id: 171330 accession number: 2014.150 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2014.150 updated: 2024-03-26 02:01:39.322000 The Grolier Club, 1915. Rudolph Ruzicka (American, born Bohemia, 1883–1978). Color wood engraving; sheet: 26.6 x 21.1 cm (10 1/2 x 8 5/16 in.); image: 17.6 x 17.1 cm (6 15/16 x 6 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John Bonebrake 2014.150 title: The Grolier Club title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1915 creation date earliest: 1915 creation date latest: 1915 current location: creditline: Bequest of John Bonebrake copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: color wood engraving department: Prints collection: PR - Wood engraving type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- 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 --- measurements: Sheet: 26.6 x 21.1 cm (10 1/2 x 8 5/16 in.); Image: 17.6 x 17.1 cm (6 15/16 x 6 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: Printed on sheet: From "New York" The Grolier Club 1915 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES