1930 in art
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Events from the year 1930 in art.
Events
- JuneâJuly â Christopher Wood paints in Brittany.
- 29 November â Première of the Surrealist film L'Age d'Or by Luis Buñuel (co-written with Salvador DalÃ) 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 â Gertrud Arndt begins a series of photographic self-portraits at the Bauhaus.
Awards
- Archibald Prize: W. B. McInnes â Drum-Major Harry McClelland
Exhibitions
- April â Cercle et Carré exhibition opens at Galerie 23 in the Rue La Boétie, Paris.
Works
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- Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious â Mural in refectory of Morley College, London (begun 1928; destroyed in The Blitz 1940)
- Pierre Bonnard â Pots
- Patrick Henry Bruce â Peinture (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
- Edward Burra â The Snack Bar
- John Steuart Curry â Hogs Killing a Snake
- Theo van Doesburg â Arithmetic Composition
- Raoul Dufy â Pink Nude
- M. C. Escher
- The Bridge (lithograph)
- Castrovalva (lithograph)
- Palizzi, Calabria (woodcut)
- Pentedattilo, Calabria (lithograph)
- Street in Scanno, Abruzzi (lithograph)
- Thomas Cooper Gotch â The Exile: Heavy Is The Price I Paid For Love
- James Guthrie â Statesmen of World War I
- Edward Hopper â Early Sunday Morning
- Augustus John â Portrait of Tallulah Bankhead
- Paul Klee â Has Head, Hand, Feet and Heart
- Rozsa Klein (Rogi André) â Bonnard's Palette
- Helmut Kolle
- Self-Portrait in Hunting Attire
- Young Man with a Colored Scarf
- Abel Lafleur â Victory (trophy)
- Fernand Léger â Mona Lisa with Keys
- L. S. Lowry â Coming from the Mill
- Jeanne Mammen â Free Room
- Henri Matisse â The Back Series (bas-reliefs)
- Piet Mondrian - Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow
- Alice Neel â Ethel Ashton (nude portrait)
- Georgia O'Keeffe â Rust Red Hills
- José Clemente Orozco â Prometheus (fresco at Pomona College, California)
- Diego Rivera â History of Morelos, Conquest and Revolution
- Charles Sheeler â American Landscape
- T. F. Å imon â View in Old Prague (woodcut)
- Grace Cossington Smith â The Bridge in Curve
- Herbert Tyson Smith â bronze reliefs for Liverpool Cenotaph
- Sophie Taeuber-Arp â Composition of Circles and Overlapping Angles
- Edward Trumbull â Transport and Human Endeavor (ceiling mural, lobby, Chrysler Building, New York City)[2]
- Suzanne Valadon â Nude Woman with a Blue Shawl
- Christopher Wood
- Anemones in a Cornish Window
- Zebra and Parachute
- Grant Wood
- N. C. Wyeth â Reception to Washington on April 21, 1789, at Trenton on his way to New York to Assume the Duties of the Presidency of the United States
- W. L. Wyllie â Panorama of the Battle of Trafalgar (Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth)[3]
- Xu Beihong â A Portrait of Sun Duoci
- Statler Fountain
Births
January to June
- 15 January â Paul Ahyi, Togolese artist and sculptor (d. 2010)
- 26 January â Napoleon Abueva, Filipino sculptor (d. 2018)[4]
- 3 February â Gillian Ayres, English abstract painter (d. 2018)
- 10 February â Eva Frankfurther, German-born portrait painter (suicide 1959)
- 13 February â Ernst Fuchs, Austrian artist (d. 2015)[5]
- 18 February â Gahan Wilson, American cartoonist (d. 2019)
- 21 February â Enrique Tábara, Ecuadorian painter (d. 2021)
- 24 February â Anita Steckel, American feminist artist (d. 2012)
- 25 February â Wendy Beckett, English contemplative nun and art historian (d. 2018)
- 7 March â Antony Armstrong-Jones, English photographer (d. 2017)[6]
- 8 March â Hector Lombana, Colombian sculptor, painter and architect (d. 2008)
- 11 March â David Gentleman, English graphic designer
- 27 March â Daniel Spoerri, Romanian-Swiss artist and writer[7]
- 30 March â Rolf Harris, Australian entertainer, painter and child sexual abuser (d. 2023)[8]
- 31 March â Susan Weil, American painter[9]
- 1 April â John Houston, Scottish painter (d. 2008)
- 12 April â Manuel Neri, American sculptor, painter and printmaker (d. 2021)
- 14 May â James Beck, American art historian (d. 2007)
- 15 May â Jasper Johns, American painter, sculptor and printmaker[10]
- 22 May â 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 â Unity Spencer, English artist (d. 2017)
- 30 May â Robert Ryman, American monochrome painter (d. 2019)
- 5 June â Vladimir Popov, Soviet animator, animation and art director (d. 1987)
- 15 June â Ikuo Hirayama, Japanese painter (d. 2009)
- 16 June â Allan D'Arcangelo, American painter and graphic artist (d. 1998)
- 19 June â Bryan Kneale, Manx sculptor and academic
- 20 June â 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
- 4 July â Mohamed Demagh, Algerian sculptor (d. 2018)
- 4 August - Astrid Zydower, German-born British sculptor (d. 2005)[12]
- 5 September â Ibrahim El-Salahi, Sudanese painter
- 24 September â Bernard Nevill, English textile designer and art collector (d. 2019)[13]
- 28 September â Nikolai Pozdneev, Russian painter (d. 1978)
- 3 October â Robyn Denny, British abstract artist (d. 2014)
- 7 October â Kurt Dornis, German painter, graphic artist and draughtsman
- 8 October â Faith Ringgold, African American painter and fabric artist
- 18 October â Trevor Bell, English painter (d. 2017)
- 29 October â Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor, painter and film maker (d. 2002)[14]
- 7 November â Robert Natkin, American painter (d. 2010)
- 13 November â Benny Andrews, American painter and academic (d. 2006)
- 14 November â Elisabeth Frink, English sculptor (d. 1993)
- 31 December â Luis Marsans, Catalan painter (d. 2015)
Deaths
- January 7 â Max Schmalzl, German religious painter and illustrator (b. 1850)
- March 3 â W. W. Quatremain, English landscape painter (b. 1857)
- March 19 â Andreas Walser, Swiss painter (b. 1908)
- March 24 â Eugeen Van Mieghem, Belgian painter (b. 1875)[15]
- April 17 â Aleksandr Golovin, Russian stage designer (b. 1863)
- April 30 â John Russell, Australian Impressionist painter (b. 1858)
- May 10 â Julio Romero de Torres, Spanish painter (b. 1874)
- May 28 â George Washington Lambert, Australian portrait painter and war artist (b. 1873)
- June 3 â 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 â WacÅaw Szymanowski, Polish sculptor and painter (b. 1859)
- August 21 â Christopher Wood, English painter (b. 1901) (suicide)
- August 28 â StanisÅaw Bergman, Polish painter (b. 1862)
- September 6 â Sir James Guthrie, Scottish painter (b. 1859)
- September 24 â Otto Mueller, German Expressionist painter (b. 1874)
- September 25 â Abram Arkhipov, Russian painter (b. 1862)
- September 29 â Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter (b. 1844)
- December 9 â Laura Muntz Lyall, Canadian Impressionist painter (b. 1860)[19]
- December 17 â Nikolay Kasatkin, Russian painter (b. 1859)
- December 28 â Antonio Mancini, Italian painter (b. 1852)
- date unknown â Peter Moog, outsider artist (b. 1871)