{"data": {"name": "Dorothy Rutka", "nationality": "American", "description": "Dorothy Rutka (American, 1907\u20131985)", "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.", "birth_year": "1907", "death_year": "1985", "id": 15415, "artworks": [{"id": 114962, "accession_number": "1935.135", "title": "Feathered Hat", "tombstone": "Feathered Hat, 1935. Dorothy Rutka (American, 1907\u20131985). Stencil; image: 19.1 x 14.2 cm (7 1/2 x 5 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1935.135", "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1935.135"}, {"id": 115637, "accession_number": "1936.355", "title": "Indian Corn", "tombstone": "Indian Corn, 1936. Dorothy Rutka (American, 1907\u20131985). Aquatint; platemark: 17.6 x 25.7 cm (6 15/16 x 10 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1936.355", "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1936.355"}, {"id": 115692, "accession_number": "1936.407", "title": "Strawberries", "tombstone": "Strawberries, c. 1936. Dorothy Rutka (American, 1907\u20131985). Color aquatint; platemark: 25.3 x 22.5 cm (9 15/16 x 8 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1936.407", "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1936.407"}, {"id": 117071, "accession_number": "1937.64", "title": "Lightning Arresters", "tombstone": "Lightning Arresters, c. 1937. Dorothy Rutka (American, 1907\u20131985). Aquatint; platemark: 20.3 x 17.6 cm (8 x 6 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1937.64", "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1937.64"}, {"id": 119843, "accession_number": "1940.66", "title": "Encroachment", "tombstone": "Encroachment, c. 1940. Dorothy Rutka (American, 1907\u20131985). Etching and aquatint. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1940.66", "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.66"}, {"id": 122963, "accession_number": "1943.231", "title": "C. T. S. Forum", "tombstone": "C. T. S. Forum, 1943. Dorothy Rutka (American, 1907\u20131985). Etching. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1943.231", "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.231"}, {"id": 127049, "accession_number": "1949.385", "title": "Jolyon", "tombstone": "Jolyon, 1949. Dorothy Rutka (American, 1907\u20131985). Etching. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Ten Thirty Gallery, 1949.385", "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.385"}, {"id": 127315, "accession_number": "1949.65", "title": "Apples in a Basket", "tombstone": "Apples in a Basket, 1949. Dorothy Rutka (American, 1907\u20131985). Mezzotint and etching. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1949.65", "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.65"}, {"id": 127433, "accession_number": "1950.117", "title": "James, John and Zebedee", "tombstone": "James, John and Zebedee, 1950. Dorothy Rutka (American, 1907\u20131985). Etching. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1950.117", "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.117"}, {"id": 127435, "accession_number": "1950.119", "title": "James, Evangelist", "tombstone": "James, Evangelist, 1950. Dorothy Rutka (American, 1907\u20131985). Etching. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1950.119", "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.119"}, {"id": 128132, "accession_number": "1951.128", "title": "Hairdo", "tombstone": "Hairdo, c. 1951. Dorothy Rutka (American, 1907\u20131985). Lithograph. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1951.128", "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.128"}, {"id": 132711, "accession_number": "1955.218", "title": "Moses in Bulrushes, Jamaica", "tombstone": "Moses in Bulrushes, Jamaica, c. 1955. Dorothy Rutka (American, 1907\u20131985). Etching and aquatint; platemark: 30.3 x 14.9 cm (11 15/16 x 5 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1955.218", "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1955.218"}, {"id": 134560, "accession_number": "1956.99", "title": "Naiad", "tombstone": "Naiad, c. 1956. Dorothy Rutka (American, 1907\u20131985). Intaglio. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1956.99", "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1956.99"}, {"id": 134631, "accession_number": "1957.160", "title": "The Sower and the Seed", "tombstone": "The Sower and the Seed, c. 1957. Dorothy Rutka (American, 1907\u20131985). Etching; 27.7 x 35.4 cm (10 7/8 x 13 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1957.160", "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1957.160"}, {"id": 135301, "accession_number": "1958.311", "title": "Teasel and Seeds", "tombstone": "Teasel and Seeds, c. 1958. Dorothy Rutka (American, 1907\u20131985). Lithograph; 30 x 40 cm (11 13/16 x 15 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1958.311", "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.311"}, {"id": 138657, "accession_number": "1962.75", "title": "Bird and Bonnet", "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", "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.75"}, {"id": 140114, "accession_number": "1964.121", "title": "Path from the Sea", "tombstone": "Path from the Sea, c. 1964. Dorothy Rutka (American, 1907\u20131985). Intaglio; image: 35 x 25 cm (13 3/4 x 9 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1964.121", "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.121"}, {"id": 156372, "accession_number": "1992.167", "title": "Weeping Woman", "tombstone": "Weeping Woman, 1943. Dorothy Rutka (American, 1907\u20131985). Etching; sheet: 20 x 16.5 cm (7 7/8 x 6 1/2 in.); platemark: 15.3 x 11.3 cm (6 x 4 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Phyllis Sloane, 1992.167", "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.167"}, {"id": 162024, "accession_number": "2001.228", "title": "Widow", "tombstone": "Widow, 1951. Dorothy Rutka (American, 1907\u20131985). 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", "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2001.228"}, {"id": 171325, "accession_number": "2014.146", "title": "Gulf Landscape", "tombstone": "Gulf Landscape, c. 1957\u201385. Dorothy Rutka (American, 1907\u20131985). Color etching and aquatint; sheet: 31.5 x 50 cm (12 3/8 x 19 11/16 in.); platemark: 34.2 x 40.2 cm (13 7/16 x 15 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John Bonebrake, 2014.146", "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2014.146"}, {"id": 171326, "accession_number": "2014.147", "title": "Teasel and Seeds", "tombstone": "Teasel and Seeds, 1958. Dorothy Rutka (American, 1907\u20131985). Color lithograph; sheet: 38 x 48 cm (14 15/16 x 18 7/8 in.); image: 29.5 x 39.5 cm (11 5/8 x 15 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John Bonebrake, 2014.147", "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2014.147"}]}}