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1927 art
Events from the year 1927 in art.
Events
May – Stanley Spencer moves to Burghclere (England) to work on the Sandham Memorial Chapel.Kitty Hauser Stanley Spencer https://books.google.com/books?id=aABGAQAAIAAJ 2001 Tate Publishing 11 9781854373519
May 16 – A pair of oval rooms built at the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris as a permanent home for eight of Monet's water lily paintings is opened by the Government of France."Monet, Claude." Grove Art Online.
June 28 – Unveiling of "The Building of Britain" series of historical paintings by various artists in St Stephen's Hall of the Palace of Westminster in London. Charles Sims' King John confronted by his Barons assembled in force at Runnymede gives unwilling consent to Magna Carta, the foundation of justice and individual freedom in England, 1215 attracts criticism from the press, Members of Parliament and other artists for its idiosyncrasy.Seel Graham E. The Artist and the King History Today 65 7 July 2015 39–44
July 24 – Unveiling of Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing at Ypres, Belgium, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.
September 29 – Unveiling of 107th Infantry Memorial in Central Park, New York City, designed by Karl Illava, a former sergeant in the regiment.
October – Clarice Cliff begins test marketing her 'Bizarre' pottery decoration in the UK.Leonard Griffin Clarice Cliff: The Art of Bizarre https://books.google.com/books?id=hK-jQvYKr1QC&pg=PA188 2001 Pavilion 978-1-86205-510-0 188
October 4 – Gutzon Borglum begins work on Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the United States.
November – Ferens Art Gallery in Kingston upon Hull, England, opens.New Gallery at Hull The Times London 30 November 1927
n.d. – Aristide Colotte opens his studio in Nancy, France, where he produces glasswork and carved crystal statues.Karl H. Bröhan Kunsthandwerk: Glas, Holz, Keramik https://books.google.com/books?id=YvfqAAAAMAAJ 1976 Mann 1 9783980008303
n.d. – The earliest known photomural is created by photographers Kaufmann & Fabry in Chicago for socialite Bobsy Goodspeed.Spanke Johanna 2023 10.1515/9783111075372 Photomurals: Fotografische Wandbilder in transnationalen Aushandlungsprozessen zwischen Mexiko und den USA De Gruyter 137–138 978-3-11-078924-9 2941-4032
Exhibitions
February – Stanley Spencer has his first solo exhibition, at the Goupil Gallery in London.
April–May – Ben and Winifred Nicholson and Christopher Wood exhibit at the Beaux Arts Gallery in London.Christopher Wood http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/christopher-wood-2167/text-artist-biography Tate April 1996 2012-06-17
May 6-May 28 – The Machine-Age Exposition is held in New York.
June 25–July 2 – Federico García Lorca exhibits a series of drawings at the Galeries Dalmau in Barcelona.
Alice Prin ("Kiki de Montparnasse") has an exhibition of her own paintings at the Galerie au Sacre du Printemps in Paris.
Awards
Archibald Prize: George W. Lambert – Mrs Murdoch
Works
Category:1927 sculptures Category:1927 paintings
Ansel Adams – Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras (photographic portfolio)
Ernst Barlach – Der schwebende Engel ("The Floating Angel", sculpture (original cast destroyed))
Max Beckmann – Self-Portrait in Tuxedo
Edwin Blashfield – Spring Scattering Stars
Pompeo Coppini – Statue of George Washington (bronze, Portland, Oregon)
Salvador Dalí – Apparatus and Hand
Charles Demuth – My Egypt
Max Ernst
Forest and Dove
The Wood
George Grosz – Self-Portrait, Warning
Edward Hopper
Automat
Coast Guard Station, Two Lights, Maine
Paul Klee – Limits of Reason
Karl Illava (sculptor) and Rogers and Haneman (architects) – 107th Infantry Memorial, New York City
Gaston Lachaise – Floating Figure
Fernand Léger – Nude on a Red Background
Tamara de Lempicka
The Dream
La tunique rose
Will Longstaff – Menin Gate at Midnight
L. S. Lowry
Coming Out of School
Oldfield Road Dwellings, Salford
Peel Park, Salford
A View from the Bridge
René Magritte
The Enchanted Pose
Le Joueur Secret (The Secret Player)https://www.moma.org/audio/playlist/180/2376 René Magritte. Le Joueur secret (The Secret Player). Brussels, 1927 | MoMA
The Menaced Assassin
The Meaning of Night
Henri Matisse – Reclining Nude, Back
Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen – Equestrian Statue of King Christian IX of Denmark (Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen)
Joan Miró – Painting (Blue Star)
Georgia O'Keeffe –
Black Abstraction
Radiator Building - Night, New Yorkhttps://stieglitzcollection.crystalbridges.org/object/radiator-building-night-new-york/ stieglitzcollection.crystalbridges.org Description: Radiator Building—Night, New York 26 August 2024 28 June 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230628110026/https://stieglitzcollection.crystalbridges.org/object/radiator-building-night-new-york/ dead
Frederick Roth – Equestrian statue of George Washington (bronze, Washington's Headquarters, Morristown, New Jersey)
Antonio Sciortino – Great Siege Monument
Lasar Segall – Portrait of Mário de Andrade
Charles Sheeler – Criss-Crossed Conveyors, River Rouge Plant, Ford Motor Company (photograph)
Stanley Spencer – The Resurrection, Cookham
Lajos Tihanyi – Portrait of Tristan Tzara (Hungarian National Gallery)
Henry Scott Tuke – The Critics
Alexander Weygers – Mourning (sculpture)
Rex Whistler – The Expedition in Pursuit of Rare Meats (mural, Tate Gallery restaurant, London)
Births
January to June
January 1 – Jean-Paul Mousseau, Canadian artist (d.1991)
January 15 – Olle Zetterquist, Swedish artist (d.2024)
January 20 – Olivier Strebelle, Belgian sculptor (d.2017)
January 23 – Fred Williams, Australian painter and printmaker (d. 1982)
February 3 – Sarah Jiménez, Mexican artist (d. 2017)
February 14 – Myles Murphy, English painter (d.2016)
March 5 – Jan Snoeck, Dutch sculptor and ceramist (d. 2018)
March 13 – Robert Denning, American interior designer (d.2005)
March 19 – Gisèle Lestrange, French graphic artist (d.1991)
March 31 – David Budd, American abstract painter (d.1991)
April 6 – Joash Woodrow, English artist (d.2006)
April 7 – Wolfgang Mattheuer, German painter (d.2004)
April 15 – David Carritt, English art historian, dealer and critic (d.1982)
April 16 – John Chamberlain, American sculptor (d. 2011)
April 25 – Albert Uderzo, French comic book artist and scriptwriter (Asterix) (d. 2020)
May 5 – Eva Fuka, Czech-born photographer
June 5 — Ladjane Bandeira, Brazilian artist and journalist (d. 1999)Gallindo Marlova Lenz Contos de Pernambuco: autores editados e inéditos Recife Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Editora Massangana 1988 978-8-57019-135-9 82 PT
June 25 – Patricia Martin Bates, Canadian artist
June 29
Dick Martin, American illustrator (d. 1990)
Kenneth Snelson, American contemporary sculptor and photographer (d. 2016)
July to December
July 14 – Mike Esposito, American comic book artist (d. 2010)
July 24
Alex Katz, American figurative artist
Robert Rosenblum, American art historian (d. 2006).
August 8 – Bruno Caruso, Sicilian painter, illustrator, writer, graphic designer and political activist (d. 2018)
August 23
Dick Bruna, Dutch illustrator (d. 2017)
Allan Kaprow, American painter, assemblagist and art theorist (d. 2006)
August 26 – Ma Jir Bo, Chinese Realist oil painter (d. 1985)
September 15 – Margaret Keane, American painter (d. 2022)
September 22 – Norbert Lynton, British art historian and Professor of the History of Art (d. 2007)
October 3 – Kenojuak Ashevak, Canadian Inuk artist (d. 2013)
October 4 – Wolf Kahn, German-born painter (d. 2020)https://www.reformer.com/stories/southern-vermont-artist-wolf-kahn-dies-at-age-92,600135 Southern Vermont artist Wolf Kahn dies at age 92 LeConey Bill Reformer Brattleboro March 16, 2020 The Brattleboro Reformer en March 18, 2020
October 29
Pierre Alechinsky, Belgian painter, engraver and calligrapher
Alfred Leslie, American painter and filmmaker
November 2 – Steve Ditko, American comic book artist (d.2018)
November 23 – Guy Davenport, American writer, translator, illustrator, painter and teacher (d. 2005)
December 24 – John Glashan, Scottish cartoonist, illustrator and playwright (d. 1999)
December 30 – Jan Kubíček, Czech constructivist painter, sculptor (d. 2013)
Deaths
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January 1 – Isabelle de Steiger, painter, theosophist, occultist and writer (b. 1836)
January 15 – Harald Giersing, painter (b. 1881)
February 28 – Sir Luke Fildes, painter and illustrator (b. 1843)
March 6 - Marie Spartali Stillman, English model and painter (b. 1844)
March 23 – Paul César Helleu, portrait painter (b. 1859)
April 3 – Frederick Morgan, painter (b. c.1850)
May 10 – Andrea Gram, painter (b. 1853)
May 11 – Juan Gris, painter (b. 1887)
May 24, 1927 – Frederick Melville DuMond (b. 1887)
May 28 – Boris Kustodiev, painter and stage designer (b. 1878)
June 26 – Armand Guillaumin, impressionist painter and lithographer (b. 1841)
June 28 – Otto Bache, painter of historical subjects (b. 1839)
July 10 – Louise Abbéma, Impressionist painter (b. 1853)
July 27 – Solomon Joseph Solomon, portrait painter (b. 1860)
August 4 – Eugène Atget, photographer (b. 1857)
August 18 – Sascha Schneider, painter and sculptor (b. 1870)
September 19 – Michael Ancher, painter (b. 1849)
October 7 – Paul Sérusier, abstract painter (b. 1864)
October 9 – João Marques de Oliveira, Portuguese painter (b. 1853)
November 21 – Laurits Tuxen, painter (b. 1853)
November 25 – József Rippl-Rónai, painter (b. 1861)
December 13 – Maria Oakey Dewing, American painter (b. 1845)
date unknown
Adolphe Demange, portrait painter (b. 1857)
Caroline Reboux, fashion designer (b. 1837)
Madame Virot, fashion designer (b. 1826)
See also
1927 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
References
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