JOSEPH MARTINEK
"MODERN NUDE"
CARVED COMPOSITE, SIGNED
AMERICAN, C.1940
29 INCHES OVERALL

Joseph Martinek Jr.
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.