id:			162024
accession number:	2001.228
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2001.228
updated:		2024-03-26 02:00:45.436000

Widow. Dorothy Rutka (American, 1907–1985). Etching and aquatint; sheet: 32 x 24.7 cm (12 5/8 x 9 3/4 in.); platemark: 17.2 x 15.2 cm (6 3/4 x 6 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Phyllis Sloane 2001.228

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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	etching and aquatint
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Etching
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CREATORS

* Dorothy Rutka (American, 1907–1985)  - artist
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’s Union and the American Artists’ Congress. In Cleveland she showed at the Ross Widen Gallery, the 1030 Gallery, and the Art Colony (1940s–50s). She also exhibited frequently in the May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1929–66) 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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measurements: Sheet: 32 x 24.7 cm (12 5/8 x 9 3/4 in.); Platemark: 17.2 x 15.2 cm (6 3/4 x 6 in.)
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	description:	wove paper with watermark
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	inscription:	lower margin, in graphite: titled Widow and signed
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The May Show: 33rd Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen
	opening date:   1951-05-01T04:00:00
	<i>The May Show: 33rd Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 1-June 10, 1951).

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CITATIONS

	Dorothy Rutka Entry Card to 1951 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAMS09093

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