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"tombstone": "The High Level Bridge, Cleveland, 1926. Rudolph Ruzicka (American, born Bohemia, 1883\u20131978). Color woodcut; image: 17.9 x 12.9 cm (7 1/16 x 5 1/16 in.); sheet: 26 x 19.4 cm (10 1/4 x 7 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1926.308",
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"title": "The High Level Bridge, Cleveland",
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"measurements": "Image: 17.9 x 12.9 cm (7 1/16 x 5 1/16 in.); Sheet: 26 x 19.4 cm (10 1/4 x 7 5/8 in.)",
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"title": "Prints of Industrial Subjects",
"description": "Prints of Industrial Subjects. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 1934-January 15, 1935).",
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"title": "Print Club Publications: Past Fifteen Years",
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"title": "Presentation Prints of the Print Club of Cleveland: 40th Anniversary Exhibition of the Print Club of Cleveland",
"description": "Presentation Prints of the Print Club of Cleveland: 40th Anniversary Exhibition of the Print Club of Cleveland. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 13-December 2, 1959).",
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"title": "The Print Club of Cleveland, 1919 - 1969: Fifty Years in Review",
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"title": "The Precisionist Aesthetic in American Art",
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"title": "The Print Club of Cleveland: Publication Prints 1924-1994",
"description": "The Print Club of Cleveland: Publication Prints 1924-1994. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 9-June 26, 1994).",
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"id": 311873,
"title": "Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946",
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"title": "Burchfield to Schreckengost: Cleveland Art of the Jazz Age",
"description": "Burchfield to Schreckengost: Cleveland Art of the Jazz Age. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 28-July 18, 2004).",
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"id": 117629,
"description": "The High Level Bridge, Cleveland, 1926. Rudolph Ruzicka (American, born Bohemia, 1883\u20131978). Pencil and crayon. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Artist, 1938.282",
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"did_you_know": "In addition to working as a printmaker, Ruzicka produced many book illustrations.",
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"description": "Ruzicka produced this color woodcut, commissioned by the Print Club of Cleveland, from a pencil and crayon sketch. It depicts the \u201cHigh Level\u201d or Detroit-Superior Bridge, an engineering marvel completed in 1918, having an upper deck for vehicular traffic and a lower deck (now closed) for electric streetcars. The High Level Bridge was the first span across the Cuyahoga River tall enough to allow boats to pass without raising or lowering elements and stopping car traffic. Many artists were attracted by both the bridge\u2019s modern structure and its symbolic meaning as the link between the city\u2019s east and west sides.",
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"citation": "Robinson, William H., et. al. Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946: Community and Diversity in Early Modern America. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.",
"page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 118",
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"citation": "Engelbrecht, Theresa Moir. \"Inter-Collected: The Shared History of the Print Club and Museum Collection.\" Art in Print, 7, no. 2 (July-August 2017): 30-33.",
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"biography": "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\u20131900. He moved to New York to work as a commericial printmaker in 1903. He had solo exhibitions in Cleveland at Korner & 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.
\"Transformations in Cleveland Art\" (CMA, 1996), p. 235",
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"updated_at": "2026-09-19 12:14:14.059000"
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