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Desert Morning
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Charlotte Lyons Cambridge Massachusetts (through Sonja Calabi Newton Centre Massachusetts) gift; to Harvard University Art Museums October 1 1996.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Charlotte Lyons
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