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Jan Matulka

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Jan Matulka (1890 - 1972) was active/lived in New York / Czech Republic.  Jan Matulka is known for Cubist figure, landcape and still life painting.

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 Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Jan Matulka became a leading modernist working with Stuart Davis to find a new type of Cubism based on distortion of forms.  The totality of his work ranged from traditional to abstract, reflecting the changes in the art world of 20th century America.

In 1907, he came to the Bronx, New York where he had a poverty-ridden childhood with a mother who tried to raise a family by herself.  From 1908 to 1917, he studied at the National Academy of Design, and in 1917, received the first Pulitzer Traveling Scholarship with which he traveled and painted in the Southwest and Florida.  His work from this period showed a turning towards a more abstract style, replacing his earlier realism.

In 1919, he first went to Paris and then returned in 1927 on a scholarship from the National Academy.  In Paris, he was exposed to Cubism, and his painting after that seemed always to carry that influence.  He had his first one-m   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3835 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  71
Magazine References:  7

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7 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Jan Matulka
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Jan Matulka: The Global Modernist October 2005 Rugg, Whitney Yes
American Artist A Permanent Record of What Has Been May 2004 Koob, Pamela N Yes
American Art Review All Around Town: Artists' New York August 2003 Searl, Marjorie Yes
American Art Review Painters and the American West October 2000 Troccoli, Joan Carpenter Yes
American Art Review Two Centuries of American Drawing December 1997 Dreishpoon, Douglas Yes
American Art Review Modernists in New Mexico November 1996 Roznoy, Cynthia Yes
Art & Auction American Modernisms October 1995 Berman, Avis Yes
71 Book References for Jan Matulka
Year Author Title Pages Color
2008 Berman, Avis (Hollis Taggart Galleries) Order and Intuition American Abstraction From The Patty & Jay Baker Naples Museum of Art, 1913-1954
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2001 Cauman, John (Essay); Stacey B. Epstein (Intro) Inheriting Cubism: The Impact of Cubism on American Art, 1909-1936 Hollis Taggart Galleries
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 Yes
2000 Spanierman Gallery America Gone Modern: From the Twenties to the Sixties
(Exhibition catalog)		 56 Yes
2000 Troccoli, Joan Carpenter Painters and the American West: The Anschutz Collection 218 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers) 0 No
1997 Agee, William C Modern American Painting 1910-194 Toward A New Perspective
(Exhibition catalog)		 24 No
1996 Hopps, Walter (others) American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art 320 Yes
1996 Sussman, Elizabeth City of Ambition Artists and New York, 1900-1960
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1995 Rushing, W Jackson Native American Art and the New York Avant-Garde 250 Yes
1993 Henkes, Robert Themes in American Painting Common Styles and Genres/A Reference 260 Yes
1991 Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County 510 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Leavitt, Thomas (Intro); Richard Schwartz; Frank H.T. Rhodes Cornell Collects: A Celebration of American Art from the Collections of Alumni and Friends, Cornell University
(Exhibition catalog)		 196 Yes
1989 Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition
(Exhibition catalog)		 230 Yes
1989 Fahlman, Betsy American Modernism 80 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 Fresella-Lee, Nancy The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 222 Yes
1989 Weber, Bruce Drawn from Tradition: American Drawings and Watercolors: From the Collection of Susan and Herbert Adler, Neuberger Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 185 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1988 Preato, Robert R.; Dr. Sandra L. Langer Impressionism and Post-Impressionism Transformations 1885-1945
(Exhibition catalog)		 104 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Saint Louis Art Museum The Ebsworth Collection: American Modernism, 1911-1947 225 Yes
1986 Eldredge, Charles/J Schimmel Art in New Mexico, 1900-1945 Paths to Taos and Santa Fe 218 Yes
1986 Morrin, Peter (others) The Advent of Modernism Post-Impressionism...1900-1918
(Exhibition catalog)		 200 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Adams, Henry; John Caldwell, John Lane et all American Drawings and Watercolors In The Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute
(Exhibition catalog)		 314 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Wooden, Howard E American Art of Great Depression Two Sides of the Coin
(Exhibition catalog)		 151 No
1984 Broder, Patricia Janis The American West The Modern Vision 345 Yes
1984 Glover, John/Townsend Wolfe Twentieth Century American Drawin from the Arkansas Arts Center
(Exhibition catalog)		 95 No
1984 Marlor, Clark S The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944
(Exhibition catalog)		 600 No
1984 Udall, Sharyn R Modernist Painting in New Mexico 1913-1935 237 Yes
1984 Watrous, James American Printmaking A Century of American Printmaking 1880-1980 334 Yes
1983 Adams, Clinton American Lithographers 1900-1960: The Artists and Their Printers 228 Yes
1983 Chwast, Seymour/S Heller The Art of New York 190 No
1983 Cunningham, Elizabeth Masterpieces of the American West Selections from the Anschutz Collection 152 Yes
1983 Lane, John R and Susan Larsen Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America 1927-1944
(Exhibition catalog)		 256 Yes
1983 Schleier, Merrill The Skyscraper in American Art, 1890-1931 297 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1981 Anschutz Collection Painters of the American West Selections from the Anschutz Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 150 Yes
1981 Armstrong, Tom Amerikanische Malerei 1930-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 301 Yes
1981 Cummings, Paul Drawing Acquisitions, 1978-1981 Whitney Museum of American Art 64 No
1981 Davidson, Abraham A Early American Modernist Painting 1910-1935 324 Yes
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1981 Pope, Annemarie H Lawrence H Bloedel Collection Loan Exhibition/Whitney/Williams College
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1981 Whitney Museum Twentieth Century Drawings Selections from the Whitney 136 No
1980 Hirschl & Adler Galleries Buildings Architecture in American Modernism
(Exhibition catalog)		 96 Yes
1980 Sims, Patterson/M A Foresta Jan Matulka 1890-1972 104 No
1979 Lieberman, William S Art of the Twenties
(Exhibition catalog)		 142 No
1978 Berman, Greta Mural Painting in New York City: Under the WPA Federal Art Project 300 No
1978 Levin, Gail Synchromism American Color Abstraction 1910-1925
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1977 Whitney Museum Lawrence H Bloedel Bequest Selections and Related Works 56 No
1976 Castelman, Riva American Prints 1913-1963
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
1976 Cummings, Paul American Drawings The 20th Century 207 No
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1976 Taylor, Joshua C America as Art 320 Yes
1976 Tyler, Ron The Image of America in Caricature & Cartoon
(Exhibition catalog)		 228 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1973 Collins, Jim L. Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present 426 No
1969 Museum of Modern Art Editors American Art of the 20's and 30's (Three Catalogues Combined)
(Exhibition catalog)		 220 No
1967 U of New Mexico Art Museum Cubism, Its Impact in the USA 1910-1930
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1961 Mahony, Bertha E (others) Illustrators of Children's Books 1744-1945 527 No
1935 De Young Memorial Museum Exhibition of American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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