id: 171334 accession number: 2014.154 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2014.154 updated: 2024-03-26 02:01:39.345000 Peerless Motorcar Ad, 1913. Rudolph Ruzicka (American, born Bohemia, 1883–1978). Color wood engraving; sheet: 30.4 x 21.9 cm (11 15/16 x 8 5/8 in.); image: 18.8 x 12.6 cm (7 3/8 x 4 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John Bonebrake 2014.154 title: Peerless Motorcar Ad title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1913 creation date earliest: 1913 creation date latest: 1913 current location: creditline: Bequest of John Bonebrake copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: color wood engraving department: Prints collection: PR - Woodcut 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: 30.4 x 21.9 cm (11 15/16 x 8 5/8 in.); Image: 18.8 x 12.6 cm (7 3/8 x 4 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: Below image, in graphite: R. Ruzicka; lower right corner, in graphite: Berskshire Text; Inscribed on mat, in graphite: Rudolph Ruzicka - Wood Enqr. (?) for George Adomeit Printer/Peerless Motor Car Ad translation: remark: inscription: Watermark, upper margin: Berkshire Text translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES