1923 in art
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Events from the year 1923 in art.
Events
- March 20 â The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States show, Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso.
- May 8 â Göteborgs Konsthall opens as the art gallery for the Gothenburg Exhibition.
- Publication of The Art Spirit by Robert Henri.
- English industrialist and collector Samuel Courtauld acquires the first painting by Paul Cézanne to be purchased for a British collection, Still life with Plaster Cupid (c.1894).[1]
- Chaïm Soutine sells sixty of his paintings from a Paris showing to the American art collector Albert C. Barnes and begins his series of paintings of beef carcasses.
- A joint exhibition with his mother, Suzanne Valadon, at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune in Paris brings the paintings of Maurice Utrillo to prominence.[2]
- East London Group forms as an amateur art club in the East End of London.
- Freer Gallery of Art opens in Washington, D.C. as the first Smithsonian museum dedicated to the fine arts.[3]
- Remington Art Memorial established in Ogdensburg, New York.
- Harwood Museum of Art established in Taos, New Mexico.
- Beaux Arts Gallery established in London by Frederick and Helen Lessore.
Awards
- Archibald Prize: W B McInnes â Portrait of a Lady
Works
- Max Beckmann â Dance in Baden-Baden
- George Bellows â Dempsey and Firpo
- Pierre Bonnard - La Cote D'azur[4]
- Constantin BrâncuÈi â Bird in Space (sculpture; first version)
- Felice Casorati â Meriggio (Noon)
- Tamara de Lempicka â Les Deux amies
- Robert Delaunay â Portrait of Tristan Tzara
- Marcel Duchamp â The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) (completed)
- Max Ernst â Pietà or Revolution by Night
- M. C. Escher â Dolphins (woodcut)
- George Grosz â Ecce Homo (portfolio of lithographs)
- Auguste Herbin â Bowls Players
- Marguerite Huré â Stained glass windows at Ãglise Notre-Dame du Raincy
- Wassily Kandinsky â On White II
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner â The Sleigh Ride
- Sir John Lavery â The Red Rose
- Sir Bertram Mackennal
- Phoebus Driving the Horses of the Sun (Australia House, London)
- Mother Courage (war memorial, Caledonian Club, London)
- Here I Am, male nude for Eton College War Memorial (now National Gallery of Victoria, Australia)
- Henri Matisse â Odalisque with Raised Arms
- Mikhail Nesterov â Girl by the Pool
- William Orpen â To the Unknown British Soldier in France (first finished state)
- Pablo Picasso
- The Pipes of Pan
- Paulo on a Donkey
- Man Ray â Object to Be Destroyed (first version - destroyed 1957)
- Gerrit Rietveld â Red and Blue Chair (colours added in De Stijl style at about this date)
- Stanley Royle â Sheffield from Wincobank Wood
- John Singer Sargent â Sir Philip Sassoon[5]
- Stanley Spencer â The Betrayal
- Lorado Taft â The Recording Angel (sculpture, Waupun, Wisconsin)[6]
- Suzanne Valadon â Blue Room
- World War I Memorial (Berwick, Pennsylvania)
- Yokoyama Taikan â Metempsychosis (çã æµè»¢, Seisei ruten, "The Wheel of Life", Nihonga scroll painting)
Births
- January 16 â Keith Shackleton, English painter and television host (d. 2015)
- February 10 â Shirley Jaffe, American-born abstract painter and sculptor (d. 2016)
- March 9 â André Courrèges, French fashion designer (d. 2016)
- April 8 â George Fisher, American political cartoonist (d. 2003)
- April 24 â Cordelia Oliver, Scottish journalist, painter and art critic (d. 2009)[7]
- May 3 â Norman Thelwell, English cartoonist (d. 2004)
- May 15 â Richard Avedon, American photographer (d. 2004)
- May 22 â Max Velthuijs, Dutch painter, illustrator and author (d. 2005)
- May 27 â Inge Morath, Austrian photographer (d. 2002)
- May 31 â Ellsworth Kelly, American artist (d. 2015)
- June 3 â June Newton, Australian-born photographer (d. 2021)
- June 24 â Marc Riboud, French photographer (d. 2016)
- June 25 â Sam Francis, American painter and printmaker (d. 1994)
- July 12 â Paul Jenkins, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 2012)
- July 28 â Patrick George, English painter (d. 2016)
- September 13 â Edouard Boubat, French photographer (d. 1999)
- September 23 â Osuitok Ipeelee, Canadian Inuk sculptor (d. 2005)
- October 7 â Jean-Paul Riopelle, Canadian painter and sculptor (d. 2002)
- October 27 â Roy Lichtenstein, American pop artist (d. 1997)
- October 28 â David Aronson, Lithuanian American painter (d. 2015)
- November 15 â Miriam Schapiro, Canadian American feminist artist (d. 2015)
- December 1 â Morris, Belgian cartoonist (d. 2001)
- December 13 â Antoni TÃ pies, Spanish painter (d. 2012)
- date unknown â François Ozenda, French painter (d. 1976)
Deaths
- January 12 â Marc Ferrez, Brazilian photographer (b. 1843)
- January 31 â Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish modernist painter, art critic and assassin (b. 1869)
- March 22 â Benjamin Williams Leader, English landscape painter (b. 1831)
- April 15 â Aleksander Sochaczewski, Polish painter (b. 1843)
- April 17 â Jan KotÄra, Czech artist, architect and designer (b. 1871)
- May 29 â Adolf Oberländer, German caricaturist (b. 1845)
- June 15 â Joseph B. Davol, American marine painter (b. 1864)
- June 21 â Edward Clark Potter, American sculptor (b. 1857)
- July 23 â Willy Gretor, Danish-born painter and art dealer (b. 1868)
- August 2/3 â Jacoba van Heemskerck, Dutch painter and graphic artist (b. 1876)
- August 5 â Candace Wheeler, American designer (b. 1827)
- October 2 â John Wilson Bengough, Canadian cartoonist (b. 1851)
- October 19 â Eleanor Norcross, American painter (b. 1854)
- November 2 â Stevan AleksiÄ, Serbian painter (b. 1876)
- November 27 â Penleigh Boyd, Australian landscape painter (b. 1890)
- December 13 â Théophile Steinlen, Swiss/French painter (b. 1859)
- date unknown â Edwin Romanzo Elmer, American painter (b. 1850)