1917 In Art

Events from the year 1917 in art.

Events

* January – A drunken Amedeo Modigliani is ejected from a party for Georges Braque, by the hostess, Marie Vassilieff.
* January 29 – Rodin marries his mistress, Rose Beuret; she dies two weeks later.
* Eric Kennington, William Orpen, C. R. W. Nevinson, Paul Nash and William Rothenstein are sent as war artists to the Western Front from England.
* De Stijl artistic movement is established by Theo van Doesburg.
* The Allen Memorial Art Museum is established at Oberlin College in Ohio.
* The Marc Chagall illustrated version of ''The Magician'' (דער קונצענמאכער, ''Der Kuntsenmakher'') by I. L. Peretz (d. 1915) is published in Vilnius.

Works

* Max Beckmann – ''Deposition'' (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
* Lovis Corinth – ''Portrait of Julius Meier-Graefe''
* Heinrich Maria Davringhausen – ''The Poet Däubler''
* Marcel Duchamp (anonymously) – ''Fountain'' ( readymade)
* Jacob Epstein – ''An American Soldier'' (bust)
*Daniel Chester French – Lafayette Memorial
* Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven – ''God'' ( readymade sculpture)
* J. W. Godward
** ''The Fruit Vendor''
** ''A Lily Pond''
** ''Under The Blossom That Hangs On The Bough''
* George Grosz
** ''The City''
**
Explosion
'
** ''Metropolis''
* Rudolf Alfred Höger – '' Nach dem Vorstoß, Russische Kriegsgefangene'' (''After the Foray: Russian Prisoners of War'')
* Paul Klee – ''Ab ovo''
* Gustav Klimt – ''Portrait of a Lady''
* Isidore Konti – '' Nymph and Fawn'' (bronze fountain)
* Boris Kustodiev – '' Portrait of Countess Grabowska''
* Hans Larwin – '' Soldat und Tod''
* Fernand Léger – ''The Card Game''
* L. S. Lowry – ''Coming from the Mill''
* Maximilien Luce
** '' The Execution of Varlin''
** '' La Gare de l'Est in snow''
* George Luks – ''Houston Street''
* Henri Matisse
** ''The Music Lesson''
** ''The Painter and His Model''
* Joan Miró
** ''Portrait of Vincent Nubiola''
** ''The Village''
* Amedeo Modigliani
** ''Anna Zborowska''
** ''Nu couché'' ("Reclining Nude")
** '' Nude Sitting on a Divan''
* C. R. W. Nevinson
**
After a Push
'
** ''Britain's Efforts and Ideals'' series of lithographs
**
A Group of Soldiers
'
**
A Howitzer Gun in Elevation
'
**
Over the Lines
'
** ''Paths of Glory''
** '' The Road from Arras to Bapaume''
**
Swooping Down on a Hostile Plane
'
**
A Tank
'
* Hilda Rix Nicholas – ''Desolation'' (approximate date; destroyed)
* Georgia O'Keeffe – '' Light Coming on the Plains'' (watercolor series)
* William Orpen
**
An Airman – Lieutenant R.T.C. Hoidge MC
'
** '' Blown Up, Mad''
**
Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig
'
**
German 'Planes Visiting Cassel
'
**
A Highlander Passing a Grave
'
** '' Ready to Start: Self Portrait''
** ''Schwaben Redoubt''
** ''Self-portrait''
**
Theipval
'
** '' The Thinker on the Butte de Warlencourt'' (original pencil & watercolour version)
**
View from the Old British Trenches, Looking towards La Boisselle, Courcelette on the Left, Martinpuich on the Right
'
* Glyn Philpot
** ''Siegfried Sassoon''
** '' A Young Breton (Guillaume Rolland)''
* Pablo Picasso – ''Olga Picasso in an Armchair''
* Auguste Rodin – ''The Gates of Hell'' (sculpture unfinished at his death)
* Egon Schiele – ''The Embrace''
* Zinaida Serebriakova – ''Bleaching Cloth''
* Charles Sheeler –
Doylestown House – Stairs from Below
' (photograph)
* John French Sloan –
Passing through Gloucester
'
* Alfred Stieglitz – ''The Last Days of 291'' (photograph)
* Tom Thomson
** '' April in Algonquin Park''
** ''The Jack Pine'' (National Gallery of Canada)
** '' The West Wind''
* Félix Vallotton
** ''The Church of Souain in Silhouette''
** '' Senegalese Soldiers at the camp of Mailly''
* J. W. Waterhouse – ''Fair Rosamund''
* Christopher Williams – '' The Red Dress''

Births

* 9 January – Virginia Surtees, English art historian and biographer (d. 2017)
* 5 February – Lucienne Day, née Conradi, British textile designer (d. 2010)
* 20 February – Manny Farber, American painter and film critic (d. 2008)
* 20 February – Louisa Matthíasdóttir, Icelandic- American painter (d. 2000)
* 1 March – Tom Keating, English art restorer and art faker (d. 1984)
* 12 March – Milton Resnick, American painter (d. 2004)
* 24 March – Constantine Andreou, Greek painter and sculptor (d. 2007)
* 6 April – Leonora Carrington, English-born surrealist painter working in Mexico (d. 2011)
* 21 May – Frank Bellamy, English comics artist (d. 1976)
* 12 July – Andrew Wyeth, American painter (d. 2009)
* 14 July – Ben Enwonwu, Nigerian painter and sculptor (d. 1994)
* 11 August – Dik Browne, American cartoonist (d. 1989)
* 28 August – Jack Kirby, American comic book artist, writer and editor (d. 1994)
* 3 September – Anthony Robert Klitz, English artist (d. 2000)
* 7 September – Jacob Lawrence, African American painter (d. 2000)
* 11 September – Daniel Wildenstein, French international art dealer and scholar (d. 2001)
* 25 December – John Minton, English painter and illustrator (suicide 1957)

Deaths

* January 15 – William De Morgan, English ceramic artist (b. 1839)
* January 21 – Francesca Alexander, American illustrator (b. 1837)
* February 10 – John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist (b. 1849)
* February 17 – Carolus-Duran, French painter (b. 1837)
* March 27 – Moses Jacob Ezekiel, American sculptor working in Italy (b. 1844)
* March 28 – Albert Pinkham Ryder, American painter (b. 1847)
* April 23 – Robert Koehler, German American painter (b. 1850)
* June 30 – Antonio de La Gandara, French painter (b. 1861)
* July 8 – Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877) (drowned during a canoeing trip on Canoe Lake in Algonquin Park)
* September 27 – Edgar Degas, French painter and sculptor (b. 1834)
* October 14 – Nathaniel Hone the Younger, Irish painter (b. 1831)
* October 23 – Eugène Grasset, Swiss artist (b. 1845)
* November 17
** Sir Charles Holroyd, English etcher (b. 1861)
** Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b. 1840)
* December 21 – Wilhelm Trübner, German painter (b. 1851)
* (date unknown) – Raffaele Belliazzi, Italian sculptor (b. 1835)

References

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Years of the 20th century in art
1910s in art