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"tombstone": "Bird and Bonnet, 1962. Dorothy Rutka (American, 1907\u20131985). Etching; platemark: 24.4 x 38 cm (9 5/8 x 14 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1962.75",
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"title": "Bird and Bonnet",
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"measurements": "Platemark: 24.4 x 38 cm (9 5/8 x 14 15/16 in.)",
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"inscription": "Signed in pencil on bottom right beneath design: D.Rutka",
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"title": "The May Show: 44th Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists and Craftsmen of The Western Reserve",
"description": "The May Show: 44th Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists and Craftsmen of The Western Reserve. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 16-June 24, 1962).",
"opening_date": "1962-05-16T04:00:00"
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"title": "The May Shows of the Past",
"description": "The May Shows of the Past. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 5-July 24, 1963).",
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"did_you_know": "Rutka worked as an illustrator and writer for the Bystander magazine after graduating from the Cleveland School of Art.",
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"description": "The unidentified figure wearing the elaborate headdress in this image is likely a character from mythology. Rutka created multiple prints with references to ancient Greek legends and Christianity throughout her career. The bird at bottom left blends into the dark background, potentially offering a hint about the subject of the image.",
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"citation": "H. S. F. \u201c44th May Show. Annual Exhibition of Artists and Craftsmen of the Western Reserve May 16 through June 24.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 49, no. 5 (May 1962): 86\u2013110.",
"page_number": "109",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25151895"
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"citation": "Dorothy Rutka Entry Card to 1962 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMS12988/"
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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 Cleveland News. In 1931 she toured Europe for seven months. In the early 1930s she worked as a writer and illustrator for the Bystander 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.
Transformations in Cleveland Art. (CMA, 1996), p. 235
Biographical information exists in the Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
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"updated_at": "2026-08-03 14:16:40.502000"
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