1938 in art
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Events from the year 1938 in art.
Events
- January 2 â SS Alba sinks off St Ives, Cornwall; the wreck is painted by local ex-fisherman naïve artist Alfred Wallis in several versions, one of which will subsequently be displayed in Tate St Ives, metres from the wreck.
- January 16 â International Exposition of Surrealism opens at the Galerie des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
- January 24 â Peggy Guggenheim opens her Guggenheim Jeune gallery at 30 Cork Street in London with a display of work by Jean Cocteau, followed in February by the first showing of Wassily Kandinsky's work in Britain.[1]
- Spring/Summer â Wyndham Lewis's Portrait of T. S. Eliot is submitted for exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London but rejected (as expected by the artist),[2][3] although Eliot himself approves of the painting and Augustus John resigns from the academy in reaction to its rejection.[4]
- July 8 â Exhibition of twentieth century German art opens in London at the New Burlington Galleries, challenging the Nazi view of "degenerate art" in its home country.[5]
- July 10 â Second GroÃe Deutsche Kunstausstellung ("Great German Art Exhibition") opened by Adolf Hitler in the Haus der deutschen Kunst ("House of German Art") in Munich; Hitler attacks the contemporary London exhibition.[5]
- July 13 â Kröller-Müller Museum, designed by Henry van de Velde, opens in Otterlo, Netherlands.
- September â Piet Mondrian moves from Paris to London.[6]
- December 5â17 â Albert Namatjira exhibition in Melbourne includes over 2,000 works, the first solo display of indigenous Australian art.
- American art collector Louis J. Caldor 'discovers' the naïve paintings of Grandma Moses.
Awards
- Archibald Prize: Nora Heysen â Mme Elink Schuurman
Works
- Vilmos Aba-Novák â Fair in Transylvania
- Rita Angus â Head of a Maori Boy
- Thomas Hart Benton â Haystack
- Constantin BrâncuÈi â The Endless Column (sculpture)
- Javier Bueno â The Fighter of Madrid
- Marc Chagall â White Crucifixion
- William Coldstream â Bolton
- Salvador DalÃ
- Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach
- Impressions of Africa[7]
- Rainy Taxi
- Charles Despiau â Assia (sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York)
- Arthur Dove â Swing Music
- M. C. Escher â Sky and Water II (lithograph)
- Leonor Fini
- Composition with Figures on a Terrace
- D'Un jour à l'autre (From One Day to Another, diptych)
- Jared French - Lunchtime with Early Miners (mural) in Plymouth, Pennsylvania[8]
- Edward Hopper â Compartment C, Car 293
- Kurt Hutton â Funfair, Southend, Essex (photograph)
- Frida Kahlo
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner â Violet House in Front of a Snowy Mountain
- Paul Klee - Oriental Bliss[9]
- L. S. Lowry â Family Group
- René Magritte â Time Transfixed
- Aristide Maillol â Air
- Ronald Moody â Tacet (carved wood head)
- Paul Nash
- Landscape from a Dream
- Nocturnal Landscape
- John Petts â Fishwife of Ynys Mon
- Pablo Picasso
- Femme au beret rouge-orange
- Maya with Doll
- Walter Sickert â Sir Thomas Beecham Conducting
- Steffen Thomas â Pioneer Women
- Rex Whistler â Capriccio (dining room mural at Plas Newydd in North Wales)
- Ignacio Zuloaga â The Alcázar in Flames (Heroic Landscape of Toledo)
Births
- January 2
- January 7 â Roland Topor, French illustrator, painter, writer and filmmaker (d. 1997)
- February 13 â Joan Brown, American figurative painter (d. 1990)
- February 22 â Paul Neagu, Romanian-born artist (d. 2004)[10]
- March 6 â Pauline Boty, English pop art painter (d. 1966)
- March 15 â Dick Higgins, English composer, poet, printer and early Fluxus artist (d. 1998)
- April 20 â Andrew Vicari, Welsh-born portrait painter (d. 2016)
- May 12 â Paul Huxley, English painter and academic
- May 18 â Janet Fish, American Realist painter
- May 20 â Astrid Kirchherr, German photographer (d. 2020)
- July 24 â Eugene J. Martin, American visual artist (d. 2005)
- July 28 â Robert Hughes, Australian-born art critic (d. 2012)
- July 30 â Terry O'Neill, British photographer (d. 2019)
- August 19 â Robert Graham, Mexican-American sculptor (d. 2008)
- August 29 â Hermann Nitsch, Austrian performance artist
- September 1 â Per Kirkeby, Danish artist (d. 2018)
- September 25 â Bill Owens, American photographer
- September 27 â Günter Brus, Austrian performance artist
- October 10 â DaidÅ Moriyama, Japanese photographer
- October 15 â Brice Marden, American painter
- October 20 â Iain Macmillan, Scottish photographer (d. 2006)
- November 2 â Richard Serra, American abstract sculptor (d. 2024)
- November 10 â Claude Serre, French cartoonist (d. 1998)
- December 25 â Duane Armstrong, American painter
- date unknown
- John Behan, Irish sculptor
- Rotraut Klein-Moquay, German-French visual artist
- Takeshi Mizukoshi, Japanese landscape photographer
Deaths
- January 1 â Alice Bailly, Swiss painter and multimedia artist (b. 1872)
- January 19 â Rosa Mayreder, Austrian freethinker, author, painter, musician and feminist (b. 1858)
- February 3 â Niels Skovgaard, Danish sculptor and painter (b. 1858)
- February 28 â C. E. Brock, English painter and illustrator (b. 1870)
- April 7 â Suzanne Valadon, French artists' model and painter, mother of Utrillo (b. 1865)
- April 24 â John Wycliffe Lowes Forster, Canadian historical portrait painter (b. 1850)
- May 22 â William Glackens, American realist painter (b. 1870)
- June 5 â Mikuláš Galanda, Slovak modernist painter and illustrator (b. 1895)
- June 15 â Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German Expressionist painter (b. 1880; suicide)
- June 19 â MarÃa Obligado de Soto y Calvo, Argentinian painter (b. 1857)
- June 24 â C. Yarnall Abbott, American photographer and painter (b. 1870)
- September 6 â Mary Seton Watts, British symbolist craftswoman and designer (b. 1849)
- October 24 â Ernst Barlach, German Expressionist sculptor (b. 1870)
- December 4 â Gonzalo Bilbao, Spanish painter (b. 1860)[11]
- Antonio Fabrés, Catalan painter (b. 1854)