1915 in art

Events from the year 1915 in art.

Events

• May – Ambrose Heal and others found the Design and Industries Association in London. ^[1]
• c. May – Publication of the first modern book illustrated with wood engravings, Frances Cornford's Spring Morning (published by The Poetry Bookshop, London) with engravings by the poet's cousin Gwen Raverat. ^[2]
• June 10 – The only contemporary Vorticist exhibition staged opens at the Doré Gallery in London. ^[3]
• October 24 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's frescos, Translation of the House of Loreto, in the Church of the Scalzi (Venice) are destroyed by an Austrian bombardment.
• December 19 – Kasimir Malevich stages the 0.10 Exhibition and originates Suprematism. ^[4]
• Pierre Bodard serves with the French Army on Martinique.
• Marcel Duchamp begins producing readymades
• Harper's Bazaar hires Erté to design its covers.
• Edward McKnight Kauffer is given his first commission to design a poster for the Underground Electric Railways Company of London.
• Shōzaburō Watanabe originates shin-hanga collaborative woodblock printing in Japan.
• The first of the 'Etruscan terracotta warriors', forged by sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti with the Riccardi family, is purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
• 14-year-old Alice Prin ("Kiki de Montparnasse") is posing (nude) for sculptors in Paris.

Works

Matisse – Le rideau jaune

See also: Category:1915 sculptures and Category:1915 paintings

• George Bellows – Riverfront No. 1
• Frank Weston Benson – Red and Gold
• Umberto Boccioni
  • Charge of the Lancers
  • Horizontal Volumes
• Marc Chagall – The Poet Reclining
• William Merritt Chase – Self-portrait
• Giorgio de Chirico
  • The Double Dream of Spring
  • The Evil Genius of a King
  • Portrait of Paul Guillaume
  • The Seer
• Jacob Epstein – bust of Admiral Lord Fisher
• Albert Gleizes
  • Brooklyn Bridge
  • Composition for "Jazz"
  • Portrait of an Army Doctor
• J. W. Godward – In The Prime Of The Summer Time
• Juan Gris
  • The Breakfast
  • Still Life with Checked Tablecloth
  • Still Life with a Poem
• Alexandre Jacovleff – The Violinist
• Eric Kennington - The Kensingtons at Laventie
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • Brandenburger Tor
  • The Red Tower in Halle
  • Self-portrait as a Soldier
• Gustav Klimt – Death and Life
• Carl Larsson – Midvinterblot
• Wyndham Lewis – The Crowd
• Kazimir Malevich
  • Black Cross
  • Black Square
  • Red Square
• Henri Matisse – The Yellow Curtain
• Jean Metzinger – Soldier at a Game of Chess
• Amedeo Modigliani
  • Beatrice Hastings in Front of a Door
  • Portrait of Pablo Picasso
  • Portrait of the Painter Moisè Kisling
• Piet Mondrian – Composition No. 10 Pier and Ocean
• C. R. W. Nevinson
  • Bursting Shell
  • La Mitrailleuse
  • Returning to the Trenches (approximate date)
• Maxfield Parrish and Louis Comfort Tiffany - Dream Garden (mosaic mural) in the Curtis Building lobby in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (completed) ^[5]
• Pablo Picasso –
  • Harlequin (1915)
  • Musical Instruments
  • Still Life with Compote and Glass
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Blond Girl with a Rose
• Diego Rivera – Portrait of Ramón Gómez de la Serna
• Isaac Rosenberg – Self-portrait
• Ladislav Šaloun – Jan Hus Memorial (Prague)
• John Singer Sargent – Tyrolese Interior
• Egon Schiele
  • Death and the Maiden
  • Portrait of Edith (the artist's wife)
• Helene Schjerfbeck – Self-portrait with black background
• Kathleen Scott – statue of her late husband, Robert Falcon Scott in London
• Zinaida Serebriakova – Harvest
• Walter Sickert – Brighton Pierrots
• Fred Spear – Enlist (poster)
• Stewart–Screven Monument
• Paul Strand – Wall Street (photograph)
• John William Waterhouse – I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Said the Lady of Shalott
• Max Weber - Chinese Restaurant ^[6]
• W. L. Wyllie – The track of Lusitania: view of casualties and survivors in the water and in lifeboats
• Konstantin Yuon – March Sun
• Anders Zorn – Self-portrait in Red

Births

• January 3 – Jack Levine, American Social Realist painter and printmaker (d. 2010) ^[7]
• January 15 – Leo Mol, Ukrainian-born Canadian artist, sculptor (d. 2009) ^[8]
• January 24 – Robert Motherwell, American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker (d. 1991). ^[9]
• February 4 – Virginia Admiral, American painter and poet (d. 2000) ^[10]
• February 11 – Mervyn Levy, Welsh artist and critic (d. 1996). ^[11]
• March 10 – Harry Bertoia, Italian-born American artist and furniture designer (d. 1978). ^[12]
• March 19 – Maria Austria (née Marie Karoline Oeststreicher) Austro-Dutch photographer and photojournalist) (d. 1979). ^[13]
• April 4 – Louis Archambault, Canadian sculptor (d. 2003). ^[14]
• April 6 – Tadeusz Kantor, Polish painter, Assemblage artist, set designer and theatre director (d. 1990) ^[15]
• April 10 – Wynona Mulcaster, Canadian painter and teacher (d. 2016)
• April 15 – Elizabeth Catlett, African-American graphic artist and sculptor (d. 2012) ^[16]
• April 17 – William Pachner, Czech painter (d. 2017) ^[17]
• May 3 – Richard Lippold, American sculptor (d. 2002) ^[18]
• May 20 – Sam Golden, American paint maker (d. 1997)
• May 31 – Carmen Herrera, Cuban-American abstract minimalist visual artist (d. 2022). ^[19]
• June 7 – Graham Ingels, American illustrator (d. 1991) ^[20]
• June 11 – José Caballero, Spanish artist (d. 1991) ^[21]
• June 17 – Gunther Gerzso, Mexican abstract painter (d. 2000) ^[22]
• June 23 – Frances Gabe, American artist and inventor (d. 2016)
• July 8 – Malvina Cheek, British artist (d. 2016) ^[23]
• July 15
  • Edith Pfau, American painter, sculptor and art educator (d. 2001)
  • Judith Révész, Hungarian-Dutch potter and sculptor (d. 2018)
• July 19 – Åke Hellman, Finnish still life and portrait painter (d. 2017) ^[24]
• July 28 – Dick Sprang, American comic book artist (d. 2000) ^[25]
• August 14 – Mary Fedden, English painter (d. 2012) ^[26]
• August 28
  • Patrick Hennessy, Irish painter (d. 1980)
  • Tasha Tudor, American illustrator and author of children's books (d. 2008) ^[27]
• September 17 – M. F. Husain, Indian artist (d. 2011) ^[28]
• September 19 – Duffy Ayers, born Betty FitzGerald, English portrait painter (d. 2017) ^[29]
• October 13
  • Terry Frost, English Abstract artist (d. 2003) ^[30]
  • Ricco, Swiss painter (d. 1972)
• October 24 – Bob Kane, American comic book artist and writer (d. 1998) ^[31]
• November 9 – André François, French cartoonist (d. 2005) ^[32]
• November 26 – Inge King, German-born Australian sculptor (d. 2016)
• November 28 – Evald Okas, Estonian painter (d. 2011) ^[33]

Deaths

• January 15 – Luigi Crosio, Italian painter (b. 1835)
• January 23 – Anne Whitney, American sculptor, poet (b. 1821) ^[34]
• February 25 – Flaxman Charles John Spurrell, English archaeologist and photographer (b. 1842)
• April 3 – Nadežda Petrović, Serbian Fauvist painter (b. 1873)
• April 9 – Karl Bitter, Austrian American sculptor (b. 1867)
• May 7 – Sir Hugh Lane, Irish-born art dealer, collector and benefactor (b. 1875; killed in sinking of the RMS Lusitania)
• June 5 – Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, French artist and sculptor (killed in action) (b. 1891) ^[35]
• June 7 – Hilda Sjölin, Swedish photographer (b. 1835)
• July 10 – Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Dutch marine painter (b. 1831)
• July 11 – Albert Schickedanz, Austro-Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style (b. 1846)
• September 11 – Jens Birkholm, Danish genre and landscape painter (b. 1869)
• September 14 – Alfred Agache, French academic painter (b. 1843)
• October 24 – Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist and pioneer photographer (b. 1828)
• November 28 – Kobayashi Kiyochika, Japanese ukiyo-e painter and printmaker (b. 1847)
• December 22 – Arthur Hughes, English painter and illustrator (b. 1832)
• date unknown
  • Kikuchi Shingaku, Japanese photographer (b. 1832)
  • Krikor Torosian, Armenian illustrator (b. 1884; killed in Armenian genocide)

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