Original wood engraving in colors by well-listed American artist, Rudolf Ruzicka (1883-1978). Depicting a view from a window (with a pigeon) of Prague, Czechoslavakia.

Signed and dated in pencil, lower right: R.R. 1924. Dedicated by the artist in pencil, lower left: to Dr. W.S. Dennet. Signed in the plate with the artists ".R." monogram.

Examples of this print are held in the collections of: National Academy of Design, Washington DC; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas.

SHEET : 9 1/8" x 11" (23 cm x 28 cm)

IMAGE size: 7 7/8" x 9 5/16" (20 cm x 24 cm)

PROVENANCE: Dr. William S. Dennett, from the artist; private New York City art collection.

NOTES / REFERENCES: Rudolph Ruzicka (1883-1978) Painter, wood engraver, etcher, illustrator, typeface designer, and book designer. Born in Bohemia in 1883 and emigrated to the United States of America at age ten, living first in Chicago where he took drawing lessons at the Hull House School before becoming an apprentice wood engraver. From 1900 to 1902 he attended further classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1903 he moved to New York to work as an engraver at the American Bank Note Company and at Calkins & Holden. In subsequent years he attended classes at both the Art Students League of New York and the New York School of Art.

In 1910 Ruzicka set up his own shop at 954 Lexington Avenue in New York City. He received his first major art commission from System magazine. Many exhibitions followed, including such venues as the Societe de la Gravure, Paris; the Grolier Club in New York City, and the Century Association in New York City. In 1916 Ruzicka built a house and a workshop in Dobbs Ferry, New York where he produced paintings, woodcuts, and wood engravings for clients.

In 1935 Ruzicka was awarded the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and in that same year began work with the Typographic Development staff at Mergenthaler Linotype Company, for which he was to produce typeface families. In 1948 he moved to Massachusetts, and eventually he settled in Vermont.

Over the years, D. B. Updike and Ruzicka collaborated on a number of well-respected book designs, including Newark and the Grolier Club's Irving, as well as a fine series of Merrymount Press annual keepsakes. Ruzicka also provided substantial consulting for Updike's book Printing Types. Today Ruzicka's work is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Good condition. Probably with the borders somewhat trimmed from the original sheet size. Small wrinkles to the paper in the margin, lower left.Please see description and photographs.