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Paper. Condition: Good. Good paper copy ex. cat. May 12 - June 11, 2011, 48 pp, 5 pp essay, 30 large size 4/C illus, 3 pp 4/C small illus., checklist, 3 pp of misc. info.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st. 38 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. A retrospective exhibition held at Spanierman Modern, New York, April 27 to May 28, 2010. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. *** "An exhibition of paintings and works on paper created from the 1940s through the 1970s by this pioneering member of the Abstract Expressionist movement." -Publisher. Size: 4to. Collectible.…

Softcover. Condition: Very good. First. 4to, stiff pictorial wrappers. 117 pp, 117 illustrations in color plus 6 incidental figures and photographs, bibliography. Printed in an edition of 1,500 copies. Exhibition April 30 - June 5, 1999. The most comprehensive catalog to date for this relatively neglected American Modernist, born in 1890, who emigrated from Czechosovokia in 1907. He graduated from the National Academy in 1917. From the early 1920s, Matulka promoted the tenets of European modernism to a new generation of American painters. In New York he taught at the Art Student's League and summered in the art-rich environment on Cape Cod. He also spent much time abroad working and exhibiting in Paris and Prague. Matulka championed Cubism and Purism and, along with Gorky, helped promote surrealism in the 1930s. In 1937 he helped found the American Abstract Artist's group. He died in 1972. B/w And Color Illustrations (illustrator).…