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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M9655
People
Rudolph Ruzicka, American (Bohemia, Czech Republic 1883-1978 Hanover, New Hampshire)
Title
Lowell House, Harvard University
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1931-32
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/262452

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodcut on paper
Technique
Woodcut
Dimensions
plate: 14 x 9 cm (5 1/2 x 3 9/16 in.)
folded holiday card: 23.9 x 16.8 cm (9 7/16 x 6 5/8 in.)
entire holiday card: 23.9 x 33.6 cm (9 7/16 x 13 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, November 16, 1939.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1939
Object Number
M9655
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Descriptions

Description
The woodcut is printed inside a folded holiday card with greetings for the year 1932.

Publication History

  • Thomas Connors, "City Smitten", Antiques (Brooklyn, NY, 2021), Vol. 188, No. 2, pp. 70-77, p. 73, fig. 4, ill. (color)

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