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Events from the year
1909 in art
.
Events
February 20
–
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
's
Futurist Manifesto
is first published, in the French newspaper
Le Figaro
.
May
–
June –
Claude Monet
's
Water Lilies
series
of paintings are first exhibited, at
Paul Durand-Ruel
's gallery in Paris.
July 22
– Widowed
Irish
-born painter
John Lavery
marries
Irish American
painter
Hazel Martyn
.
Guillaume Apollinaire
's first book of poetry is illustrated with
woodcuts
by
André Derain
.
Léon Bakst
begins painting scenery for
Sergei Diaghilev
's
Ballets Russes
, beginning with
Cleopatra
.
Robert Delaunay
begins painting his
Saint-Sévrin
,
City
and
Eiffel Tower
series.
Lithuanian Jewish
sculptor
Jacques Lipchitz
moves to Paris to study and work.
Pablo Picasso
and
Georges Braque
create the first works of
analytical cubism
.
Sonderbund westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler
established in
Düsseldorf
.
Kunsthalle Mannheim
established as a permanent art gallery.
Reformation Wall
created in
Geneva
by
Swiss
architects Charles Dubois,
Alphonse Laverrière
,
Eugène Monod
and Jean Taillens with figures by
French
sculptors
Paul Landowski
and
Henri Bouchard
.
At the centre of the
Reformation Wall
are statues of
William Farel
,
John Calvin
,
Theodore Beza
and
John Knox
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
is commissioned by
Nicholas II of Russia
to begin a record in
color photography
of his empire.
Henri Gaudier
meets
Sophie Brzeska
at the
Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève
in
Paris
.
Wilhelm von Bode
purchases the wax bust
Flora
cheaply from a London dealer for the
Kaiser Friedrich Museum
in Berlin, believing it to be by
Leonardo da Vinci
. It is subsequently shown to be early 19th century English, probably by
Richard Cockle Lucas
.
[
1
]
Works
See also:
Category:1909 sculptures
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
–
A Favourite Custom
(
Tate Britain
)
Giacomo Balla
–
Street Light
George Bellows
Blue Morning
The Lone Tenement
Summer Night, Riverside Drive
Gutzon Borglum
–
Rabboni
(sculpture,
Rock Creek Cemetery
,
Washington, D.C.
)
Antoine Bourdelle
–
Hercules the Archer
(bronze)
Milly Childers
–
The Terrace
(
Palace of Westminster
)
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
Angels (Paradise)
Fairy Tale Castle
Kings' Fairy Tale
Lightning
Rural Cemetery
Charles Fouqueray
–
La Reconquista de Buenos Aires
J. W. Godward
At The Thermae
A Classical Beauty
Tympanistria
Winslow Homer
–
Right and Left
John Haberle
–
Night
(New Britain Museum of American Art,
New Britain, Connecticut
)
Erich Heckel
–
Bathers in the Reeds
Robert Henri
–
Salome
Wassily Kandinsky
–
The Blue Mountain
Gustav Klimt
Lady with Hat and Feather Boa
The Tree of Life
(Stoclet Frieze)
Judith II
(
Salomé
)
Boris Kustodiev
Promenade Along the Volga
Promenade Along the Volga II
Frances MacDonald
–
Sleeping Princess
Ambrose McEvoy
–
Euphemia
Jacek Malczewski
–
At the Source
Edward Middleton Manigault
–
The Rocket
Henri Matisse
–
Dance (I)
Edvard Munch
–
Self-portrait at the Clinic
Gabriele Münter
–
Marianne von Werefkin
Pablo Picasso
Fruit Dish
(
Museum of Modern Art
,
New York
)
Woman with a Fan
(
Pushkin Museum
, Moscow)
Howard Pyle
–
Marooned
Henrietta Rae
–
Hylas and the Water Nymphs
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
-
Claude Renoir in Clown Costume
Zinaida Serebriakova
–
At the Dressing-Table: Self-portrait
Konstantin Somov
–
Mikhail Kuzmin
Vardges Sureniants
Knight-Woman
Mkrtich Khrimian
Return of Queen Zabel of Armenia
Lorado Taft
– bronzes
Eternal Silence
(
Graceland Cemetery
,
Chicago
)
Statue of George Washington
(
University of Washington
,
Seattle
)
Albert Chevallier Tayler
–
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - The Anniversary: "I love thee to the level of everyday's most quiet need"
J. W. Waterhouse
–
Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May
Births
January to June
January 16
–
Clement Greenberg
, American
art critic
(d.
1994
).
January 25
–
Joseph Solman
, American painter (d.
2008
).
February 7
–
Wilhelm Freddie
, Danish painter and sculptor (d.
1995
).
February 12
–
Zoran Mušič
,
Slovenian
- born painter (d.
2005
).
February 17
–
Gertrude Abercrombie
, American painter (d.
1977
).
February 19
–
Enrico Donati
, Italian- born American
Surrealist
painter and sculptor (d.
2008
).
February 26
–
Michel Tapié
, French artist, critic,
curator
, and
art collector
(d.
1987
).
March 8
–
H. J. Ward
, American illustrator (d.
1945
).
March 13
–
Reynolds Stone
, English wood engraver (d.
1979
).
March 22
–
Milt Kahl
, American animator (d.
1987
).
April 3
–
Graham Stuart Thomas
, English horticultural artist, author and garden designer (d.
2003
).
April 30
–
F. E. McWilliam
, Irish sculptor (d.
1992
).
May 17
–
Giulio Carlo Argan
, Italian
art historian
and politician (d.
1992
).
June 14
–
Ettore DeGrazia
, American
impressionist
, painter, sculptor and
lithographer
(d.
1982
).
June 26
–
Wolfgang Reitherman
,
German-American
animator (d.
1985
).
July to December
July 13
–
Marie-Thérèse Walter
, mistress of
Pablo Picasso
(d.
1977
).
September 14
–
Peter Scott
, English
ornithologist
,
conservationist
, painter (d.
1989
).
September 23
–
Marianne Straub
, Swiss-born British textile designer (d.
1994
).
September 28
–
Al Capp
, cartoonist (d.
1979
).
October 13
–
Herblock
, political cartoonist (d.
2001
).
October 19
–
Marguerite Perey
, French physicist and academic (d.
1975
)
[
2
]
October 28
–
Francis Bacon
, Irish-born British
figurative
painter (d.
1992
).
November 5
–
Milena Pavlović-Barili
,
Serbian
painter and poet (d.
1945
).
November 6
–
Herman Rose
(Herman Rappaport), American painter (d.
2007
).
December 25
–
Philip Zec
, British political cartoonist (d.
1983
).
Full date unknown
Gabriel Hayes
, Irish sculptor and coin designer (d.
1978
).
Deaths
January 9
–
Paul Gachet
, French physician to artists, Impressionist art collector and amateur painter (b.
1828
)
February 11
–
Russell Sturgis
, American architect and art critic (b.
1836
)
February 20
–
Paul Ranson
, French painter and writer (b.
1864
)
February 26
–
Caran d'Ache
, French political cartoonist (b.
1858
)
April 20
–
Hélène Bertaux
, French sculptor and women's rights activist (b.
1825
)
[
3
]
June 22
–
Edward John Gregory
, English painter (b.
1850
)
.
July 17
-
Pinckney Marcius-Simons
, American painter (b.
1867
)
August 23
–
Adolf von Becker
, Finnish painter (b.
1831
)
[
4
]
November 9
–
William Powell Frith
, English genre painter (b.
1819
)
November 21
–
Peder Severin Krøyer
, Norwegian painter (b.
1851
)
November 23
–
Otto Sinding
, Norwegian painter (b.
1842
)
November 25
–
Cyprian Godebski
, Polish sculptor and teacher (b.
1835
)
[
5
]
References
↑
Craddock, Paul (2009).
Scientific investigation of copies, fakes and forgeries
. Butterworth Heinemann. pp.
432–
434.
ISBN
978-0-7506-4205-7
.
↑
Bailey Ogilvie, Marilyn; Harvey, Joy (2000).
The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z
. London: Routledge. p.
1006.
ISBN
978-0-41592-040-7
.
↑
Édouard Lepage -
Une conquête féministe - Mme Léon Bertaux
, Imprimerie française, Paris 1911 (reissued in 2009
:
ISBN
2-7466-0610-0
)
↑
Penttilä Tiina (ed.)
Adolf von Becker - Pariisin tien viitoittaja -vägen till Paris
(Paving the Road to Paris). Museovirasto 2002.
ISBN
951-616-083-2
↑
(in Polish)
Piotr Szubert,
Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
,
"Cyprian Godebski biography"
Instytut Adama Mickiewicza
(Adam Mickiewicz Institute)
, February 2002.
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