THEY CAME TO AMERICA
(“Immigrant Art” in the USA)
(“Immigrant Art” in the USA)
- de Saint-Mémin: Mrs. Cummings
- Moran: The Rapids
- van Beest: Two Fishermen
- Moran: The Passaic
- van Elten: The Deserted Mill
- Mielatz: Out of Commission
- Yeats: Rye, July 4, 1908
- Botke: Beside a Valley
- Nakamizo: Heron Lifting Off
- Charlot: Woman Lifting Rebozo
- Constant: Still Life with Pears
- Bormann: New York Aquarium
- Castellon: Waiting Women
- Takal: Man with a Cigar
- Lozowick: The White Spider
- Sangster: Niagara Falls
- Lovet-Lorski: Winged Man
- Sterner: The Penitent
- Hamilton: Feeding the Sparrows
- Sandzén: Mountain Lake
- Lucioni: Barn in the Hills
- Binder: Moses
- Eby: Goin’ Home
- Farrer: Sunset, Gowanus Bay
- Geritz: Mae Murray
- Grossman: Rain on the Square
- Sherman: Quadrille Band
- Brockhurst: Una
- Gottlieb: Low Tide
- Hoffbauer: Studies
- Oppenheimer: New York at Night
- Robinson: Horse Auction
- Bluemner: Winfield, Long Island
- Mora: Mother and Child
- Drewes: Rotterdam
- Fiene: Barns
- Marsh, Coney Island Beach
- Moser: Sunrise
- Eichenberg: Seven Deadly Sins
- Hayter, Greeting Card for 1945
- Kuniyoshi: Taxco, Mexico
- Roth: Street in Siena
- Winkler: Chow Seller
- Ruzicka: East River, Evening
- Reinhardt: Intermission
- Kadar: The Nativity
- Weber: Mountain Scene
- Schultheiss: The Flight into Egypt
- Walkowitz: Two Figures
- MacLaughlan: The Great Oak
- Auerbach-Levy: Cabby
- Neufeldt: Rhode Island
- Dolice: Off Asbury Park
- Friedlander: Brooklyn Bridge
- Hankins: Arrangement
East River, Evening
Wood engraving, 1919, 117 x 147 mm. Fine impression on tan wove paper with very large margins, signed in pencil from the edition of 115 published in the Weyhe Gallery Portfolio in 1919. Ruzicka was born in Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now part of the Czech Republic. He arrived in America, with his parents, at the age of ten, settled in Chicago, studied there and began, unusually early (his first boss was accused of violating the child labor laws), an intriguing career. Ruzicka, while he made etchings and many wood engravings, was primarily a book person. He is probably most famous as a designer of type faces, and second as a designer and illustrator of books, and that is probably as it should be. But his wood engravings were admired, early on, by Auguste Lepère, probably the greatest of wood engravers, and, though infrequently seen, are deserving of admiration today.