About This Artwork
Jan Matulka
American, 1890–1972
Untitled (Still Life with Lobster)c. 1930
Oil (and sand?) on canvas
70.8 x 73.7 cm (27 7/8 x 29 in.)
Gift of Mary and John Gedo, 2005.428
American Art
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jan Matulka, 1890-1972, December 18, 1979-February 24, 1980, cat. 17, as Still Life with Lobster, Lemon, and Shell; traveled to Houston, Tex., Houston Museum of Fine Arts, April 3-June 1, 1980; Birmingham, Ala., Birmingham Museum of Art, June 15-October 1, 1980; Washington, DC, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, November 21, 1980-February 8, 1981.
Publication History
New York, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, Jan Matulka, October 24-November 19, 1970, no checklist.
Jan Matulka, 1890-1972, exh. cat. (Published for the National Collection of Fine Arts and the Whitney Museum of American Art by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1980), cat. 17.
Judith A. Barter et al., "American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 77.
Ownership History
Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, probably by 1970; sold to Mary and John Gedo, Chicago, Ill., probably 1970; partial gift to the Art Institute, 2005.