1935 in art
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Events from the year 1935 in art.
Events
[edit]- January – First issue of Axis, a quarterly review of abstract art edited by Myfanwy Piper in England, is published.[1]
- February 15–March 2 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People stages an exhibition Art Commentary on Lynching in New York City.
- May 7 – Artists' Unit group of British modernists announced, superseding Unit One.[1]
- December – Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler undergoes forced sterilization in accordance with Nazi eugenics policies and never paints again.
- Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, designed by Hendrik Petrus Berlage, completed in the Netherlands.
- William Coldstream edits the GPO Film Unit documentary Coal Face.[1]
- Picasso's poetry takes precedence over his graphic work this year.
Works
[edit]- Pierre Bonnard – Nude in the Bathtub
- Alessandro Bruschetti – Fascist Synthesis
- Óscar Domínguez – Le Dimanche
- Gerardo Dottori – Fascist Creations
- Jacob Epstein – Ecce Homo (marble)
- M. C. Escher – Hand with Reflecting Sphere (lithograph)
- James Earle Fraser – sculptures, Washington, D.C.
- Frida Kahlo
- A Few Small Nips (Unos cuantos piquetitos)
- Self-Portrait with Curly Hair
- Fernand Léger – Two Sisters
- L. S. Lowry – The Fever Van
- René Magritte
- The Discovery of Fire
- The Human Condition (second version)
- The Portrait
- Joan Miró
- Paul Nash – Equivalents for the Megaliths
- Pablo Picasso – Jeune Fille Endormie
- Candido Portinari – Coffee
- Diego Rivera – The Spanish Conquest of Mexico
- William Rothenstein – Barn at Cherington, Gloucestershire
- Amrita Sher-Gil
- Kārlis Zāle – Freedom Monument (Riga, Latvia)
Awards
[edit]Births
[edit]- 2 January – David McKee, English author and illustrator (d. 2022)[2]
- 12 January – Teresa del Conde, Mexican art critic and historian (d. 2017)
- 26 January – Paula Rego, Portuguese-born painter (d. 2022)
- 10 February
- John Alcorn, American illustrator (d. 1992)
- Konrad Klapheck, German painter (d. 2023)
- 1 June – Vladislav Lalicki, Serbian painter (d. 2008)
- 13 June – Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Bulgarian & Moroccan-born American installation artists (d. 2020 & 2009 respectively)[3]
- 22 June – Floyd Norman, American animator, writer and comic book artist[4]
- 19 August – Victor Ambrus, Hungarian-born British illustrator (d. 2021)
- 23 August – Roy Strong, English art historian and curator
- 8 September – William Vance, Belgian comics artist (d. 2018)
- 16 September – Carl Andre, American minimalist artist (d. 2024)[5]
- 26 September – Juan Zanotto, Italian-born Argentine comic book artist (d. 2005)
- 30 September – James McKendry, Northern Irish sculptor and painter
- 1 October – Walter De Maria, American minimalist, conceptual artist and land artist (d. 2013)
- 3 October – Sinikka Kurkinen, Finnish painter
- 9 October – Don McCullin, English war photographer
- Full date unknown
- Nina Alovert, Russian-born American ballet photographer
- Rasheed Araeen, Pakistan-born British conceptual artist
- Félix Aráuz, Ecuadorean painter (d. 2024)
- John Barry, English film set designer (d. 1979)
Deaths
[edit]- February 8 – Max Liebermann, German-Jewish impressionist painter (b. 1847)[6]
- February 16 – Carolina Benedicks-Bruce, Swedish sculptor (b. 1856)
- March 25 – William de Leftwich Dodge, American muralist (b. 1867)
- April 15 – Anna Ancher, Danish member of the Skagen Painters group (b. 1859)[7]
- April 22 – Frederick Farrell, Scottish watercolourist, war artist, pneumonia (b. 1882)
- May 3 – Jessie Willcox Smith, American illustrator (b. 1863)
- May 15 – Kazimir Malevich, Polish-Russian painter, art theoretician (b. 1879)[8]
- May 24 – Granville Redmond, American landscape painter (b. 1871)
- July 17 – George William Russell ('Æ'), Irish critic, poet and painter (b. 1867)
- August 15 – Paul Signac, French neo-impressionist painter (b. 1863)[9]
- August 27 – Childe Hassam, American impressionist painter (b. 1859)[10]
- October 2 – Georg Jensen, Danish silversmith (b. 1866)
- October 4 – Jean Béraud, French painter (b. 1849)
- October 9 – Archibald Thorburn, Scottish-born wildlife painter (b. 1860)
- October 11 – Samuel Peploe, Scottish painter (b. 1871)
- October 18 – Gaston Lachaise, French-American sculptor (b. 1882)[11]
- October 23 – Charles Demuth, American painter (b. 1883)[12]
- November 28 – Joaquín Clausell, Mexican impressionist landscape painter, lawyer and political activist (b. 1866)
- Undated
- Harry Fidler, English painter (b. 1856)
- Eva Watson-Schütze, American portrait photographer and curator (b. 1867)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c Maclean, Caroline (2020). Circles and Squares. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4088-8969-5.
- ^ Eccleshare, Julia (2022-04-08). "David McKee obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-03-31.
- ^ Christo; Jeanne-Claude (1996). Christo and Jeanne-Claude Projects: Selected from the Lilja Collection. Azimuth Editions. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-898592-06-8.
- ^ "Disney Legends: Floyd Norman". D23.com (Disney). Archived from the original on September 8, 2015. Retrieved July 23, 2017.
- ^ National Gallery of Australia; Michael Lloyd (1992). European and American Paintings and Sculptures 1870-1970 in the Australian National Gallery. Australian National Gallery. p. 332. ISBN 978-0-642-13034-1.
- ^ Käthe Kollwitz: Die Tagebücher 1908–1943. Jutta Bohnke-Kollwitz (ed.). btb, Munich 2007. entry from the 9 February 1935.
- ^ Delia Gaze; Maja Mihajlovic; Leanda Shrimpton (1997). Dictionary of Women Artists: Introductory surveys ; Artists, A-I. Taylor & Francis. p. 183. ISBN 978-1-884964-21-3.
- ^ Rainer Crone; David Moos (1991). Kazimir Malevich: The Climax of Disclosure. Reaktion Books. p. 228. ISBN 978-0-948462-81-8.
- ^ Sixty Paintings from the Národní Galerie, Prague: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, June 3-September L988. National Gallery. 1987. p. 68.
- ^ Hiesinger, Ulrich W. (1991). Impressionism in America: the Ten American Painters. Munich: Prestel-Verlag. p. 171. ISBN 3-7913-1142-5.
- ^ National Gallery of Australia; Michael Lloyd (1992). European and American Paintings and Sculptures 1870-1970 in the Australian National Gallery. Australian National Gallery. p. 160. ISBN 978-0-642-13034-1.
- ^ Charles Demuth; Bruce Kellner; Demuth Foundation (2000). Letters of Charles Demuth, American Artist, 1883-1935. Temple University Press. p. 139. ISBN 978-1-56639-781-0.