1915 in art
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Events from the year 1915 in art.
Events
- May â Ambrose Heal and others found the Design and Industries Association in London.[1]
- c. May â Publication of the first modern book illustrated with wood engravings, Frances Cornford's Spring Morning (published by The Poetry Bookshop, London) with engravings by the poet's cousin Gwen Raverat.[2]
- June 10 â The only contemporary Vorticist exhibition staged opens at the Doré Gallery in London.[3]
- October 24 â Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's frescos, Translation of the House of Loreto, in the Church of the Scalzi (Venice) are destroyed by an Austrian bombardment.
- December 19 â Kasimir Malevich stages the 0.10 Exhibition and originates Suprematism.[4]
- Pierre Bodard serves with the French Army on Martinique.
- Marcel Duchamp begins producing readymades
- Harper's Bazaar hires Erté to design its covers.
- Edward McKnight Kauffer is given his first commission to design a poster for the Underground Electric Railways Company of London.
- ShÅzaburÅ Watanabe originates shin-hanga collaborative woodblock printing in Japan.
- The first of the 'Etruscan terracotta warriors', forged by sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti with the Riccardi family, is purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
- 14-year-old Alice Prin ("Kiki de Montparnasse") is posing (nude) for sculptors in Paris.
Works
- George Bellows â Riverfront No. 1
- Frank Weston Benson â Red and Gold
- Umberto Boccioni
- Marc Chagall â The Poet Reclining
- William Merritt Chase â Self-portrait
- Giorgio de Chirico
- Jacob Epstein â bust of Admiral Lord Fisher
- Albert Gleizes
- J. W. Godward â In The Prime Of The Summer Time
- Juan Gris
- Alexandre Jacovleff â The Violinist
- Eric Kennington - The Kensingtons at Laventie
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
- Gustav Klimt â Death and Life
- Carl Larsson â Midvinterblot
- Wyndham Lewis â The Crowd
- Kazimir Malevich
- Henri Matisse â The Yellow Curtain
- Jean Metzinger â Soldier at a Game of Chess
- Amedeo Modigliani
- Piet Mondrian â Composition No. 10 Pier and Ocean
- C. R. W. Nevinson
- Bursting Shell
- La Mitrailleuse
- Returning to the Trenches (approximate date)
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- Pablo Picasso â
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir â Blond Girl with a Rose
- Diego Rivera â Portrait of Ramón Gómez de la Serna
- Isaac Rosenberg â Self-portrait
- Ladislav Å aloun â Jan Hus Memorial (Prague)
- John Singer Sargent â Tyrolese Interior
- Egon Schiele
- Helene Schjerfbeck â Self-portrait with black background
- Kathleen Scott â statue of her late husband, Robert Falcon Scott in London
- Zinaida Serebriakova â Harvest
- Walter Sickert â Brighton Pierrots
- Fred Spear â Enlist (poster)
- StewartâScreven Monument
- Paul Strand â Wall Street (photograph)
- John William Waterhouse â I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Said the Lady of Shalott
- Max Weber - Chinese Restaurant[5]
- W. L. Wyllie â The track of Lusitania: view of casualties and survivors in the water and in lifeboats
- Konstantin Yuon â March Sun
- Anders Zorn â Self-portrait in Red
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Births
- January 3 â Jack Levine, American Social Realist painter and printmaker (d. 2010)[6]
- January 15 â Leo Mol, Ukrainian-born Canadian artist, sculptor (d. 2009)[7]
- January 24 â Robert Motherwell, American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker (d. 1991).[8]
- February 4 â Virginia Admiral, American painter and poet (d. 2000)[9]
- February 11 â Mervyn Levy, Welsh artist and critic (d. 1996).[10]
- March 10 â Harry Bertoia, Italian-born American artist and furniture designer (d. 1978).[11]
- March 19 â Maria Austria (née Marie Karoline Oeststreicher) Austro-Dutch photographer and photojournalist) (d. 1979).[12]
- April 4 â Louis Archambault, Canadian sculptor (d. 2003).[13]
- April 6 â Tadeusz Kantor, Polish painter, Assemblage artist, set designer and theatre director (d. 1990)[14]
- April 10 â Wynona Mulcaster, Canadian painter and teacher (d. 2016)
- April 15 â Elizabeth Catlett, African-American graphic artist and sculptor (d. 2012)[15]
- April 17 â William Pachner, Czech painter (d. 2017)[16]
- May 3 â Richard Lippold, American sculptor (d. 2002)[17]
- May 20 â Sam Golden, American paint maker (d. 1997)
- May 31 â Carmen Herrera, Cuban-American abstract minimalist visual artist (d. 2022).[18]
- June 7 â Graham Ingels, American illustrator (d. 1991)[19]
- June 11 â José Caballero, Spanish artist (d. 1991)[20]
- June 17 â Gunther Gerzso, Mexican abstract painter (d. 2000)[21]
- June 23 â Frances Gabe, American artist and inventor (d. 2016)
- July 8 â Malvina Cheek, British artist (d. 2016)[22]
- July 15
- Edith Pfau, American painter, sculptor and art educator (d. 2001)
- Judith Révész, Hungarian-Dutch potter and sculptor (d. 2018)
- July 19 â Ã ke Hellman, Finnish still life and portrait painter (d. 2017)[23]
- July 28 â Dick Sprang, American comic book artist (d. 2000)[24]
- August 14 â Mary Fedden, English painter (d. 2012)[25]
- August 28
- Patrick Hennessy, Irish painter (d. 1980)
- Tasha Tudor, American illustrator and author of children's books (d. 2008)[26]
- September 17 â M. F. Husain, Indian artist (d. 2011)[27]
- September 19 â Duffy Ayers, born Betty FitzGerald, English portrait painter (d. 2017)[28]
- October 13
- Terry Frost, English Abstract artist (d. 2003)[29]
- Ricco, Swiss painter (d. 1972)
- October 24 â Bob Kane, American comic book artist and writer (d. 1998)[30]
- November 9 â André François, French cartoonist (d. 2005)[31]
- November 26 â Inge King, German-born Australian sculptor (d. 2016)
- November 28 â Evald Okas, Estonian painter (d. 2011)[32]
Deaths
- January 15 â Luigi Crosio, Italian painter (b. 1835)
- January 23 â Anne Whitney, American sculptor, poet (b. 1821)[33]
- February 25 â Flaxman Charles John Spurrell, English archaeologist and photographer (b. 1842)
- April 3 â Nadežda PetroviÄ, Serbian Fauvist painter (b. 1873)
- April 9 â Karl Bitter, Austrian American sculptor (b. 1867)
- May 7 â Sir Hugh Lane, Irish-born art dealer, collector and benefactor (b. 1875; killed in sinking of the RMS Lusitania)
- June 5 â Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, French artist and sculptor (killed in action) (b. 1891)[34]
- June 7 â Hilda Sjölin, Swedish photographer (b. 1835)
- July 10 â Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Dutch marine painter (b. 1831)
- July 11 â Albert Schickedanz, Austro-Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style (b. 1846)
- September 11 â Jens Birkholm, Danish genre and landscape painter (b. 1869)
- September 14 â Alfred Agache, French academic painter (b. 1843)
- October 24 â Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist and pioneer photographer (b. 1828)
- November 28 â Kobayashi Kiyochika, Japanese ukiyo-e painter and printmaker (b. 1847)
- December 22 â Arthur Hughes, English painter and illustrator (b. 1832)
- date unknown
- Kikuchi Shingaku, Japanese photographer (b. 1832)
- Krikor Torosian, Armenian illustrator (b. 1884; killed in Armenian genocide)