Lot 208: DRAHOMIR JOSEF RUZICKA

(American, b. Czechoslovakia, 1870-1960) PENNSYLVANIA STATION, NEW YORK titled and signed "Pennsylvania Station, New York, DL. J. Ruzicka" in pencil below image on overmat titled "Pennsylvania Station, N.Y." in pencil on verso of mount "Anthracite Photographic Salon, Rating A" stamped on verso of mount "Annual Photographic Salon LDM Sweat Memorial Art Museum, Portland, Maine, 1934" label adhered to verso of mount "Exhibited at the Camera Club of New York, November 1934" label adhered to verso of mount "Ninth Chicago International Salon of Photography, Art Inst. of Chicago, October 1st to 31st, 1938/Chicago Camera Club" label adhered to verso of mount "Exhibited Third Annual Anthracite Photographic Salon, 1938 - Scranton PA." label adhered to verso of mount gelatin silver print mounted on board with overmat image: 135/8 x 10 in. (34.6 x 25.4 cm) paper: 137/8 x 10 in. (35.2 x 25.4 cm) 1919 printed circa 1932 Provenance Argus Ltd., NEW YORK Exhibited PORTLAND, MAINE, Annual Photographic Salon LDM Sweat Memorial Art Museum, 1934 NEW YORK, Camera Club, November 1934 CHICAGO, Art Institute of Chicago organized by the Chicago Camera Club, NINTH CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL SALON OF PHOTOGRAPHY, October 1 - 31, 1938 SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA, Anthracite Photographic Salon, THIRD ANNUAL ANTHRACITE PHOTOGRAPHIC SALON, 1938 WOODSTOCK, NEW YORK, Catskill Center for Photography, CORPORATE COLLECTIONS, April 26 - May 27, 1986 MONTCLAIR, NEW JERSEY, Montclair Art Museum, CITY SCENES, September 27, 1997 - January 4, 1998 Literature Bill Jaeger, "Corporate Collecting of Photography," CENTER QUARTERLY, 1986, p. 15 (illustrated) Mrazcova Peterson, THE MODERN PICTORIALISM OF D. J. RUZICKA, 1990, p. 89 (illustrated).