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Jan Matulka 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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| Selected 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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| Selected Public Collections |
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Cheekwood Museum of Art & Botanical Garden, Nashville, TN
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Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh/Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
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Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
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New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
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Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
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Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
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Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
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Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
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Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
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Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
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The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
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The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, FL
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The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
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Snite Museum of Art, University Of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
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Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
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Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
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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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| Links to further information |
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