1920 in art
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Events from the year 1920 in art.
Events
- February 1 â The National Art Gallery of Georgia opens in Tbilisi.
- March 17 â The Edith Cavell Memorial, by George Frampton, is unveiled in London.[1]
- March 27 â Society of Wood Engravers founded in the United Kingdom.
- June 30âAugust 25 â The first Dadaist Fair is held in Berlin (Tempelhof).[2] The Cologne group is formed by Jean Arp, Max Ernst and Alfred Grünwald.
- August 5 â Publication of the 'Realistic Manifesto', a Constructivist text, by Naum Gabo with his brother Anton Pevsner in Moscow.[3]
- November 7 â 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.[4]
- The Latvian Museum of Foreign Art is established in Riga.
- Droit de suite is introduced in France.[5][6]
Works
- Hans Baluschek â City of Workers
- Cecilia Beaux â portrait of Georges Clemenceau
- Thomas Hart Benton â People of Chilmark
- Pierre Bonnard â Normand Landscape
- Alexander Stirling Calder â Swann Memorial Fountain (Philadelphia)
- Sydney Carline â The Destruction of the Turkish Transport in the Gorge of the Wadi Fara, Palestine
- Giorgio de Chirico â Self-portrait
- Lovis Corinth â Flowers and Wilhelmine
- Charles Demuth â Machinery (drawing)
- Otto Dix
- Max Ernst
- The Hat Makes the Man (collage and gouache)[7]
- Murdering Airplane (collage)
- James Earle Fraser â 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 â Woman with Black Glove
- J. W. Godward â A Red, Red Rose
- George Grosz
- Richard Jack â The Passing of the Chieftain
- Goscombe John â Equestrian statue of the Viscount Wolseley (London)
- Einar Jónsson â Thorfinn Karlsefni (bronze statue, Philadelphia)
- Eric Kennington â The Victims (retitled The Conquerors)
- Winifred Knights â The Deluge
- Boris Kustodiev
- George Washington Lambert â A Sergeant of the Light Horse
- Fernand Léger â The Tugboat
- Edwin Lutyens
- The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London (stone version)
- with Alfred Munnings (sculptor) â 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 â Airplane Synchromy in Yellow-Orange
- Henri Matisse â Interior at Nice
- Joan Miró
- C. R. W. Nevinson â The Soul of the Soulless City (originally New York â an Abstraction)
- William Nicholson
- Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin â 1918 in Petrograd (Petrograd Madonna)
- Victor Rousseau â Bronze figure group for Anglo-Belgian Memorial, London
- Charles Marie Louis Joseph Sarrabezolles â L'Ãme de la France (plaster version)
- Georg Scholz â Industrial Farmers (Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal)
- Charles Sheeler â Church Street El
- Mario Sironi â Truck
- Stanley Spencer
- The Last Supper
- Christ Carrying the Cross
- Lorado Taft â Fountain of Time (Chicago)
- Aston Webb (architect) and Alfred Drury (sculptor) â London Troops War Memorial
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Publications
- Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler â Der Weg zum Kubismus ("The Rise of Cubism").
Births
January to June
- January 12 â Bill Reid, Canadian artist (d. 1998).
- January 17 â Georges Pichard, French comics artist (d. 2003).
- January 30 â Patrick Heron, English painter, writer and designer (d. 1999).
- February 22 â Rocco Borella, Italian painter (d. 1994).
- March 3 â Ronald Searle, English cartoonist (d. 2011).
- March 14 â Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d. 2001).
- March 19 â Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian poet and artist (d. 2002)[8]
- March 27 â Robin Jacques, English illustrator (d. 1995).
- April 8 â Hans Coper, German-born studio potter (d. 1981).
- April 24 â Paul Wonner, American painter (d. 2008).
- April 26 â Maynard Reece, American painter (d. 2020)
- May â 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).[9]
- May 10 - Erna Viitol, Estonian sculptor (d. 2001).
- June 4 â 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 â Ray Harryhausen, American-born stop-motion animator, sculptor (d. 2013).
July to December
- July 20 â Arthur Boyd, Australian painter and sculptor (d. 1999).
- July 21 â Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter, one of the innovators of Unitary Urbanism (d. 2005).[10]
- August 1 â Ken Bald, American comic book artist and illustrator (d. 2019)
- August 5 â George Tooker, American figurative painter (d. 2011).
- August 9 â Gerda Schmidt-Panknin, German painter (d. 2021)
- August 15 â Judy Cassab, born Judit Kaszab, Austrian-born Australian portrait painter (d. 2015).
- August 22 â Gene Davis, American painter (d. 1985).
- August 26
- Mauri Favén, Finnish painter (d. 2006).
- Brant Parker, American cartoonist (d. 2007).
- August 30 â Leonid Shvartsman, Soviet and Russian animator and artist (d. 2022).
- October 13 â Elaine Hamilton, American painter (d. 2010).
- October 31 â Helmut Newton, German-born photographer (d. 2004).
- November 23 â Wayne Thiebaud, American painter (d. 2021)
- November 30 â Walter Chandoha, American cat photographer (d. 2019).
- December 14 â Claire Fejes, American artist (d. 1998).
- December 18 â Enrique Grau, Colombian painter and sculptor (d. 2004).
- December 21 â 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 â Amedeo Modigliani, Italian-born painter and sculptor (b. 1884)[11]
- January 26 â Jeanne Hébuterne, French artist, Modigliani's mistress and model (suicide) (b. 1898)[11]
- March 3 â Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (b. 1840)
- March 13 â Mary Devens, American pictorial photographer (b. 1857)[12]
- March 15 â Edith Holden, English nature artist and art teacher (b. 1871)[13]
- March 26 â Samuel Colman, American painter and designer (b. 1832)
- April 20 â Briton Rivière, British painter (b. 1840)[14]
- April 27 â Jacob Ungerer, German sculptor (b. 1840)
- May 7 â Hugh Thomson, British illustrator (b. 1860)
- May 12 â Georges Petit, French art dealer (b. 1856)[15]
- July 5 â Max Klinger, German painter and sculptor (b. 1857)[16]
- July 14 â Albert von Keller, German painter (b. 1844)[17]
- July 17 â Sir Edmund Elton, 8th Baronet, English studio potter (b. 1846)
- August 4 â C. G. Finch-Davies, British bird painter (b. 1875)
- August 6 â Edward Francis Searles, American interior designer (b. 1841)
- August 12 â Walter W. Winans, American sculptor, painter, marksman and horse-breeder (b. 1852)
- August 22 â Anders Zorn, Swedish portrait painter (b. 1860)[18]
- September 24 â Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian-born jeweller (b. 1846)
- November 13 â Luc-Olivier Merson, French painter (b. 1846)
- date unknown â Edith Corbet, Australian-born British landscape painter (b. 1846)