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Jan Matulka (American, 1890-1972)
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Jan Matulka
Musical Instrument Motif circa 1930
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Jan Matulka
New York Elevated circa 1924-1926
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Biography |
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1890 |
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Born: Vlachovo Brezi, Bohemia (Prague, Czechoslovakia) |
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1906 |
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Moved to Bronx, New York City, NY |
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1911 - 1916 |
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Attended the National Academy of Design, New York City, NY |
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1917 |
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Joseph Pulitzer National Traveling Scholarship (studied Pueblo tribes in the American Southwest) |
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1918 |
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Married Ludmila "Lída" Jiroušková |
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1919 |
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Continued studies, Paris, France |
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1919 |
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Illustrated Czechoslovak Fairy Tales with writer Parker Fillmore and published by Hippocrene Books |
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1920 |
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Illustrated The Shoemaker's Apron with writer Parker Fillmore and published by Harcourt Brace & Company |
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1927 |
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Scholarship, National Academy, New York City, NY |
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1928 |
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Started meeting with the Society of Independent Artists |
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1929 - 1931 |
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Taught Art Students League, New York City, NY |
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1934 - 1935 |
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Joined the Public Works of Art Project |
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1936 |
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Helped found the American Abstract Artists |
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1935 - 1939 |
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Joined the Federal Art Project |
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1972 |
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Died: New York City, NY |
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Exhibitions |
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2009 |
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Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ (group) |
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2007 - 2008 |
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Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida, FL (group) |
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2007 |
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Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, AK |
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2006 |
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Avampato Discovery Museum, Charleston, West Virginia, WV
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, OH
Cape Ann Historical Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts, MA |
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2005 |
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Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina, SC
Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida, FL
Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia, GA |
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2004 - 2005 |
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Montclair Art Museum Retrospective, Montclair, NJ (traveled to: Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC; Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA; Avampato Discovery Museum, Charleston, WV; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH) |
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2002 |
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National Academy of Design, New York City (group) |
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1999 |
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Richard York Gallery, New York City, NY |
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1995 |
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Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo) |
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1992 |
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James Graham & Sons, New York City, NY (group) |
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1989 |
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Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York City, NY (solo) |
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1982 |
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY (solo) |
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1979 |
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Whitney Museum Retrospective, New York, NY (solo) |
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1965 |
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Zabriske Gallery, New York City, NY (solo) |
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1944 |
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ACA Galleries, New York, NY (solo) |
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1942 |
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Macy's, New York City, NY (group) |
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1936 |
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Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY (group) |
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1933 |
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Frank K. M. Rehn Gallery, New York City, NY(solo) |
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1932 |
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Art Students League of New York, New York City, NY (group)
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ |
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1930 |
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Frank K. M. Rehn Gallery, New York City (solo) |
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1929 |
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Columbia University, New York City, NY (solo)
Frank K. M. Rehn Gallery, New York City, NY (solo) |
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1927 |
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Frank K. M. Rehn Gallery, New York City, NY(group) |
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1926 |
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Art Center, New York City, NY (solo)
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY(group) |
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1925 |
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Artist's Gallery cooperative, New York City, NY (solo) |
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1924 |
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Salon des Indépendants, Paris, France
Exhibition of American Art, Paris, France
Neue Galerie, New York City, NY (group) |
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1920 |
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Société Anonyme, New Jersey |
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Public Collections: |
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Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh/Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Cheekwood Museum of Art & Botanical Garden, Nashville, TN
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE,
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Snite Museum of Art, University Of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, FL
The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
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Literature |
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2004 |
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Whitney Rugg, Patterson Sims, The Global Modernist: A touring exhibition organized with the estate of Jan Matulka and the Montclair Art Museum. Chicago : Stella Bea Production, 2004. |
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1980 |
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Clark, Carroll S. , and Heskett, Louise, Jan Matulka 1890-1972, Published for the National Collection of Fine Arts and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1980. |
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1944 |
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Lowenbach, Jan V., and Isaac Kloomok. Matulka. New York : A.C.A. Gallery, 1944. |
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1920 |
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Fillmore, Parker; Jan Matulka. The Shoemaker's Apron: A Second Book Of Czechoslovak Fairy Tales And Folk Tales. Harcourt Brace & Company, 1920 |
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1919 |
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Fillmore, Parker; Jan Matulka. Czechoslovak fairy tales, retold by Parker Fillmore; with illustrations and decorations by Jan Matulka. W. Collins, Sons & Co, 1919 |
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