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Still Life on Chenille Spread
1983 · lithograph
Sheet: 51 x 61 cm (20 1/16 x 24 in.); Image: 45 x 56.2 cm (17 11/16 x 22 1/8 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art
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James Valerio
American, 1938
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James Valerio is an American photorealist painter whose meticulously detailed works render everyday scenes and figures with near-photographic precision. Working primarily in oil and acrylic, his paintings collapse the distance between representation and visual fact, creating an uncanny fidelity to light, texture, and material surface. His work is held in the Butler Institute of American Art and other major collections.
Source: Aic · Trust score: 95% · Updated 11d ago
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- The Met2 published
- Cleveland Museum of Art1 published
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- 1983 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
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