Cuxa Cloister, Metropolitan Museum of Art Cloisters

Rudolph Ruzicka American, born Czechoslovakia

1938

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This image was printed from one of the three woodblocks Ruzicka used to create a color print of the Cuxa Cloister (39.23.23). Proofs made from each woodblock (39.23.17-.23), together with the final work, were donated to the Museum by the artist. The group would have been of interest to the Print Department's founding curator William Ivins, Jr. who admired Ruzicka's precise, exacting technique, and wished to add works to the collection that shed light on printmaking processes.

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Title: Cuxa Cloister, Metropolitan Museum of Art Cloisters
Artist: Rudolph Ruzicka (American (born Czechoslovakia), Kourim, Bohemia 1883–1978 Hanover, New Hampshire)
Date: 1938
Medium: Wood engraving, proof
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: 39.23.18
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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