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List of years in Art

Contents 1 Events 2 Awards 3 Works 3.1 Paintings 3.2 Sculptures 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Josef Albers marries Anni Fleischmann.
• In Paris, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry sponsors the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes from April through October; the event gives a name to the Art Deco style. Le Corbusier's Pavillon d'Esprit Nouveau is so disliked by the organizers that they erect a six-meter-high fence around it.
• The Bauhaus moves from Weimar to Dessau.

[edit] Awards

• Archibald Prize: John Longstaff - Portrait of Maurice Moscovitch

[edit] Works

[edit] Paintings

• George Adomeit - Down to the Harbor
• Pierre Bonnard - Nude at the Toilet Table
• Otto Dix - Portrait of the Dancer Anita Berber
• Arthur Dove - The Critic
• Lyonel Feininger - Barfüßerkirche in Erfurt I (Staatsgalerie Stuttgart)
• George Grosz - Portrait of the Writer Max Herrmann-Neisse
• Edward Hopper - House by the Railroad
• Wassily Kandinsky - Yellow-Red-Blue
• Tamara de Lempicka - Autoportrait (Tamara in the Green Bugatti)
• Veno Pilon - Russian Woman

[edit] Sculptures

• Wäinö Aaltonen - Statue of Paavo Nurmi
• Alberto Giacometti - Torso
• Frederick Roth - Statue of Balto, Central Park

[edit] Births

• 1 January - Mario Merz, Italian artist (d.2003).
• 17 January - Duane Hanson, American sculptor (d.1996).
• 12 February - Joan Mitchell, American Abstract Expressionist painter (d.1992).
• 4 April - Emmett Williams, American poet and Fluxus artist (d.2007).
• 29 April - Iwao Takamoto, Japanese American animator, television producer, and film director (d.2007).
• 16 May - Hannes Hegen, cartoonist and illustrator.
• 22 May - Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (d.1991).
• 23 July - Burt Glinn, American photographer (d.2008).
• 26 August - Robert Colescott, American artist (d.2009).
• 22 October - Robert Rauschenberg, American artist (d.2008).
• 28 October - Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (d.2006).
• 30 November - Lenore Jaffee, painter.
• 18 December - John Szarkowski, American photographer, curator, historian and critic (d.2007).
• date unknown
  • James Bingham, Northern Irish painter.

[edit] Deaths

• January 8 - George Bellows (b. 1882)
• March 1 - Ramon Pichot, mentor of Salvador Dalí
• May 2 - Jan Stursa, sculptor (b. 1880)
• July 17 - Lovis Corinth, painter and printmaker (b. 1858)
• September 25 - Charles Cottet, post-impressionist painter (b. 1863)
• November 27 - Roger de la Fresnaye, painter (b. 1885)
• December 18 - Sir Hamo Thornycroft, sculptor (b. 1850)
• December 29 - Félix Vallotton, painter and graphic artist (b. 1865)
• John Singer Sargent, painter (b. 1856)
• date unknown - Karl Brendel, schizophrenic outsider artist (b. 1871)