1930 In Art

Events from the year 1930 in art.

Events

* June–July – Christopher Wood paints in Brittany.
* 29 November – Première of the Surrealist film ''L'Age d'Or'' by Luis Buñuel (co-written with Salvador Dalí) at Studio 28 in Paris.
* Theo van Doesburg produces a "Manifesto of Concrete art".
* Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant complete the decoration of the dining room for Dorothy Wellesley at Penns-in-the-Rocks, Withyham, England.
* Malvina Hoffman begins sculpting life-size figures for the Field Museum's Hall of Man.
* Great Bardfield Artists community established in England.
* Bernard Berenson publishes ''The Italian Painters of the Renaissance''.
* Milt Gross publishes his wordless novel ''He Done Her Wrong'' in the United States.
* Soviet sale of Hermitage paintings begins.
* Spanish postage stamps depict Goya's ''La maja desnuda''.
* Approximate date – Gertrud Arndt begins a series of photographic self-portraits at the Bauhaus.

Awards

* Archibald Prize: W. B. McInnes – ''Drum-Major Harry McClelland''

Exhibitions

* April – Cercle et Carré exhibition opens at ''Galerie 23'' in the Rue La Boétie, Paris.

Works

* Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious – Mural in refectory of Morley College, London (begun 1928; destroyed in The Blitz 1940)
* Pierre Bonnard – ''Pots''
* Patrick Henry Bruce – ''Peinture'' (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
* Edward Burra –
The Snack Bar
'
* John Steuart Curry –
Hogs Killing a Snake
'
* Theo van Doesburg – ''Arithmetic Composition''
* M. C. Escher
** ''The Bridge'' (lithograph)
** '' Castrovalva'' (lithograph)
** ''Palizzi, Calabria'' (woodcut)
** ''Pentedattilo, Calabria'' (lithograph)
** ''Street in Scanno, Abruzzi'' (lithograph)
* Thomas Cooper Gotch – '' The Exile: Heavy Is The Price I Paid For Love''
* James Guthrie – ''Statesmen of World War I''
* Edward Hopper – '' Early Sunday Morning''
* Augustus John – ''Portrait of Tallulah Bankhead''
* Rozsa Klein (Rogi André) – ''Bonnard's Palette''
* Helmut Kolle
** '' Self-Portrait in Hunting Attire''
** ''Young Man with a Colored Scarf''
* Abel Lafleur – ''Victory'' (trophy)
* Fernand Léger – ''Mona Lisa with Keys''
* L. S. Lowry –
Coming from the Mill
'
* Jeanne Mammen – ''Free Room''
* Henri Matisse – ''The Back Series'' (bas-reliefs)
* Alice Neel –
Ethel Ashton
' (nude portrait)
* José Clemente Orozco – ''Prometheus'' (fresco at Pomona College, California)
* Charles Sheeler –
American Landscape
'
* T. F. Šimon – '' View in Old Prague'' (woodcut)
* Grace Cossington Smith – '' The Bridge in Curve''
* Herbert Tyson Smith – bronze reliefs for Liverpool Cenotaph
* Sophie Taeuber-Arp –
Composition of Circles and Overlapping Angles
'
* Edward Trumbull – '' Transport and Human Endeavor'' (ceiling mural, lobby, Chrysler Building, New York City)
* Christopher Wood
** ''Anemones in a Cornish Window''
**
Zebra and Parachute
'
* Grant Wood
** ''American Gothic''
** ''Stone City, Iowa''
* W. L. Wyllie –
Panorama of the Battle of Trafalgar
' (Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth)
* Xu Beihong – '' A Portrait of Sun Duoci''
* '' Statler Fountain''

Births

January to June

* 15 January – Paul Ahyi, Togolese artist and sculptor (d. 2010)
* 26 January – Napoleon Abueva, Filipino sculptor (d. 2018)
* 3 February – Gillian Ayres, English abstract painter (d. 2018)
* 10 February – Eva Frankfurther, German-born portrait painter (suicide 1959)
* 13 February – Ernst Fuchs, Austrian artist (d. 2015)
* 18 February – Gahan Wilson, American cartoonist (d. 2019)
* 21 February – Enrique Tábara)
* 24 February – Anita Steckel, American feminist artist (d. 2012)
* 25 February – Wendy Beckett, English contemplative nun and art historian (d. 2018)
* 7 March – Antony Armstrong-Jones, English photographer (d. 2017)
* 8 March – Hector Lombana, Colombian sculptor, painter and architect (d. 2008)
* 11 March – David Gentleman, English graphic designer
* 27 March – Daniel Spoerri, Romanian-Swiss artist and writer
* 30 March – Rolf Harris, Australian entertainer, painter and child sexual abuser
* 31 March – Susan Weil, American painter
* 1 April – John Houston, Scottish painter (d. 2008)
* 12 April – Manuel Neri, American sculptor, painter and printmaker (d. 2021)
* 14 May – James Beck, American art historian (d. 2007)
* 15 May – Jasper Johns, American painter, sculptor and printmaker
* 22 May – Marisol Escobar, French-born sculptor and printmaker (d.2016)
* 23 May
** Richard Anuszkiewicz, American painter, sculptor and printmaker (d. 2020)
** Aslan, French-born pin-up artist (d.2014)
* 24 May – Unity Spencer, English artist (d. 2017)
* 30 May – Robert Ryman, American monochrome painter (d. 2019)
* 5 June – Vladimir Popov, Soviet animator, animation and art director (d. 1987)
* 15 June – Ikuo Hirayama, Japanese painter (d. 2009)
* 16 June – Allan D'Arcangelo)
* 19 June – Bryan Kneale, Manx sculptor and academic
* 20 June – Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish sculptor (d. 2017)
* 24 June
**Pierre Restany, French art critic and cultural philosopher (d. 2003)
**Flip Schulke, American photojournalist (d. 2008)

July to December

* 4 July – Mohamed Demagh, Algerian sculptor (d. 2018)
* 4 August - Astrid Zydower, German-born British sculptor (d. 2005)
* 5 September – Ibrahim El-Salahi, Sudanese painter
* 28 September – Nikolai Pozdneev, Russian painter (d. 1978)
* 3 October – Robyn Denny, British abstract artist (d. 2014)
* 7 October – Kurt Dornis, German painter, graphic artist and draughtsman
* 8 October – Faith Ringgold, African American painter and fabric artist
* 18 October – Trevor Bell, English painter (d. 2017)
* 29 October – Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor, painter and film maker (d. 2002)
* 7 November – Robert Natkin, American painter (d. 2010)
* 13 November – Benny Andrews, American painter and academic (d. 2006)
* 14 November – Elisabeth Frink, English sculptor (d. 1993)
* 31 December – Luis Marsans, Catalan painter (d. 2015)

Deaths

* January 7 – Max Schmalzl, German religious painter and illustrator (b. 1850)
* March 3 – W. W. Quatremain, English landscape painter (b. 1857)
* March 19 – Andreas Walser, Swiss painter (b. 1908)
* March 24 – Eugeen Van Mieghem, Belgian painter (b. 1875)
* April 17 – Aleksandr Golovin, Russian stage designer (b. 1863)
* April 30 – John Russell, Australian Impressionist painter (b. 1858)
* May 10 – Julio Romero de Torres, Spanish painter (b. 1874)
* May 28 – George Washington Lambert, Australian portrait painter and war artist (b. 1873)
* June 3 – Alexander Bogomazov, Ukrainian painter and modern art theoretician of Russian avant-garde (b. 1880)
* June 5
** Sophie Holten, Danish painter (b. 1858)
** Jules Pascin, Bulgarian-born painter and draftsman (b. 1885)
* July 22 – Wacław Szymanowski, Polish sculptor and painter (b. 1859)
* August 21 – Christopher Wood, English painter (b. 1901) (suicide)
* August 28 – Stanisław Bergman, Polish painter (b. 1862)
* September 6 – Sir James Guthrie, Scottish painter (b. 1859)
* September 24 – Otto Mueller, German Expressionist painter (b. 1874)
* September 25 – Abram Arkhipov, Russian painter (b. 1862)
* September 29 – Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter (b. 1844)
* December 9 – Laura Muntz Lyall, Canadian Impressionist painter (b. 1860)
* December 17 – Nikolay Kasatkin, Russian painter (b. 1859)
* December 28 – Antonio Mancini, Italian painter (b. 1852)
* ''date unknown'' – Peter Moog, outsider artist (b. 1871)

See also

* 1930 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References

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Years of the 20th century in art
1930s in art