1920 in art

none April 2021 1920 art Events from the year 1920 in art. Events February 1 – The National Art Gallery of Georgia opens in Tbilisi. March 17 – The Edith Cavell Memorial, by George Frampton, is unveiled in London.Alison S. Fell Women as Veterans in Britain and France after the First World War https://books.google.com/books?id=rORfDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA62 2018 Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42576-6 62 March 27 – Society of Wood Engravers founded in the United Kingdom. May 3 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1920 opens at Burlington House in Londonhttps://chronicle250.com/1920#catalogue June 30–August 25 – The first Dadaist Fair is held in Berlin (Tempelhof).David Hopkins Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction https://books.google.com/books?id=W3kRDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA168 8 April 2004 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-280254-5 168– The Cologne group is formed by Jean Arp, Max Ernst and Alfred Grünwald. August 5 – Publication of the 'Realistic Manifesto', a Constructivist text, by Naum Gabo with his brother Anton Pevsner in Moscow.Editors' introduction to "The Realistic Manifesto." In Art in Theory, 1900-2000, ed. by Charles Harrison and Paul Wood. Malden: Blackwell, 2003. p.298. November 7 – The "mass action" The Storming of the Winter Palace, directed by Nikolai Evreinov, is staged outside the Winter Palace in Petrograd. unknown dates Katherine Dreier, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp form Société Anonyme. Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada set up the Leach Pottery in St Ives, Cornwall. The Heckscher Museum of Art is established in Huntington, New York.Michelin Travel Publications New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania https://books.google.com/books?id=JKQXAQAAMAAJ 1998 Michelin 978-2-06-154901-8 61 The Latvian Museum of Foreign Art is established in Riga. Droit de suite is introduced in France.Flynn, Tom (2021-01-07). Letter to the editor. London Review of Books 43:1.Code de la propriété intellectuelle : Chapitre II : Droits patrimoniaux, L122-8. Works thumb|Georges Clemenceau by Cecilia Beaux thumb|War memorial at Bridgnorth, England by Adrian Jones Category:1920 sculptures Category:1920 paintings Hans Baluschek – City of Workers Cecilia Beaux – portrait of Georges Clemenceau Thomas Hart Benton – People of Chilmark Pierre Bonnard – Normand Landscape Alexander Stirling Calder – Swann Memorial Fountain (Philadelphia) Sydney Carline – The Destruction of the Turkish Transport in the Gorge of the Wadi Fara, Palestine Giorgio de Chirico – Self-portrait Lovis Corinth – Flowers and Wilhelmine Charles Demuth – Machinery (drawing) Otto Dix The Skat Players The Match Seller Prague Street Max Ernst The Hat Makes the Man (collage and gouache)Mari Dumett Corporate Imaginations: Fluxus Strategies for Living https://books.google.com/books?id=hBgvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA67 22 August 2017 Univ of California Press 978-0-520-29038-9 67 Murdering Airplane (collage) James Earle Fraser – Frederick Keep Monument (Washington, D.C.) Daniel Chester French Abraham Lincoln (statue in Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.) Dupont Circle Fountain (Washington, D.C.) Wisconsin (statue on Wisconsin State Capitol) Albert Gleizes – Woman with Black Glove J. W. Godward – A Red, Red Rose George Grosz Daum marries her pedantic automaton George in May 1920, John Heartfield is very glad of it Republican Automatons Richard Jack – The Passing of the Chieftain Goscombe John – Equestrian statue of the Viscount Wolseley (London) Einar Jónsson – Thorfinn Karlsefni (bronze statue, Philadelphia) Eric Kennington – The Victims (retitled The Conquerors) Winifred Knights – The Deluge Boris Kustodiev Blue House The Bolshevik Portrait of Isaak Brodsky Trinity Day George Washington Lambert – A Sergeant of the Light Horse Fernand Léger – The Tugboat Edwin Lutyens The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London (stone version) with Alfred Munnings (sculptor) – Equestrian statue of Edward Horner, St Andrew's Church, Mells, Somerset, England Paul Klee Angelus Novus (worked copper plate) Camel (in Rhythmic Landscape with Trees) Stanton Macdonald-Wright – Airplane Synchromy in Yellow-Orange Henri Matisse – Interior at Nice Joan Miró Horse, Pipe and Red Flower (Caballo, pipa y flor roja) The Spanish Playing Cards (Les cartes espagnoles) Alfred Munnings – Tagg's Islandhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/taggs-island-3644 C. R. W. Nevinson – The Soul of the Soulless City (originally New York – an Abstraction) William Nicholson Gertrude Jekyll Miss Jekyll's Gardening Boots Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin – 1918 in Petrograd (Petrograd Madonna) Victor Rousseau – Bronze figure group for Anglo-Belgian Memorial, London Charles Marie Louis Joseph Sarrabezolles – L'Âme de la France (plaster version) Georg Scholz – Industrial Farmers (Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal) Charles Sheeler – Church Street El Mario Sironi – Truck Stanley Spencer The Last Supper Christ Carrying the Cross Lorado Taft – Fountain of Time (Chicago) Aston Webb (architect) and Alfred Drury (sculptor) – London Troops War Memorial Publications Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler – Der Weg zum Kubismus ("The Rise of Cubism"). Births January to June January 12 – Bill Reid, Canadian artist (d. 1998). January 17 – Georges Pichard, French comics artist (d. 2003). January 30 – Patrick Heron, English painter, writer and designer (d. 1999). February 22 – Rocco Borella, Italian painter (d. 1994). March 3 – Ronald Searle, English cartoonist (d. 2011). March 14 – Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d. 2001). March 19 – Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian poet and artist (d. 2002)Kjell Aukrust Norsk biografisk leksikon Finn Jor Finn Jor Helle, Knut Knut Helle Kunnskapsforlaget Oslo http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Kjell_Aukrust/utdypning Norwegian 17 December 2011 March 27 – Robin Jacques, English illustrator (d. 1995). April 8 – Hans Coper, German-born studio potter (d. 1981). April 24 – Paul Wonner, American painter (d. 2008). April 26 – Maynard Reece, American painter (d. 2020) May – Hans Josephsohn, German-born sculptor (d. 2012). May 8 Saul Bass, American graphic designer and filmmaker (d. 1996). Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (d. 1991).David A. Gerstner Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture https://books.google.com/books?id=XS_SnVPixE8C&pg=PA564 2006 Routledge 978-0-415-30651-5 564 May 10 - Erna Viitol, Estonian sculptor (d. 2001). June 4 – Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter, muralist, sculptor and engraver (d. 1992). June 24 John Coplans, British-born painter and photographer (d. 2003) Jimmy Ernst, German-born American painter (d. 1984). June 29 Ray Harryhausen, American-born British stop-motion animator and sculptor (d. 2013). Armin Hofmann, Swiss graphic designer (d. 2020). July to December July 20 – Arthur Boyd, Australian painter and sculptor (d. 1999). July 21 – Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter, one of the innovators of Unitary Urbanism (d. 2005).Wolf Stubbe History of Modern Graphic Art https://books.google.com/books?id=yJ1Vd_pH7VcC 1963 Thames and Hudson 260 August 1 – Ken Bald, American comic book artist and illustrator (d. 2019) August 5 – George Tooker, American figurative painter (d. 2011). August 9 – Gerda Schmidt-Panknin, German painter (d. 2021) August 15 – Judy Cassab, born Judit Kaszab, Austrian-born Australian portrait painter (d. 2015). August 22 – Gene Davis, American painter (d. 1985). August 26 Mauri Favén, Finnish painter (d. 2006). Brant Parker, American cartoonist (d. 2007). August 30 – Leonid Shvartsman, Soviet and Russian animator and artist (d. 2022). October 13 – Elaine Hamilton, American painter (d. 2010). October 31 – Helmut Newton, German-born photographer (d. 2004). November 15 – Wayne Thiebaud, American painter (d. 2021) November 30 – Walter Chandoha, American cat photographer (d. 2019). December 14 – Claire Fejes, American artist (d. 1998). December 18 – Enrique Grau, Colombian painter and sculptor (d. 2004). December 21 – Bob Bindig, American illustrator (d. 2007) Full date unknown Adrian Heath, Burmese-born English painter (d. 1992). Raymond Moore, English landscape photographer (d. 1987). Daniel O'Neill, Irish painter (d. 1974). Deaths January 24 – Amedeo Modigliani, Italian-born painter and sculptor (b. 1884)Pierre Sichel Modigliani: A Biography of Amedeo Modigliani https://books.google.com/books?id=TVZBAQAAIAAJ 1967 Dutton 978-0-491-00120-5 500 January 26 – Jeanne Hébuterne, French artist, Modigliani's mistress and model (suicide) (b. 1898) March 3 – Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (b. 1840) March 13 – Mary Devens, American pictorial photographer (b. 1857)Mary Devens https://www.cartermuseum.org/artists/mary-devens Amon Carter Museum of American Art 3 January 2025 en March 15 – Edith Holden, English nature artist and art teacher (b. 1871) https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/holden-edith-b-1871-1920 Holden, Edith B, 1871-1920 Encyclopedia June 17, 2025 March 26 – Samuel Colman, American painter and designer (b. 1832) April 20 – Briton Rivière, British painter (b. 1840)Dafforne James British Artists. Briton Riviere The Art Journal 1878 4 33–36 10.2307/20569177 20569177 https://www.jstor.org/stable/20569177 2152-243X subscription April 27 – Jacob Ungerer, German sculptor (b. 1840) May 7 – Hugh Thomson, British illustrator (b. 1860) May 12 – Georges Petit, French art dealer (b. 1856)http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/people/biog/?bid=Peti_G&initial=P Biography at the Centre for Whistler Studies Whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk 2002-06-27 2017-07-28 July 5 – Max Klinger, German painter and sculptor (b. 1857)Walter Yust Encyclopædia Britannica https://books.google.com/books?id=2iA1AAAAIAAJ 1951 Encyclopædia Britannica 527 July 14 – Albert von Keller, German painter (b. 1844)Keller, Albert von 1905 July 17 – Sir Edmund Elton, 8th Baronet, English studio potter (b. 1846) August 4 – C. G. Finch-Davies, British bird painter (b. 1875) August 6 – Edward Francis Searles, American interior designer (b. 1841) August 12 – Walter W. Winans, American sculptor, painter, marksman and horse-breeder (b. 1852) August 22 – Anders Zorn, Swedish portrait painter (b. 1860)Anders Zorn Anders Zorn Rediscovered: November 27-December 19, 1984 : an Exhibition https://books.google.com/books?id=7MdIAQAAIAAJ 1984 The Museum 978-0-936270-23-4 16 September 24 – Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian-born jeweller (b. 1846) November 13 – Luc-Olivier Merson, French painter (b. 1846) date unknown – Edith Corbet, Australian-born British landscape painter (b. 1846) References Category:Years of the 20th century in art Category:1920s in art