1938 in art
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Events from the year 1938 in art.
Events
- January 2 – SS Alba sinks off St Ives, Cornwall; the wreck is painted by local ex-fisherman naïve artist Alfred Wallis in several versions, one of which will subsequently be displayed in Tate St Ives, metres from the wreck.
- January 16 – International Exposition of Surrealism opens at the Galerie des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
- January 24 – Peggy Guggenheim opens her Guggenheim Jeune gallery at 30 Cork Street in London with a display of work by Jean Cocteau, followed in February by the first showing of Wassily Kandinsky's work in Britain.[1]
- Spring/Summer – Wyndham Lewis's Portrait of T. S. Eliot is submitted for exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London but rejected (as expected by the artist),[2][3] although Eliot himself approves of the painting and Augustus John resigns from the academy in reaction to its rejection.[4]
- July 8 – Exhibition of twentieth century German art opens in London at the New Burlington Galleries, challenging the Nazi view of "degenerate art" in its home country.[5]
- July 10 – Second Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung ("Great German Art Exhibition") opened by Adolf Hitler in the Haus der deutschen Kunst ("House of German Art") in Munich; Hitler attacks the contemporary London exhibition.[5]
- July 13 – Kröller-Müller Museum, designed by Henry van de Velde, opens in Otterlo, Netherlands.
- September – Piet Mondrian moves from Paris to London.[6]
- December 5–17 – Albert Namatjira exhibition in Melbourne includes over 2,000 works, the first solo display of indigenous Australian art.
- American art collector Louis J. Caldor 'discovers' the naïve paintings of Grandma Moses.
Awards
- Archibald Prize: Nora Heysen – Mme Elink Schuurman
Works
- Vilmos Aba-Novák – Fair in Transylvania
- Rita Angus – Head of a Maori Boy
- Thomas Hart Benton – Haystack
- Constantin Brâncuși – The Endless Column (sculpture)
- Javier Bueno – The Fighter of Madrid
- Marc Chagall – White Crucifixion
- William Coldstream – Bolton
- Salvador Dalí
- Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach
- Impressions of Africa[7]
- Rainy Taxi
- Charles Despiau – Assia (sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York)
- Arthur Dove – Swing Music
- M. C. Escher – Sky and Water II (lithograph)
- Leonor Fini
- Composition with Figures on a Terrace
- D'Un jour à l'autre (From One Day to Another, diptych)
- Jared French - Lunchtime with Early Miners (mural) in Plymouth, Pennsylvania[8]
- Edward Hopper – Compartment C, Car 293
- Kurt Hutton – Funfair, Southend, Essex (photograph)
- Frida Kahlo
- Four Inhabitants of Mexico City
- Self-Portrait with Monkey
- The Suicide of Dorothy Hale
- What the Water Gave Me
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – Violet House in Front of a Snowy Mountain
- Paul Klee - Oriental Bliss[9]
- L. S. Lowry – Family Group
- René Magritte – Time Transfixed
- Aristide Maillol – Air
- Ronald Moody – Tacet (carved wood head)
- Paul Nash
- Landscape from a Dream
- Nocturnal Landscape
- John Petts – Fishwife of Ynys Mon
- Pablo Picasso
- Femme au beret rouge-orange
- Maya with Doll
- Walter Sickert – Sir Thomas Beecham Conducting
- Steffen Thomas – Pioneer Women
- Rex Whistler – Capriccio (dining room mural at Plas Newydd in North Wales)
- Ignacio Zuloaga – The Alcázar in Flames (Heroic Landscape of Toledo)
Births
- January 2
- January 7 – Roland Topor, French illustrator, painter, writer and filmmaker (d. 1997)
- February 13 – Joan Brown, American figurative painter (d. 1990)
- February 22 – Paul Neagu, Romanian-born artist (d. 2004)[10]
- March 6 – Pauline Boty, English pop art painter (d. 1966)
- March 15 – Dick Higgins, English composer, poet, printer and early Fluxus artist (d. 1998)
- April 20 – Andrew Vicari, Welsh-born portrait painter (d. 2016)
- May 12 – Paul Huxley, English painter and academic
- May 18 – Janet Fish, American Realist painter
- May 20 – Astrid Kirchherr, German photographer (d. 2020)
- July 24 – Eugene J. Martin, American visual artist (d. 2005)
- July 28 – Robert Hughes, Australian-born art critic (d. 2012)
- July 30 – Terry O'Neill, British photographer (d. 2019)
- August 19 – Robert Graham, Mexican-American sculptor (d. 2008)
- August 29 – Hermann Nitsch, Austrian performance artist
- September 1 – Per Kirkeby, Danish artist (d. 2018)
- September 25 – Bill Owens, American photographer
- September 27 – Günter Brus, Austrian performance artist
- October 10 – Daidō Moriyama, Japanese photographer
- October 15 – Brice Marden, American painter
- October 20 – Iain Macmillan, Scottish photographer (d. 2006)
- November 2 – Richard Serra, American abstract sculptor (d. 2024)
- November 10 – Claude Serre, French cartoonist (d. 1998)
- December 25 – Duane Armstrong, American painter
- date unknown
- John Behan, Irish sculptor
- Rotraut Klein-Moquay, German-French visual artist
- Takeshi Mizukoshi, Japanese landscape photographer
Deaths
- January 1 – Alice Bailly, Swiss painter and multimedia artist (b. 1872)
- January 19 – Rosa Mayreder, Austrian freethinker, author, painter, musician and feminist (b. 1858)
- February 3 – Niels Skovgaard, Danish sculptor and painter (b. 1858)
- February 28 – C. E. Brock, English painter and illustrator (b. 1870)
- April 7 – Suzanne Valadon, French artists' model and painter, mother of Utrillo (b. 1865)
- April 24 – John Wycliffe Lowes Forster, Canadian historical portrait painter (b. 1850)
- May 22 – William Glackens, American realist painter (b. 1870)
- June 5 – Mikuláš Galanda, Slovak modernist painter and illustrator (b. 1895)
- June 15 – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German Expressionist painter (b. 1880; suicide)
- June 19 – María Obligado de Soto y Calvo, Argentinian painter (b. 1857)
- June 24 – C. Yarnall Abbott, American photographer and painter (b. 1870)
- September 6 – Mary Seton Watts, British symbolist craftswoman and designer (b. 1849)
- October 24 – Ernst Barlach, German Expressionist sculptor (b. 1870)
- December 4 – Gonzalo Bilbao, Spanish painter (b. 1860)[11]
- Antonio Fabrés, Catalan painter (b. 1854)
See also
References
- ↑ Prose, Francine (2015). Peggy Guggenheim: the shock of the new. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-20348-6.
- ↑ Sherwin, Skye (2017-07-07). "Wyndham Lewis's TS Eliot: a jigsaw puzzle of rebellion and radicalism". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2023-07-03.
- ↑ Meyers, Jeffrey (1980). "Wyndham Lewis and T.S. Eliot: A Friendship". Virginia Quarterly Review. 56 (3). Retrieved 2023-07-03.
- ↑ Birchenough, Tom (2016). "Wyndham Lewis: Portraits of friends and foes". The Tretyakov Gallery Magazine. 51 (2). Retrieved 2023-07-03.
- 1 2 Aaronovitch, David (2018-06-09). "The treasure hunt that revealed Germany's 'degenerate' delights". The Times Saturday Review. London. pp. 8–9.
- ↑ Grant, Simon (2010-06-25). "Artist Piet Mondrian in London: the forgotten years". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2021-06-04.
- ↑ "Impressions of Africa, 1938 by Salvador Dali".
- ↑ "Jared French, "Lunchtime with Early Miners", 1938, Mural in the Plymouth US Post Office Building in Pennsylvania, New Deal Public Works of Art Project copy 2". 19 September 2021.
- ↑ "Oriental Bliss, 1938 Paul Klee". Louvre Abu Dhabi.
- ↑ Anish Kapoor (28 June 2004). "Paul Neagu". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
- ↑ Bernardino de Pantorba (1961). Picture Galleries in Madrid: A Critical and Historical Study. Editorial Mayfe. p. 1.