1917 in art

none May 2021 1917 art Events from the year 1917 in art. Events January – A drunken Amedeo Modigliani is ejected from a party for Georges Braque, by the hostess, Marie Vassilieff. January 29 – Rodin marries his mistress, Rose Beuret; she dies two weeks later. Eric Kennington, William Orpen, C. R. W. Nevinson, Paul Nash and William Rothenstein are sent as war artists to the Western Front from England. Frederick Farrell, uniquely, is sent by Glasgow, the only British city to sponsor a painter.http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/visual/glasgows-forgotten-war-artist-fred-farrell.1400900405 Glasgow's forgotten war artist Fred Farrell 24 May 2014 The Herald Glasgow 2023-08-30 De Stijl artistic movement is established by Theo van Doesburg. The Allen Memorial Art Museum is established at Oberlin College in Ohio. The Marc Chagall illustrated version of The Magician (דער קונצענמאכער, Der Kuntsenmakher) by I. L. Peretz (d. 1915) is published in Vilnius.http://www.wdl.org/en/item/9615/ The Magician World Digital Library 1917 2013-09-30 2013-10-03 https://web.archive.org/web/20131003004642/http://www.wdl.org/en/item/9615/ dead Works thumb|The original Fountain photographed by Alfred Stieglitz at the 291 after the 1917 Society of Independent Artists exhibit to which Duchamp submitted it.Calvin Tomkins Duchamp: A Biography London Chatto & Windus 1997 0701166428 186 Category:1917 sculptures Category:1917 paintings Max Beckmann Descent from the Cross Self-Portrait with Red Scarf Marc Chagall – Bella with White Collar Giorgio de Chirico Great Metaphysical Interior The Grand Metaphysician (Il grande metafisico) Lovis Corinth – Portrait of Julius Meier-Graefe Heinrich Maria Davringhausen – The Poet Däubler Theo van Doesburg – Card Players Marcel Duchamp Fountain (readymade) Tulip Hysteria Co-ordinating (fictitious work) Jacob Epstein – An American Soldier (bust) Daniel Chester French – Lafayette Memorial Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven – God (readymade sculpture) J. W. Godward The Fruit Vendor A Lily Pond Under The Blossom That Hangs On The Bough George Grosz Explosion Metropolis Rudolf Alfred Höger – Nach dem Vorstoß, Russische Kriegsgefangene (After the Foray: Russian Prisoners of War) Paul Klee – Ab ovo Gustav Klimt Portrait of Fräulein Lieser Portrait of a Lady Isidore Konti – Nymph and Fawn (bronze fountain) Boris Kustodiev – Portrait of Countess Grabowska Hans Larwin – Soldat und Tod Fernand Léger – Soldiers Playing Cards L. S. Lowry – Coming from the Mill (drawing) Maximilien Luce The Execution of Varlin La Gare de l'Est in snow George Luks – Houston Street Henri Matisse Aicha and Laurettehttps://books.google.com/books?id=V9D2EAAAQBAJ&dq=mattosse+aicha+and+laurette&pg=PA33 The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism 978-1-58839-773-7 Murrell Denise 25 February 2024 Metropolitan Museum of Art Bathers by a River The Music Lesson The Painter and His Model Joan Miró Portrait of Vincent Nubiola Prades, the Village Amedeo Modigliani Anna Zborowska Jeanne Hébuterne with Hat and Necklace Nu couché Nude on a Blue Cushion Nude Sitting on a Divan Portrait of Blaise Cendrars Reclining Nude Reclining Nude (On the Left Side) C. R. W. Nevinson Loading Timber at Southampton Dockshttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/loading-timber-at-southampton-docks-17867 After a Push Britain's Efforts and Ideals series of lithographs A Group of Soldiers A Howitzer Gun in Elevation Over the Lines Paths of Glory The Road from Arras to Bapaume Swooping Down on a Hostile Plane A Tank Hilda Rix Nicholas – Desolation (approximate date; destroyed) Georgia O'Keeffe – Light Coming on the Plains (watercolor series) William Orpen An Airman – Lieutenant R.T.C. Hoidge MC Blown Up, Mad Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig German 'Planes Visiting Cassel A Highlander Passing a Grave Ready to Start: Self Portrait Schwaben Redoubt Self-portrait Theipval The Thinker on the Butte de Warlencourt (original pencil & watercolour version) View from the Old British Trenches, Looking towards La Boisselle, Courcelette on the Left, Martinpuich on the Right Glyn Philpot Siegfried Sassoon A Young Breton (Guillaume Rolland) Pablo Picasso – Harlequin with a Guitar Auguste Rodin – The Gates of Hell (sculpture unfinished at his death) Egon Schiele The Embrace Seated Woman with Bent Knees Zinaida Serebriakova – Bleaching Cloth Charles Sheeler – Doylestown House – Stairs from Below (photograph) John French Sloan – Passing through Gloucester Alfred Stieglitz – The Last Days of 291 (photograph) Tom Thomson April in Algonquin Park The Jack Pine The West Wind Félix Vallotton The Church of Souain Senegalese Soldiers at the camp of Mailly J. W. Waterhouse – Fair Rosamund Christopher Williams – The Red Dress Births 9 January – Virginia Surtees, English art historian and biographer (d. 2017) 5 February – Lucienne Day, née Conradi, British textile designer (d. 2010) 20 February – Manny Farber, American painter and film critic (d. 2008) 20 February – Louisa Matthíasdóttir, Icelandic-American painter (d. 2000) 1 March – Tom Keating, English art restorer and art faker (d. 1984) 12 March – Milton Resnick, American painter (d. 2004) 24 March – Constantine Andreou, Greek painter and sculptor (d. 2007) 6 April – Leonora Carrington, English-born surrealist painter working in Mexico (d. 2011) 21 May – Frank Bellamy, English comics artist (d. 1976) 12 July – Andrew Wyeth, American painter (d. 2009) 14 July – Ben Enwonwu, Nigerian painter and sculptor (d. 1994) 11 August – Dik Browne, American cartoonist (d. 1989) 28 August – Jack Kirby, American comic book artist, writer and editor (d. 1994) 3 September – Anthony Robert Klitz, English artist (d. 2000) 7 September – Jacob Lawrence, African American painter (d. 2000) 11 September – Daniel Wildenstein, French international art dealer and scholar (d. 2001) 25 December – John Minton, English painter and illustrator (suicide 1957) Deaths thumb|Tom Thomson – April in Algonquin Park January 15 – William De Morgan, English ceramic artist (b. 1839) January 21 – Francesca Alexander, American illustrator (b. 1837) February 10 – John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist (b. 1849) February 17 – Carolus-Duran, French painter (b. 1837) March 27 – Moses Jacob Ezekiel, American sculptor working in Italy (b. 1844) March 28 – Albert Pinkham Ryder, American painter (b. 1847) April 23 – Robert Koehler, German American painter (b. 1850) June 30 – Antonio de La Gandara, French painter (b. 1861) July 3 – Basil Temple Blackwood, British book illustrator (b. 1870) (killed in action) July 8 – Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877) (drowned during a canoeing trip on Canoe Lake in Algonquin Park) September 27 – Edgar Degas, French painter and sculptor (b. 1834) October 14 – Nathaniel Hone the Younger, Irish painter (b. 1831) October 23 – Eugène Grasset, Swiss artist (b. 1845) November 17 Sir Charles Holroyd, English etcher (b. 1861) Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b. 1840) December 21 – Wilhelm Trübner, German painter (b. 1851) (date unknown) – Raffaele Belliazzi, Italian sculptor (b. 1835) References Category:Years of the 20th century in art Category:1910s in art