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Events from the year 1920 in art.

Events

February 1 – The National Art Gallery of Georgia opens in Tbilisi.
March 17 – The Edith Cavell Memorial, by George Frampton, is unveiled in London.^[1]
March 27 – Society of Wood Engravers founded in the United Kingdom.
June 30– August 25 – The first Dadaist Fair is held in Berlin (Tempelhof).^[2] The Cologne group is formed by Jean Arp, Max Ernst and Alfred Grünwald.
August 5 – Publication of the ' Realistic Manifesto', a Constructivist text, by Naum Gabo with his brother Anton Pevsner in Moscow.^[3]
November 7 – The "mass action" The Storming of the Winter Palace, directed by Nikolai Evreinov, is staged outside the Winter Palace in Petrograd.
unknown dates
- Katherine Dreier, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp form Société Anonyme.
- Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada set up the Leach Pottery in St Ives, Cornwall.
- The Heckscher Museum of Art is established in Huntington, New York.^[4]
- The Latvian Museum of Foreign Art is established in Riga.
- Droit de suite is introduced in France.^[5]^[6]

Works

Hans Baluschek – City of Workers
Cecilia Beaux – portrait of Georges Clemenceau
Thomas Hart Benton – People of Chilmark (figure composition)
Pierre Bonnard – Paysage normand
Alexander Stirling Calder – Swann Memorial Fountain ( Philadelphia)
Sydney Carline – The Destruction of the Turkish Transport in the Gorge of the Wadi Fara, Palestine
Lovis Corinth – Flowers and Wilhelmine
Otto Dix
- The Card Players (Kartenspieler)
- The Match Vendor I
Max Ernst
- The Hat Makes the Man ( collage and gouache)^[7]
- Murdering Airplane (collage)
James Earle Fraser – Frederick Keep Monument ( Washington, D.C.)
Daniel Chester French
- Abraham Lincoln (statue in Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.)
- Dupont Circle Fountain (Washington, D.C.)
- Wisconsin (statue on Wisconsin State Capitol)
J. W. Godward – A Red, Red Rose
George Grosz – Republican Automatons
Richard Jack – The Passing of the Chieftain
Goscombe John – Equestrian statue of the Viscount Wolseley (London)
Einar Jónsson – Thorfinn Karlsefni (bronze statue, Philadelphia)
Eric Kennington – The Victims (retitled The Conquerors)
Winifred Knights – The Deluge
Boris Kustodiev
- Blue House
- The Bolshevik
- Portrait of Isaak Brodsky
- Trinity Day
George Washington Lambert – A sergeant of the Light Horse
Edwin Lutyens
- The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London (stone version)
- with Alfred Munnings (sculptor) – Equestrian statue of Edward Horner, St Andrew's Church, Mells, Somerset, England
Paul Klee – Angelus Novus (worked copper plate)
Stanton Macdonald-Wright – Airplane Synchromy in Yellow-Orange
Henri Matisse – Interior at Nice
C. R. W. Nevinson – The Soul of the Soulless City (originally New York – an Abstraction)
William Nicholson
- Gertrude Jekyll
- Miss Jekyll's Gardening Boots
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin – 1918 in Petrograd (Petrograd Madonna)
Victor Rousseau – Bronze figure group for Anglo-Belgian Memorial, London
Charles Marie Louis Joseph Sarrabezolles – L'Âme de la France (plaster version)
Georg Scholz – Industrial Farmers (Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal)
Charles Sheeler – Church Street El
Mario Sironi – Truck
Stanley Spencer
- The Last Supper
- Christ Carrying the Cross
Lorado Taft – Fountain of Time ( Chicago)
Aston Webb (architect) and Alfred Drury (sculptor) – London Troops War Memorial

Publications

Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler – Der Weg zum Kubismus ("The Rise of Cubism").

Births

January to June

January 12 – Bill Reid, Canadian artist (d. 1998).
January 17 – Georges Pichard, French comics artist (d. 2003).
January 30 – Patrick Heron, English painter, writer and designer (d. 1999).
February 22 – Rocco Borella, Italian painter (d. 1994).
March 3 – Ronald Searle, English cartoonist (d. 2011).
March 14 – Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d. 2001).
March 19 – Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian poet and artist (d. 2002)^[8]
March 27 – Robin Jacques, English illustrator (d. 1995).
April 8 – Hans Coper, German-born studio potter (d. 1981).
April 24 – Paul Wonner, American painter (d. 2008).
April 26 – Maynard Reece, American painter (d. 2020)
May – Hans Josephsohn, German-born sculptor (d. 2012).
May 8
- Saul Bass, American graphic designer and filmmaker (d. 1996).
- Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (d. 1991).^[9]
May 10 - Erna Viitol, Estonian sculptor (d. 2001).
June 4 – Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter, muralist, sculptor and engraver (d. 1992).
June 24
- John Coplans, British-born painter and photographer (d. 2003)
- Jimmy Ernst, German-born American painter (d. 1984).
June 29 – Ray Harryhausen, American-born stop-motion animator, sculptor (d. 2013).

July to December

July 20 – Arthur Boyd, Australian painter and sculptor (d. 1999).
July 21 – Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter, one of the innovators of Unitary Urbanism (d. 2005).^[10]
August 1 – Ken Bald, American comic book artist and illustrator (d. 2019)
August 5 – George Tooker, American figurative painter (d. 2011).
August 9 – Gerda Schmidt-Panknin, German painter (d. 2021)
August 15 – Judy Cassab, born Judit Kaszab, Austrian-born Australian portrait painter (d. 2015).
August 22 – Gene Davis, American painter (d. 1985).
August 26
- Mauri Favén, Finnish painter (d. 2006).
- Brant Parker, American cartoonist (d. 2007).
August 30 – Leonid Shvartsman, Soviet and Russian animator and artist (d. 2022).
October 13 – Elaine Hamilton, American painter (d. 2010).
October 31 – Helmut Newton, German-born photographer (d. 2004).
November 23 – Wayne Thiebaud, American painter (d. 2021)
November 30 – Walter Chandoha, American cat photographer (d. 2019).
December 14 – Claire Fejes, American artist
December 18 – Enrique Grau, Colombian painter and sculptor (d. 2004).
December 21 – Bob Bindig, American illustrator (d. 2007)

Full date unknown

Adrian Heath, Burmese-born English painter (d. 1992).
Raymond Moore, English landscape photographer (d. 1987).
Daniel O'Neill, Irish painter (d. 1974).

Deaths

January 24 – Amedeo Modigliani, Italian-born painter and sculptor (b. 1884)^[11]
January 26 – Jeanne Hébuterne, French artist, Modigliani's mistress and model (suicide) (b. 1898)^[11]
March 3 – Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (b. 1840)
March 13 – Mary Devens, American pictorial photographer (b. 1857)
March 15 – Edith Holden, English nature artist and art teacher (b. 1871)
March 26 – Samuel Colman, American painter and designer (b. 1832)
April 20 – Briton Rivière, British painter (b. 1840)
April 27 – Jacob Ungerer, German sculptor (b. 1840)
May 7 – Hugh Thomson, British illustrator (b. 1860)
May 12 – Georges Petit, French art dealer (b. 1856)
July 5 – Max Klinger, German painter and sculptor (b. 1857)^[12]
July 14 – Albert von Keller, German painter (b. 1844)^[13]
July 17 – Sir Edmund Elton, 8th Baronet, English studio potter (b. 1846)
August 4 – C. G. Finch-Davies, British bird painter (b. 1875)
August 6 – Edward Francis Searles, American interior designer (b. 1841)
August 12 – Walter W. Winans, American sculptor, painter, marksman and horse-breeder (b. 1852)
August 22 – Anders Zorn, Swedish portrait painter (b. 1860)^[14]
September 24 – Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian-born jeweller (b. 1846)
November 13 – Luc-Olivier Merson, French painter (b. 1846)
date unknown – Edith Corbet, Australian-born British landscape painter (b. 1846)

References

^ Fell, Alison S. (2018). Women as Veterans in Britain and France after the First World War. Cambridge University Press. p. 62. ISBN 978-1-108-42576-6.
^ Hopkins, David (8 April 2004). Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. pp. 168–. ISBN 978-0-19-280254-5.
^ Editors' introduction to "The Realistic Manifesto." In Art in Theory, 1900-2000, ed. by Charles Harrison and Paul Wood. Malden: Blackwell, 2003. p.298.
^ Michelin Travel Publications (1998). New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Michelin. p. 61. ISBN 978-2-06-154901-8.
^ Flynn, Tom (2021-01-07). Letter to the editor. London Review of Books 43:1.
^ Code de la propriété intellectuelle : Chapitre II : Droits patrimoniaux, L122-8.
^ Mari Dumett (22 August 2017). Corporate Imaginations: Fluxus Strategies for Living. Univ of California Press. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-520-29038-9.
^ Jor, Finn. "Kjell Aukrust". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 17 December 2011.
^ David A. Gerstner (2006). Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture. Routledge. p. 564. ISBN 978-0-415-30651-5.
^ Wolf Stubbe (1963). History of Modern Graphic Art. Thames and Hudson. p. 260.
^ ^a ^b Pierre Sichel (1967). Modigliani: A Biography of Amedeo Modigliani. Dutton. p. 500. ISBN 978-0-491-00120-5.
^ Walter Yust (1951). Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica. p. 527.
^ Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Keller, Albert von" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
^ Anders Zorn (1984). Anders Zorn Rediscovered: November 27-December 19, 1984 : an Exhibition. The Museum. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-936270-23-4.

[1] Fell, Alison S. (2018). Women as Veterans in Britain and France after the First World War. Cambridge University Press. p. 62. ISBN 978-1-108-42576-6.

[2] Hopkins, David (8 April 2004). Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. pp. 168–. ISBN 978-0-19-280254-5.

[3] Editors' introduction to "The Realistic Manifesto." In Art in Theory, 1900-2000, ed. by Charles Harrison and Paul Wood. Malden: Blackwell, 2003. p.298.

[4] Michelin Travel Publications (1998). New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Michelin. p. 61. ISBN 978-2-06-154901-8.

[5] Flynn, Tom (2021-01-07). Letter to the editor. London Review of Books 43:1.

[6] Code de la propriété intellectuelle : Chapitre II : Droits patrimoniaux, L122-8.

[7] Mari Dumett (22 August 2017). Corporate Imaginations: Fluxus Strategies for Living. Univ of California Press. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-520-29038-9.

[8] Jor, Finn. "Kjell Aukrust". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 17 December 2011.

[9] David A. Gerstner (2006). Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture. Routledge. p. 564. ISBN 978-0-415-30651-5.

[10] Wolf Stubbe (1963). History of Modern Graphic Art. Thames and Hudson. p. 260.

[Sichel1967-11] Pierre Sichel (1967). Modigliani: A Biography of Amedeo Modigliani. Dutton. p. 500. ISBN 978-0-491-00120-5.

[12] Walter Yust (1951). Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica. p. 527.

[13] Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Keller, Albert von" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

[14] Anders Zorn (1984). Anders Zorn Rediscovered: November 27-December 19, 1984 : an Exhibition. The Museum. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-936270-23-4.

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