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1915 in art
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Overview of the events of 1915 in art
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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)
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
[
5
]
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
)
[
6
]
January 15
–
Leo Mol
, Ukrainian-born Canadian artist, sculptor (d.
2009
)
[
7
]
January 24
–
Robert Motherwell
, American
abstract expressionist
painter and printmaker (d.
1991
).
[
8
]
February 4
–
Virginia Admiral
, American painter and poet (d.
2000
)
[
9
]
February 11
–
Mervyn Levy
,
Welsh
artist and critic (d.
1996
).
[
10
]
March 10
–
Harry Bertoia
, Italian-born American artist and
furniture designer
(d.
1978
).
[
11
]
March 19
–
Maria Austria
(née Marie Karoline Oeststreicher) Austro-Dutch photographer and photojournalist) (d. 1979).
[
12
]
April 4
–
Louis Archambault
, Canadian
sculptor
(d.
2003
).
[
13
]
April 6
–
Tadeusz Kantor
,
Polish
painter,
Assemblage artist
, set designer and
theatre director
(d.
1990
)
[
14
]
April 10
–
Wynona Mulcaster
, Canadian painter and teacher (d.
2016
)
April 15
–
Elizabeth Catlett
, African-American graphic artist and sculptor (d.
2012
)
[
15
]
April 17
–
William Pachner
, Czech painter (d.
2017
)
[
16
]
May 3
–
Richard Lippold
, American sculptor (d.
2002
)
[
17
]
May 20
–
Sam Golden
, American paint maker (d.
1997
)
May 31
–
Carmen Herrera
, Cuban-American abstract minimalist visual artist (d. 2022).
[
18
]
June 7
–
Graham Ingels
, American illustrator (d.
1991
)
[
19
]
June 11
–
José Caballero
, Spanish artist (d.
1991
)
[
20
]
June 17
–
Gunther Gerzso
,
Mexican
abstract painter (d.
2000
)
[
21
]
June 23
–
Frances Gabe
, American artist and inventor (d.
2016
)
July 8
–
Malvina Cheek
, British artist (d.
2016
)
[
22
]
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
)
[
23
]
July 28
–
Dick Sprang
, American
comic book
artist (d.
2000
)
[
24
]
August 14
–
Mary Fedden
,
English
painter (d.
2012
)
[
25
]
August 28
Patrick Hennessy
,
Irish
painter (d.
1980
)
Tasha Tudor
, American illustrator and author of
children's books
(d.
2008
)
[
26
]
September 17
–
M. F. Husain
, Indian artist (d.
2011
)
[
27
]
September 19
–
Duffy Ayers
, born Betty FitzGerald, English portrait painter (d.
2017
)
[
28
]
October 13
Terry Frost
, English
Abstract artist
(d.
2003
)
[
29
]
Ricco
,
Swiss
painter (d.
1972
)
October 24
–
Bob Kane
, American
comic book artist
and writer (d.
1998
)
[
30
]
November 9
–
André François
, French cartoonist (d.
2005
)
[
31
]
November 26
–
Inge King
, German-born Australian sculptor (d.
2016
)
November 28
–
Evald Okas
, Estonian painter (d.
2011
)
[
32
]
Deaths
January 15
–
Luigi Crosio
, Italian painter (b.
1835
)
January 23
–
Anne Whitney
, American sculptor, poet (b.
1821
)
[
33
]
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
)
[
34
]
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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↑
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.
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