JOSEPH MARTINEK
"SEATED NUDE"
CARVED COMPOSITION, SIGNED
AMERICAN, C.1940
13.5 INCHES
Joseph Martinek
1915-1989
American sculptor Joseph Martinek was born in Chicago in 1915.He studied sculpture at the State Industrial School of Art, Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1934-39.
He exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago and was awarded the Robert Rice Jenkins Memorial Prize in 1945.