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"tombstone": "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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"title": "The High Level Bridge, Cleveland",
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"title": "The Print Club of Cleveland, 1919 - 1969: Fifty Years in Review",
"description": "The Print Club of Cleveland, 1919 - 1969: Fifty Years in Review. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 14-March 31, 1970).",
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"title": "American Cities: The Artist's View",
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"title": "The Print Club of Cleveland: Publication Prints 1924-1994",
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"id": 177916,
"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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"description": "Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; March 28 - July 18, 2004. \"Burchfield to Schreckengost: Cleveland Art of the Jazz Age\", no exhibition catalogue.",
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"description": "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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"description": "In 1926, the Print Club of Cleveland commissioned Ruzicka to produce a work for its members. He spent several months sketching in the Flats before selecting the recently constructed \u201cHigh Level\u201d or Detroit-Superior Bridge as his subject. Obviously working outdoors in the Flats, Ruzicka rendered the scene with remarkably sure and precise drawing.",
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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": "2026-05-20 11:53:08.965000"
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