id: 108615
accession number: 1926.308
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1926.308
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The High Level Bridge, Cleveland, 1926. Rudolph Ruzicka (American, born Bohemia, 1883–1978). 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
title: The High Level Bridge, Cleveland
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creation date: 1926
creation date earliest: 1926
creation date latest: 1926
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creditline: Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: color woodcut
department: Prints
collection: PR - Woodcut
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 & 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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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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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Prints of Industrial Subjects
opening date: 1934-12-12T05:00:00
Prints of Industrial Subjects. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 1934-January 15, 1935).
title: Print Club Publications: Past Fifteen Years
opening date: 1938-02-09T05:00:00
Print Club Publications: Past Fifteen Years. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-March 20, 1938).
title: The Precisionist Aesthetic in American Art
opening date: 1989-01-24T05:00:00
The Precisionist Aesthetic in American Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 24-April 9, 1989).
title: Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946
opening date: 1996-05-19T04:00:00
Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 19-July 21, 1996).
title: Burchfield to Schreckengost: Cleveland Art of the Jazz Age
opening date: 2004-03-28T00:00:00
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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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
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fun fact:
In addition to working as a printmaker, Ruzicka produced many book illustrations.
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Ruzicka produced this color woodcut, commissioned by the Print Club of Cleveland, from a pencil and crayon sketch. It depicts the “High Level” 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’s modern structure and its symbolic meaning as the link between the city’s east and west sides.
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RELATED WORKS
id: 117629
The High Level Bridge, Cleveland, 1926. Rudolph Ruzicka (American, born Bohemia, 1883–1978). Pencil and crayon; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Artist 1938.282
relationship: based on
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CITATIONS
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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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.
page number: Reproduced; p. 33
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