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1928 in art
Overview of the events of 1928 in art
Events from the year 1928 in art.
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- January 7 – The Tate Gallery, London, is one of the buildings flooded by the 1928 Thames flood.[1]
- March 26 – The China Academy of Art is founded in Hangzhou (originally named the National Academy of Art).
- August – Ben Nicholson and Kit Wood visit St. Ives, Cornwall, and meet the ex-fisherman painter Alfred Wallis.[2]
- October – English artist and designer Eric Gill moves with some of his artistic community from Capel-y-ffin in Wales to 'Pigotts' at Speen, Buckinghamshire, near High Wycombe.
- November 18 – Film debut of Mickey Mouse, designed by Ub Iwerks.
- Clarice Cliff introduces her Crocus pottery decoration.[3]
- Pierre Chareau and colleagues begin construction of the Maison de Verre ("house of glass") on the rue Saint-Guillaume in Paris for client Jean Dalsace.
- Charles Haslewood Shannon suffers a fall while hanging a picture which ends his career as an artist.
- Archibald Prize: John Longstaff – Portrait of Dr Alexander Leeper
- Carnegie Prize – André Derain
- Art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics
- Painting: Isaac Israëls – Cavalier Rouge
- Drawing: Jean Jacoby – Rugby
- Graphic work: William Nicholson – An Almanac of Twelve Sports
- Alexander Calder's first solo exhibition at the Weyhe Gallery, New York City.
- L'Exposition surréaliste at the Galerie du Sacre du Printemps, Paris.
- December – East London Group (as East London Art Club) exhibits at Whitechapel Gallery.
See also: Category:1928 sculptures
- Wäinö Aaltonen – bust of Jean Sibelius
- Tarsila do Amaral – Abaporu
- Pierre Bonnard – Flowers on a Red Carpet
- John Steuart Curry
- Baptism in Kansas
- Bathers
- Charles Demuth – I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
- Edwin Dickinson – The Fossil Hunters
- Otto Dix – Metropolis
- M. C. Escher – Tower of Babel (woodcut)
- Meredith Frampton – Marguerite Kelsey
- George Grosz – Hinterground (portfolio of lithographs)
- Edward Hopper
- Prudence Heward – Girl on a Hill
- Frida Kahlo – Dama de Blanco
- André Kertész – The Fork (photograph)
- Sir John Lavery – Portrait of Lady Lavery as Kathleen Ni Houlihan
- Tamara de Lempicka
- Andromeda
- Portrait of Dr. Boucard
- L. S. Lowry
- A Street Scene
- Going to the Match
- Eugenie McEvoy – Taxi! Taxi!
- René Magritte – The Empty Mask
- Henri Matisse – Odalisque au fauteuil turc
- Ivan Meštrović – The Bowman and The Spearman (equestrian sculptures, Chicago)
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Mahmoud Mokhtar – Egypt's Renaissance (sculpture group, Cairo University, begun 1919, completed)
- Frederick Roth – Equestrian statue of George Washington (Morristown, New Jersey) (bronze)
- Frank O. Salisbury – Clarence Winthrop Bowen
- Christian Schad – Two Girlfriends
- Charles Sheeler – Upper Deck (photograph, approximate date)
- Zinaida Serebriakova – Lit By The Sun
- Charles Sims – I Am the Abyss and I Am Light
- John French Sloan – Sixth Avenue Elevated at Third Street
- Joseph Southall – The Botanists
- Alexej von Jawlensky – Abstract Head
- George Fite Waters – Statue of Abraham Lincoln (Portland, Oregon) (bronze)
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January to June
- 20 January – Malang, Filipino artist (d. 2017)
- 31 January – Dušan Džamonja, Macedonian sculptor (d. 2009)
- 1 March – Jacques Rivette, French filmmaker (d. 2016)[4]
- 3 March – Jean Rustin, French painter (d. 2013)
- 18 March – Mirka Mora, French-Australian artist and cultural figure (d. 2018)
- 25 March – Hans Steinbrenner, German sculptor (d. 2008)
- 25 April – Cy Twombly, American abstract artist (d. 2011)[5]
- 28 April – Yves Klein, French abstract artist (d. 1962)[6]
- 14 May – Władysław Hasior, Polish sculptor, painter and set designer (d. 1999)
- 30 May – Pro Hart, Australian painter (d. 2006)
- 3 June – Donald Judd, American sculptor (d. 1994)[7]
- 16 June – Pierrette Bloch, French-Swiss painter, textile artist (d. 2017)[8]
- June 25
July to December
- July 8 – Pat Adams, American painter and printmaker
- July 10 – Bernard Buffet, French painter (d. 1999)
- July 14 – Anwar Shemza, Pakistan-born British artist and writer (d. 1985)
- July 21 – Anne Harris, Canadian sculptor
- August 6 – Andy Warhol, American artist, director and writer (d. 1987)[10]
- August 12 – Charles Blackman, Australian painter and illustrator (d. 2018)[11]
- August 15 – Alan Collins, English figurative religious sculptor (d. 2016)
- August 22 – Roberto Aizenberg, Argentine painter and sculptor (d. 1996)
- August 31 – Jeremy Maas, English art dealer and historian of Victorian painting (d. 1997)
- September 9 – Sol LeWitt, American conceptual and minimalist artist (d. 2007)[12]
- September 10 - Ward Jackson, American painter (d. 2004)
- September 12 – Robert Irwin, American installation artist
- September 13 – Robert Indiana, born Clark, American pop artist (d. 2018)
- October 7 – Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d. 1980)
- October 12 – Al Held, American Abstract expressionist painter (d. 2005)
- October 30 – Michael Andrews, English painter (d. 1995)
- November 3 – Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist, animator and film producer (d. 1989)[13]
- November 6 – Norman Carlberg, American sculptor (d. 2018)
- November 17 – Arman, French-born American artist (d. 2005)[14]
- November 27 – Josh Kirby, English commercial artist (d. 2001)
- December 2 – Guy Bourdin, French photographer (d. 1991)
- December 12 – Helen Frankenthaler, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 2011)
- December 13 – Wolfgang Hutter, Austrian painter, lithographer and designer (d. 2014)
- December 15 – Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian painter, architect and sculptor (d. 2000)[15]
- December 31 – Siné, French cartoonist (d. 2016)
Date unknown
- Franco the Great, American Street artist
- Lamidi Olonade Fakeye, Nigerian Yoruba sculptor (d. 2009)
- Wally Hedrick, American artist (d. 2003)[16]
- Brian O'Doherty aka Patrick Ireland, Irish-born art critic and installation artist (d. 2022)
- January 4 – Hamilton Hamilton, American painter (b. 1847)
- January 6 – Adolfo de Carolis, Italian painter, xylographer, illustrator and photographer (b. 1874)
- January 8 – Gyula Basch, Hungarian painter (b. 1859)
- January 13 – Frederick Arthur Bridgman, American painter (b. 1847)
- January 21 – Nikolai Astrup, Norwegian painter (b. 1880)[17]
- January 26 – Henrietta Rae, English painter (b. 1859)
- February 7 – Adolfo de Carolis, Italian painter (b. 1874)
- February 12 – Nicolás Guzmán Bustamante, Chilean painter and draftsman (b. 1850)
- March 31 – Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (b. 1858)[18]
- April 3 – Raffaello Romanelli, Italian sculptor (b. 1856)
- April 5 – Viktor Oliva, Czech painter and illustrator (b. 1861)
- April 13 – Charles Sims, English painter (suicide, b. 1873)
- May 16 – Frederick Arthur Verner, Canadian landscape painter (b. 1836)
- May 21 - George Frampton, English artist (b. 1860)
- June 22 – A. B. Frost, American illustrator (b. 1851)
- July 10 – John Chambers, English landscape and portrait painter (b. 1852)
- July 25 – Jane Sutherland, Australian landscape painter (b. 1853)
- August 30 – Franz Stuck, German symbolist /Art Nouveau painter, sculptor, engraver and architect (b. 1863)
- September 20 – Ivan Tišov, Croatian painter (b. 1870)
- October 24 – Arthur Bowen Davies, American artist (b. 1863)[19]
- October 30 – Percy Anderson, English stage designer and painter (b. 1851)
- November 15 – Godfred Christensen, Danish painter (b. 1845)
- December 1 – Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth, German painter (b. 1855)
- December 2 – Robert Reid, American Impressionist painter (b. 1862)
- December 10 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect and designer (b. 1868)
- December 15 – Louis Mathieu Verdilhan, French painter (b. 1875)
- December 18 – Nils Bergslien, Norwegian illustrator, painter and sculptor (b. 1853)
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- Griffin, Leonard (1998). The Fantastic Flowers of Clarice Cliff. London: Pavilion. ISBN 1-86205-053-8.
- "Jacques Rivette, 1928–2016 | Obituary | Sight & Sound". British Film Institute. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
- "CY TWOMBLY, 1928-2011". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-03-14.
- Yves Klein; Gilbert Perlein; Bruno Corà (2000). Yves Klein: Long Live the Immaterial. Delano Greenidge Editions. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-929445-08-3.
- Bernard Blistène; Centre Georges Pompidou; Lisa Dennison (1998). Rendezvous: Masterpieces from the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Guggenheim Museums. Guggenheim Museum Publications. p. 646. ISBN 978-0-8109-6916-2.
- "Pierrette Bloch - Artist". Diane de Polignac Gallery. Retrieved August 21, 2021.
- Contemporary Authors. Gale Research Company. 1993. p. 102. ISBN 978-0-8103-1971-4.
- Victor Bockris (1998). The Life and Death of Andy Warhol. Fourth Estate. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-85702-805-8.
- Moran, Robert (2018-08-20). "Artist Charles Blackman dead, aged 90". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2023-03-31.
- Worcester Art Museum; David Acton; Davenport Museum of Art (Davenport, Iowa) (1998). Master Drawings from the Worcester Art Museum. Hudson Hills Press. p. 212. ISBN 978-1-55595-147-4.
- Osamu Tezuka (2020). Ludwig B Vol. 2. Digital Manga, Inc. p. 255. ISBN 978-1-61313-821-2.
- Sarah Wilson; Eric de Chassey; Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) (March 2002). Paris: capital of the arts, 1900-1968. Royal Academy of Arts. p. 431. ISBN 978-0-900946-98-1.
- Austrian Information. Information Department of the Austrian Consulate General. 2000. p. 8.
- LastName, FirstName (1989). Forty years of California assemblage : UCLA Art Council annual exhibition. Los Angeles: Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles. p. 51. ISBN 9780943739090.
- Terje Leiren; Jan Sjåvik (8 October 2019). Historical Dictionary of Norway. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 36. ISBN 978-1-5381-2312-6.
- Dumas, Ann (2003). Degas and the Italians in Paris. Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland. p. 96. ISBN 9781903278482.
- 15 American Artists from the Corcoran. London Art Gallery. 1975. p. 6.