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1915 in art
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May – Ambrose Heal and others found the Design and Industries Association in London. May – Publication of the first modern book illustrated with wood engravings, june 10 – The only Vorticist exhibition staged opens at the Doré Gallery in London. October 24 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolos frescos, Translation of the House of Loreto, december 19 – Kasimir Malevich stages the 0.10 Exhibition and originates Suprematism. Harpers Bazaar hires Erté to design its covers, edward McKnight Kauffer is given his first commission to design a poster for the Underground Electric Railways Company of London. Shōzaburō Watanabe originates shin-hanga collaborative woodblock printing in Japan, the first of the Etruscan terracotta warriors, forged by sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti with the Riccardi family, is purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. 14-year-old Alice Prin is posing for sculptors in Paris, W. R. W. L. February 11 – Mervyn Levy, Welsh artist and critic. March 10 – Harry Bertoia, Italian-born American artist and furniture designer, april 4 – Louis Archambault, Canadian sculptor
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1916 in art
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February 9 –6.00 p. m. – Tristan Tzara founds Dadaism. March 1 – Liljevalchs konsthall inaugurated in Stockholm, may 20 – Boy with Baby Carriage is Norman Rockwells first cover for The Saturday Evening Post. May – Muirhead Bone recruited as a war artist by the British War Propaganda Bureau, at the end of the year, his album of drawings The Western Front begins publication. June 16 – Cleveland Museum of Art opens, august 31 – Kestnergesellschaft founded in Hanover, Germany. September 19 – Edvard Munchs paintings for the Aula of Det Kongelige Frederiks Universitet, september 26 – C. R. W. Nevinsons first major single-artist exhibition opens in London. November – John Nash arrives with the Artists Rifles in France, vanessa Bells first single-artist exhibition is staged at Omega Workshops in London. Provincial Fine Arts Museum completed in Córdoba, Argentina, ezra Pound publishes Gaudier-Brzeska, A Memoir. W. R. W. Nevinson Archies The Doctor Dog-Tired French Troops Resting Matthew Smith – Fitzroy Street Nude No
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1917 in art
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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 by I. L. Peretz is published in Vilnius. Max Beckmann – Deposition Lovis Corinth – Portrait of Julius Meier-Graefe Marcel Duchamp – Fountain Jacob Epstein – An American Soldier Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven – God J. W. S. R. W. T. C
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1918 in art
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February – British War Memorials Committee formed to commission artworks to create a memorial to the World War I. February 16 – Joan Mirós first solo exhibition opens at the Dalmau Gallery, March – C. R. W. Nevinson has an exhibition at the Leicester Galleries in London. May – Stanley Spencer, a serving British Army soldier, is appointed as a war artist. A similar appointment is made this year for Australian soldier Frank R. Crozier, may 3 – William Orpens exhibition War opens in London, the paintings are donated to the British government. May 11 – Paul Nashs exhibition The Void of War opens at the Leicester Galleries in London, june 18 – Pablo Picasso marries Olga Khoklova. June – Alfred Stieglitz begins nude photography of Georgia OKeeffe, October 15 – Kunsthalle Bern opened. November 3 – The Robespierre Monument, designed by Beatrice Yuryevna Sandomierz, is unveiled, December 3 – Founding of the November Group of expressionist artists in Germany. Denver Art Museum opens its first galleries, frans Masereels wordless novel 25 Images of a Mans Passion is published. 12 March – Elaine de Kooning, American abstract expressionist painter,10 April – Cornell Capa, Hungarian-American photographer and photo curator. 9 May – Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter,10 May – Desmond MacNamara, Irish painter, sculptor, and author 11 July – Roy Krenkel, American illustrator. 25 July – Jane Frank, American painter, sculptor, mixed media artist,8 August – Brian Stonehouse, English painter and Special Operations Executive agent during World War II. 22 September – Cleve Gray, American Abstract expressionist painter,7 October – Mimmo Rotella, Italian artist and poet. 8 November – Hermann Zapf, German typeface designer,14 December – Jack Cole, American comic book artist. 18 December – Kali, born Hanna Gordziałkowska, Polish-born portrait painter and Resistance agent during World War II
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1919 in art
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April 25 – The Bauhaus architectural and design movement is founded in Weimar, Germany, by Walter Gropius. December – The National War Paintings and Other Records exhibition staged at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, seven and Five Society established in London. Piet Mondrian, in Paris, begins painting his grid-based compositions, musée Rodin opens in Paris at the Hôtel Biron and Villa des Brillants, Meudon. Chaim Soutine first visits Céret in the Pyrenees where he begins a series of landscapes, les Champs Magnétiques, the first book produced using the techniques of surrealist automatism, is written by André Breton and Philippe Soupault. Publication in England of W. Somerset Maughams novel The Moon and Sixpence, aleksandra Ekster – City at Night Jacob Epstein – Sergeanat D. F. R. W. 1859) date unknown Edmund Elisha Case, American painter
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1920 in art
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February 1 – National Art Gallery opens in Tblisi. November 7 – The mass action The Storming of the Winter Palace, the Cologne Dadaist group is formed by Jean Arp, Max Ernst and Alfred Grünwald. Katherine Dreier, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp form Société Anonyme, bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada set up the Leach Pottery in St Ives, Cornwall. Heckscher Museum of Art established in Huntington, New York, latvian Museum of Foreign Art established in Riga. Art historian Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler publishes Der Weg Zum Kubismus, W. January 17 – Georges Pichard, French comics artist. January 30 – Patrick Heron, English painter, writer and designer, march 3 – Ronald Searle, English cartoonist. March 14 – Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist, march 27 – Robin Jacques, English illustrator. April 8 – Hans Coper, German-born studio potter, april 24 – Paul Wonner, American painter. May – Hans Josephsohn, German-born sculptor, may 8 Saul Bass, American graphic designer and filmmaker. Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist, may 10 - Erna Viitol, Estonian sculptor June 4 – Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter, muralist, sculptor and engraver. June 24 John Coplans, painter, photographer Jimmy Ernst, American painter born in Germany, June 29 – Ray Harryhausen, stop-motion animator, sculptor. July 20 – Arthur Boyd, Australian painter and sculptor, july 21 – Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter, one of the innovators of Unitary Urbanism. August 5 – George Tooker, painter, august 15 – Judy Cassab, born Judit Kaszab, Austrian-born Australian portrait painter. August 22 – Gene Davis, American painter, august 26 Mauri Favén, Finnish painter. October 31 – Helmut Newton, photographer, november 23 – Wayne Thiebaud, American painter. December 18 – Enrique Grau, Colombian painter and sculptor, december 21 – Bob Bindig, American illustrator Elaine Hamilton, American painter
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1922 in art
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February 1 – Akron Art Institute opens in Ohio. February 11–18 – Modern Art Week at the Theatro Municipal, São Paulo, lady Lever Art Gallery opens in Port Sunlight, England. There are some protests by Dadaists, max Beerbohms collection of caricatures, Rossetti and His Circle, is published in London. Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor y Zaragoza, court painter to Alfonso XIII of Spain, is appointed director of the Museo del Prado in Madrid, german psychiatrist Hans Prinzhorn publishes Bildnerei der Geisteskranken. W. Godward Contemplation Nu Sur la Plage Juan Gris – Le Pierrot Paul Klee – Twittering Machine George Washington Lambert – Anzac, january 17 – Robert De Niro, Sr. January 23 – Leon Golub, American painter March 3 – Louis Maratier, French post-impressionist artist, March 10 – Kiyoshi Yamashita, Japanese outsider artist March 27 – Jules Olitski, American abstract painter, printmaker, and sculptor. March 28 – Grace Hartigan, American Abstract Expressionist painter April 22 – Richard Diebenkorn, April 24 – Richard Hamilton, English painter and collage artist. May 7 – Joe ODonnell, American photographer, june 22 – Bill Blass, American fashion designer. July 3 – Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Corneille, painter July 25 – Fred Yates, august 8 – Rudi Gernreich, Austrian American fashion designer. September 3 – Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter, october 3 – John Craxton, English painter. September 9 – Pauline Baynes, English book illustrator, December 8 – Lucian Freud, German-born British painter and printmaker December 17 – Aart van den IJssel, Dutch sculptor. December 31 – Theodoros Stamos, Greek American abstract expressionist painter, ljubinka Jovanović, Serbian painter living and working in Paris and Belgrade
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1930 in art
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June–July – Christopher Wood paints in Brittany. 29 November – Première of the Surrealist film LAge dOr by Luis Buñuel at Studio 28 in Paris, theo van Doesburg produces a Manifesto of Concrete art. Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant complete the decoration of the room for Dorothy Wellesley at Penns-in-the-Rocks, Withyham. Malvina Hoffman begins sculpting life-size figures for the Field Museums 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. Spanish postage stamps depict Goyas La maja desnuda, approximate date – Gertrud Arndt begins a series of photographic self-portraits at the Bauhaus. Archibald Prize, W B McInnes – Drum-Major Harry McClelland April – Cercle et Carré exhibition opens at Galerie 23 in the Rue La Boétie, Paris
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Stanley Spencer
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Sir Stanley Spencer CBE RA was an English painter. Spencer referred to Cookham as a village in Heaven and in his biblical scenes, although his compositions became more claustrophobic and his use of colour less vivid he maintained an attention to detail in his paintings akin to that of the Pre-Raphaelites. Spencers works often express his fervent if unconventional Christian faith and this is especially evident in the scenes that he based in Cookham which show the compassion that he felt for his fellow residents and also his romantic and sexual obsessions. Spencers works originally provoked great shock and controversy, Spencers early work is regarded as a synthesis of French Post-Impressionism, exemplified for instance by Paul Gauguin, plus early Italian painting typified by Giotto. Stanley Spencer was born in Cookham, Berkshire, the surviving child of William. His father, usually known as Par, was a music teacher, stanleys younger brother, Gilbert Spencer, also became a notable artist, known principally for his landscapes. The family home, Fernlea, on Cookham High Street, had built by Spencers grandfather Julius Spencer. Stanley Spencer was educated at home by his sisters Annie and Florence, as his parents had reservations about the council school. However, Gilbert and Stanley took drawing lessons from a local artist, Par Spencer approached local landowners, Lord and Lady Boston, for advice, and Lady Boston agreed Stanley could spend time drawing with her each week. In 1907 Lady Boston arranged for Stanley to attend Maidenhead Technical Institute, from 1908 to 1912, Spencer studied at the Slade School of Fine Art at University College London, under Henry Tonks and others. His contemporaries at the Slade included Dora Carrington, Maxwell Gordon Lightfoot, Mark Gertler, Paul Nash, Edward Wadsworth, Isaac Rosenberg, so profound was his attachment to Cookham that most days he would take the train back home in time for tea. It even became his nickname, his fellow student Christopher R. W. Nevinson dubbed him Cookham, while at the Slade, Spencer allied with a, short-lived, group who called themselves the Neo-Primitives which was centred on Bomberg and William Roberts. In 1912 Spencer exhibited the painting John Donne Arriving in Heaven, in 1914 Spencer completed Zacharias and Elizabeth and The Centurions Servant. The latter painting featured not only Spencer himself as the servant, but also his brothers and he also began work on a self-portrait. Self-portrait was painted in Wisteria Cottage, a decaying Georgian house Spencer rented, from the local coalman in Cookham, apple Gatherers had been bought by the artist Henry Lamb, who promptly sold it to the art collector Edward Marsh. Marsh later bought Self-portrait and considered it to be masterly. glowing with genius, at the start of World War One Spencer was keen to enlist but his mother persuaded him, given his poor physique, to apply for ambulance duties. After thirteen months at Beaufort, the RAMC transferred Spencer to overseas duties and he left Beaufort in May 1916 and after ten weeks training at Tweseldown Camp in Hampshire, the 24-year-old Spencer was sent to Macedonia, with the 68th Field Ambulance unit. In 1917 he subsequently volunteered to be transferred to a regiment, the 7th Battalion
