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Overview of the events of 1917 in art
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Events from the year
1917 in art
.
Events
January – A drunken
Amedeo Modigliani
is ejected from a party for
Georges Braque
, by the hostess,
Marie Vassilieff
.
January 29
– Rodin marries his mistress,
Rose Beuret
; she dies two weeks later.
Eric Kennington
,
William Orpen
,
C. R. W. Nevinson
,
Paul Nash
and
William Rothenstein
are sent as
war artists
to the
Western Front
from England.
Frederick Farrell
, uniquely, is sent by
Glasgow
, the only British city to sponsor a painter.
[
1
]
De Stijl
artistic movement is established by
Theo van Doesburg
.
The
Allen Memorial Art Museum
is established at
Oberlin College
in
Ohio
.
The
Marc Chagall
illustrated version of
The Magician
(דער קונצענמאכער,
Der Kuntsenmakher
) by
I. L. Peretz
(d. 1915) is published in
Vilnius
.
[
2
]
Works
The original
Fountain
photographed by
Alfred Stieglitz
at the
291
after the 1917
Society of Independent Artists
exhibit to which
Duchamp
submitted it.
See also:
Category:1917 sculptures
and
Category:1917 paintings
Max Beckmann
Descent from the Cross
Self-Portrait with Red Scarf
Marc Chagall
–
Bella with White Collar
Giorgio de Chirico
Great Metaphysical Interior
The Grand Metaphysician
(Il grande metafisico)
Lovis Corinth
–
Portrait of Julius Meier-Graefe
Heinrich Maria Davringhausen
–
The Poet Däubler
Theo van Doesburg
–
Card Players
Marcel Duchamp
Fountain
(
readymade
)
Tulip Hysteria Co-ordinating
(fictitious work)
Jacob Epstein
–
An American Soldier
(bust)
Daniel Chester French
–
Lafayette Memorial
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
–
God
(
readymade
sculpture)
J. W. Godward
The Fruit Vendor
A Lily Pond
Under The Blossom That Hangs On The Bough
George Grosz
Explosion
Metropolis
Rudolf Alfred Höger
–
Nach dem Vorstoß, Russische Kriegsgefangene
(
After the Foray: Russian Prisoners of War
)
Paul Klee
–
Ab ovo
Gustav Klimt
Portrait of Fräulein Lieser
Portrait of a Lady
Isidore Konti
–
Nymph and Fawn
(bronze fountain)
Boris Kustodiev
–
Portrait of Countess Grabowska
Hans Larwin
–
Soldat und Tod
Fernand Léger
–
Soldiers Playing Cards
L. S. Lowry
–
Coming from the Mill
(drawing)
Maximilien Luce
The Execution of Varlin
La Gare de l'Est in snow
George Luks
–
Houston Street
Henri Matisse
Aicha and Laurette
[
4
]
Bathers by a River
The Music Lesson
The Painter and His Model
Joan Miró
Portrait of Vincent Nubiola
Prades, the Village
Amedeo Modigliani
Anna Zborowska
Jeanne Hébuterne with Hat and Necklace
Nu couché
Nude on a Blue Cushion
Nude Sitting on a Divan
Portrait of Blaise Cendrars
Reclining Nude
Reclining Nude
(On the Left Side)
C. R. W. Nevinson
After a Push
Britain's Efforts and Ideals
series of
lithographs
A Group of Soldiers
A Howitzer Gun in Elevation
Over the Lines
Paths of Glory
The Road from Arras to Bapaume
Swooping Down on a Hostile Plane
A Tank
Hilda Rix Nicholas
–
Desolation
(approximate date; destroyed)
Georgia O'Keeffe
–
Light Coming on the Plains
(watercolor series)
William Orpen
An Airman – Lieutenant R.T.C. Hoidge MC
Blown Up, Mad
Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig
German 'Planes Visiting Cassel
A Highlander Passing a Grave
Ready to Start: Self Portrait
Schwaben Redoubt
Self-portrait
Theipval
The Thinker on the Butte de Warlencourt
(original pencil & watercolour version)
View from the Old British Trenches, Looking towards La Boisselle, Courcelette on the Left, Martinpuich on the Right
Glyn Philpot
Siegfried Sassoon
A Young Breton (Guillaume Rolland)
Pablo Picasso
–
Harlequin with a Guitar
Auguste Rodin
–
The Gates of Hell
(sculpture unfinished at his death)
Egon Schiele
The Embrace
Seated Woman with Bent Knees
Zinaida Serebriakova
–
Bleaching Cloth
Charles Sheeler
–
Doylestown House – Stairs from Below
(photograph)
John French Sloan
–
Passing through Gloucester
Alfred Stieglitz
–
The Last Days of 291
(photograph)
Tom Thomson
April in Algonquin Park
The Jack Pine
The West Wind
Félix Vallotton
The Church of Souain
Senegalese Soldiers at the camp of Mailly
J. W. Waterhouse
–
Fair Rosamund
Christopher Williams
–
The Red Dress
Births
9 January
–
Virginia Surtees
,
English
art historian and biographer (d.
2017
)
5 February
–
Lucienne Day
, née Conradi,
British
textile designer (d.
2010
)
20 February
–
Manny Farber
,
American
painter
and
film critic
(d.
2008
)
20 February
–
Louisa Matthíasdóttir
,
Icelandic
-
American painter
(d.
2000
)
1 March
–
Tom Keating
, English
art restorer
and
art faker
(d.
1984
)
12 March
–
Milton Resnick
, American painter (d.
2004
)
24 March
–
Constantine Andreou
,
Greek
painter and sculptor (d.
2007
)
6 April
–
Leonora Carrington
, English-born surrealist painter working in Mexico (d.
2011
)
21 May
–
Frank Bellamy
, English
comics artist
(d.
1976
)
12 July
–
Andrew Wyeth
, American painter (d.
2009
)
14 July
–
Ben Enwonwu
, Nigerian painter and sculptor (d.
1994
)
11 August
–
Dik Browne
, American
cartoonist
(d.
1989
)
28 August
–
Jack Kirby
, American
comic book
artist
,
writer
and
editor
(d.
1994
)
3 September
–
Anthony Robert Klitz
, English artist (d.
2000
)
7 September
–
Jacob Lawrence
, African American painter (d.
2000
)
11 September
–
Daniel Wildenstein
,
French
international art dealer and scholar (d.
2001
)
25 December
–
John Minton
, English painter and illustrator (suicide
1957
)
Deaths
Tom Thomson
–
April in Algonquin Park
January 15
–
William De Morgan
, English
ceramic artist
(b.
1839
)
January 21
–
Francesca Alexander
, American illustrator (b.
1837
)
February 10
–
John William Waterhouse
, Italian-born artist (b.
1849
)
February 17
–
Carolus-Duran
, French painter (b. 1837)
March 27
–
Moses Jacob Ezekiel
, American sculptor working in Italy (b.
1844
)
March 28
–
Albert Pinkham Ryder
, American painter (b.
1847
)
April 23
–
Robert Koehler
,
German American
painter (b.
1850
)
June 30
–
Antonio de La Gandara
, French painter (b.
1861
)
July 3
–
Basil Temple Blackwood
, British book illustrator (b.
1870
) (killed in action)
July 8
–
Tom Thomson
,
Canadian
painter (b.
1877
) (drowned during a
canoeing
trip on
Canoe Lake
in
Algonquin Park
)
September 27
–
Edgar Degas
, French painter and sculptor (b.
1834
)
October 14
–
Nathaniel Hone the Younger
,
Irish
painter (b.
1831
)
October 23
–
Eugène Grasset
,
Swiss
artist (b.
1845
)
November 17
Sir Charles Holroyd
, English etcher (b.
1861
)
Auguste Rodin
, French sculptor (b.
1840
)
December 21
–
Wilhelm Trübner
,
German
painter (b.
1851
)
(date unknown) –
Raffaele Belliazzi
, Italian sculptor (b.
1835
)
References
↑
"Glasgow's forgotten war artist Fred Farrell"
.
The Herald
. Glasgow. 24 May 2014
. Retrieved
2023-08-30
.
↑
"The Magician"
.
World Digital Library
. 1917
. Retrieved
2013-09-30
.
↑
Tomkins, Calvin (1997).
Duchamp: A Biography
. London: Chatto & Windus. p.
186.
ISBN
0701166428
.
↑
Murrell, Denise (25 February 2024).
The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism
. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
ISBN
978-1-58839-773-7
.
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