1928 in art

none May 2021 1928 art Events from the year 1928 in art. Events January 7 – The Tate Gallery, London, is one of the buildings flooded by the 1928 Thames flood.The great 1928 flood of London https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26153241 BBC News 5 September 2021 16 February 2014 January 27 – The Huntington Library is officially opened to the public in San Marino, California. Major art exhibits include a large collection of 18th-century British portraits and a display of French tapestries of the same period.Photos from the Arabella D. Huntington Memorial at the Opening of the Huntington Library, Art Gallery and Botanical Gardens, 1928 Paul R. Spitzzeri The Homestead Blog https://homesteadmuseum.blog/2019/02/25/photos-from-the-arabella-d-huntington-memorial-at-the-opening-of-the-huntington-library-art-gallery-and-botanical-gardens-1928/ 2019-02-25 2025-08-06 March 26 – The China Academy of Art is founded in Hangzhou (originally named the National Academy of Art). August – Ben Nicholson and Kit Wood visit St. Ives, Cornwall, and meet the ex-fisherman painter Alfred Wallis.Ben Nicholson Alfred Wallis http://www.andyblair.co.uk/alfredwallis/nicholson.html https://web.archive.org/web/20110810091712/http://www.andyblair.co.uk/alfredwallis/nicholson.html dead 2011-08-10 1943 2011-03-11 October – English artist and designer Eric Gill moves with some of his artistic community from Capel-y-ffin in Wales to 'Pigotts' at Speen, Buckinghamshire, near High Wycombe. November 18 – Film debut of Mickey Mouse, designed by Ub Iwerks. Clarice Cliff introduces her Crocus pottery decoration.Griffin Leonard The Fantastic Flowers of Clarice Cliff London Pavilion 1998 1-86205-053-8 Pierre Chareau and colleagues begin construction of the Maison de Verre ("house of glass") on the rue Saint-Guillaume in Paris for client Jean Dalsace. Charles Haslewood Shannon suffers a fall while hanging a picture which ends his career as an artist. Awards Archibald Prize: John Longstaff – Portrait of Dr Alexander Leeper Carnegie Prize – André Derain Art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics Painting: Isaac Israëls – Cavalier Rouge Drawing: Jean Jacoby – Rugby Graphic work: William Nicholson – An Almanac of Twelve Sports Exhibitions Alexander Calder's first solo exhibition at the Weyhe Gallery, New York City. L'Exposition surréaliste at the Galerie du Sacre du Printemps, Paris. December – East London Group (as East London Art Club) exhibits at Whitechapel Gallery. Works Category:1928 sculptures Category:1928 paintings Wäinö Aaltonen – bust of Jean Sibelius Tarsila do Amaral – Abaporu Max Beckmann – The Wendelsveg in Frankfurt am Main Pierre Bonnard – Flowers on a Red Carpet John Steuart Curry Baptism in Kansas Bathers Charles Demuth – I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold Edwin Dickinson – The Fossil Hunters Otto Dix – Metropolis M. C. Escher – Tower of Babel (woodcut) Meredith Frampton – Marguerite Kelsey George Grosz – Hinterground (portfolio of lithographs) Edward Hopper From Williamsburg Bridge Manhattan Bridge Loop Night Windows Prudence Heward – Girl on a Hill Frida Kahlo – Dama de Blanco André Kertész – The Fork (photograph) Paul Klee – Cat and Bird Sir John Lavery – Portrait of Lady Lavery as Kathleen Ni Houlihan Tamara de Lempicka Andromeda Portrait of Dr. Boucard L. S. Lowry A Street Scene Going to the Match Eugenie McEvoy – Taxi! Taxi! René Magritte The Adulation of Space The Empty Mask The Lovers Henri Matisse Odalisque with a Turkish Chair Two Odalisques, One Being Nude, Ornamental Ground and Checkerboard Ivan Meštrović – The Bowman and The Spearman (equestrian sculptures, Chicago) Joan Miró – Dutch Interiors Giuseppe Moretti – Statue of Elizabeth and Joseph E. Brown Georgia O'Keeffe East River from the Shelton Hotel East River from the Thirtieth Story of the Shelton Hotel Oriental Poppies Mahmoud Mokhtar – Egypt's Renaissance (sculpture group, Cairo University, begun 1919, completed) Frederick Roth – Equestrian statue of George Washington (Morristown, New Jersey) (bronze) Frank O. Salisbury – Clarence Winthrop Bowen Christian Schad – Two Girlfriends Charles Sheeler – Upper Deck (photograph, approximate date) Zinaida Serebriakova – Lit By The Sun Charles Sims – I Am the Abyss and I Am Light John French Sloan – Sixth Avenue Elevated at Third Street Joseph Southall – The Botanists Alexej von Jawlensky – Abstract Head George Fite Waters – Statue of Abraham Lincoln (Portland, Oregon) (bronze) Births January to June January 20 – Malang, Filipino artist (d. 2017) January 31 – Dušan Džamonja, Macedonian sculptor (d. 2009) February 10 – Jos De Mey, Belgian impossible figure painter (d. 2007) March 1 – Jacques Rivette, French filmmaker (d. 2016)Jacques Rivette, 1928–2016 Obituary Sight & Sound https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/comment/obituaries/french-new-wave-director-jacques-rivette-dies British Film Institute 18 December 2019 5 September 2021 en March 3 – Jean Rustin, French painter (d. 2013) March 18 – Mirka Mora, French-Australian artist and cultural figure (d. 2018) March 25 – Hans Steinbrenner, German sculptor (d. 2008) April 25 – Cy Twombly, American abstract artist (d. 2011) CY TWOMBLY, 1928-2011 https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/06/arts/cy-twombly-american-artist-is-dead-at-83.html?pagewanted=all The New York Times 6 July 2011 2013-03-14 Kennedy Randy April 28 – Yves Klein, French abstract artist (d. 1962)Yves Klein Gilbert Perlein Bruno Corà Yves Klein: Long Live the Immaterial https://books.google.com/books?id=baJPAAAAMAAJ 2000 Delano Greenidge Editions 978-0-929445-08-3 7 May 4 – Brian O'Doherty aka Patrick Ireland, Irish-born art critic and installation artist (d. 2022) May 11 – Yaacov Agam, Israeli kinetic sculptor (d. 2026) May 14 – Władysław Hasior, Polish sculptor, painter and set designer (d. 1999) May 30 – Pro Hart, Australian painter (d. 2006) June 3 – Donald Judd, American sculptor (d. 1994)Bernard Blistène Centre Georges Pompidou Lisa Dennison Rendezvous: Masterpieces from the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Guggenheim Museums https://books.google.com/books?id=0FIkAQAAMAAJ 1998 Guggenheim Museum Publications 978-0-8109-6916-2 646 June 16 – Pierrette Bloch, French-Swiss painter, textile artist (d. 2017)https://dianedepolignac.com/en/home-gb/artists-en/pierrette-bloch/ Pierrette Bloch - Artist Diane de Polignac Gallery August 21, 2021 June 25 Peyo (born Pierre Culliford), Belgian comics artist (d. 1992)Contemporary Authors https://books.google.com/books?id=G6viAAAAMAAJ 1993 Gale Research Company 978-0-8103-1971-4 102 Alex Toth, American comic book artist and cartoonist (d. 2006) July to December July 8 – Pat Adams, American painter and printmaker July 10 – Bernard Buffet, French painter (d. 1999) July 14 – Anwar Shemza, Pakistan-born British artist and writer (d. 1985) July 21 – Anne Harris, Canadian sculptor August 6 – Andy Warhol, American pop artist, director and writer (d. 1987)Victor Bockris The Life and Death of Andy Warhol https://books.google.com/books?id=AKFIAQAAIAAJ 1998 Fourth Estate 978-1-85702-805-8 15 August 12 – Charles Blackman, Australian painter and illustrator (d. 2018)Moran Robert 2018-08-20 Artist Charles Blackman dead, aged 90 https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/artist-charles-blackman-dead-aged-90-20180820-p4zyim.html 2023-03-31 The Sydney Morning Herald en August 15 – Alan Collins, English figurative religious sculptor (d. 2016) August 22 – Roberto Aizenberg, Argentine painter and sculptor (d. 1996) August 31 – Jeremy Maas, English art dealer and historian of Victorian painting (d. 1997) September 9 – Sol LeWitt, American conceptual and minimalist artist (d. 2007)Worcester Art Museum David Acton Davenport Museum of Art (Davenport, Iowa) Master Drawings from the Worcester Art Museum https://books.google.com/books?id=JW1QAAAAMAAJ 1998 Hudson Hills Press 978-1-55595-147-4 212 September 10 - Ward Jackson, American painter (d. 2004) September 12 – Robert Irwin, American installation artist (d. 2023) September 13 – Robert Indiana (born Clark), American pop artist (d. 2018) October 7 – Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d. 1980) October 12 – Al Held, American Abstract expressionist painter (d. 2005) October 30 – Michael Andrews, English painter (d. 1995) November 3 – Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist, animator and film producer (d. 1989)Osamu Tezuka Ludwig B Vol. 2 2020 https://books.google.com/books?id=uDv1DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA255 Digital Manga, Inc. 978-1-61313-821-2 255 November 6 – Norman Carlberg, American sculptor (d. 2018) November 17 – Arman, French-born American artist (d. 2005)Sarah Wilson Eric de Chassey Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) Paris: capital of the arts, 1900-1968 https://books.google.com/books?id=FczQ5haSfFUC March 2002 Royal Academy of Arts 978-0-900946-98-1 431 November 27 – Josh Kirby, English commercial artist (d. 2001) December 2 – Guy Bourdin, French photographer (d. 1991) December 12 – Helen Frankenthaler, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 2011) December 13 – Wolfgang Hutter, Austrian painter, lithographer and designer (d. 2014) December 15 – Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian painter, architect and sculptor (d. 2000)Austrian Information https://books.google.com/books?id=g09xC1sMmBgC&pg=RA1-PA8 2000 Information Department of the Austrian Consulate General 8 December 31 – Siné, French cartoonist (d. 2016) Date unknown Ben Birillo, American painter and art curator Franco the Great, born Frankin Gaskin, Panamanian-born American street artist Wally Hedrick, American counterculture artist (d. 2003) LastName FirstName Forty years of California assemblage : UCLA Art Council annual exhibition Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles 1989 9780943739090 51 Deaths January 4 – Hamilton Hamilton, American painter (b. 1847) January 6 – Adolfo de Carolis, Italian painter, xylographer, illustrator and photographer (b. 1874) January 8 – Gyula Basch, Hungarian painter (b. 1859) January 13 – Frederick Arthur Bridgman, American painter (b. 1847) January 21 – Nikolai Astrup, Norwegian painter (b. 1880)Terje Leiren Jan Sjåvik Historical Dictionary of Norway https://books.google.com/books?id=98SrDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA36 8 October 2019 Rowman & Littlefield 978-1-5381-2312-6 36 January 26 – Henrietta Rae, English painter (b. 1859) January – Alexander Reid, Scottish art dealer (b. 1854) February 7 – Adolfo de Carolis, Italian painter (b. 1874) February 12 – Nicolás Guzmán Bustamante, Chilean painter and draftsman (b. 1850) March 31 – Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (b. 1858) Dumas Ann Degas and the Italians in Paris National Galleries of Scotland Edinburgh 2003 9781903278482 96 April 3 – Raffaello Romanelli, Italian sculptor (b. 1856) April 5 – Viktor Oliva, Czech painter and illustrator (b. 1861) April 13 – Charles Sims, English painter (suicide, b. 1873) May 16 – Frederick Arthur Verner, Canadian landscape painter (b. 1836) May 21 - George Frampton, English artist (b. 1860) June 22 – A. 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Frost, American illustrator (b. 1851) July 10 – John Chambers, English landscape and portrait painter (b. 1852) July 25 – Jane Sutherland, Australian landscape painter (b. 1853) August 30 – Franz Stuck, German symbolist /Art Nouveau painter, sculptor, engraver and architect (b. 1863) September 20 – Ivan Tišov, Croatian painter (b. 1870) October 24 – Arthur Bowen Davies, American artist (b. 1863)15 American Artists from the Corcoran London Art Gallery 1975 6 October 30 – Percy Anderson, English stage designer and painter (b. 1851) November 15 – Godfred Christensen, Danish painter (b. 1845) December 1 – Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth, German painter (b. 1855) December 2 – Robert Reid, American Impressionist painter (b. 1862) December 10 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect and designer (b. 1868) December 15 – Louis Mathieu Verdilhan, French painter (b. 1875) December 18 – Nils Bergslien, Norwegian illustrator, painter and sculptor (b. 1853) See also 1928 in fine arts of the Soviet Union References Category:Years of the 20th century in art Category:1920s in art