1918 in art

Events from the year 1918 in art.

Events

• February – British War Memorials Committee formed to commission artworks to create a memorial to the World War I, including a (never-built) Hall of Remembrance.
• February 16 – Joan Miró's first solo exhibition opens at the Galeries Dalmau; his work is ridiculed and defaced. ^[1]
• March – C. R. W. Nevinson has an exhibition at the Leicester Galleries in London. His war painting Paths of Glory , condemned by the British Army censor for its depiction of dead soldiers, is displayed by the artist with a brown paper strip across the bodies bearing the word "Censored" and subsequently replaced in the exhibition by a painting of a tank.
• May – Stanley Spencer, a serving British Army soldier, is appointed as an official war artist. A similar appointment is made this year for Australian soldier Frank R. Crozier.
• May 3 – William Orpen's exhibition War opens in London; the paintings are donated to the British government. He is knighted in June.
• May 11 – Paul Nash's exhibition The Void of War opens at the Leicester Galleries in London.
• June 18 – Pablo Picasso marries Olga Khoklova.
• June – Alfred Stieglitz begins nude photography of Georgia O'Keeffe.
• October 15 – Kunsthalle Bern opened.
• November 3 – The Robespierre Monument (Moscow), designed by Beatrice Yuryevna Sandomierz, is unveiled; it collapses four days later.
• November 7–December 14 – British painter Colin Gill, having previously served as a soldier on the Western Front, returns to France to work for the British War Memorials Committee.
• December 3 – The November Group (Novembergruppe) of expressionist artists is formed in Germany, and shortly afterwards merges with the Arbeitsrat für Kunst. ^[2]
• First of four posthumous sales of works from the studio of Degas.
• Denver Art Museum in Colorado opens its first galleries.
• Frans Masereel's wordless novel 25 Images of a Man's Passion is published.

Works

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – Alpine Kitchen

John Nash – Over The Top (IWM)

Paul Nash – We are Making a New World (IWM)

See also: Category:1918 sculptures and Category:1918 paintings

• Anna Airy
  • An Aircraft Assembly Shop, Hendon
  • The 'L' Press: Forging the Jacket of an 18-inch Gun, Armstrong-Whitworth Works, Openshaw
  • A Shell Forge at a National Projectile Factory, Hackney Marshes, London
  • Shop for Machining 15-inch Shells: Singer Manufacturing Company, Clydebank, Glasgow
  • Women Working in a Gas Retort House: South Metropolitan Gas Company, London
• George Bellows
  • The Barricade
  • Edith Cavell
• Victor David Brenner – Mary Schenley Memorial Fountain (Pittsburgh)
• Charles Buchel – Radclyffe Hall
• George Clausen – In the Gun Factory at Woolwich Arsenal
• Charles Demuth – Turkish Bath with self-portrait
• Theo van Doesburg – Composition IX
• Katherine Sophie Dreier – Abstract Portrait of Marcel Duchamp
• Eric Enstrom – Grace (photograph)
• Charles Buckles Falls – Books Wanted (poster)
• Roger Fry
  • Nina Hamnett
  • Self-portrait
• Georges Gardet – Eternal Youth (gilded sculpture on Manitoba Legislative Building)
• Mark Gertler – The Pool at Garsington
• J. W. Godward
  • A Fond Farewell
  • Sweet Sounds
• Duncan Grant – The White Jug (finished version)
• George Grosz – The Funeral
• Eric Kennington – Gassed and Wounded
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • Alpine Kitchen
  • Self-portrait as a Patient
• Paul Klee
  • Composition with the Yellow Half-Moon and the Y
  • Flower Myth
• Gustav Klimt – Lady with a Fan
• Boris Kustodiev
  • The Merchant's Wife
  • Sten'ka Razin
• Fernand Léger
  • Bargeman
  • In the Factory
• Wyndham Lewis – A Canadian Gun-Pit
• Flora Lion – Women's Canteen at Phoenix Works, Bradford
• John Hodgson Lobley
  • Outside Charing Cross Station, July 1916. Casualties from the Battle of the Somme arriving in London
  • The Queen's Hospital for Facial Injuries, Frognal, Sidcup: The Toy-Makers' Shop
• Kazimir Malevich – White on White
• José Malhoa – Autumn
• Ivan Meštrović – Dr. Elsie Inglis (bronze bust)
• Jean Metzinger – Fruit and a Jug on a Table
• Joan Miró – La casa de la palmera (House with Palm Tree)
• Amedeo Modigliani
  • Alice
  • The Little Peasant
  • Portrait of Blaise Cendrars
  • Seated Man with a Cane
  • Seated Nude (1918)
• Piet Mondrian – Composition with Grid No. 1
• Alfred Munnings
  • Draft Horses, Lumber Mill in the Forest of Dreux
  • Warrior
• Kaita Murayama – Self-portrait
• John Nash
  • The Cornfield
  • Oppy Wood, 1917, Evening
  • Over The Top
• Paul Nash
  • The Mule Track
  • Sunrise, Inverness Copse
  • We are Making a New World
  • Void
  • The Ypres Salient at Night
• Georgia O'Keeffe – The Flag
• William Orpen
  • Armistice Night, Amiens
  • Dead Germans in a Trench
  • The Mad Woman of Douai
  • Marshal Foch
  • Zonnebeke
• Willard Dryden Paddock – Sundial, Boy With Spider (bronze)
• Glyn Philpot
  • Italian Soldier (No. 2)
  • Sir James Murray
  • Admiral Viscount Jellicoe
  • Vice-Admiral Sir Roger Keyes
  • Admiral Sir F. C. D. Sturdee
  • Rear-Admiral Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt
• Pablo Picasso
  • Pierrot
  • Portrait of Olga in an Armchair
  • Still Life (1918)
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • Portrait of Adele Besson
  • The Bathers
• William Roberts
  • The First German Gas Attack at Ypres
  • A Shell Dump, France
• Norman Rockwell – Children Dancing at a Party
• John Singer Sargent – Tommies Bathing
• Egon Schiele – The Family
• Solomon Joseph Solomon – Nina Salaman
• William Strang – Lady with a Red Hat
• Henry Tonks – An Advanced Dressing Station in France
• Viktor Vasnetsov – Frog Princess
• Edward Wolfe – Still Life with Omega Cat
• Francis Derwent Wood – Canada's Golgotha (bronze)
• William Lionel Wyllie – Battle of the Falkland Islands, 1914

Births

• 6 February – Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author, painter and art collector (d. 2007).
• 7 February – Markey Robinson, Irish painter (d. 1999).
• 12 March – Elaine de Kooning, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 1989) ^[3]
• 22 March – Harry Devlin, American painter and illustrator (d. 2001).
• 10 April – Cornell Capa, Hungarian-American photographer and photo curator (d. 2008).
• 9 May – Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (d. 2006) ^[4]
• 10 May – Desmond MacNamara, Irish painter, sculptor and author (d. 2008).
• 30 May – Károly Doncsecz, Slovenian potter (d. 2002)
• 5 June – Gladys Maccabe, Irish painter (d. 2018)
• 2 July – Fumiko Hori, Japanese Nihonga painter (d. 2019).
• 11 July – Roy Krenkel, American illustrator (d. 1983).
• 21 July – David Piper, English curator and novelist (d. 1990).
• 25 July – Jane Frank, American painter, sculptor, mixed media and textile artist (d. 1986).
• 8 August – Brian Stonehouse, English painter, Special Operations Executive agent during World War II (d. 1998).
• 22 September – Cleve Gray, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 2004).
• 7 October – Mimmo Rotella, Italian décollage artist and poet (d. 2006).
• 8 November – Hermann Zapf, German typeface designer (d. 2015).
• 20 November – Corita Kent, American nun and silkscreen printer (d. 1986).
• 14 December – Jack Cole, American comic book artist (d. 1958).
• 18 December – Kali, born Hanna Gordziałkowska, Polish-born portrait painter, Resistance agent during World War II (d. 1998).

Deaths

• January 7 – Rista Vukanović, Serbian Impressionist painter and husband of painter Beta Vukanović (b. 1873)
• February 6 – Gustav Klimt, Austrian Symbolist painter (b. 1862)
• April 9 – Niko Pirosmani, Georgian painter (b. 1862)
• April 1 – Isaac Rosenberg, English painter and poet (b. 1890)
• April 23 – Paul Sébillot, Breton painter and author (b. 1842)
• May 19 – Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (b. 1853)
• June 28 – Albert Henry Munsell, American inventor of the Munsell color system (b. 1858)
• October 9 – Raymond Duchamp-Villon, French sculptor (b. 1876)
• October 30 – Egon Schiele, Austrian painter (b. 1890)
• November 20 – John Bauer, Swedish illustrator (in shipwreck) (b. 1882)
• December 22 – Charles Edward Perugini, English painter (b. 1839)
• December 23 – Thérèse Schwartze, Dutch portrait painter (b. 1851)

References

1. Jaggi, Maya (2011-04-13). "Joan Miró images in Barcelona" . The Independent . London. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 2013-01-23.
2. Kliemann, Helga (1969). Die Novembergruppe. Berlin: Gebr. Mann.
3. Glueck, Grace (February 2, 1989). "Elaine de Kooning, Artist and Teacher, Dies at 68". New York Times.
4. David Meredith. "WILLIAMS, Sir JOHN KYFFIN (1918-2006), painter and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 8 February 2019.