Jan Matulka
Still Life with Lamp, Pitcher, Pipe and Shells

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Artist Jan Matulka (American, born Czechoslovakia, 1890–1972)American, born Czechoslovakia, 1890–1972

CultureAmerican

Titles

Still Life with Lamp, Pitcher, Pipe and Shells

Date1929–1930

PlaceUnited States

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsCanvas: 30 × 36in. (76.2 × 91.4cm)
Frame: 31 1/2 × 37 1/2 × 1 3/4 in. (80 × 95.3 × 4.4 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object number78.148

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Department

American Art

Object Type

PAINTING

Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition HistoryExhibited: "Jan Matulka," Whitney Museum, 18 Dec 1979 - 24 Feb 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 3 April - 1 June 1980; National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C., through fall 1980 (LN:79.21)

Exhibited: "Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America 1927-1944," Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, 29 October - 31 December 1983, traveling to: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 26 Jan - 25 March 1984; Whitney Museum of American Art, 28 June - 2 Sept 1984 (LN:83.4)

"American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, de Kooning and their Circle, 1927 - 1942," Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, 9 June - 19 August 2012; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, 21 September - 30 December 2012. (OL.508)

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