IMPORTANT ANTIQUE BRUTALIST BRONZE SCULPTURE BY RENOWNED MODERNIST SCULPTOR JACK ZAJAC. (American b.1929). THIS WORK DEPICTS A DYNAMIC MALE FIGURE ON HORSEBACK, CAPTURED IN BOLD ANGULAR LINES. ZAJAC’S TREATMENT OF THE HUMAN AND ANIMAL FORM IS BOTH RAW AND LYRICAL — THE ELONGATED LIMBS, TAUT MUSCULATURE, AND VIGOROUS GESTURE EVOKE A TIMELESS STRUGGLE BETWEEN MAN AND BEAST. RAISED ON A POLISHED MARBLE PLINTH, THIS SCULPTURE EMBODIES THE HALLMARKS OF ZAJAC’S OEUVRE — A SCULPTOR COLLECTED BY MAJOR MUSEUMS INCLUDING MOMA AND THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART. THIS WORK IS SIGNED, NUMBERED, AND DATED 1950. EXCELLENT CONDITION. A TINY CHIP AT THE BOTTOM OF THE MARBLE BASE AS SHOWN.
PROVENANCE: PRIVATE ESTATE, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.
DIMENSIONS: 6” H X 5” W x 5” D
Jack Zajac (Born 1929) is active/lives in California, Ohio. Jack Zajac is known for Modernist sculpture and still-life painting.
Jack Zajac (1929)
Sculptor Born Youngstown, Ohio, December 13, 1929.
Education: Scripps College and with Millard Sheets, Henry McFee, and Sueo Serisawa; American Academy in Rome.
Holdings: Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
Commissions: Reynolds Metals Company, 1968; Wells Fargo Bank Plaza; University of California at Santa Cruz; Civic Center Mall in Inglewood, California; Civic Center Plaza at Huntington Beach, California.
Exhibits: Whitney Museum Annual 1959; Recent Sculpture USA at the Museum of Modern Art 1959; American painting at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 1962; Fifty California Artists at the Whitney Museum of American Art 1962-1963; Pittsburgh International at the Carnegie 1965; retrospective at Newport Harbor Art Museum in Balboa, California 1965; Temple University in Rome 1969; Santa Barbara Museum 1975; Fine Arts Gallery in San Diego 1975; Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco 1984 and 1987; Monterey Penninsula Museum of Art in California 1988; Palo Alto Cultural Center 1988; Jack Zajac Sculpture 1954-1987 at Art Special Gallery the Oakland Museum 1990; Art Museum of Santa Cruz county 1993; solo shows at the Art Museum of Santa Cruz County 1993; Academy Art College in San Francisco 1996; Meditions on Falling Water and Other Works at Frederick Spratt 1997; Lost Wax Foundry Friends III at Conley Art Gallery at California State University in Fresno.
Teaching: Instructor, Pomona College, 1959; Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz. Awards: Artist-in-Residence at the American Academy in Rome, 1968; Artist-in-Residence at Dartmouth College, 1970; Artist-in-Residence at the University of California at Santa Cruz, 1969-1970.
Museums:
Butler Institute of American Art (Youngstown, OH)
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio (Columbus, OH)
Denver Art Museum (Denver, CO)
Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach, CA)
Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, NY)
Oakland Museum of California (Oakland, CA)
San Diego Museum of Art (San Diego, CA)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA (San Francisco, CA)
Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara, CA)
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO)
Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis, MN)
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