id:			101462
accession number:	1920.255
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.255
updated:		2024-03-26 01:56:37.778000

The Custom House Tower from the Waterside, 1919. Rudolph Ruzicka (American, born Bohemia, 1883–1978). Chiaroscuro woodcut; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of FitzRoy Carrington 1920.255

title:				The Custom House Tower from the Waterside
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creation date:			1919
creation date earliest:		1919
creation date latest:		1919
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creditline:			Gift of FitzRoy Carrington
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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	chiaroscuro woodcut
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Chiaroscuro
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Rudolph Ruzicka (American, born Bohemia, 1883–1978)  - artist
Born in Bohemia, Rudolph Ruzicka immigrated with his family to Chicago in 1894. At the age of 14, he left school to become a wood-engraving apprentice at the Franklin Engraving Company in Chicago. He attended evening classes at the Art Institute of Chicago as well as weekend drawing classes at Hull House, 1897–1900. He moved to New York to work as a commericial printmaker in 1903. He had solo exhibitions in Cleveland at Korner &amp; Wood Galleries (1913) and the Cleveland Museum of Art (1917). He traveled to Cleveland and sketched the city after receiving a commission to create work for the Cleveland Print Club in 1927. He moved to Boston during the late 1940s and over the subsequent decades added book illustration to his career achievements. Ruzicka died in Hanover, New Hampshire. <br>"Transformations in Cleveland Art" (CMA, 1996), p. 235
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CITATIONS

	"Accessions." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 7, no. 10 (1920): 160-62.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 161
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136434

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