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

Still Life with Lamp, Pitcher, Pipe and Shells
Still Life with Lamp, Pitcher, Pipe and Shells
Still Life with Lamp, Pitcher, Pipe and Shells
ArtistAmerican, 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
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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