1928 in art
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The year 1928 in art involved some significant events and new works.
Events
- January 7 – The Tate Gallery, London, is flooded by the River Thames.
- March 26 – The China Academy of Art is founded in Hangzhou (originally named the National Academy of Art).
- August – Ben Nicholson and Kit Wood visit St. Ives, Cornwall, and meet the ex-fisherman painter Alfred Wallis.[1]
- October – English artist and designer Eric Gill moves with some of his artistic community from Capel-y-ffin in Wales to 'Pigotts' at Speen, Buckinghamshire, near High Wycombe.
- November 18 – Film debut of Mickey Mouse, designed by Ub Iwerks.
- Clarice Cliff introduces her Crocus pottery decoration.[2]
- Pierre Chareau and colleagues begin construction of the Maison de Verre ("house of glass") on the rue Saint-Guillaume in Paris for client Jean Dalsace.
- Charles Haslewood Shannon suffers a fall while hanging a picture which ends his career as an artist.
Awards
- Archibald Prize: John Longstaff – Portrait of Dr Alexander Leeper
- Carnegie Prize – André Derain
- Art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics
- Painting: Isaac Israëls – Cavalier Rouge
- Drawing: Jean Jacoby – Rugby
- Graphic work: William Nicholson – An Almanac of Twelve Sports
Exhibitions
- Alexander Calder's first solo exhibition at the Weyhe Gallery, New York City.
- L'Exposition surréaliste at the Galerie du Sacre du Printemps, Paris.
- December – East London Group (as East London Art Club) exhibits at Whitechapel Gallery.
Works
- Wäinö Aaltonen – bust of Jean Sibelius
- Tarsila do Amaral – Abaporu
- Pierre Bonnard – Flowers on a Red Carpet
- John Steuart Curry – Bathers and Baptism in Kansas
- Charles Demuth – I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
- Edwin Dickinson – The Fossil Hunters
- Otto Dix – Metropolis
- M. C. Escher – Tower of Babel (woodcut)
- George Grosz – Hinterground (portfolio of lithographs)
- Edward Hopper – Night Windows
- Prudence Heward – Girl on a Hill
- Frida Kahlo – Dama de Blanco
- André Kertész – The Fork (photograph)
- Sir John Lavery – Portrait of Lady Lavery as Kathleen Ni Houlihan
- Tamara de Lempicka – Portrait of Dr. Boucard
- L. S. Lowry
- A Street Scene
- Going to the Match
- Eugenie McEvoy – Taxi! Taxi!
- René Magritte – The Empty Mask
- Henri Matisse – Odalisque au fauteuil turc
- Ivan Meštrović – The Bowman and The Spearman (equestrian sculptures, Chicago)
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Mahmoud Mokhtar – Egypt's Renaissance (sculpture group, Cairo University, begun 1919, completed)
- Christian Schad – Two Girlfriends
- Charles Sheeler – Upper Deck (photograph, approximate date)
- Zinaida Serebriakova – Lit By The Sun
- Charles Sims – I Am the Abyss and I Am Light
- John French Sloan – Sixth Avenue Elevated at Third Street
- Joseph Southall – The Botanists
- Alexej von Jawlensky – Abstract Head
- George Fite Waters – Abraham Lincoln (bronze, Portland, Oregon)
Births
January to June
- 31 January – Dušan Džamonja, Macedonian sculptor
- 1 March – Jacques Rivette, French filmmaker (d. 2016)
- 3 March – Jean Rustin, French painter
- 24 April – Cy Twombly, American abstract artist (d. 2011)
- 28 April – Yves Klein, French abstract artist (d. 1962)
- 14 May – Władysław Hasior, Polish sculptor, painter and set designer (d. 1999)
- 30 May – Pro Hart, Australian painter (d. 2006)
- 3 June – Donald Judd, American sculptor (d. 1994)
- June 25
July to December
- July 10 – Bernard Buffet, French painter (d. 1999)
- August 6 – Andy Warhol, American artist, director and writer (d. 1987)
- August 12 – Charles Blackman, Australian painter and illustrator
- August 15 – Alan Collins, English figurative religious sculptor (d. 2016)
- August 31 – Jeremy Maas, English art dealer and historian of Victorian painting (d. 1997)
- September 9 – Sol LeWitt, American conceptual and minimalist artist (d. 2007)
- September 12 – Robert Irwin, American installation artist
- October 7 – Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d. 1980)
- October 12 – Al Held, American Abstract expressionist painter (d. 2005)
- October 30 – Michael Andrews, English painter (d. 1995)
- November 3 – Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist, animator and film producer (d. 1989)
- November 17 – Arman, French-born American artist (d. 2005)
- November 27 – Josh Kirby, English commercial artist (d. 2001)
- December 2 – Guy Bourdin, French photographer (d.1991)
- December 12 – Helen Frankenthaler, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 2011)
- December 13 – Wolfgang Hutter, Austrian painter, lithographer and designer
- December 15 – Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian painter, architect and sculptor (d. 2000)
- December 31 – Siné, French cartoonist (d. 2016)
Date unknown
- Norman Carlberg, American sculptor
- Wally Hedrick, American artist (d. 2003)
- Brian O'Doherty aka Patrick Ireland, Irish-born art critic and installation artist
Deaths
- January 6 – Adolfo de Carolis, painter, xylographer, illustrator and photographer (b. 1874)
- January 8 – Gyula Basch, painter (b. 1859)
- January 13 – Frederick Arthur Bridgman, painter (b. 1847)
- January 26 – Henrietta Rae, English painter (b. 1859)
- March 31 – Medardo Rosso, sculptor (b. 1858)
- April 5 – Viktor Oliva, painter and illustrator (b. 1861)
- April 13 – Charles Sims, English painter (suicide, b. 1873)
- May 16 – Frederick Arthur Verner, landscape painter (b. 1836)
- June 22 – A. B. Frost, illustrator (b. 1851)
- July 10 – John Chambers, landscape and portrait painter (b. 1852)
- July 25 – Jane Sutherland, landscape painter (b. 1853)
- August 30 – Franz Stuck, symbolist /Art Nouveau painter, sculptor, engraver and architect (b. 1863)
- September 20 – Ivan Tišov, painter (b. 1870)
- October 30 – Percy Anderson, stage designer and painter (b. 1851)
- November 15 – Godfred Christensen, painter (b. 1845)
- December 1 – Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth, painter (b. 1855)
- December 2 – Robert Reid, Impressionist painter (b. 1862)
- December 10 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, architect and designer (b. 1868)
- December 18 – Nils Bergslien, illustrator, painter and sculptor (b. 1853)
- date unknown – Raffaello Romanelli, sculptor (b. 1856)
See also
References
- ^ Nicholson, Ben (1943). "Alfred Wallis". Alfred Wallis. Archived from the original on 2011-08-10. Retrieved 2011-03-11.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|dead-url=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Griffin, Leonard (1998). The Fantastic Flowers of Clarice Cliff. London: Pavilion. ISBN 1-86205-053-8.