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1930 art
Events from the year 1930 in art.
Events
June–July – Christopher Wood paints in Brittany.
29 November – Première of the Surrealist film L'Age d'Or by Luis Buñuel (co-written with Salvador Dalí) at Studio 28 in Paris.
Theo van Doesburg produces a "Manifesto of Concrete art".http://www.kettererkunst.com/dict/gruppe-abstraction-creation.shtml Gruppe Abstraction-Création Ketterer Kunst 2012-04-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20120515044752/http://www.kettererkunst.com/dict/gruppe-abstraction-creation.shtml 2012-05-15 dead
Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant complete the decoration of the dining room for Dorothy Wellesley at Penns-in-the-Rocks, Withyham, England.
Malvina Hoffman begins sculpting life-size figures for the Field Museum's Hall of Man.
Great Bardfield Artists community established in England.
Bernard Berenson publishes The Italian Painters of the Renaissance.
Milt Gross publishes his wordless novel He Done Her Wrong in the United States.
Soviet sale of Hermitage paintings begins.
Spanish postage stamps depict Goya's La maja desnuda.
Approximate date – Gertrud Arndt begins a series of photographic self-portraits at the Bauhaus.
Awards
Archibald Prize: W. B. McInnes – Drum-Major Harry McClelland
Exhibitions
April – Cercle et Carré exhibition opens at Galerie 23 in the Rue La Boétie, Paris.
Works
thumb|Grant Wood – American Gothic
thumb|José Clemente Orozco – Prometheus
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Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious – Mural in refectory of Morley College, London (begun 1928; destroyed in The Blitz 1940)
Pierre Bonnard – Pots
Patrick Henry Bruce – Peinture (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Edward Burra – The Snack Bar
John Steuart Curry – Hogs Killing a Snake
Theo van Doesburg – Arithmetic Composition
Raoul Dufy – Pink Nude
M. C. Escher
The Bridge (lithograph)
Castrovalva (lithograph)
Palizzi, Calabria (woodcut)
Pentedattilo, Calabria (lithograph)
Street in Scanno, Abruzzi (lithograph)
Thomas Cooper Gotch – The Exile: Heavy Is The Price I Paid For Love
James Guthrie – Statesmen of World War I
Edward Hopper – Early Sunday Morning
Augustus John – Portrait of Tallulah Bankhead
Paul Klee – Has Head, Hand, Feet and Heart
Rozsa Klein (Rogi André) – Bonnard's Palette
Helmut Kolle
Self-Portrait in Hunting Attire
Young Man with a Colored Scarf
Abel Lafleur – Victory (trophy)
Fernand Léger – Mona Lisa with Keys
L. S. Lowry – Coming from the Mill
Jeanne Mammen – Free Room
Henri Matisse – The Back Series (bas-reliefs)
Piet Mondrian - Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow
Alice Neel – Ethel Ashton (nude portrait)
C.R.W. Nevinson – Amongst the Nerves of the Worldhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/amongst-the-nerves-of-the-world-50506
Georgia O'Keeffe – Rust Red Hills
José Clemente Orozco – Prometheus (fresco at Pomona College, California)
Diego Rivera – History of Morelos, Conquest and Revolution
Charles Sheeler – American Landscape
T. F. Šimon – View in Old Prague (woodcut)
Grace Cossington Smith – The Bridge in Curve
Herbert Tyson Smith – bronze reliefs for Liverpool Cenotaph
Sophie Taeuber-Arp – Composition of Circles and Overlapping Angles
Sam Tate, James Watt – Oglethorpe Monument
Edward Trumbull – Transport and Human Endeavor (ceiling mural, lobby, Chrysler Building, New York City)https://www.booyorkcity.com/chrysler-building-birthday/ Chrysler Building celebrates 85th birthday Boo York City
Suzanne Valadon – Nude Woman with a Blue Shawl
Christopher Wood
Anemones in a Cornish Window
Zebra and Parachute
Grant Wood
American Gothic
Arnold Comes of Age
Stone City, Iowa
N. C. Wyeth – Reception to Washington on April 21, 1789, at Trenton on his way to New York to Assume the Duties of the Presidency of the United States
W. L. Wyllie – Panorama of the Battle of Trafalgar (Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth)W L Wyllie and the Panorama of Trafalgar http://www.royalnavalmuseum.org/WylliePanorama.htm Royal Naval Museum 2005 2012-12-05
Xu Beihong – A Portrait of Sun Duoci
Statler Fountain
Births
January to June
15 January – Paul Ahyi, Togolese artist and sculptor (d. 2010)
26 January – Napoleon Abueva, Filipino sculptor (d. 2018)Leonarda Navato Camacho 100 Years, 100 Artists: An Expression of the Filipino Soul https://books.google.com/books?id=ps6fAAAAMAAJ 1998 L.N. Camacho 19
3 February – Gillian Ayres, English abstract painter (d. 2018)
10 February – Eva Frankfurther, German-born portrait painter (suicide 1959)
13 February – Ernst Fuchs, Austrian artist (d. 2015)Pendergast, Sara Tom Contemporary artists https://books.google.com/books?id=bZnrAAAAMAAJ 2002 St. James Press 978-1-55862-407-8 546
18 February – Gahan Wilson, American cartoonist (d. 2019)
21 February – Enrique Tábara, Ecuadorian painter (d. 2021)
24 February – Anita Steckel, American feminist artist (d. 2012)
25 February – Wendy Beckett, English contemplative nun and art historian (d. 2018)
7 March – Antony Armstrong-Jones, English photographer (d. 2017)Rayner Gordon https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2080154/Lord-Snowdon-Antony-Charles-Robert-Armstrong-Jones-1st-Earl-of-Snowdon.html Lord Snowdon: Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon The Daily Telegraph 5 June 2008 14 July 2017
8 March – Hector Lombana, Colombian sculptor, painter and architect (d. 2008)
11 March – David Gentleman, English graphic designer
27 March – Daniel Spoerri, Romanian-Swiss artist and writerDaniel Spoerri Thomas Levy Caso Come Maestro https://books.google.com/books?id=NMRPAAAAMAAJ 2003 Kerber 978-3-936646-24-5 8
30 March – Rolf Harris, Australian entertainer, painter and child sexual abuser (d. 2023)Bulletin with Newsweek https://books.google.com/books?id=nN0xAQAAIAAJ March 1995 Australian Consolidated Press 93
31 March – Susan Weil, American painterJohn Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Reports of the President and the Treasurer https://books.google.com/books?id=2zgkAQAAIAAJ 1977 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 117
1 April – John Houston, Scottish painter (d. 2008)
12 April – Manuel Neri, American sculptor, painter and printmaker (d. 2021)
14 May – James Beck, American art historian (d. 2007)
15 May – Jasper Johns, American painter, sculptor and printmakerChase's Calendar of Events 2007 https://books.google.com/books?id=-j7ZyqfsS6MC 2006 McGraw Hill Professional 978-0-07-146818-3 271
22 May – Marisol Escobar, French-born sculptor and printmaker (d.2016)
23 May
Richard Anuszkiewicz, American painter, sculptor and printmaker (d. 2020)
Aslan, French-born pin-up artist (d.2014)
24 May – Unity Spencer, English artist (d. 2017)
30 May – Robert Ryman, American monochrome painter (d. 2019)
5 June – Vladimir Popov, Soviet animator, animation and art director (d. 1987)
15 June – Ikuo Hirayama, Japanese painter (d. 2009)
16 June – Allan D'Arcangelo, American painter and graphic artist (d. 1998)
19 June – Bryan Kneale, Manx sculptor and academic
20 June – Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish sculptor (d. 2017)Gaze, Delia Mihajlovic, Maja Shrimpton, Leanda Dictionary of Women Artists: Introductory surveys; Artists, A-I https://books.google.com/books?id=6_0Y0PALzQMC&pg=PA161 1997 Taylor & Francis 978-1-884964-21-3 161
24 June
Pierre Restany, French art critic and cultural philosopher (d. 2003)
Flip Schulke, American photojournalist (d. 2008)
July to December
4 July – Mohamed Demagh, Algerian sculptor (d. 2018)
4 August - Astrid Zydower, German-born British sculptor (d. 2005)Silvia Lucchesi Castellani, Enrico Grove Art Online – Oxford Art Online http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T014675 Oxford University Press 29 May 2020
5 September – Ibrahim El-Salahi, Sudanese painter
24 September – Bernard Nevill, English textile designer and art collector (d. 2019)Prof Bernard Nevill http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/n/7200/Bernard+Richard.aspx Debrett's Debrett's Ltd 2013-12-04
28 September – Nikolai Pozdneev, Russian painter (d. 1978)
3 October – Robyn Denny, British abstract artist (d. 2014)
7 October – Kurt Dornis, German painter, graphic artist and draughtsman
8 October – Faith Ringgold, African American painter and fabric artist
18 October – Trevor Bell, English painter (d. 2017)
29 October – Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor, painter and film maker (d. 2002)Delia Gaze Concise Dictionary of Women Artists https://books.google.com/books?id=V4h7A0XIN14C&pg=PA596 2001 Taylor & Francis 978-1-57958-335-4 596
7 November – Robert Natkin, American painter (d. 2010)
13 November – Benny Andrews, American painter and academic (d. 2006)
14 November – Elisabeth Frink, English sculptor (d. 1993)
31 December – Luis Marsans, Catalan painter (d. 2015)
Deaths
January 7 – Max Schmalzl, German religious painter and illustrator (b. 1850)
March 3 – W. W. Quatremain, English landscape painter (b. 1857)
March 19 – Andreas Walser, Swiss painter (b. 1908)
March 24 – Eugeen Van Mieghem, Belgian painter (b. 1875)Erwin Joos Antwerp-New York: Eugeen Van Mieghem (1875-1930) and the Emigrants of the Red Star Line https://books.google.com/books?id=7h9NAAAAYAAJ 2005 BAI 978-90-76704-99-9 63
April 17 – Aleksandr Golovin, Russian stage designer (b. 1863)
April 30 – John Russell, Australian Impressionist painter (b. 1858)
May 10 – Julio Romero de Torres, Spanish painter (b. 1874)
May 28 – George Washington Lambert, Australian portrait painter and war artist (b. 1873)
June 3 – Alexander Bogomazov, Ukrainian painter and modern art theoretician of Russian avant-garde (b. 1880)
June 5
Sophie Holten, Danish painter (b. 1858)http://denstoredanske.dk/Dansk_Biografisk_Leksikon/Kunst_og_kultur/Billedkunst/Maler/Sophie_Holten Sophie Holten Bodelsen, Merete 17 July 2011 Dansk Biographisk Leksikon 3 June 2017 dahttp://www.kvinfo.dk/side/597/bio/374/origin/170/ Sophie Holten (1858 - 1930) Fabritius, Elisabeth Kvinfo 3 June 2017 da
Jules Pascin, Bulgarian-born painter and draftsman (b. 1885)Alexandre Dupouy Pascin https://books.google.com/books?id=_MDiAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT241 12 June 2014 Parkstone International 978-1-78310-491-8 241
July 22 – Wacław Szymanowski, Polish sculptor and painter (b. 1859)
August 21 – Christopher Wood, English painter (b. 1901) (suicide)
August 28 – Stanisław Bergman, Polish painter (b. 1862)
September 6 – Sir James Guthrie, Scottish painter (b. 1859)
September 24 – Otto Mueller, German Expressionist painter (b. 1874)
September 25 – Abram Arkhipov, Russian painter (b. 1862)
September 29 – Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter (b. 1844)
December 9 – Laura Muntz Lyall, Canadian Impressionist painter (b. 1860)Art Gallery of Ontario Art Gallery of Ontario: The Canadian Collection https://books.google.com/books?id=AngMAQAAIAAJ 1970 McGraw-Hill Company of Canada 978-0-07-092504-5 262
December 17 – Nikolay Kasatkin, Russian painter (b. 1859)
December 28 – Antonio Mancini, Italian painter (b. 1852)
date unknown – Peter Moog, outsider artist (b. 1871)
See also
1930 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
References
Category:Years of the 20th century in art
Category:1930s in art