1915 in art

none 1915 art Events from the year 1915 in art. Events May – Ambrose Heal and others found the Design and Industries Association in London.http://www.dia.org.uk/page/AboutUs/Nothing_Need_be_Ugly DIA website 2013-03-08 2022-01-03 https://web.archive.org/web/20220103235607/http://dia.org.uk/page/AboutUs/Nothing_Need_be_Ugly dead c. May – Publication of the first modern book illustrated with wood engravings, Frances Cornford's Spring Morning (published by The Poetry Bookshop, London) with engravings by the poet's cousin Gwen Raverat.Balston Thomas Wood-engraving in Modern English Books London National Book League 1949 June 10 – The only contemporary Vorticist exhibition staged opens at the Doré Gallery in London.http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761580283 Vorticism Msn Encarta 2009-10-17 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20070522043958/http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761580283 2007-05-22 October 24 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's frescos, Translation of the House of Loreto, in the Church of the Scalzi (Venice) are destroyed by an Austrian bombardment. December 19 – Kasimir Malevich stages the 0.10 Exhibition and originates Suprematism.http://www.incorm.eu/Exhibitions/KM1900-1920.pdf Exhibition Gallery Kazimir Severinovich Malevich 2012-09-28 International Chamber of Russian Modernism 28 September 2012 2014-04-19 https://web.archive.org/web/20140419203803/http://www.incorm.eu/Exhibitions/KM1900-1920.pdf dead Pierre Bodard serves with the French Army on Martinique. Marcel Duchamp begins producing readymades Harper's Bazaar hires Erté to design its covers. Edward McKnight Kauffer is given his first commission to design a poster for the Underground Electric Railways Company of London. Shōzaburō Watanabe originates shin-hanga collaborative woodblock printing in Japan. The first of the 'Etruscan terracotta warriors', forged by sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti with the Riccardi family, is purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. 14-year-old Alice Prin ("Kiki de Montparnasse") is posing (nude) for sculptors in Paris. Works thumb|Matisse – Le rideau jaune Category:1915 sculptures Category:1915 paintings George Bellows – Riverfront No. 1 Frank Weston Benson – Red and Gold Umberto Boccioni Charge of the Lancers Horizontal Volumes Marc Chagall – The Poet Reclining William Merritt Chase – Self-portrait Giorgio de Chirico The Double Dream of Spring The Evil Genius of a King Portrait of Paul Guillaume The Seer Jacob Epstein – bust of Admiral Lord Fisher Albert Gleizes Brooklyn Bridge Composition for "Jazz" Portrait of an Army Doctor J. W. Godward – In The Prime Of The Summer Time Juan Gris The Breakfast Still Life with Checked Tablecloth Still Life with a Poem Alexandre Jacovleff – The Violinist Eric Kennington - The Kensingtons at Laventie Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Brandenburger Tor The Red Tower in Halle Self-portrait as a Soldier Gustav Klimt – Death and Life Carl Larsson – Midvinterblot Wyndham Lewis – The Crowd Kazimir Malevich Black Cross Black Square Red Square Henri Matisse – The Yellow Curtain Jean Metzinger – Soldier at a Game of Chess Amedeo Modigliani Beatrice Hastings in Front of a Door Portrait of Pablo Picasso Portrait of the Painter Moisè Kisling Piet Mondrian – Composition No. 10 Pier and Ocean C. R. W. Nevinson Bursting Shell La Mitrailleuse Returning to the Trenches (approximate date) Pablo Picasso – Harlequin (1915) Musical Instruments Still Life with Compote and Glass Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Blond Girl with a Rose Diego Rivera – Portrait of Ramón Gómez de la Serna Isaac Rosenberg – Self-portrait Ladislav Šaloun – Jan Hus Memorial (Prague) John Singer Sargent – Tyrolese Interior Egon Schiele Death and the Maiden Portrait of Edith (the artist's wife) Helene Schjerfbeck – Self-portrait with black background Kathleen Scott – statue of her late husband, Robert Falcon Scott in London Zinaida Serebriakova – Harvest Walter Sickert – Brighton Pierrots Fred Spear – Enlist (poster) Stewart–Screven Monument Paul Strand – Wall Street (photograph) John William Waterhouse – I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Said the Lady of Shalott Max Weber - Chinese Restauranthttps://whitney.org/collection/works/3270 Max Weber | Chinese Restaurant whitney.org W. L. Wyllie – The track of Lusitania: view of casualties and survivors in the water and in lifeboats Konstantin Yuon – March Sun Anders Zorn – Self-portrait in Red Births January 3 – Jack Levine, American Social Realist painter and printmaker (d. 2010)Alan Symons The Jewish Contribution to the 20th Century https://books.google.com/books?id=QpAbAQAAMAAJ 1997 Polo Pub. 978-0-9523751-1-1 9 January 15 – Leo Mol, Ukrainian-born Canadian artist, sculptor (d. 2009)Art Gallery of Ontario Art Gallery of Ontario: The Canadian Collection https://books.google.com/books?id=AngMAQAAIAAJ 1970 McGraw-Hill Company of Canada 978-0-07-092504-5 312 January 24 – Robert Motherwell, American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker (d. 1991).Siri Engberg Joan Banach Robert Motherwell Robert Motherwell: the Complete Prints 1940-1991: Catalogue Raisonne https://books.google.com/books?id=EAFjBOn_eS4C&pg=PA40 2003 Hudson Hills 978-1-55595-163-4 40 February 4 – Virginia Admiral, American painter and poet (d. 2000)Shawn Levy De Niro: A Life https://books.google.com/books?id=iG2BAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT26 28 October 2014 Crown 978-0-307-71680-4 26 February 11 – Mervyn Levy, Welsh artist and critic (d. 1996).Levy, Ceri https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-mervyn-levy-1347766.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-mervyn-levy-1347766.html 2022-05-01 subscription live Obituary: Mervyn Levy 17 May 1996 The Independent London 20 March 2011 March 10 – Harry Bertoia, Italian-born American artist and furniture designer (d. 1978).Muriel Emanuel Jean-Christophe Ammann Contemporary Artists https://books.google.com/books?id=5ro0AQAAIAAJ 1983 Macmillan 978-0-333-30773-1 94 March 19 – Maria Austria (née Marie Karoline Oeststreicher) Austro-Dutch photographer and photojournalist) (d. 1979).Korotin Ilse biografiA. Lexikon österreichischer Frauen, Band 3. June 2016 Wien 978-3205795902 163 April 4 – Louis Archambault, Canadian sculptor (d. 2003).Current Biography Yearbook 1959 https://books.google.com/books?id=ROjvlWzALxYC 1960 13 April 6 – Tadeusz Kantor, Polish painter, Assemblage artist, set designer and theatre director (d. 1990)Deborah Andrews Annual Obituary, 1990 https://books.google.com/books?id=6VIYAAAAIAAJ 1991 St. James Press 978-1-55862-092-6 752 April 10 – Wynona Mulcaster, Canadian painter and teacher (d. 2016) April 15 – Elizabeth Catlett, African-American graphic artist and sculptor (d. 2012)Karen Rosenberg Elizabeth Catlett, Sculptor With Eye on Social Issues, Is Dead at 96 New York Times April 3, 2012 https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/04/arts/design/elizabeth-catlett-sculptor-with-eye-on-social-issues-dies-at-96.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 February 11, 2015 April 17 – William Pachner, Czech painter (d. 2017)American Federation of Arts Kenneth Donahue William Pachner https://books.google.com/books?id=iYxCAQAAIAAJ 1959 American Federation of Arts 20 May 3 – Richard Lippold, American sculptor (d. 2002)Encyclopædia Britannica http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/342973/Richard-Lippold Richard Lippold (American sculptor) - Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica.com 2010-07-29 May 20 – Sam Golden, American paint maker (d. 1997) May 31 – Carmen Herrera, Cuban-American abstract minimalist visual artist (d. 2022).Carmen Herrera Alejandro Anreus Carolina Ponce de León Carmen Herrera: The Black-and-white Paintings, 1951-1989 https://books.google.com/books?id=uklNAAAAYAAJ 1998 El Museo del Barrio 978-1-882454-07-5 29 June 7 – Graham Ingels, American illustrator (d. 1991)Don Thompson Maggie Thompson Comic-book Superstars https://books.google.com/books?id=PvIe6gropA4C 1993 Krause Publications 978-0-87341-256-8 249 June 11 – José Caballero, Spanish artist (d. 1991)José Caballero José Caballero: círculos y sueños https://books.google.com/books?id=uvMuAQAAIAAJ 2002 Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Cultural Exterior 978-84-96008-07-6 June 17 – Gunther Gerzso, Mexican abstract painter (d. 2000)N. 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Association of Hispanic Arts (New York Association for Latin American Art St. James Guide to Hispanic Artists: Profiles of Latino and Latin American Artists https://books.google.com/books?id=4IJUAAAAMAAJ 2002 St. James Press 978-1-55862-470-2 233 June 23 – Frances Gabe, American artist and inventor (d. 2016) July 8 – Malvina Cheek, British artist (d. 2016)Magdalen Evans https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/may/31/malvina-cheek-obituary Malvina Cheek obituary 31 May 2016 31 May 2016 The Guardian July 15 Edith Pfau, American painter, sculptor and art educator (d. 2001) Judith Révész, Hungarian-Dutch potter and sculptor (d. 2018) July 19 – Åke Hellman, Finnish still life and portrait painter (d. 2017)https://svenska.yle.fi/artikel/2017/12/22/borgakonstnaren-ake-hellman-har-gatt-bort Borgåkonstnären Åke Hellman har gått bort | Östnyland sv svenska.yle.fi 22 December 2017 2018-10-01 July 28 – Dick Sprang, American comic book artist (d. 2000)The Comics Journal https://books.google.com/books?id=l-1UAAAAMAAJ 2000 Comics Journal, Incorporated 21 August 6 – Stefan Kanchev, Bulgarian graphic artist (d. 2001) August 14 – Mary Fedden, English painter (d. 2012)https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/jun/22/mary-fedden Mary Fedden obituary McNay Michael 22 June 2012 The Guardian August 28 Patrick Hennessy, Irish painter (d. 1980) Tasha Tudor, American illustrator and author of children's books (d. 2008)Lee Kingman Joanna Foster Ruth Giles Lontoft Illustrators of Children's Books: 1957-1966 https://books.google.com/books?id=9AA0KXRzSTIC 1968 Horn Book 978-0-87675-017-9 183 September 17 – M. F. Husain, Indian artist (d. 2011)https://www.britannica.com/biography/M-F-Husain M.F. Husain Encyclopædia Britannica 4 September 2018 September 19 – Duffy Ayers, English portrait painter (d. 2017)https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/dec/11/duffy-ayers-obituary Duffy Ayers obituary December 11, 2017 Mel Gooding The Guardian July 24, 2021 October 13 Terry Frost, English Abstract artist (d. 2003)Jean-Christophe Ammann Contemporary Artists https://books.google.com/books?id=xTYOAQAAMAAJ 1989 St. James Press 978-0-912289-96-0 331 Ricco (born Erich Wassmer), Swiss painter (d. 1972) October 24 – Bob Kane, American comic book artist and writer (d. 1998)Edmond Grant The Motion Picture Guide: 1999 Annual (The Films of 1998) https://books.google.com/books?id=WVAOAQAAMAAJ 1999 CineBooks 978-0-933997-43-1 505 November 9 – André François, French cartoonist (d. 2005)Lee Kingman Joanna Foster Ruth Giles Lontoft Illustrators of Children's Books: 1957-1966 https://books.google.com/books?id=9AA0KXRzSTIC 1968 Horn Book 978-0-87675-017-9 110 November 26 – Inge King, German-born Australian sculptor (d. 2016) November 28 – Evald Okas, Estonian painter (d. 2011)Paul Ambur Evald Okase eksliibrised https://books.google.com/books?id=DAYWAAAAIAAJ 1969 Eesti raamat 89 Deaths January 15 – Luigi Crosio, Italian painter (b. 1835) January 23 – Anne Whitney, American sculptor, poet (b. 1821)Academic American Encyclopedia https://books.google.com/books?id=1thMAQAAIAAJ 1995 Grolier Incorporated 978-0-7172-2059-5 141 February 25 – Flaxman Charles John Spurrell, English archaeologist and photographer (b. 1842) April 3 – Nadežda Petrović, Serbian Fauvist painter (b. 1873) April 9 – Karl Bitter, Austrian American sculptor (b. 1867) May 7 – Sir Hugh Lane, Irish-born art dealer, collector and benefactor (b. 1875; killed in sinking of the RMS Lusitania) June 5 – Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, French artist and sculptor (killed in action) (b. 1891)Ede, H.S. Savage Messiah 1931 London: Heinemann 1655358 June 7 – Hilda Sjölin, Swedish photographer (b. 1835) July 10 – Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Dutch marine painter (b. 1831) July 11 – Albert Schickedanz, Austro-Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style (b. 1846) September 11 – Jens Birkholm, Danish genre and landscape painter (b. 1869) September 14 – Alfred Agache, French academic painter (b. 1843) October 24 – Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist and pioneer photographer (b. 1828) November 28 – Kobayashi Kiyochika, Japanese ukiyo-e painter and printmaker (b. 1847) December 22 – Arthur Hughes, English painter and illustrator (b. 1832) date unknown Kikuchi Shingaku, Japanese photographer (b. 1832) Krikor Torosian, Armenian illustrator (b. 1884; killed in Armenian genocide) References Category:Years of the 20th century in art Category:1910s in art