her mentor. The two became lifetime friends. The exhibition includes 30 sculptures and graphics by Catlett along with 3 works by Catlett's husband, Francisco Mora, and 3 by Samella Lewis.

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DRAWING ATTENTION:
45 YEARS OF DRAWINGS
BY JOHN VAN HAMMERSVELD
Organized by CSU Art Gallery, Northridge, CA

Iconic Los Angeles pop artist and graphic designer John Van Hamersveld's inspirational collection of drawings will be showcased in his current exhibition, DRAWING ATTENTION: 45 YEARS OF DRAWINGS organized by the California State University Art Gallery, Northridge, CA. Van Hamersveld ranks as one of America’s leading multi-disciplined artists and graphic illustrators of his era, known for his psychedelic patterns and vivacious color schemes. Hereceived his education from the Art Center College in Los Angeles, CA in the early 1960s, which then gave way for him to launch his professional career as the art director at Surfer Magazine. During this time, Van Hamersveld created one of the most recognizable and timeless poster of all time from The Endless Summer, the film directed by Bruce Brown in 1964. In the late sixties through the eighties, he created up to 300 album covers, the most notable of which being The Beatles’ "Magical Mystery Tour" and The Rolling Stones’ "Exile On Main Street". More recently, in an extension to graphic identity and dazzling homage, Van Hamersveld, as well as over 30 million people worldwide, have seen the culmination of his work on a grand scale, 1,500 feet high and 12 million LEDs bright, at the Fremont Street Experience in Las Vegas, NV. His works have been featured in numerous exhibitions, and are included in the collection of MOMA in New York. The exhibition will be available through 2016.

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TOUGH BY NATURE:
PORTRAITS OF COWGIRLS AND RANCH WOMEN OF THE AMERICAN WEST -
BY LYNDA LANKER
Organized by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Univ. of Oregon, Eugene.

For the past 19 years Lynda Lanker traveled throughout the western United States sketching, painting, interviewing and photographing iconic women in her commitment to preserve the spirit and stories of ranch women and cowgirls. Included are 65 paintings, works on paper and prints that present the portraits and stories of forty-nine women, from thirteen western states. The catalog includes a foreword by Larry McMurtry an introduction by Justice Sandra Day O’Connorand afterword by Maya Angelou. The exhibition was organized by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Univ. of Oregon, Eugene where it premiered on 2012. The exhibition has been presented at the Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR, The National Cowgirl Museum, Ft. Worth, TX, and will be at the Turtle Bay Exploration Park, Redding, CA. this fall . Future venues inlclude the Museum of The Rockies, MSU Bozeman, MT. Dates are available through 2016

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FIFTEEN MINUTES
HOMAGE TO ANDY WARHOL

FIFTEEN MINUTES features silkscreen prints and original recordings, ranging from spoken word to music and sound, created by a diverse roster of artists, writers and performers who knew, worked with, were associated with or were inspired by Andy Warhol.  Included are Patti Smith, Ivan Karp, Billy Name, Ultra Violet, Lawrence Weiner, Bob Dylan, Carter Ratcliff, John Giorno, Vincent Fremont, Alexander Heinrici, Brigid Berlin, Christopher Makos, Yura Adams, Nat Finkelstein, Connie Beckley, Susan Breen, Path Soong, and Jeff Gordon. The exhibition juxtaposes each artist’s 12 x 12 inch (album sized) visual image with an audio work created in homage to Warhol. For instance, Patti Smith’s poem, “Edie,” muses on the life and death of Warhol Superstar Edie Sedgwick. Nat Finkelstein’s screen printed photograph shows Warhol and Dylan in the Factory with one of Warhol’s Elvis paintings in the background. In his song, “When I Paint My Masterpiece,” Dylan critiques the Warholian notion of fame and success. Gordon’s screen print modifies one of Warhol’s Brillo Box sculptures as a visual analogy to his sound piece, which loops excerpts from a Warhol interview and lasts for the proverbial 15 minutes. The exhibition has been presented at the following institutions: Pollock-Krasner House & Study Center, East Hampton, NY, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, Burke Library Hamilton College , Clinton, NY,Case-Geyer Library, Colgate University Hamilton, NY, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China.

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Fat Albert

Peanuts - Franklin

Jackson 5ive

FUNKY TURNS FORTY:
BLACK CHARACTER REVOLUTION
Animation Art from Classic Cartoons of the 1970s

This special exhibition commemorates the 40th anniversaries of 1970's Saturday Morning cartoons that featured positive Black characters for the first time in television history. The exhibition features 60 original production cels and drawings used to produce these cartoons. Also included are images from the animated opening to Soul Train and two of the few Black cast/Black focussed animated features that have been produced since the 1970′s, BeBe’s Kids (1992) and Our Friend Martin (1999).

The exhibition will premiere at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture New York, NY in January 2014. Exhibitions are also planned at the Dusable Museum, Chicago, IL and the Northwest African American Museum, Seattle, WA.

From 1900 to 1960, over 600 cartoon shorts featuring Black characters were produced by some of Hollywood’s greatest White animators and biggest film studios. These theatrical cartoon film shorts portrayed Blacks in a racially derogatory and stereotypical manner as cannibals, coons, mammies and Stepin Fetchit characters with exaggerated features and ignorant dialect. It wasn't until the late 1960's / 1970’s that for the first time Black children could see cartoon characters that looked, talked and acted more realistically like them. The exhibition was organized by the Museum of Uncut Funk from their collection. The exhibition is curated by Pamela Thomas, Curator of the Museum of UnCut Funk.

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Our Friend Martin
Martin Lutrher King

Star Trek - Lt. Uhura

Harlem Globetrotters

HEROES: GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN:
THE ART OF CHARLES WHITE

Charles White (1918–1979) is one of the most significant African American artists of the 20th Century. White depicted both the depth of pain and the indomitable power inherent in the lives of African Americans. This special exhibition features 47 works of art - drawings, prints and paintings, spanning the late 1930’s -1970’s. Some of his most important works are represented in this exhibition. Included are 10 original works originally commissioned by the Johnson Publishing Company, illustrating major figures in Black History. The exhibition is curated by Charlotte Sherman who has been a champion of White’s work since the 1960’s. This national touring museum exhibition began with a presentation at the NCCU Art Museum in Durham, NC in the Fall of 2012.The exhibition will be presented at the David Driskell Center, University of MD, in 2014. A full color catalogue has been published to accompany the exhibition with essays by art historians and authors, Peter Clothier, former Dean of the Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA, and Will South, current Chief Curator for the Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC.

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EDGAR DEGAS:
THE PRIVATE IMPRESSIONIST
Works on Paper by the Artist & His Circle
Tour Schedule Now Complete

Although often aloof to strangers, Degas elicited great reciprocal warmth and loyalty from his family, and as well from a wide circle of friends that included some of the greatest writers and artists of the epoch. This special exhibition, which is drawn from a single private collection, consists of more than 70 works: 20 drawings; 13 prints; 3 photographs; 2 monotypes; 1 sculpture; and a letter, all by Degas; along with 15 color aquatint facsimiles after Degas’ monotypes commissioned shortly after the artist’s death by his friend and dealer, Ambroise Vollard. Supplementing the works by Degas in the exhibition will be a select group of 17 rare works on paper by artists whose friendship he shared, including, Marcellin Desboutin, Hippolyte Flandrin, Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres, Alphonse Legros, Gustave Moreau, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre-Georges Jeanniot, and others. In its special focus the exhibition endeavors to illuminate the background, personality, and uniqueness of Edgar Degas the man, as well as presenting his genius as an artist. A color catalogue will be published with a preface by Degas expert, Ann Dumas, Curator of The Royal Academy, London, and other essays. The exhibition tour schdule is now complete. The exhibition premiered at the Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL, in October 2011 and then traveled to the Portland Art Museum, Portland, ME, Carengie Arts Center, Turlock, CA, Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO and Texas A & M Art Gallery, College Station , TX. Upcoming venues include the Fundacion Canal, Madrid, Spain, and the Newcomb College Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA.

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DAVID HOCKNEY:
SIX FAIRY TALES

In 1970 David Hockney and Petersburg Press released Six Fairy Tales, a compilation of 39 etchings and the texts of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s fairy tales, including: The Little Sea Hare, Fundevogel, Rapunzel, The Boy Who Left Home to Learn Fear,  Old Rinkrank, and Rumpelstilzchen. In this exhibition of the 39 etchings illustrating the 6 fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm, Hockney has given each fairy tale his own interpretation. Rather than illustrating the stories literally, he has chosen vivid images to encapsulate a mood or detail. His contemporary and often humorous approach to the tales is reflected in the quirky nature of the images. Hockney had always loved Grimm's Fairy Tales and had read all 220 of them. He also admired earlier illustrations to them by Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac. In 1969 he decided to make his own images. .The etchings were drawn directly onto copper plates by Hockney between May and November 1969. It was a decade in which etching featured strongly for Hockney. As well as Grimms’ Fairy Tales, he made two other important series: A Rake's Progress (1961-3) and Illustrations for Thirteen Poems for CP Cavafy (1966). This is the first time that these works have been made available for circulation to museums in the US.

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THEATRE OF COLOR:
COSTUME DESIGNS FOR THE BLACK THEATRE BY MYRNA COLLEY-LEE

In addition to being a closer look at the costume designs of the highly-acclaimed designer, Myrna Colley-Lee, this new exhibition encompasses the larger world of theatre costume design and specifically the world of Black Theatre during the second half of the 20th century – the plays, playwrights, and repertory companies, that produced an extraordinary series of works that have become landmarks in the history of black culture, of American literature, and of the American theater. One of the threads that is carried through Colley-Lee's experience as a costume designer is her key involvement with the Black Theater movement during the late 20th century. At the time Black Theatre was receiving little funding or support and plays had to be produced with practically non-existent budgets. Colley-Lee designed costumes for some of the most important and poignant plays that were being produced during this period. The exhibition features approximately 200 works -- drawings, renderings, collages, production photographs, and support papers, as well as 12-15 costumes, music, and DVD's for viewing in the gallery. It will premiere in 2013 at the The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI.

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GASTON LACHAISE:
SCULPTURE & DRAWINGS

The GASTON LACHAISE: SCULPTURE & DRAWINGS Exhibition is returning from a highly successful tour of museums in Europe. It is currently scheduled for presentation at the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas in the Fall of 2007. The exhibition includes a total of 75 sculptures, including 7 monumental works by Lachaise never before exhibited together at one time, and 20 drawings. Lachaise, born in France, is best known for his interpretations in bronze of the female form, and is considered to be one of the most significant sculptors to have worked in the US during the early part of thie 20th Century.  His sculptures are included in the collections of MOMA, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; The San Francisco Museum of Art, UCLA; the Chicago Art Institute; The Hirshhorn Museum, Wash., DC; and numerous others.

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CHRISTO & JEANNE-CLAUDE:
THE TOM GOLDEN COLLECTION
From the Collection of the Sonoma County Museum,
Santa Rosa, CA

In 2001 Tom Golden donated his collection of works by renowned artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude to the Sonoma County Museum. Golden's personal and professional relationship with the artists began when he met them during the 1974 public hearings for their project "Running Fence" in Sonoma and Marin counties, 1972-1976. Golden went on to manage or assist with a number of the artists' large scale projects.Golden's remarkable collection reflects his friendship with and admiration of Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Over 125 original drawings, sculptures, collages and photographs lovingly trace their impressive careers.

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RUFINO TAMAYO:
A Comprehensive Survey of
His Mixografía® Prints

In the early 1970s, Luis and Lea Remba invited Rufino Tamayo to collaborate in printmaking at their workshop in Mexico City.  Tamayo was interested, but made it clear that he was looking for new horizons within the medium – particularly seeking ways to get more volume and texture into his prints.  This artistic challenge was the impetus for Remba to invent the Mixografía® printing technique. Rufino Tamayo was the first artist to work in the Mixografía® print process producing 67 editions along with some lithographs over a 17-year period until his death.  These workshop editions represent one-fifth of his total out-put in printmaking during his lifetime. Tamayo was born in Oaxaca, Mexico in 1899. Tamayo attended the Academy of Fine Arts as a young adult from 1917 – 1921 and began exhibiting in 1926 with solo shows in New York and Mexico City.  His work has been exhibited continually ever since.  His career and his style constantly evolved, juxtaposing the primitive and mystical, the ideological and emotional. The exhibition contains 41 prints created between 1974 and 1990, and includes the mural-size Dos Personajes Atacados por Perros, 1983, (“Two People Attacked by Dogs”) measuring 61 x 98 inches, and pulled from the largest litho stone in the world. All artworks are courtesy of individual artists, their estates, and the Mixografía® Workshop.

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PAN: A GRAPHIC ARTS TIME CAPSULE OF EUROPE, 1895-1900

The exhibition includes 80 works from the important German multi-volume Art Nouveau periodical, PAN, published between 1895-1900. It is replete with plates, illustrations, color initials, vignettes and tail-pieces representing a multitude of processes of modern picture reproduction, including original lithographs, etchings, and woodcuts, and other original and near-original processes in black and white or full color. Pan presents a collection of brilliant graphic works by such French, Dutch, Belgian, German, English, and Swedish artists as Rodin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Signac, and Seurat;  Van de Velde; Rops; Kollwitz and Behrens; Nicholson, Rothenstein, and Pennell; and Anders Zorn, among many others. This is the first extensive exhibition of PAN to discover the brilliance of original prints by less well known contributors such as Walter Leistikow, Hans Thoma, Wilhelm Volz, Otto Eckmann, Eugen Kirchner, and Albert Krüger. The literary contributors include such figures as Bode, Nietzsche, Novalis, Mallarmé, Maeterlinck, and Verlaine. The exhibition is enriched with an introduction and commentaries on the plates by the distinguished Curator Emeritus, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Robert Flynn Johnson; together with a cultural overview by the eminent curator and art critic, Peter Frank, and art historian and independent curator, Victoria Martino.

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ROMARE BEARDEN:
THE ARTIST AS ACTIVIST
Organized by the Romare Bearden Foundation

This exhibition examines how the artist agitated for change through the power of his art and writing. This show traces Bearden’s evolution into a true master artist whose work changed our ways of seeing the world and thus our readiness for action in it. Included are collages, works on paper and graphics, as well as examples of his magazine covers and editorial cartoons. The exhibition premiered at the Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, in April 2011.

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All Images of Art Works Courtesy of the Romare Bearden Estate Art© Romare Bearden Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, NY, NY

Edward Mitchell Bannister

Charles White

A KIND OF ALCHEMY:
MEDIEVAL PERSIAN CERAMICS
From the Collection of the Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL

A kind of alchemy” is how 14th-century Persian historian Abu al-­­­Qasam described the art of ceramics. This exhibition showcases the magnificent handiwork of artists living in 9th through 14th-century Iran, the heartland of ancient Persia. Selected from the Appleton Museum of Art’s permanen­­t collection of Islamic art, these 60 ceramic objects present a little known but important, artistic genre. The ceramic works exhibited represent virtually every decorative technique utilized by Persian artists during the medieval period and are divided into six groupings that illustrate specific techniques.

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PARTNERS IN ILLUSION:
WILLIAM & ALBERTINA MCCLOSKEY
Organized by the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Santa Ana, CA

The California/New York painters, William and Alberta McCloskey, were masters of "troupe l’oeil." The Bowers Museum owns a collection of 39 paintings by the couple which demonstrate that they painted not only still lifes but also portraits and genre scenes. Art historians and collectors have long been curious to know more about the McCloskeys, who previously were known only through the approximately 20 still lifes that surfaced at auctions or were known to be held in museum collections. These works have rarely been shown to the public. This exhibition of 39 oil and watercolor works of art is the largest gathering of McCloskey paintings compiled to date.

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ALPHONSE MUCHA:
THE DHAWAN COLLECTION

An exhibition of works by the world-acclaimed Czech Art Nouveau artist, Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939), is being made available as a new traveling exhibition. The works come from the Raj Dhawan Collection, Los Angeles, CA, one of the finest private collections of Mucha’s work in the U.S. Presented are; rare original lithographs and proofs; 1 oil painting; 4 drawings; 1 pastel; and books, posters, portfolios and ephemera. Mucha is most often remembered for the prominent role he played in shaping the aesthetics of French Art Nouveau at the turn of the 20th century. As a struggling and relatively unknown artist of Czech origin living in Paris, Mucha achieved immediate fame when, in December 1894, he accepted a commission to create a poster for one of the greatest actresses of this time, Sarah Bernhardt. The success of that first poster brought a 6 year contract between Bernhardt and Mucha and in the following years his work for her and others included costumes and stage decorations, designs for magazines and book covers, jewellery and furniture and numerous posters. Mucha's distinctive style experienced a strong revival in the 1960s influencing the design of psychedelic posters. The exhibition will be available beginning in 2011.

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JACOB LAWRENCE: PRINTS
From the Collection of Alitash Kebede

The exhibition features 28 graphic works by Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) done between 1971-1997. Included are 10 works from the Toussaint L'Ouverture Series, the Hiroshima Series of 8 prints, 2 prints from the Genesis Series, 2 prints from the Builders Series and 6 other important prints by Lawrence including Confrontation at the Bridge and Forward Together. Also included are text panels with an introductory exhibition essay, a chronology, and a photomural of the artist. The exhibition includes an essay about Lawrence and his printmaking by Peter Nesbett. Nesbett is the Editor of  Jacob Lawrence: The Complete Prints (1963-2000) / The Catalogue Raisonne. The works come from the collection of Alitash Kebede of Los Angeles, CA. The exhibition and museum tour are organized by Landau Traveling Exhibitions of  Los Angeles, CA.

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EUGENE CARRIERE:
SHADOW AND SUBSTANCE
Selections from the Nick Vlachos Collection

Eugène Carrière (1849–1906), whose painting was described by a contemporary as reality having the magic of dreams, was an important French exponent of the late-nineteenth-century visionary Symbolist movement. He possessed close ties to the sculptor Auguste Rodin, with whom he helped to found the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1890. While the world’s largest public collection of work by Carrière is to be found in Paris’s prestigious Musée d’Orsay, the most comprehensive private collection is the one assembled by Dr. Nick Vlachos in Bloomington, Illinois. The exhibition which will be presented at the Hamilton Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada in January 2011 features 37 works, ranging from portraits and images of mothers and children to figure studies and landscapes.

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