biografia di Jan MATULKA (1890-1972)

Birth place: Prague, Czechoslovakia

Death place: Queens, NYC

Addresses: NYC, 1907-on; Paris, mid 1920s-34, and 1951-55

Profession: Abstract painter, lithographer, illustrator

Studied: Prague, 1905; NAD, 1911-16 with G.W. Maynard; ASL

Exhibited: Société Anonyme, 1920; WMAA; Salons of Am., 1923, 1944, 1979 (solo); S. Indp. A., 1924, 1927-28; PAFA Ann., 1930-37; AIC, 1932; Am. Abstract Artists, 1940; ACA Gal., 1944; CI, 1944; Paris, France, 1951-55.

Work: WMAA; MMA; NYPL; Guggenheim Mus.; PAFA; SFMA; Detroit Inst. Art; Cincinnati AM; AIC; Brooklyn Mus.; Delaware AM; Hirshhorn Mus.; Nat. Mus., Wash., DC; Yale Univ. Art Gal.; WPA murals: Williamsburg Housing Proj., Brooklyn, 1935.

Comments: Owing to WWI, in 1917 he used his Joseph Pulitzer Traveling Scholarship to go to Florida and then toured the Southwest where he stayed with the Hopi Indians. He lived in Paris from the mid 1920s-34, and became friendly with Gorky, Stuart Davis, and John Graham. During the 1930s he developed a type of representational cubism. Position: teacher, ASL, 1924-25 (winter), 1929-32, 1940s.

Sources: WW59; WW47; Eldredge, et al., Art in New Mexico, 1900-1945, 203; American Abstract Art, 192; Falk, Exh. Record Series.

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