Lot 105: DR. DRAHOMIR JOSEPH RUZICKA 1870-1960

PROPERTY FROM THE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY, CHICAGO

SELECTED ARCHITECTURAL IMAGES

SELECTED ARCHITECTURAL IMAGES

measurements note
each approximately 13 1/2 by 10 1/2 in. (34.2 by 26.7 cm.)

a group of 4 photographs, including 'Fountain in Ulm,' 'Roma: San Pietro,' 'A Bridge in Venice,' and 'Ambition! (Chrysler Building, New York),' each warm-toned, mounted, signed, and titled by the photographer in pencil and with the Museum's collection stamp, label, and accession number in an unidentified hand in blue pencil, and the first and last with exhibition labels, on the reverse, each overmatted, signed and titled and the last dated by the photographer in pencil on the overmat, circa 1925-31 (4)

PROVENANCE

Gift of the photographer, September 1933

EXHIBITED

Chicago, The Century of Progress International Photographic Salon, 1933 and 1934

These prints of 'Ambition!' and 'A Bridge in Venice':

Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Imagination to Image, April - September 1999; and traveling thereafter to The Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, September - December 2000; and The Montclair, New Jersey, Art Museum, January - April 2001

LITERATURE

Christian A. Peterson and Daniela Mrázková, The Modern Pictorialism of D. J. Ruzicka (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1990), pp. 67 and 72