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1936 art
Events from the year 1936 in art.
Events
February 15 – Exhibition Abstract and Concrete, curated by Nicolete Gray, opens at 41 St Giles', Oxford, prior to touring England. It is the first showing of abstract art, and of the work of Mondrian, in the country.Green, Christopher Wright, Barnaby Mondrian / Nicholson in Parallel London Courtauld Gallery 2012 978-1-90737232-2
May 27 – Queen Mary begins her maiden Atlantic crossing. Interior design, under the direction of E. C. Leach, is by Arthur Joseph Davis and J. C. Whipp of Mewès & Davis (UK) and Benjamin Wistar Morris (USA) with much craftsmanship undertaken by the Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts. Graphic artists commissioned to supply work include Edward Wadsworth and Anna and Doris Zinkeisen.Margarita J. Wuellner Marlise Fratinardo Amanda Kainer Final Inventory Report: Survey of Original Fine and Decorative Arts on the Royal Mail Ship Queen Mary Santa Monica PCR Services Corporation 2009 2015-04-14 http://www.sterling.rmplc.co.uk/Final_Inventory_Report_2011.pdf PDF
June 11–July 4 – London International Surrealist Exhibition, opened by André Breton.
November – Exhibition Cubism and Abstract Art, curated by Alfred H. Barr, Jr., opens at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Summer – Spanish Civil War breaks out. Photographers Endre Friedmann and Gerda Taro, who have jointly devised the name Robert Capa, journey from Paris to cover it. The Second Spanish Republic appoints Pablo Picasso as "director of the Prado, albeit in absentia" and he arranges for evacuation of its principal paintings.
November 23 – Margaret Bourke-White's photographs of the construction of the Fort Peck Dam are featured in the first issue of Life magazine.
December 1 – Members of the Artists Union occupy the New York City offices of the Federal Art Project; police arrest 219 of them, the largest-ever arrest in the city at this date.
Naum Gabo settles in London.
Works
Category:1936 sculptures
Walter Seymour Allward – Canadian National Vimy Memorial
Balthus – André Derain (Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
Robert Capa – The Falling Soldier (Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death, Cerro Muriano, September 5, 1936; photograph)
Salvador Dalí
Autumnal Cannibalism
Couple with Their Heads Full of Clouds (first version)
Lobster Telephone
Morphological Echo (two versions)
Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War)
Herndon Davis – The Face on the Barroom Floor (Teller House, Central City, Colorado)
Paul Delvaux – Procession in Lace
M. C. Escher – first Regular Division of the Plane drawings
Walker Evans – Allie Mae Burroughs, Wife of a Cotton Sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama (photograph)
Charles Hartwell – St Mary-le-bone War Memorial with sculpture of St George and the Dragon, London (bronze)
Bernhard Hoetger – Lichtbringer (relief over entrance to Böttcherstraße, Bremen)
Sylvia Shaw Judson – Bird Girl (bronze)
Harry Kernoff – In Davy's Parlour Snug: Self portrait with Davy Byrne and Martin Murphy
Henryk Kuna – Alina, a Girl with a Jug (bronze, Warsaw)
Dorothea Lange – Migrant Mother (photograph of Florence Owens Thompson)
Carl Milles – Indian God of Peace (onyx)
Joan Miró – series
Metamorphosis
Paintings on masonite
Ronald Moody – Johanaan (elm wood carving)
Méret Oppenheim – Objet: Le Déjeuner en fourrure
Pablo Picasso - Minotaur with a dead mare in front of a cave
Joseph Pollia – General Philip Henry Sheridan (bronze statue, New York City)
Georges Rouault - "The Old King"
Diego Rivera – Indian Spinning
David Alfaro Siqueiros - Collective SuicideDavid Alfaro Siqueiros https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79146#:~:text=Collective%20Suicide%20is%20an%20apocalyptic,ruin%20of%20the%20indigenous%20culture August 26, 2024 www.moma.org
Charles Sheeler – City Interior https://web.archive.org/web/20210305131331/https://worcesterart.org/collection/American/1937.3.html 2021-03-05
James Walker Tucker – Hikers
Edward Weston – Nude (Charis, Santa Monica) (photograph)
Awards
Archibald Prize: W B McInnes – Dr. Julian Smith
Dame Laura Knight becomes the first woman elected to the Royal Academy
Births
January 11 – Eva Hesse, German-born American sculptor (d. 1970)
January 23 – Willoughby Sharp, American author, curator and critic (d. 2008)
February 16 – Gillian Wise, English abstract artist (d. 2020)
February 29 – Frank Bowling, Guyana-born British abstract artist
March 23 – Jannis Kounellis, Greek-born artist (d. 2017)
April 1 – Dhiraj Choudhury, Indian painter (d. 2018)
May 10
Timothy Birdsall, English cartoonist and illustrator (d. 1963)
Isaac Witkin, South African sculptor (d. 2006)
May 12 – Frank Stella, Italian American painter (d. 2024)
May 15 – Ralph Steadman, English illustrator and caricaturist
June 1 – Gerald Scarfe, English political cartoonist, illustrator and animator
June 15 – Edward Avedisian, American abstract painter (d. 2007)
June 27 – Tadanori Yokoo, Japanese graphic designer, illustrator, printmaker and painter
July 13 – Joan Jonas, American visual artist, pioneer of video and performance art
July 28 – Victor Moscoso, Spanish graphic artist
August 1 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (d. 2008)
August 12 – Hans Haacke, German conceptual artist working in the United States
August 29 – Richard Haas, American muralist
September 14
Terence Donovan, English photographer (d. 1996)
Lucas Samaras, Greek-born American photographer and sculptor
October 13 – Robert Ingpen, Australian illustrator
November 5 – William Christenberry, American photographer and conceptual artist (d. 2016)
November 29 – Gregory Gillespie, American magic realist painter (d. 2000)
December 5 – Robert Freeman, English photographer and designer (d. 2019)
Full date unknown
Marko Stupar, Serbian artist living and working in France from 1964
Abu Taher, Bangladeshi expressionist painter (d. 2020)
Jon Thompson, English artist and teacher (d. 2016)
Deaths
February 25 – Anna Boch, Belgian painter (b. 1848)
March 8 – Victor Noble Rainbird, English painter, stained glass artist and illustrator (b. 1887)
March 18 – W. Herbert Dunton, American Western painter, member of the Taos art colony (b. 1878)
April 21 – Ottó Baditz, Hungarian painter (b. 1849)
July 7 – Heinrich Hoerle, German constructivist artist (b. 1895)
July 10 – Carl von Marr, American-born German painter (b. 1858)
October 12 – Edwin Blashfield, American painter and muralist (b. 1848)
November 12 – Patrick Henry Bruce, American Cubist painter (b. 1881)
Alexander Fisher, English silversmith and enamel painter (b. 1864)
Donald Maxwell, English illustrator and travel writer (b. 1877)
See also
1936 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
References
Category:Years of the 20th century in art
Category:1930s in art