1920 In Art

Events from the year 1920 in art.

Events

* February 1 – The National Art Gallery of Georgia opens in Tbilisi.
* March 17 – The Edith Cavell Memorial, by George Frampton, is unveiled in London.
* March 27 – Society of Wood Engravers founded in the United Kingdom.
* June 30–August 25 – The first Dadaist Fair is held in Berlin (Tempelhof). The Cologne group is formed by Jean Arp, Max Ernst and Alfred Grünwald.
* August 5 – Publication of the 'Realistic Manifesto', a Constructivist text, by Naum Gabo with his brother Anton Pevsner in Moscow.
* November 7 – The "mass action" ''The Storming of the Winter Palace'', directed by Nikolai Evreinov, is staged outside the Winter Palace in Petrograd.
*''unknown dates''
** Katherine Dreier, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp form Société Anonyme.
** Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada set up the Leach Pottery in St Ives, Cornwall.
** The Heckscher Museum of Art is established in Huntington, New York.
** The Latvian Museum of Foreign Art is established in Riga.
** Droit de suite is introduced in France.

Works

* Hans Baluschek – '' City of Workers''
* Cecilia Beaux – portrait of Georges Clemenceau
* Thomas Hart Benton – '' People of Chilmark (figure composition)''
* Pierre Bonnard – ''Landscape in Normandy''
* Alexander Stirling Calder – ''Swann Memorial Fountain'' (Philadelphia)
* Sydney Carline – '' The Destruction of the Turkish Transport in the Gorge of the Wadi Fara, Palestine''
* Lovis Corinth – ''Flowers and Wilhelmine''
* Otto Dix
**
The Card Players
(Kartenspieler)''
** ''The Match Vendor I''
* Max Ernst
** '' The Hat Makes the Man'' (collage and gouache)
** '' Murdering Airplane'' (collage)
* James Earle Fraser – Frederick Keep Monument (Washington, D.C.)
* Daniel Chester French
** Abraham Lincoln (statue in Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.)
** Dupont Circle Fountain (Washington, D.C.)
** ''Wisconsin'' (statue on Wisconsin State Capitol)
* J. W. Godward – ''A Red, Red Rose''
* George Grosz – '' Republican Automatons''
* Richard Jack –
The Passing of the Chieftain
'
* Goscombe John – Equestrian statue of the Viscount Wolseley (London)
* Einar Jónsson – ''Thorfinn Karlsefni'' (bronze statue, Philadelphia)
* Eric Kennington – '' The Victims'' (retitled ''The Conquerors'')
* Winifred Knights – ''The Deluge''
* Boris Kustodiev
** ''Blue House''
** '' The Bolshevik''
** '' Portrait of Isaak Brodsky''
** '' Trinity Day''
* George Washington Lambert – ''A sergeant of the Light Horse''
* Edwin Lutyens
** The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London (stone version)
** with Alfred Munnings (sculptor) – Equestrian statue of Edward Horner, St Andrew's Church, Mells, Somerset, England
* Paul Klee – ''Angelus Novus'' (worked copper plate)
* Stanton Macdonald-Wright – ''Airplane Synchromy in Yellow-Orange''
* Henri Matisse – ''Interior at Nice''
* Christopher R. W. Nevinson – '' The Soul of the Soulless City'' (originally ''New York – an Abstraction'')
* William Nicholson
** ''Gertrude Jekyll''
**
Miss Jekyll's Gardening Boots
'
* Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin – '' 1918 in Petrograd (Petrograd Madonna)''
* Victor Rousseau – Bronze figure group for Anglo-Belgian Memorial, London
* Charles Marie Louis Joseph Sarrabezolles – '' L'Âme de la France'' (plaster version)
* Georg Scholz – ''Industrial Farmers'' (Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal)
* Charles Sheeler – ''Church Street El''
* Mario Sironi – ''Truck''
* Stanley Spencer
** ''The Last Supper''
** ''Christ Carrying the Cross''
* Lorado Taft – ''Fountain of Time'' (Chicago)
* Aston Webb (architect) and Alfred Drury (sculptor) – London Troops War Memorial

Publications

* Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler – ''Der Weg zum Kubismus'' ("The Rise of Cubism").

Births

January to June

* January 12 – Bill Reid, Canadian artist (d. 1998).
* January 17 – Georges Pichard, French comics artist (d. 2003).
* January 30 – Patrick Heron, English painter, writer and designer (d. 1999).
* February 22 – Rocco Borella, Italian painter (d. 1994).
* March 3 – Ronald Searle, English cartoonist (d. 2011).
* March 14 – Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d. 2001).
* March 19 – Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian poet and artist (d. 2002)
* March 27 – Robin Jacques, English illustrator (d. 1995).
* April 8 – Hans Coper, German-born studio potter (d. 1981).
* April 24 – Paul Wonner, American painter (d. 2008).
* April 26 – Maynard Reece, American painter (d. 2020)
* May – Hans Josephsohn, German-born sculptor (d. 2012).
* May 8
** Saul Bass, American graphic designer and filmmaker (d. 1996).
** Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (d. 1991).
* May 10 - Erna Viitol, Estonian sculptor (d. 2001).
* June 4 – Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter, muralist, sculptor and engraver (d. 1992).
* June 24
** John Coplans, British-born painter and photographer (d. 2003)
** Jimmy Ernst, German-born American painter (d. 1984).
* June 29 – Ray Harryhausen, American-born stop-motion animator, sculptor (d. 2013).

July to December

* July 20 – Arthur Boyd, Australian painter and sculptor (d. 1999).
* July 21 – Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter, one of the innovators of Unitary Urbanism (d. 2005).
* August 1 – Ken Bald, American comic book artist and illustrator (d. 2019)
* August 5 – George Tooker, American figurative painter (d. 2011).
* August 9 – Gerda Schmidt-Panknin, German painter (d. 2021)
* August 15 – Judy Cassab, born Judit Kaszab, Austrian-born Australian portrait painter (d. 2015).
* August 22 – Gene Davis, American painter (d. 1985).
* August 26
** Mauri Favén, Finnish painter (d. 2006).
** Brant Parker, American cartoonist (d. 2007).
* August 30 – Leonid Shvartsman, Soviet and Russian animator and artist (d. 2022).
* October 13 – Elaine Hamilton, American painter (d. 2010).
* October 31 – Helmut Newton, German-born photographer (d. 2004).
* November 23 – Wayne Thiebaud, American painter.
* November 30 – Walter Chandoha, American cat photographer (d. 2019).
*December 14 – Claire Fejes, American artist
* December 18 – Enrique Grau, Colombian painter and sculptor (d. 2004).
* December 21 – Bob Bindig, American illustrator (d. 2007)

Full date unknown

* Adrian Heath, Burmese-born English painter (d. 1992).
* Raymond Moore, English landscape photographer (d. 1987).
* Daniel O'Neill, Irish painter (d. 1974).

Deaths

* January 24 – Amedeo Modigliani, Italian-born painter and sculptor (b. 1884)
* January 26 – Jeanne Hébuterne, French artist, Modigliani's mistress and model (suicide) (b. 1898)
* March 3 – Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (b. 1840)
* March 13 – Mary Devens, American pictorial photographer (b. 1857)
* March 15 – Edith Holden, English nature artist and art teacher (b. 1871)
* March 26 – Samuel Colman, American painter and designer (b. 1832)
* April 20 – Briton Rivière, British painter (b. 1840)
* April 27 – Jacob Ungerer, German sculptor (b. 1840)
* May 7 – Hugh Thomson, British illustrator (b. 1860)
* May 12 – Georges Petit, French art dealer (b. 1856)
* July 5 – Max Klinger, German painter and sculptor (b. 1857)
* July 14 – Albert von Keller, German painter (b. 1844)
* July 17 – Sir Edmund Elton, 8th Baronet, English studio potter (b. 1846)
* August 4 – C. G. Finch-Davies, British bird painter (b. 1875)
* August 6 – Edward Francis Searles, American interior designer (b. 1841)
* August 12 – Walter W. Winans, American sculptor, painter, marksman and horse-breeder (b. 1852)
* August 22 – Anders Zorn, Swedish portrait painter (b. 1860)
* September 24 – Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian-born jeweller (b. 1846)
* November 13 – Luc-Olivier Merson, French painter (b. 1846)
* ''date unknown'' – Edith Corbet, Australian-born British landscape painter (b. 1846)

References

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