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        "tombstone": "Jolyon, 1949. Dorothy Rutka (American, 1907\u20131985). Etching. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Ten Thirty Gallery, 1949.385",
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        "title": "Jolyon",
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            "America, Ohio, Cleveland"
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                "inscription": "Titled in pencil on bottom left beneath design: Jolyon",
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            {
                "inscription": "Signed in pencil on bottom right beneath design: D Rutka Kennon",
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                "description": "Studio of the artist, Cleveland, OH, sold to the Ten-Thirty Gallery",
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        "did_you_know": "This print was included as a membership bonus of the Ten Thirty Gallery, Cleveland, in 1949.",
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        "description": "Jolyon Kennon was Rutka\u2019s second daughter with Jack Kennon, a political writer for the <em>Cleveland News</em>. In this image, created when she was around nine years old, Jolyon sits in what may be the Kennon\u2019s backyard with a cat by her side. Rutka created numerous prints featuring her daughter and the close bond that they shared. Years later, after the tragic murder of her mother, Jolyon stayed in Cleveland to attend the hearings of two suspects, expressing the importance of her mother\u2019s memory to her and her sister.",
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        "creditline": "Gift of the Ten Thirty Gallery",
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                "description": "Dorothy Rutka (American, 1907\u20131985)",
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                "biography": "Although active as an artist in Cleveland through the 1980s, Dorothy Rutka is best known for her sobering Depression-era intaglio prints depicting social ills. Born and raised in Grand Rivers, Michigan, Rutka moved to Ohio to attend the Cleveland School of Art. She graduated in 1929 with a specialization in portraiture and did additional course work in the Huntington Polytechnic Institute. She married Jack Kennon, political editor for the <em>Cleveland News</em>. In 1931 she toured Europe for seven months. In the early 1930s she worked as a writer and illustrator for the <em>Bystander</em> and in 1936 was part of the Cleveland graphic arts project of the Works Progress Administration. She joined the Cleveland Artist\u2019s Union and the American Artists\u2019 Congress. In Cleveland she showed at the Ross Widen Gallery, the 1030 Gallery, and the Art Colony (1940s\u201350s). She also exhibited frequently in the May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1929\u201366) and in exhibitions in New York, Philadelphia, Dayton, Brooklyn, and Washington, D.C. In 1960 she married Philip Porter, who was named executive editor of the Plain Dealer in 1963. They were killed by an unknown intruder in their home in Shaker Heights, Ohio. <br><em>Transformations in Cleveland Art.</em> (CMA, 1996), p. 235<br>Biographical information exists in the Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
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        "updated_at": "2026-07-14 11:14:36.221000"
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