1909 In Art

Events from the year 1909 in art.

Events

* February 20 – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's Futurist Manifesto is first published, in the French newspaper ''Le Figaro''.
* May–June – Claude Monet's ''Water Lilies'' series of paintings are first exhibited, at Paul Durand-Ruel's gallery in Paris.
* July 22 – Widowed Irish-born painter John Lavery marries Irish American painter Hazel Martyn.
* Guillaume Apollinaire's first book of poetry is illustrated with woodcuts by André Derain.
* Léon Bakst begins painting scenery for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, beginning with ''Cleopatra''.
* Robert Delaunay begins painting his ''Saint-Sévrin'', ''City'' and ''Eiffel Tower'' series.
* Lithuanian Jewish sculptor Jacques Lipchitz moves to Paris to study and work.
* Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque create the first works of analytical cubism.
* Sonderbund westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler established in Düsseldorf.
* Kunsthalle Mannheim established as a permanent art gallery.
* Reformation Wall created in Geneva by Swiss architects Charles Dubois, Alphonse Laverrière, Eugène Monod and Jean Taillens with figures by French sculptors Paul Landowski and Henri Bouchard.

* Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky is commissioned by Nicholas II of Russia to begin a record in color photography of his empire.
* Henri Gaudier meets Sophie Brzeska at the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in Paris.

Works

* Lawrence Alma-Tadema –
A Favourite Custom
' (Tate Britain)
* Giacomo Balla – ''Street Light''
* George Bellows
** '' Blue Morning''
** ''The Lone Tenement''
** '' Summer Night, Riverside Drive''
* Gutzon Borglum – ''Rabboni'' (sculpture, Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.)
* Antoine Bourdelle – '' Hercules the Archer'' (bronze)
* Milly Childers –
The Terrace
' (Palace of Westminster)
* Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
** '' Angels (Paradise)''
** '' Fairy Tale Castle''
** '' Kings' Fairy Tale''
** ''Lightning''
** '' Rural Cemetery''
* Cyrus Edwin Dallin – '' Appeal to the Great Spirit'' (bronze)
* Charles Fouqueray – ''La Reconquista de Buenos Aires''
* J. W. Godward
**
At The Thermae
'
** '' A Classical Beauty''
** ''Tympanistria''
* Winslow Homer – '' Right and Left''
* John Haberle – ''Night'' (New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut)
* Erich Heckel – '' Bathers in the Reeds''
* Robert Henri – ''Salome''
* Wassily Kandinsky – ''The Blue Mountain''
* Gustav Klimt
** ''Lady with Hat and Feather Boa''
** '' The Tree of Life'' (Stoclet Frieze)
** ''Judith II'' (''Salomé'')
* Boris Kustodiev
** '' Promenade Along the Volga''
** '' Promenade Along the Volga II''
* Frances MacDonald – ''Sleeping Princess''
* Ambrose McEvoy – ''Euphemia''
* Jacek Malczewski – '' At the Source''
* Edward Middleton Manigault – '' The Rocket''
* Henri Matisse – '' Dance (I)''
* Edvard Munch – '' Self-portrait at the Clinic''
* Gabriele Münter – ''Marianne von Werefkin''
* Pablo Picasso
**
Fruit Dish
' (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
** ''Woman with a Fan'' (Pushkin Museum, Moscow)
* Howard Pyle – ''Marooned''
* Pierre-Auguste Renoir - '' Claude Renoir in Clown Costume''
* Zinaida Serebriakova – '' At the Dressing-Table: Self-portrait''
* Konstantin Somov – ''Mikhail Kuzmin''
* Vardges Sureniants
** '' Knight-Woman''
** ''Mkrtich Khrimian''
** '' Return of Queen Zabel of Armenia''
* Lorado Taft – bronzes
** '' Eternal Silence'' ( Graceland Cemetery, Chicago)
** Statue of George Washington (University of Washington, Seattle)
* Albert Chevallier Tayler – '' Elizabeth Barrett Browning - The Anniversary: "I love thee to the level of everyday's most quiet need"''
* J. W. Waterhouse – '' Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May''

Births

January to June

* January 16 – Clement Greenberg, American art critic (d.1994).
* January 25 – Joseph Solman, American painter (d. 2008).
* February 7 – Wilhelm Freddie, Danish painter and sculptor (d. 1995).
* February 12 – Zoran Mušič, Slovenian- born painter (d. 2005).
* February 17 – Gertrude Abercrombie, American painter (d. 1977).
* February 19 – Enrico Donati, Italian- born American Surrealist painter and sculptor (d. 2008).
* February 26 – Michel Tapié, French artist, critic, curator, and art collector (d. 1987).
* March 8 – H. J. Ward, American illustrator (d. 1945).
* March 13 – Reynolds Stone, English wood engraver (d. 1979).
* March 22 – Milt Kahl, American animator (d. 1987).
* April 3 – Graham Stuart Thomas, English horticultural artist, author and garden designer (d. 2003).
* April 30 – F. E. McWilliam, Irish sculptor (d. 1992).
* May 17 – Giulio Carlo Argan, Italian art historian and politician (d. 1992).
* June 14 – Ettore DeGrazia, American impressionist, painter, sculptor and lithographer (d. 1982).
* June 26 – Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American animator (d. 1985).

July to December

* July 13 – Marie-Thérèse Walter, mistress of Pablo Picasso (d. 1977).
* September 14 – Peter Scott, English ornithologist, conservationist, painter (d. 1989).
* September 23 – Marianne Straub, Swiss-born British textile designer (d. 1994).
* September 28 – Al Capp, cartoonist (d. 1979).
* October 13 – Herblock, political cartoonist (d. 2001).
* October 19 – Marguerite Perey, French physicist and academic (d. 1975)
* October 28 – Francis Bacon, Irish-born British figurative painter (d. 1992).
* November 5 – Milena Pavlović-Barili, Serbian painter and poet (d. 1945).
* November 6 – Herman Rose (Herman Rappaport), American painter (d. 2007).
* December 25 – Philip Zec, British political cartoonist (d. 1983).

Full date unknown

* Gabriel Hayes, Irish sculptor and coin designer (d. 1978).

Deaths

* January 9 – Paul Gachet, French physician to artists, Impressionist art collector and amateur painter (b. 1828)
* February 11 – Russell Sturgis, American architect and art critic (b. 1836)
* February 20 – Paul Ranson, French painter and writer (b. 1864)
* February 26 – Caran d'Ache, French political cartoonist (b. 1858)
* April 20 – Hélène Bertaux, French sculptor and women's rights activist (b. 1825)
* June 22 – Edward John Gregory, English painter (b. 1850)
* August 23 – Adolf von Becker, Finnish painter (b. 1831)
* November 9 – William Powell Frith, English genre painter (b. 1819)
* November 21 – Peder Severin Krøyer, Norwegian painter (b. 1851)
* November 23 – Otto Sinding, Norwegian painter (b. 1842)
* November 25 – Cyprian Godebski, Polish sculptor and teacher (b. 1835) Piotr Szubert, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
"Cyprian Godebski biography"
Instytut Adama Mickiewicza ''(Adam Mickiewicz Institute)'', February 2002.

References

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