Cloister from Trie-en-Bigorre, Metropolitan Museum of Art Cloisters
One year after the Cloisters opened in Fort Tryon Park, Ruzicka made this color woodcut, one of three that respond to garden cloisters within the new building devoted to Medieval art. He carved four separate woodblocks and printed each in a different color to represent a crucifix within the garden of a cloister from the Carmelite convent at Trie-en-Bigorre, near Toulouse in the Pyrenees. The other two prints relate to the Bonnefont and Cuxa cloisters (39.23.16 and 39.23.23).
Artwork Details
- Title: Cloister from Trie-en-Bigorre, Metropolitan Museum of Art Cloisters
- Artist: Rudolph Ruzicka (American (born Czechoslovakia), Kourim, Bohemia 1883–1978 Hanover, New Hampshire)
- Date: 1930
- Medium: Color wood engraving, printed from three blocks
- Dimensions: Image: 5 1/4 × 3 1/2 in. (13.3 × 8.9 cm)
Sheet: 9 in. × 6 1/4 in. (22.9 × 15.9 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of Rudolph Ruzicka, 1939
- Object Number: 39.23.7
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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