1908 in art

none 1908 art Events from the year 1908 in art. Events January 20 – Hugh Lane opens the Dublin City Gallery, the world's first to display only modern art. February – The Ashcan School ("the Eight") give their first and only exhibition, opening at the Macbeth Gallery in New York. March 20–May 2 – Salon des Indépendants in Paris gives rise to the term "Cubism" (cubisme). May – Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky produces a color photographic portrait of Leo Tolstoy. July – Allied Artists' Association holds its first exhibition, at the Royal Albert Hall in London. July 29 – The Whitworth Art Gallery building in Manchester (England) is formally opened.Down the decades: Whitworth Art Gallery and Park Manchester Evening News http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/gallery/down-decades-whitworth-art-gallery-8612922 2016-11-27 Autumn – Edvard Munch suffers a nervous breakdown and enters a clinic in Copenhagen. November – Georges Braque exhibits at Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler's Paris gallery; critic Louis Vauxcelles describes him as "reducing everything... to geometric schemas, to cubes."https://books.google.com/books?id=iTzniDD6EwAC&q=little+cubes&pg=PR123 Alex Danchev Georges Braques: A Life Arcade Publishing 2005 9780141905006 Paul Ranson founds the Académie Ranson in Paris. The British Medical Association Building, London, designed by Charles Holden with eighteen controversial nude sculptures by Jacob Epstein, is completed.Richard Buckle Richard Buckle Jacob Epstein, Sculptor London Faber 1963 1907–08: Strand Statues 24–37 Wassily Kandinsky settles in the Bavarian town of Murnau am Staffelsee and begins a series of paintings inspired by the local landscape. The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna rejects (for the second time) Adolf Hitler's application to study painting.Bullock Alan Alan Bullock Hitler: A Study in Tyranny London Penguin Books 1962 1952 63005065 30–31 Australian painter Arthur Streeton marries violinist Nora Clench. Works right|thumb|250px|Walter Sickert, What Shall We Do for the Rent?, from The Camden Town Murder series Category:1908 sculptures George Bellows – Steaming Streets László Beszédes – Joseph (slave) (sculpture) Giovanni Boldini - Marchesa Luisa Casati, with a greyhound Pierre Bonnard – Woman in a Blue Hat Constantin Brâncuși The Kiss (sculpture) The Wisdom of the Earth (wood sculpture) Georges Braque Houses at l'Estaque Le Viaduc de L'Estaque Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis Fantasy (triptych) Prelude and Fugue (diptych ) Sonatas Sonata of the Pyramids Sonata of the Sea Sonata of the Serpent Sonata of the Summer Sonata of the Stars Henri-Edmond Cross – Cypresses at Cagnes Cyrus Edwin Dallin – Appeal to the Great Spirit (bronze) Roger de La Fresnaye - Allée des Acacias in the Bois de Boulogne André Derain – Landscape in Provence Herbert James Draper – The Water Nymph John Duncan – Helene Schlapp – Iona Thomas Eakins – William Rush and His Model (two versions) Daniel Chester French – Statue of George Frisbie Hoar Florence Fuller – Portrait of Deborah Vernon Hackett (approximate date) J. W. Godward A Classical Lady A Grecian Girl Ismenia Erich Heckel – Weisses Haus in Dangast Lewis Hine – Girl Worker in a Carolina Cotton Mill (photograph) Edward Robert Hughes – Midsummer Eve Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – Street, Dresden Gustav Klimt – The Kiss Schloss by the Water Laura Knight – The Beach Carl Larsson – Gustav Vasas intåg i Stockholm 1523 (Nationalmuseum) Henri Matisse Bathers with a Turtle The Dessert: Harmony in Red ("The Red Room") Game of Bowls Portrait of Greta Moll Amedeo Modigliani – The Jewess Piet Mondrian – Avond Claude Monet – paintings of Venice The Doge's Palace Seen from San Giorgio Maggiore Le Grand Canal Le Grand Canal et Santa Maria della Salute Le Palais Ducal (a series of three paintings) Palace From Molo, Venice San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk Mikhail Nesterov – Portrait of B. M. Nesterov William Ordway Partridge – Statue of Alexander Hamilton (sculpture, New York City) Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Portrait of Ambroise Vollard John Singer Sargent – Portrait of Arthur Balfour Otto Schumann – Lewis and Clark Memorial Column (Portland, Oregon) Carl Seffner – Statue of Johann Sebastian Bach (outside St. Thomas Church, Leipzig) Walter Sickert – The Camden Town Murder (group of paintings) Marianne Stokes – Madonna and Child Pedro Subercaseaux Cabildo abierto del 22 de mayo de 1810 Mariano Moreno en su mesa de trabajo Sydney Curnow Vosper – Salem John Walz – Nathan Bedford Forrest Monument (Rome, Georgia) J. W. Waterhouse – Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May Births January to June January 18 – Humberto Rosa, painter (d. 1982) February 12 – Jean Effel, French painter, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist (d. 1948) February 26 – Tex Avery, American animator, cartoonist, and director (d. 1980). February 28 – William Coldstream, English realist painter (d. 1987). February 29 – Balthus, French modern artist (d. 2001) March 13 Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (d. 1970) Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Portuguese-French abstract painter (d. 1992) March 19 – George Rodger, English photographer (d. 1995) March 23 – Cecil Collins, English painter and printmaker (d. 1989) May 9 – Mary Scheier, American sculptor and academic (d. 2007) May 16 – Anne Bonnet, Belgian painter (d. 1960) June 24 – Helen Lundeberg, painter (d. 1999) July to December July 6 – Sam Vanni, Finnish painter (d. 1992) July 8 – Kaii Higashiyama, Japanese painter and writer (d. 1999) July 9 – Minor White, American photographer (d. 1976). July 22 – Claire Falkenstein, American sculptor and painter (d. 1997). August 22 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d. 2004). August 28 Edith Tudor Hart, born Edith Suschitzky, Austrian-born photojournalist and communist agent in Britain (d. 1973). Roger Tory Peterson, American naturalist, ornithologist, artist and educator (d. 1996). September 6 – Korczak Ziolkowski, Polish American sculptor (d. 1982). September 14 – Peter Watson, English arts benefactor (k. 1956) October 1 – Nicholas Marsicano, American painter (d. 1991). October 21 – Jorge Oteiza, Spanish sculptor, painter, designer and writer (d. 2003). October 27 – Lee Krasner, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 1984). November 4 – EQ Nicholson, born Elsie Q. Myers, English textile designer and painter (d. 1992). November 19 – Gisèle Freund, born Gisela Freund, German-born photographer (d. 2000). December 3 – Victor Pasmore, English artist and architect (d. 1998).Obituary: Victor Pasmore https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-victor-pasmore-1141076.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-victor-pasmore-1141076.html 2022-05-01 subscription live The Independent 12 January 2018 26 January 1998 December 23 – Yousuf Karsh, Armenian-Canadian photographer (d. 2002). Full date unknown Madiha Omar, Iraqi artist (d. 2005) Myron Stout, American abstract painter (d. 1987) Umaña, Colombian artist (d. 1994). Deaths January 9 – Wilhelm Busch, German humorist, poet, illustrator and painter (born 1832) Lotze Dieter Wilhelm Busch Twayne Publishers Boston 1979 9780805763652 21 January 13 – Hashimoto Gahō, Japanese painter of the Kanō school (b. 1835) January 19 – Roberto Bompiani, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1821) January 28 – Sidney Paget, British illustrator (b. 1860) April 13 – Aasta Hansteen, Norwegian painter, writer, and early feminist (b. 1824) June 1 – Allen Butler Talcott, American painter (b. 1867) July 17 - Joseph Henderson, Scottish landscape painter (b. 1832) August 30 – Giovanni Fattori, Italian painter and printmaker (b. 1825) November 3 – Harro Magnussen, German sculptor (born 1861)The Building News and Engineering Journal Obituary 95 Office for Publication and Advertisements 6 November 1908 676 November 4 – Richard Gerstl, Austrian painter and draughtsman (b. 1883) November 24 – Charles Henry Turner, American watercolourist and oil painter (b. 1848) December 5 – Ernest Hébert, French painter (b. 1817) December 27 – František Bohumír Zvěřina, Czech painter (b. 1835) date unknown Leopoldo Costoli, Italian sculptor (b. 1850) George Earl, British painter of sporting animals (b. 1824) References Category:Years of the 20th century in art Category:1900s in art