1921_in_art
1921 in art
Overview of the events of 1921 in art
Events from the year 1921 in art.
- March – Puhl & Wagner are contracted to decorate the interior of the Golden Hall (Stockholm City Hall) with neo-Byzantine mosaics designed by Einar Forseth.
- September–October – 5x5=25 abstract art exhibition held in Moscow.
- The experimental short documentary film Manhatta is shot by painter Charles Sheeler and photographer Paul Strand in New York City.
- Thomas Gainsborough's c. 1770 portrait The Blue Boy from the collection of the Duke of Westminster is sold by dealer Joseph Duveen to California magnate Henry E. Huntington for $728,800 (£182,200; equivalent to $12.3 million in 2023), according to Duveen's bill, a record price for any painting at this time.[1]
- Paul Sérusier publishes his ABC of Painting.
- André Delatte opens his glasswares studio in Nancy.
- Simon Rodia begins construction of the Watts Towers in Los Angeles.
- Archibald Prize: W B McInnes – Desbrowe Annear
See also: Category:1921 sculptures
- Carlo Carrà – The Engineer's Lover
- Dora Carrington – Farm at Watendlath
- Charles Demuth – Incense of a New Church
- Guy Pène du Bois – An American Oriental
- Marcel Duchamp – Why Not Sneeze, Rose Sélavy? (assisted readymade)
- Max Ernst – The Elephant Celebes
- Jean Louis Germos - Matoax
- Lady Feodora Gleichen – 37th (British) Division memorial (Monchy-le-Preux, France)
- Daniel Chester French – Statue of the Marquis de Lafayette
- J. W. Godward – Megilla
- Duncan Grant – Bathers by the Pond
- Auguste Herbin – Le Cateau-Cambrésis
- Edward Hopper – Girl at Sewing Machine
- Seán Keating – Men of the South
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
- Boris Kustodiev – Portrait of Chaliapin
- Fernand Léger
- Wyndham Lewis – Mr Wyndham Lewis as a Tyro
- Sir Bertram Mackennal – Bronze equestrian statue of King Edward VII (Waterloo Place, London)
- Piet Mondrian
- Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue
- Tableau I
- Paul Moreau-Vauthier – Western Front demarcation stones
- Edvard Munch – Model by the Wicker Chair[2]
- Alfred Munnings – The Red Prince Mare
- Francis Picabia
- The Cacodylic Eye
- Cannibale
- Pablo Picasso
- Reading the Letter
- Three Musicians (two versions)
- Man Ray (with Erik Satie) – The Gift (readymade sculpture)
- Stanley Spencer
- Christ's Entry into Jerusalem
- Crucifixion
- Félix Vallotton – Femme nue dormant au bord de l'eau
- Han van Meegeren – Hertje ("The fawn")
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January to June
- January 1 – César Baldaccini, French sculptor (d. 1998)
- January 3 – Bill Gold, American graphic designer (d. 2018)
- January 14 – Norris Embry, American neo-expressionist painter (d. 1981)
- January 24 – Sybil Connolly, Welsh-Irish fashion designer (d. 1998)
- January 27 – Georges Mathieu, French abstract painter (d. 2012)
- February 2 – Pietro Cascella, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 2008)
- February 5 – Ken Adam, German-born British film set designer (d. 2016)
- February 13 – Louis Féraud, French fashion designer and artist (d. 1999)
- February 20 – Michael Ayrton, English sculptor, graphic artist and writer (d. 1975)
- February 22 – Cecil King, Irish abstract-minimalist painter (d. 1986)
- February 23 – John Latham, Zambian conceptual artist (d. 2006)
- March 2 – Ernst Haas, Austrian photographer (d. 1986)
- March 13 – Al Jaffee, American cartoonist (d. 2023)
- March 28 – Norman Bluhm, American painter (d. 1999)
- April 21 – Dimitrije Bašičević, Serbian painter and sculptor (d. 1987)
- April 23 – William Brice, American painter and teacher (d. 2008)
- April 25 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter, sculptor and poet (d. 2006)
- May 18 – Joan Eardley, British painter (d. 1963)
- May 29 – Enzo Plazzotta, Italian-born British sculptor (d. 1981)
- June 20 – Fiore de Henriquez, Italian-born British sculptor (d. 2004)
July to December
- July 16
- Ernst Beyeler, Swiss art dealer and collector (d. 2010)
- Guy Laroche, French fashion designer (d. 1989)
- July 16 – Boscoe Holder, Trinidadian painter (d. 2007)
- July 17 – Richard Jeranian, Armenian painter, draftsman and lithographer (d. 2019)
- August 4 – Jean Pierre Capron, French painter (d. 1997)
- August 18 – Zdzisław Żygulski, Jr., Polish art historian (d. 2015)
- August 28 – Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, French photographer (d. 2004)
- September 22 – Will Elder, American illustrator and comic book artist (d. 2008)
- September 25 – Jacques Martin, French comics creator (d. 2010)
- September 27 – Jean-Pierre Sudre, French photographer (d. 1997)
- October 26 – Raymond Nasher, American art collector (d. 2007)
- November 12 – Gerson Leiber, American painter, lithographer and sculptor (d. 2018)
- November 17 – Albert Bertelsen, Danish artist (d. 2019)
- November 26 – Françoise Gilot, French watercolorist and ceramicist (d. 2023)
- January 18 – Adolf von Hildebrand, sculptor (born 1847)
- January 30 – John Francis Murphy, landscape painter (born 1853)
- February 2 – Antonio Jacobsen, Danish-American maritime artist (born 1850)
- February 3 – William Strang, painter and engraver (born 1859)
- February 4 – Eugène Burnand, Swiss painter (born 1850)
- February 11 – William Blake Richmond, English painter and designer (born 1842)
- February 21 – George Dunlop Leslie, English genre painter (born 1835)
- March 2 – Johann Friedrich Engel, German painter (born 1844)
- March 23 – Jean-Paul Laurens, painter and sculptor (born 1838)
- March 24 – Marcus Stone, painter and illustrator (born 1840)
- March 30 – Franz Benque, photographer (born 1841)
- April 6 – Vardges Sureniants, Armenian painter (born 1860)
- April 30 – Mabel Esplin, English stained-glass artist (born 1874)
- May 5 – William Friese-Greene, photographer and cinematographer (born 1855)
- May 29 – Abbott Handerson Thayer, painter (born 1849)
- June – Frank Enders, painter and etcher (born 1860)
- October 7 – John Thomson, photographer (born 1837)
- November 1 – Francisco Pradilla Ortiz, painter (born 1848)
- November 12 – Fernand Khnopff, Symbolist painter (born 1858)
- November 13 – William Robert Colton, sculptor (born 1867)
- Thorpe, James (1994). Henry Edwards Huntington, A Biography. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 438. ISBN 0520082540. According to a mention in The New York Times 11 November 1921, the purchase price was $640,000. "WolframAlpha conversion".
- "Model by the Wicker Chair". Munchmuseet (Munch Museum). Retrieved 5 March 2021.