1928 in art
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Events from the year 1928 in art.
Events
- January 7 â The Tate Gallery, London, is one of the buildings flooded by the 1928 Thames flood.[1]
- January 27 â 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.[2]
- March 26 â The China Academy of Art is founded in Hangzhou (originally named the National Academy of Art).
- August â Ben Nicholson and Kit Wood visit St. Ives, Cornwall, and meet the ex-fisherman painter Alfred Wallis.[3]
- October â 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 â Film debut of Mickey Mouse, designed by Ub Iwerks.
- Clarice Cliff introduces her Crocus pottery decoration.[4]
- 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 â Portrait of Dr Alexander Leeper
- Carnegie Prize â André Derain
- Art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics
- Painting: Isaac Israëls â Cavalier Rouge
- Drawing: Jean Jacoby â Rugby
- Graphic work: William Nicholson â 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 â East London Group (as East London Art Club) exhibits at Whitechapel Gallery.
Works
- Wäinö Aaltonen â bust of Jean Sibelius
- Tarsila do Amaral â Abaporu
- Max Beckmann â The Wendelsveg in Frankfurt am Main
- Pierre Bonnard â Flowers on a Red Carpet
- John Steuart Curry
- Baptism in Kansas
- Bathers
- Charles Demuth â I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
- Edwin Dickinson â The Fossil Hunters
- Otto Dix â Metropolis
- M. C. Escher â Tower of Babel (woodcut)
- Meredith Frampton â Marguerite Kelsey
- George Grosz â Hinterground (portfolio of lithographs)
- Edward Hopper
- Prudence Heward â Girl on a Hill
- Frida Kahlo â Dama de Blanco
- André Kertész â The Fork (photograph)
- Paul Klee â Cat and Bird
- Sir John Lavery â 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 â Taxi! Taxi!
- René Magritte
- Henri Matisse
- Odalisque with a Turkish Chair
- Two Odalisques, One Being Nude, Ornamental Ground and Checkerboard
- Ivan MeÅ¡troviÄ â The Bowman and The Spearman (equestrian sculptures, Chicago)
- Joan Miró â Dutch Interiors
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Mahmoud Mokhtar â Egypt's Renaissance (sculpture group, Cairo University, begun 1919, completed)
- Frederick Roth â Equestrian statue of George Washington (Morristown, New Jersey) (bronze)
- Frank O. Salisbury â Clarence Winthrop Bowen
- Christian Schad â Two Girlfriends
- Charles Sheeler â Upper Deck (photograph, approximate date)
- Zinaida Serebriakova â Lit By The Sun
- Charles Sims â I Am the Abyss and I Am Light
- John French Sloan â Sixth Avenue Elevated at Third Street
- Joseph Southall â The Botanists
- Alexej von Jawlensky â Abstract Head
- George Fite Waters â Statue of Abraham Lincoln (Portland, Oregon) (bronze)
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Births
January to June
- January 20 â Malang, Filipino artist (d. 2017)
- January 31 â DuÅ¡an Džamonja, Macedonian sculptor (d. 2009)
- March 1 â Jacques Rivette, French filmmaker (d. 2016)[5]
- March 3 â Jean Rustin, French painter (d. 2013)
- March 18 â Mirka Mora, French-Australian artist and cultural figure (d. 2018)
- March 25 â Hans Steinbrenner, German sculptor (d. 2008)
- April 25 â Cy Twombly, American abstract artist (d. 2011)[6]
- April 28 â Yves Klein, French abstract artist (d. 1962)[7]
- May 4 â Brian O'Doherty aka Patrick Ireland, Irish-born art critic and installation artist (d. 2022)
- May 14 â WÅadysÅaw Hasior, Polish sculptor, painter and set designer (d. 1999)
- May 30 â Pro Hart, Australian painter (d. 2006)
- June 3 â Donald Judd, American sculptor (d. 1994)[8]
- June 16 â Pierrette Bloch, French-Swiss painter, textile artist (d. 2017)[9]
- June 25
July to December
- July 8 â Pat Adams, American painter and printmaker
- July 10 â Bernard Buffet, French painter (d. 1999)
- July 14 â Anwar Shemza, Pakistan-born British artist and writer (d. 1985)
- July 21 â Anne Harris, Canadian sculptor
- August 6 â Andy Warhol, American artist, director and writer (d. 1987)[11]
- August 12 â Charles Blackman, Australian painter and illustrator (d. 2018)[12]
- August 15 â Alan Collins, English figurative religious sculptor (d. 2016)
- August 22 â Roberto Aizenberg, Argentine painter and sculptor (d. 1996)
- August 31 â Jeremy Maas, English art dealer and historian of Victorian painting (d. 1997)
- September 9 â Sol LeWitt, American conceptual and minimalist artist (d. 2007)[13]
- September 10 - Ward Jackson, American painter (d. 2004)
- September 12 â Robert Irwin, American installation artist
- September 13 â Robert Indiana, born Clark, American pop artist (d. 2018)
- October 7 â Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d. 1980)
- October 12 â Al Held, American Abstract expressionist painter (d. 2005)
- October 30 â Michael Andrews, English painter (d. 1995)
- November 3 â Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist, animator and film producer (d. 1989)[14]
- November 6 â Norman Carlberg, American sculptor (d. 2018)
- November 17 â Arman, French-born American artist (d. 2005)[15]
- November 27 â Josh Kirby, English commercial artist (d. 2001)
- December 2 â Guy Bourdin, French photographer (d. 1991)
- December 12 â Helen Frankenthaler, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 2011)
- December 13 â Wolfgang Hutter, Austrian painter, lithographer and designer (d. 2014)
- December 15 â Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian painter, architect and sculptor (d. 2000)[16]
- December 31 â 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)[17]
Deaths
- January 4 â Hamilton Hamilton, American painter (b. 1847)
- January 6 â Adolfo de Carolis, Italian painter, xylographer, illustrator and photographer (b. 1874)
- January 8 â Gyula Basch, Hungarian painter (b. 1859)
- January 13 â Frederick Arthur Bridgman, American painter (b. 1847)
- January 21 â Nikolai Astrup, Norwegian painter (b. 1880)[18]
- January 26 â Henrietta Rae, English painter (b. 1859)
- January â Alexander Reid, Scottish art dealer (b. 1854)
- February 7 â Adolfo de Carolis, Italian painter (b. 1874)
- February 12 â Nicolás Guzmán Bustamante, Chilean painter and draftsman (b. 1850)
- March 31 â Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (b. 1858)[19]
- April 3 â Raffaello Romanelli, Italian sculptor (b. 1856)
- April 5 â Viktor Oliva, Czech painter and illustrator (b. 1861)
- April 13 â Charles Sims, English painter (suicide, b. 1873)
- May 16 â Frederick Arthur Verner, Canadian landscape painter (b. 1836)
- May 21 - George Frampton, English artist (b. 1860)
- June 22 â A. B. Frost, American illustrator (b. 1851)
- July 10 â John Chambers, English landscape and portrait painter (b. 1852)
- July 25 â Jane Sutherland, Australian landscape painter (b. 1853)
- August 30 â Franz Stuck, German symbolist /Art Nouveau painter, sculptor, engraver and architect (b. 1863)
- September 20 â Ivan TiÅ¡ov, Croatian painter (b. 1870)
- October 24 â Arthur Bowen Davies, American artist (b. 1863)[20]
- October 30 â Percy Anderson, English stage designer and painter (b. 1851)
- November 15 â Godfred Christensen, Danish painter (b. 1845)
- December 1 â Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth, German painter (b. 1855)
- December 2 â Robert Reid, American Impressionist painter (b. 1862)
- December 10 â Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect and designer (b. 1868)
- December 15 â Louis Mathieu Verdilhan, French painter (b. 1875)
- December 18 â Nils Bergslien, Norwegian illustrator, painter and sculptor (b. 1853)