1930 in art
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Events from the year 1930 in art.
Events
[edit]- June–July – Christopher Wood paints in Brittany.
- 29 November – Première of the Surrealist film L'Age d'Or by Luis Buñuel (co-written with Salvador Dalí) at Studio 28 in Paris.
- Theo van Doesburg produces a "Manifesto of Concrete art".[1]
- Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant complete the decoration of the dining room for Dorothy Wellesley at Penns-in-the-Rocks, Withyham, England.
- Malvina Hoffman begins sculpting life-size figures for the Field Museum's Hall of Man.
- Great Bardfield Artists community established in England.
- Bernard Berenson publishes The Italian Painters of the Renaissance.
- Milt Gross publishes his wordless novel He Done Her Wrong in the United States.
- Soviet sale of Hermitage paintings begins.
- Spanish postage stamps depict Goya's La maja desnuda.
- Approximate date – Gertrud Arndt begins a series of photographic self-portraits at the Bauhaus.
Awards
[edit]- Archibald Prize: W. B. McInnes – Drum-Major Harry McClelland
Exhibitions
[edit]- April – Cercle et Carré exhibition opens at Galerie 23 in the Rue La Boétie, Paris.
Works
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- Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious – Mural in refectory of Morley College, London (begun 1928; destroyed in The Blitz 1940)
- Pierre Bonnard – Pots
- Patrick Henry Bruce – Peinture (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
- Edward Burra – The Snack Bar
- John Steuart Curry – Hogs Killing a Snake
- Theo van Doesburg – Arithmetic Composition
- Raoul Dufy – Pink Nude
- M. C. Escher
- The Bridge (lithograph)
- Castrovalva (lithograph)
- Palizzi, Calabria (woodcut)
- Pentedattilo, Calabria (lithograph)
- Street in Scanno, Abruzzi (lithograph)
- Thomas Cooper Gotch – The Exile: Heavy Is The Price I Paid For Love
- James Guthrie – Statesmen of World War I
- Edward Hopper – Early Sunday Morning
- Augustus John – Portrait of Tallulah Bankhead
- Rozsa Klein (Rogi André) – Bonnard's Palette
- Helmut Kolle
- Self-Portrait in Hunting Attire
- Young Man with a Colored Scarf
- Abel Lafleur – Victory[broken anchor] (trophy)
- Fernand Léger – Mona Lisa with Keys
- L. S. Lowry – Coming from the Mill
- Jeanne Mammen – Free Room
- Henri Matisse – The Back Series (bas-reliefs)
- Alice Neel – Ethel Ashton (nude portrait)
- José Clemente Orozco – Prometheus (fresco at Pomona College, California)
- Charles Sheeler – American Landscape
- T. F. Šimon – View in Old Prague (woodcut)
- Grace Cossington Smith – The Bridge in Curve
- Herbert Tyson Smith – bronze reliefs for Liverpool Cenotaph
- Sophie Taeuber-Arp – Composition of Circles and Overlapping Angles
- Edward Trumbull – Transport and Human Endeavor (ceiling mural, lobby, Chrysler Building, New York City)[2]
- Suzanne Valadon – Nude Woman with a Blue Shawl
- Christopher Wood
- Anemones in a Cornish Window
- Zebra and Parachute
- Grant Wood
- W. L. Wyllie – Panorama of the Battle of Trafalgar (Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth)[3]
- Xu Beihong – A Portrait of Sun Duoci
- Statler Fountain
Births
[edit]January to June
[edit]- 15 January – Paul Ahyi, Togolese artist and sculptor (d. 2010)
- 26 January – Napoleon Abueva, Filipino sculptor (d. 2018)[4]
- 3 February – Gillian Ayres, English abstract painter (d. 2018)
- 10 February – Eva Frankfurther, German-born portrait painter (suicide 1959)
- 13 February – Ernst Fuchs, Austrian artist (d. 2015)[5]
- 18 February – Gahan Wilson, American cartoonist (d. 2019)
- 21 February – Enrique Tábara, Ecuadorian painter (d. 2021)
- 24 February – Anita Steckel, American feminist artist (d. 2012)
- 25 February – Wendy Beckett, English contemplative nun and art historian (d. 2018)
- 7 March – Antony Armstrong-Jones, English photographer (d. 2017)[6]
- 8 March – Hector Lombana, Colombian sculptor, painter and architect (d. 2008)
- 11 March – David Gentleman, English graphic designer
- 27 March – Daniel Spoerri, Romanian-Swiss artist and writer[7]
- 30 March – Rolf Harris, Australian entertainer, painter and child sexual abuser (d. 2023)[8]
- 31 March – Susan Weil, American painter[9]
- 1 April – John Houston, Scottish painter (d. 2008)
- 12 April – Manuel Neri, American sculptor, painter and printmaker (d. 2021)
- 14 May – James Beck, American art historian (d. 2007)
- 15 May – Jasper Johns, American painter, sculptor and printmaker[10]
- 22 May – Marisol Escobar, French-born sculptor and printmaker (d.2016)
- 23 May
- Richard Anuszkiewicz, American painter, sculptor and printmaker (d. 2020)
- Aslan, French-born pin-up artist (d.2014)
- 24 May – Unity Spencer, English artist (d. 2017)
- 30 May – Robert Ryman, American monochrome painter (d. 2019)
- 5 June – Vladimir Popov, Soviet animator, animation and art director (d. 1987)
- 15 June – Ikuo Hirayama, Japanese painter (d. 2009)
- 16 June – Allan D'Arcangelo, American painter and graphic artist (d. 1998)
- 19 June – Bryan Kneale, Manx sculptor and academic
- 20 June – Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish sculptor (d. 2017)[11]
- 24 June
- Pierre Restany, French art critic and cultural philosopher (d. 2003)
- Flip Schulke, American photojournalist (d. 2008)
July to December
[edit]- 4 July – Mohamed Demagh, Algerian sculptor (d. 2018)
- 4 August - Astrid Zydower, German-born British sculptor (d. 2005)[12]
- 5 September – Ibrahim El-Salahi, Sudanese painter
- 24 September – Bernard Nevill, English textile designer and art collector (d. 2019)[13]
- 28 September – Nikolai Pozdneev, Russian painter (d. 1978)
- 3 October – Robyn Denny, British abstract artist (d. 2014)
- 7 October – Kurt Dornis, German painter, graphic artist and draughtsman
- 8 October – Faith Ringgold, African American painter and fabric artist
- 18 October – Trevor Bell, English painter (d. 2017)
- 29 October – Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor, painter and film maker (d. 2002)[14]
- 7 November – Robert Natkin, American painter (d. 2010)
- 13 November – Benny Andrews, American painter and academic (d. 2006)
- 14 November – Elisabeth Frink, English sculptor (d. 1993)
- 31 December – Luis Marsans, Catalan painter (d. 2015)
Deaths
[edit]- January 7 – Max Schmalzl, German religious painter and illustrator (b. 1850)
- March 3 – W. W. Quatremain, English landscape painter (b. 1857)
- March 19 – Andreas Walser, Swiss painter (b. 1908)
- March 24 – Eugeen Van Mieghem, Belgian painter (b. 1875)[15]
- April 17 – Aleksandr Golovin, Russian stage designer (b. 1863)
- April 30 – John Russell, Australian Impressionist painter (b. 1858)
- May 10 – Julio Romero de Torres, Spanish painter (b. 1874)
- May 28 – George Washington Lambert, Australian portrait painter and war artist (b. 1873)
- June 3 – Alexander Bogomazov, Ukrainian painter and modern art theoretician of Russian avant-garde (b. 1880)
- June 5
- Sophie Holten, Danish painter (b. 1858)[16][17]
- Jules Pascin, Bulgarian-born painter and draftsman (b. 1885)[18]
- July 22 – Wacław Szymanowski, Polish sculptor and painter (b. 1859)
- August 21 – Christopher Wood, English painter (b. 1901) (suicide)
- August 28 – Stanisław Bergman, Polish painter (b. 1862)
- September 6 – Sir James Guthrie, Scottish painter (b. 1859)
- September 24 – Otto Mueller, German Expressionist painter (b. 1874)
- September 25 – Abram Arkhipov, Russian painter (b. 1862)
- September 29 – Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter (b. 1844)
- December 9 – Laura Muntz Lyall, Canadian Impressionist painter (b. 1860)[19]
- December 17 – Nikolay Kasatkin, Russian painter (b. 1859)
- December 28 – Antonio Mancini, Italian painter (b. 1852)
- date unknown – Peter Moog, outsider artist (b. 1871)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Gruppe Abstraction-Création". Ketterer Kunst. Archived from the original on 2012-05-15. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ "Chrysler Building celebrates 85th birthday". Boo York City.
- ^ "W L Wyllie and the Panorama of Trafalgar". Royal Naval Museum. 2005. Retrieved 2012-12-05.
- ^ Leonarda Navato Camacho (1998). 100 Years, 100 Artists: An Expression of the Filipino Soul. L.N. Camacho. p. 19.
- ^ Pendergast, Sara; Tom (2002). Contemporary artists. St. James Press. p. 546. ISBN 978-1-55862-407-8.
- ^ Rayner, Gordon (5 June 2008). "Lord Snowdon: Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
- ^ Daniel Spoerri; Thomas Levy (2003). Caso Come Maestro. Kerber. p. 8. ISBN 978-3-936646-24-5.
- ^ Bulletin with Newsweek. Australian Consolidated Press. March 1995. p. 93.
- ^ John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1977). Reports of the President and the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. p. 117.
- ^ Chase's Calendar of Events 2007. McGraw Hill Professional. 2006. p. 271. ISBN 978-0-07-146818-3.
- ^ Gaze, Delia; Mihajlovic, Maja; Shrimpton, Leanda (1997). Dictionary of Women Artists: Introductory surveys; Artists, A-I. Taylor & Francis. p. 161. ISBN 978-1-884964-21-3.
- ^ Silvia, Lucchesi. "Castellani, Enrico". Grove Art Online – Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
- ^ "Prof Bernard Nevill". Debrett's. Debrett's Ltd. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
- ^ Gaze, Delia (2001). Concise Dictionary of Women Artists. Taylor & Francis. p. 596. ISBN 978-1-57958-335-4.
- ^ Erwin Joos (2005). Antwerp-New York: Eugeen Van Mieghem (1875-1930) and the Emigrants of the Red Star Line. BAI. p. 63. ISBN 978-90-76704-99-9.
- ^ Bodelsen, Merete (17 July 2011). "Sophie Holten" (in Danish). Dansk Biographisk Leksikon. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
- ^ Fabritius, Elisabeth. "Sophie Holten (1858 - 1930)" (in Danish). Kvinfo. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
- ^ Alexandre Dupouy (12 June 2014). Pascin. Parkstone International. p. 241. ISBN 978-1-78310-491-8.
- ^ Art Gallery of Ontario (1970). Art Gallery of Ontario: The Canadian Collection. McGraw-Hill Company of Canada. p. 262. ISBN 978-0-07-092504-5.