JAN MATULKA 1890-1972
Patterson Sims

[FAP/PWA Artsits] Patterson Sims; JAN MATULKA 1890-1972. Washington, D.C.: Published for The National Collection of Fine Arts and the Whitney Museum of American Art By the Smithsonian Insititution Press, 1980. First edition. A near-fine softcover catalogue in stiff, printed wrappers. The uncoated wrappers show a bit of smudging. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.

8.5 x 10 softcover, perfect-bound catalogue with 104 pages and 84 illustrations, including 3 color plates. Excellent survey of New York school abstract painter Matulka, with much reference material and beautiful reproductions. Includes a chronology, bibliography, exhibition list. Catalogue for the Exhibition from December 18, 1979 - February 24, 1980 (at the Whitney Museum), with subsequent venues in Houston and Birmingham, AL before finishing at the National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC. Essays by Patterson Sims, Merry A. Foresta, Dorothy Dehner and Janet A. Fli. Highly recommended.

Contents include:

• Jan Matulka: a life in art
• Matulka and the modern movement
• Memories of Jan matulka
• Matulka as printmaker: a checklist of known prints
• chronology
• list of exhibitions
• works in public collections
• lenders tothe exhibition
• catalogue of the exhibition
• bibliography

Jan Matulka (1890-1972) emigrated to the United States from Bohemia in 1907. He attended the National Academy of Design from 1908 to 1917 where he became the first recipient of the Joseph Pulitzer traveling scholarship. After his first trip to Paris in 1919, Matulka's exposure to cubism would directly affect his work for the rest of his life. Matulka's first one-man exhibit was in New York City in 1925. During this period, Matulka became interested in politics, and began doing illustrations for New Masses. From 1929 to 1931, Matulka was an instructor at the Art Students League. His teachings about abstract art and newly emergent artistic styles inspired a nucleus of later-popular artists, including David Smith, Dorothy Dehner, George McNeil and I. Rice Pereira. In 1935, Matulka was hired by his former student Burgoyne Diller to painted abstract murals for the WPA Federal Art Project. His most famous contribution to the PWA/FAP was his work on the murals for the Williamsburg Federal Hosuing project in New York City.

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