1923 in art


1923 in art


Events from the year 1923 in art.

Events

  • March 20 – The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States show, Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso.
  • May 8 – Göteborgs Konsthall opens as the art gallery for the Gothenburg Exhibition.
  • Publication of The Art Spirit by Robert Henri.
  • English industrialist and collector Samuel Courtauld acquires the first painting by Paul Cézanne to be purchased for a British collection, Still life with Plaster Cupid (c.1894).
  • Chaïm Soutine sells sixty of his paintings from a Paris showing to the American art collector Albert C. Barnes and begins his series of paintings of beef carcasses.
  • A joint exhibition with his mother, Suzanne Valadon, at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune in Paris brings the paintings of Maurice Utrillo to prominence.
  • East London Group forms as an amateur art club in the East End of London.
  • Freer Gallery of Art opens in Washington, D.C. as the first Smithsonian museum dedicated to the fine arts.
  • Remington Art Memorial established in Ogdensburg, New York.
  • Harwood Museum of Art established in Taos, New Mexico.
  • Beaux Arts Gallery established in London by Frederick and Helen Lessore.

Awards

  • Archibald Prize: W B McInnes – Portrait of a Lady

Works

  • Max Beckmann – Dance in Baden-Baden
  • Pierre Bonnard - La Cote D'azur
  • Constantin Brâncuși – Bird in Space (sculpture; first version)
  • Felice Casorati – Meriggio (Noon)
  • Tamara de Lempicka – Les Deux amies
  • Robert Delaunay – Portrait of Tristan Tzara
  • Marcel Duchamp – The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) (completed)
  • Max Ernst – Pietà or Revolution by Night
  • M. C. Escher – Dolphins (woodcut)
  • George Grosz – Ecce Homo (portfolio of lithographs)
  • Auguste Herbin – Bowls Players
  • Marguerite Huré – Stained glass windows at Église Notre-Dame du Raincy
  • Wassily Kandinsky – On White II
  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – The Sleigh Ride
  • Sir John Lavery – The Red Rose
  • Sir Bertram Mackennal
    • Phoebus Driving the Horses of the Sun (Australia House, London)
    • Mother Courage (war memorial, Caledonian Club, London)
    • Here I Am, male nude for Eton College War Memorial (now National Gallery of Victoria, Australia)
  • Henri Matisse
    • Odalisque with Raised Arms
    • Window at Tangier
  • Mikhail Nesterov – Girl by the Pool
  • William Orpen – To the Unknown British Soldier in France (first finished state)
  • Pablo Picasso
    • The Pipes of Pan
    • Paulo on a Donkey
  • Man Ray – Object to Be Destroyed (destroyed 1957)
  • Gerrit Rietveld – Red and Blue Chair (colours added in De Stijl style at about this date)
  • Stanley Royle – Sheffield from Wincobank Wood
  • John Singer Sargent – Sir Philip Sassoon
  • Stanley Spencer – The Betrayal
  • Lorado Taft – The Recording Angel (sculpture, Waupun, Wisconsin)
  • Suzanne Valadon – Blue Room
  • World War I Memorial (Berwick, Pennsylvania)
  • Yokoyama Taikan – Metempsychosis (生々流転, Seisei ruten, "The Wheel of Life", Nihonga scroll painting)

Births

  • January 16 – Keith Shackleton, English painter and television host (d. 2015)
  • February 10 – Shirley Jaffe, American-born abstract painter and sculptor (d. 2016)
  • March 9 – André Courrèges, French fashion designer (d. 2016)
  • April 8 – George Fisher, American political cartoonist (d. 2003)
  • April 24 – Cordelia Oliver, Scottish journalist, painter and art critic (d. 2009)
  • May 3 – Norman Thelwell, English cartoonist (d. 2004)
  • May 15 – Richard Avedon, American photographer (d. 2004)
  • May 22 – Max Velthuijs, Dutch painter, illustrator and author (d. 2005)
  • May 27 – Inge Morath, Austrian photographer (d. 2002)
  • May 31 – Ellsworth Kelly, American artist (d. 2015)
  • June 3 – June Newton, Australian-born photographer (d. 2021)
  • June 24 – Marc Riboud, French photographer (d. 2016)
  • July 12 – Paul Jenkins, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 2012)
  • June 25 – Sam Francis, American painter and printmaker (d. 1994)
  • September 13 – Edouard Boubat, French photographer (d. 1999)
  • September 23 – Osuitok Ipeelee, Canadian Inuit sculptor (d. 2005)
  • October 7 – Jean-Paul Riopelle, Canadian painter and sculptor (d. 2002)
  • October 27 – Roy Lichtenstein, American pop artist (d. 1997)
  • October 28 – David Aronson, Lithuanian American painter (d. 2015)
  • November 15 – Miriam Schapiro, Canadian American feminist artist (d. 2015)
  • December 1 – Morris, Belgian cartoonist (d. 2001)
  • December 13 – Antoni Tàpies, Spanish painter (d. 2012)
  • date unknown – François Ozenda, French painter (d. 1976)

Deaths

  • January 12 – Marc Ferrez, Brazilian photographer (b. 1843)
  • January 31 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish modernist painter, art critic and assassin (b. 1869)
  • March 22 – Benjamin Williams Leader, English landscape painter (b. 1831)
  • April 15 – Aleksander Sochaczewski, Polish painter (b. 1843)
  • April 17 – Jan Kotěra, Czech artist, architect and designer (b. 1871)
  • May 29 – Adolf Oberländer, German caricaturist (b. 1845)
  • June 15 – Joseph B. Davol, American marine painter (b. 1864)
  • June 21 – Edward Clark Potter, American sculptor (b. 1857)
  • July 23 – Willy Gretor, Danish-born painter and art dealer (b. 1868)
  • August 2/3 – Jacoba van Heemskerck, Dutch painter and graphic artist (b. 1876)
  • August 5 – Candace Wheeler, American designer (b. 1827)
  • October 2 – John Wilson Bengough, Canadian cartoonist (b. 1851)
  • October 19 – Eleanor Norcross, American painter (b. 1854)
  • November 2 – Stevan Aleksić, Serbian painter (b. 1876)
  • November 27 – Penleigh Boyd, Australian landscape painter (b. 1890)
  • December 13 – Théophile Steinlen, Swiss/French painter (b. 1859)
  • date unknown – Edwin Romanzo Elmer, American painter (b. 1850)

See also

  • 1923 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References


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