Other than his artworks, Bartlett also secured a maintained career in the film industry. But Wendy from the gallery encouraged me to go out and buy the paper and read the review, because, she said, I would need to be aware of what people would be saying about the work. Reluctantly, I did as my gallerist instructed. In the film Bottle Shock, a fictionalized account of the Judgment of Paris wine tasting, Bo Barrett was portrayed by actor Chris Pine. He received his Certificate of Fine Arts in 1981 from Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Like yin and yang, realist painterBo Bartlettand abstract painterBetsy Ebyare opposites working in perfect harmony. At once, Bartlett links the image to a long-ago memory of his. Study for Where Did All That Life Go, 2020, Midtown (The Homeless Artist Anthony Boston Passing by Swift Mill the Abandoned Cotton Mill), 2019, Gouache on Arches Aquarelle Hot-Pressed paper. Its a chance to see works by three generations of the famed Wyeth family of artists N.C., Andrew and Jamie as well as others. Recent solo exhibitions include Earthly Matters, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Weber Fine Art, Greenwich, CT; Forty Years of Drawing, The Florence Academy of Art, Jersey City, NJ; Paintings and Works on Paper, Weber Fine Art, Greenwich, CT; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Retrospective, The Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus, GA; Paintings from the Outpost, Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME; Bo Bartlett: American Artist, The Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL; Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, New York, NY; Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA; University of Mississippi Museum, Oxford, MS; and Love and Other Sacraments, Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME. Notable ongoing local contributions include his art initiative for the homeless called Home is Where the Art Is, and the Bo Bartlett Center at Columbus State University opening January 2018. Afterward, he co-directed small documentaries with his wife Betsy. In early 1991, art critic Roberta Smith looked over Bo Bartlett's painting Goda sweeping image of a black man, poised in front of a sweeping coastal horizon, wrapped in a quiltand came slightly unglued.In her New York Times review of the exhibition she later wrote of the piece: "As consciousness raising, this is fairly simple-minded. Hes been painting for the last 40 years and it shows. Gallery, New York, NY, Bo Bartlett, Ogden Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC, The South Arts State Fellowship Award for Georgia (2019), Portrait Society of America Excellence in Fine Art Education Award to the Bo Bartlett Center (2019), Gibbes Society 1858 Southern Contemporary Art Prize (2017), The Brookstone Distinguished Alumni Award (2013), The Philadelphia Museum of Art Award (1987), The William Emlen Cresson Traveling Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (1980), Cecelia Beaux Memorial Portrait Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (1979), Charles Toppan Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (1978), Packard Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (1977), This page was last edited on 29 December 2022, at 14:30. "We support artists of every discipline through our Focus Fellowship awards, nominated annually by our National Advisory Council esteemed peers and experts in the field. 1, Villanova, PA (group exhibition), Bo Bartlett ~ Forty Years of Drawing, The Florence Academy of Art, Jersey City, NJ (Solo exhibition), Paintings from the Outpost, Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME (solo exhibition), Art in Embassies: United States Embassy Hanoi, January 2020 (Group Exhibition), Grant, Daniel: Fine Art Connoisseur, "Bo Bartlett: Still Keeping Us Guessing", August 2020 edition, ", Georgia Museum of Art (Group Exhibition), Seattle Art Fair, Somerville Manning Gallery Booth, Lumen Field Event Center, Seattle, WA, July 21-24, Highlighting Contemporary Art in Georgia: Picture This, Lyndon House Art Center, Athens, GA.June 18, 2022 - September 3, 2022, Illges Gallery, Columbus, GA, Lineage: Generations of Realism, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY, Epilogue, Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus, GA, Highlighting Contemporary Art in Georgia: Picture This, Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GADec 22 - April 1, 2023, Upcoming Solo exhibition, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY, Remembering My Friend Andrew Wyeth on His 100th Birthday, "Large Scale Oil Paintings by Bo Bartlett on View at the Mennello Museum of Art, Maine painter Bo Bartlett goes home to his roots in Georgia and lends name to new art center, 7+7 Established and Emerging Artists of the Chatahoochee Valley, The Columbus Museum, GA, Bo Bartlett Visits the Beach and Finds a Changed Human Race, Fine Art Globe, Fine, Zachary, Bo Bartlett - Southern Appeal, Art in America, Nov/Dec issue 2021, pp. [3] New York Academy of Art is pleased to present: Betsy Eby & Bo Bartlett in conversation with Alyssa Monks. As history painting, its idiotic.In the same column, Smith also dings Bartlett for his conservative artistic style (realism), dismissing his paintings as being more trendy than timeless. Smiths comments, which generated a domino effect of subsequent negative reviewsby Peter Schjeldahl, Michael Kimmelman and othersre-shaped the arc of Bartletts career. Popularly known as the Painter of United States of America. He pushes the boundaries of the realist tradition with his multilayered imagery. When they were discovered, in 1986, they generated amedia frenzythat extended well beyond the art world. Atlanta South Arts, the nonprofit arts service organization advancing Southern vitality through the arts, has named nine visual artists to receive State Fellowship awards of $5,000 each. Bo Bartlett. [1] Bartletts parents, Opal and Bill Bartlett (James William Bartlett Jr.), were from Columbus. 15 1/4h x 19 3/8w in . His paintings are well within the tradition of American realism as defined by artists such as Thomas Eakins and Andrew Wyeth. It is also a work in progress by Columbus artist Bo Bartlett. Bo Bartlett was born James William Bartlett III on December 29, 1955 in Columbus, Georgia. The Bo Bartlett Center will house the largest single holding of Bartletts paintings, including several grand scale works such as the iconic Leviathan.. St. [21]Snow Hill received the CINE Golden Eagle Award, the Gold Apple Award from the National Educational Media Network Awards, Best Documentary from Hot Springs DFF, Best Biography from CINDY Awards, and Best Documentary from Philadelphia FVF. He hid them from everyoneincluding his wife, who was also his business managerin the loft of a millhouse near his home in rural Pennsylvania. Bo Bartlett is a Columbus Georgia-based artist/painter well known for his realistic and astonishing artworks. Artists are provided with materials and are able to sell their work. Contents 1 Early life 2 Education 3 Painting career 3.1 Notable Works 3.2 Exhibitions 3.3 Collections 4 Film career 4.1 Things Don't Stay Fixed 4.2 Filmography 5 Awards 6 Bo Bartlett Center 7 Personal life 8 References AGE 30s Bo Michael Bartlett Arab, AL View Full Report Used To Live In Relatives Baileyton, AL Michael Ulysses Bartlett Charlotte H Bartlett Desiree Bartlett Charlene Burgio He has had numerous solo exhibitions nationally and internationally. He was born May 6, 1953 at Kansas City, KS, the son of Vern Clinton, Jr, and Helen Marie Frommel Bartlett. 48 1/8h x 66w in . Bo Bartlett was interviewed in the Columbus Ledger Inquirer with an online video accompanying the article. Columbus artist Bo Bartlett recently won the 2017 Gibbes Society 1858 Southern Contemporary Art Prize. Freeman's Auction, The Promised Land, Philadelphia, PA, Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus, GA:February 7 April 28, 2023, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL:May 26 September 10, 2023, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art News, Summer 2019 (Cover), Really. Bo Bartlett, Hurtsboro, 2021, $70,000-100,000, is on offer in the American Art auction on 19 May. Bo Bartlett has a net worth of $5.00 million (Estimated) which he earned from his occupation as Painter. With dreamlike imagery and a painterly stream of consciousness, the film both evokes and bends the Southern genre of films such as Cool Hand Luke, Driving Miss Daisy, and Beasts of the Southern Wild. It is the first feature film by Bo Bartlett and Betsy Eby. "My son, Elliott, is in many of the paintings and was a very competent artist and encouraged me all along the way and challenged me all along the way," Bartlett said. His hometown, where he was born and brought up, is Columbus, Georgia, United States. They are said to have a son named Man Bartlett. Bo Bartlett was born James William Bartlett III on December 29, 1955 in Columbus, Georgia. The moment transpired in front of a 11 foot by 17 foot Bartlett work, entitled Civil War, painted in 1994. Beau Jameson Bartlett, 31, of Little Mill Fall Rd., Fairmont, passed away on Thursday, April 2, 2020. The interdisciplinary and global approach provides a thorough introduction and includes . Painguide, Booth Gallery, NY (Group Exhibition). Currently, a first, smaller version of Hurtsboro will be included in Sotheby's American Art Auction, while the larger version will be the centerpiece of the Miles McEnery show. The center displays over a dozen of Bartletts monumental paintings and over 300 paintings and drawings. 1,417 following. Maybe I do; maybe I dont, Bartlett said. Homeland references several historical paintings including Washington Crossing the Delaware, The Raft of the Medusa and Liberty Leading the People. He lived and attended schools in McLouth and was a 1972 graduate of McLouth High School. It struck when his 27-year-old son, Eliot, died suddenly. (American, born 1955) Bo Bartlett is an American realist painter who works in the tradition of Grant Wood, Edward Hopper, and Andrew Wyeth. It was that kind of summer for Bartlett, who worked on the painting in his second-floor studio in the old Swift textile mill on Sixth Avenue. After pursuing mural painting in Florence, Italy, he joined the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts where he got certified in 1980. Shoreline plants take on a delicate purple hue. [5], While depicted in a grand, narrative style, the stories Bartlett tells are open-ended. Elsewhere star Bonnie Bartlett Daniels, 93, reveals her 72-year marriage to Boy Meets World star William Daniels, 95, was OPEN when it began - but it was 'too painful' and she told him she . And Im well aware that they are dancing on an edge. Last week, Columbus State University in his hometown opened theBo Bartlett Center,an 18,000-square-foot exhibition space and learning center dedicated to American realism. Things seemed to be going well, but he says he sensed impending doom. Bo Bartletts studio on Wheaton Island was featured in the article,Island Lifeby Polly Saltonstall in Maine Boats, Homes and Harbors. Working in the tradition of realism that stretches from Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer to Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth, Bartlett's bold narrative approach has made him one of the leading painters of a generation of American artists that redefined realist painting for our time. Oil on hot press arches paper over panel. Today, Andrew Wyeth wouldve celebrated his 100th birthday. Acquired by the Friends of The Mennello Museum of American Art and with a gift from The William E. Heyler Trust, 2016. Article by Monika Mroz, "Mythical Paintings of Bo Bartlett", Ignant Magazine, March 15, 2017. 1955, Columbus, GA) received his Certificate of Fine Arts in 1981 from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and a certificate of filmmaking from New York University in 1986. David Houston, director of curatorial at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, will be moving to Georgia to spearhead the opening of The Bo Bartlett Center at Columbus State Universitys College of the Arts in downtown Columbus. Bo Bartlett is widely renowned for his multi-layered complex image making rooted in narrative, story telling, art history, literature, poetry, and every day life. 42 - 47. Bo is highly revered and his work is collected around the world in private collections and museums. Focus Fellowships provide the opportunity for individuals, corporations, and other organizations to directly support artists and their influence on building healthy, creative communities. Bo Bartlett brings the narrative painting tradition up to date, merging the historical with the personal. Bo Bartlett American, b. Growing up in Columbus, Georgia, Bo Bartlett did what was expected of him every Sunday. It reminds us of optimism that is embedded in our cultural fabric and the sadness that accompanies it.. The Bo Bartlett Center is set to open on January 18th, 2018 with two exhibitions; Bo Bartlett Retrospective and Peers & Influences. Andrew Wyeth taught me how to be inspired by your own life, by your experiences, and how to get it into the work, says Bartlett. All nine State Fellows will be featured in an exhibit at the 701 Center for Contemporary Art in Columbia, South Carolina, from March 21 May 5, 2019. Bo Bartlett was born James William Bartlett III on December 29, 1955, in Columbus, Georgia. David Houston, Director of the Bo Bartlett Center, states, "I look forward to the opening of this unique cultural institution in the College of the Arts at CSU. On the same block where Bo Bartletts first solo exhibition in New York opened 35 years ago, Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe is giving audiences a sneak peek into the much anticipated Bo Bartlett Center, set to open in Columbus, Georgia next fall. Andrew Wyeth wrote, Art to me, is seeing. [26], Things Dont Stay Fixed draws inspiration from the Southern Gothic literary works of Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers. His work is included in the collections of the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, PA; Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC; the Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus, GA; Carpenters Union Hall, Washington, D.C.; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA; Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, AR; Curtis Institute, Philadelphia, PA; Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO; Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA; Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN; La Salle University Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, MS; McCormick Place Metropolis Pier and Exposition Authority, South Hall, Chicago, IL; Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL; and the Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA. Bartlett is the recipient of the South Arts Fellowship, South Arts, Atlanta, GA; Atelier Focus Fellowship, Chattahoochee Hills, GA; 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art, The Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; PEW Fellowship in the Arts, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia, PA; Museum Merit Award, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA; Museum Merit Award, Philadelphia Museum of Art Award, Philadelphia, PA; Benjamin Lanard Memorial Award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Eleanor S. Gray Prize for Still Life, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; William Emlen Cresson Traveling Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Thouron Prize, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Cecilia Beaux Memorial Portrait Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Charles Toppan Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, and the Packard Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. Bo Bartlett lives and works in Columbus, GA and Wheaton Island, ME. In the same column, Smith also dings Bartlett for his conservative artistic style (realism), dismissing his paintings as being more trendy than timeless. Smiths comments, which generated a domino effect of subsequent negative reviewsby Peter Schjeldahl, Michael Kimmelman and othersre-shaped the arc of Bartletts career. Bartlett then went on to study liberal arts at the University of Pennsylvania from 1980 to 1981. He listened intently to the preacher, prayed hard and committed those weekly lessons in morality and righteousness to the deep recesses of his dutiful mind. Artists Bo Bartlett and Betsy Eby set off to make a film about seeing. His haunting and epic tableaus evoke a Hopper-like sense of longing and mystery combined with a Lynchian-cocktail of menace, beauty and stranger-then-fiction reality. His paintings are well within the tradition of American realism as defined by artists such as Thomas Eakins and Andrew Wyeth. 1955 Follow 1.7k Followers Active Secondary Market Bio With a powerful ability to discern and amplify the magical possibilities of ordinary life, Bo Bartlett exemplifies the potential for exploration in narrative figurative painting with his informed and technically skilled interpretation of [7] His paintings are inspired by American Realism as defined by artists such as Thomas Eakins, Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, Norman Rockwell, and Andrew Wyeth. That word recalls a certain picture in my mind, from the trip that our church in Louisiana gave us to England . [2] At the age of 18 he traveled to Florence, Italy where he studied mural painting under the American expatriate, Ben Long. But the dualism extends beyond their art, to the two paradoxical locations they choose to practice it Bartletts native Columbus, Georgia, in winter, and, in summer, a tiny island 23 miles off the coast of Port Clyde, in Maine. Beau was employed as a coal miner for Murray Energy's Marion County Mine. In addition to that, his latest films and documentaries also help him with his earnings. Recently, Bartlett sat down with Ledger-Enquirer reporter Chuck Williams to discuss his life, his work and his difficult summer. "Bo Bartlett is very American. Bo Bartlett, Easter, 2015, Oil on Linen, 88 x 120 BB: The painting unfolded during the ongoing battle about Southern State Houses flying the Confederate flag. Recently, Bartlett sat down with Ledger-Enquirer reporter Chuck Williams to discuss his life, his work and his difficult . Bo Bartlett is widely renowned for his multi-layered complex image making rooted in narrative, story telling, art history, literature, poetry, and every day life. They travel the country stumbling upon art sites, characters and luminaries. Bo Bartlett is an American realist with a modernist vision. Moves to Philadelphia. These works, along with additional donated artwork from personal and private collections, constitute the core holdings of The Bo Bartlett Center. Bo Bartlett. In 1975 he returned to the United States, where he studied at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and then the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. The "spatial turn" in literary studies is transforming the way we think of the field. 1, Villanova, PA; South Arts 2019 Southern Prize and State Fellows, 701 Center for Contemporary Art, Columbia, SC; Trust the Process, Gallery 222, Malvern, PA; The Serious and the Smirk, Sommerville Manning Gallery, Philedelphia, PA; Objects of Desire, Bernarducci Gallery, New York, NY; and Artists by Artists: The Artist as Subject, Forum Gallery, New York, NY. Bo is one of the very few I feel this strongly about.". His paintings celebrate the underlying epic nature of the commonplace and the personal significance of the extraordinary. The Bo Bartlett Center, an 18,500-square-foot interactive gallery space, was inaugurated at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia on Thursday, January 18. The Delaware Art Museum is pleased to present Truth & Vision: 21st Century Realism. Housed in a converted textile mill, the center features many of Bartletts epochal paintings, as well as the work of the artists who have influenced him, including many from Maine. His paintings celebrate the underlying epic nature of the commonplace and the personal significance of the extraordinary. Thats my art. Writing about Wyeth just after his death, Bo Bartlett called his friend a Zen master. The film tells the story of a worldly photojournalist returning to the Deep South to stop his daughters wedding and save her future, only to find that it is he who has been stuck in the past. 3,364 posts. 1955 Follow Bo Bartlett is an American Realist painter working in Columbus, Georgia and Wheaton Island, Maine. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bo_Barrett&oldid=1039905952, This page was last edited on 21 August 2021, at 13:47. [23] He also directed HELGA, a documentary short about Andrew Wyeths muse and model, and Things Dont Stay Fixed. [27] Bartlett said, "To me, theres nothing worse than having a bunch of Hollywood actors trying to fake Southern accents. The center is an 18,425 square foot interactive gallery space, studio space, and teaching space designed by Tom Kundig. The Midway, 2020. "Bo Bartlett is an American realist with a modernist vision. The mid-career retrospective also features his latest work, along with his cache of props and ephemera, many of which are dutifully rendered in the works themselves. The Helga paintings, as they came to be called, all depicted a single subject: Helga Testorf. Right after that, he attended the University of Pennsylvania to study Liberal Arts. It struck when his 27-year-old son, Eliot, died suddenly. Katy was all smiles as she and her fianc, 45, got some fresh air with their two-year-old tot. bo bartlett son death. No foul play is suspected in the death of Bo Rogers, 27, but police . Il pittore Americano Bo Bartlett e' nato il 29 dicembre 1955 a Columbus, in Georgia. It had the 11th-biggest global opening of all time and the third-biggest global opening for a film in the pandemic era behind Spider-Man: No Way Home and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of . [10], Bartlett has had numerous solo exhibitions nationally and internationally. American artist and Columbus native Bo Bartlett is donating his archives, artwork and many major iconic paintings to the University. Press Association. The famous American painter is said to have an estimated net worth of 5 million US Dollars. Born as Joseph R Biden III on February 3, 1969, Beau Biden was the eldest of Joe Biden and his first wife Neilia Biden's three children. Recent group exhibitions include Picture This: Highlighting Contemporary Art in Georgia, Lyndon House Art Center, Athens, GA; COMPETERE, The Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA; Mirror Mirror, The Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA; Extra Ordinary, Magic Mystery, and Imagination in American Realism, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA; Really. (curated by Inka Essenhigh & Ryan McGinness), Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; A Telling Instinct: John James Audubon and Contemporary Art, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC; Bo Bartlett and Betsy Eby, Ithan Substation No. Bo Bartlett (born December 29, 1955) is an American Realist painter working in Columbus, Georgia and Wheaton Island, Maine. Bartlett, along with his wife and fellow artist Betsy Eby, is directing and producing a feature-length film Things that Dont Stay Fixed. It is being shot this month throughout Columbus. NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MILES McENERY GALLERY is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent paintings by Bo Bartlett, which will open 13 May at 525 West 22nd Street and remain on view through 19 June 2021. He was a student of Nelson Shanks there. Jerry L. Dawson, of Bartlett, passed away on Thursday, August 26, 2021, a week before his 83rd birthday. Family is very meaningful for Bartlett, and he has depicted family members in his paintings throughout his life. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue featuring an essay by Matthew Jeffrey Abrams. [5], Lifeboat, 80 x 100 inches, oil on linen, 1998, private collection, previously on loan to the Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA. Lifeboat is inspired by Winslow Homers The Fog Warning. Cinematic scale, lighting, and narrative staging are important elements throughout his career. It recognizes the highest level of artistic achievement. The red brick, former textile warehouse turned gallery space, designed by AIA award winning architect,Tom Kundig, sits on the banks of the Chattahoochee River in Bartletts hometown, Columbus Georgia. Several scheduled articles dried up. Both represent fields that I feel are somewhat unexplored. They currently live and work together. Oil on linen. In her New York Times review of the exhibition she later wrote of the piece: As consciousness raising, this is fairly simple-minded. 1975 First son Will is born. They celebrate the commonplace and personal. Bo Bartlett was born inColumbus, Georgia in 1955. The man in the rowboat is dressed casually and the day is bright, yet he is surrounded by threats including a shark in the water and a large crashing wave. The film also features original music by Eby.[27]. Columbus painterBo Bartlettis one of nine Southern visual artists chosen for 2019 fellowships fromSouth Arts, an Atlanta-based nonprofit arts service organization. A portrait of a federal judge that Columbus artist Bo Bartlett worked on for almost two years was unveiled Thursday night in a Washington courtroom. Organized by the Mennello Museum of American Art with an extension of four paintings at The Orlando Museum of Art, Bo Bartlett: American Artist features the seductive quality of oil paintings, which stems partly from his large canvases and polished aesthetic. Life, death, passage, memory, and confrontation coexist easily in his world. Bo Bartlett - Forty Years of Drawing, Traveling exhibition, Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus, GA, Flint Museum. The director, 76, was joined on the red carpet by the film . That is a luxury and you cant do that here. He was a contemplative. Were scared of seeing. [6], Bartlett is an American realist with a modernist vision. Their latest work in the film industry is an American Southern Gothic drama movie named Things Dont Stay Fixed which was released in 2021. 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