1928 in art

Events from the year 1928 in art.

Events

• January 7 – The Tate Gallery, London, is one of the buildings flooded by the 1928 Thames flood. ^[1]
• January 27 – The Huntington Library is officially opened to the public in San Marino, California. Major art exhibits include a large collection of 18th-century British portraits and a display of French tapestries of the same period. ^[2]
• March 26 – The China Academy of Art is founded in Hangzhou (originally named the National Academy of Art).
• August – Ben Nicholson and Kit Wood visit St. Ives, Cornwall, and meet the ex-fisherman painter Alfred Wallis. ^[3]
• October – English artist and designer Eric Gill moves with some of his artistic community from Capel-y-ffin in Wales to 'Pigotts' at Speen, Buckinghamshire, near High Wycombe.
• November 18 – Film debut of Mickey Mouse, designed by Ub Iwerks.
• Clarice Cliff introduces her Crocus pottery decoration. ^[4]
• Pierre Chareau and colleagues begin construction of the Maison de Verre ("house of glass") on the rue Saint-Guillaume in Paris for client Jean Dalsace.
• Charles Haslewood Shannon suffers a fall while hanging a picture which ends his career as an artist.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: John Longstaff – Portrait of Dr Alexander Leeper
• Carnegie Prize – André Derain
• Art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics
  • Painting: Isaac Israëls – Cavalier Rouge
  • Drawing: Jean Jacoby – Rugby
  • Graphic work: William Nicholson – An Almanac of Twelve Sports

Exhibitions

• Alexander Calder's first solo exhibition at the Weyhe Gallery, New York City.
• L'Exposition surréaliste at the Galerie du Sacre du Printemps, Paris.
• December – East London Group (as East London Art Club) exhibits at Whitechapel Gallery.

Works

See also: Category:1928 sculptures and Category:1928 paintings

• Wäinö Aaltonen – bust of Jean Sibelius
• Tarsila do Amaral – Abaporu
• Max Beckmann – The Wendelsveg in Frankfurt am Main
• Pierre Bonnard – Flowers on a Red Carpet
• John Steuart Curry
  • Baptism in Kansas
  • Bathers
• Charles Demuth – I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
• Edwin Dickinson – The Fossil Hunters
• Otto Dix – Metropolis
• M. C. Escher – Tower of Babel (woodcut)
• Meredith Frampton – Marguerite Kelsey
• George Grosz – Hinterground (portfolio of lithographs)
• Edward Hopper
  • From Williamsburg Bridge
  • Manhattan Bridge Loop
  • Night Windows
• Prudence Heward – Girl on a Hill
• Frida Kahlo – Dama de Blanco
• André Kertész – The Fork (photograph)
• Paul Klee – Cat and Bird
• Sir John Lavery – Portrait of Lady Lavery as Kathleen Ni Houlihan
• Tamara de Lempicka
  • Andromeda
  • Portrait of Dr. Boucard
• L. S. Lowry
  • A Street Scene
  • Going to the Match
• Eugenie McEvoy – Taxi! Taxi!
• René Magritte
  • The Adulation of Space
  • The Empty Mask
  • The False Mirror
  • The Lovers
• Henri Matisse
  • Odalisque with a Turkish Chair
  • Two Odalisques, One Being Nude, Ornamental Ground and Checkerboard
• Ivan Meštrović – The Bowman and The Spearman (equestrian sculptures, Chicago)
• Joan Miró – Dutch Interiors
• Georgia O'Keeffe
  • East River from the Shelton Hotel
  • East River from the Thirtieth Story of the Shelton Hotel
  • Oriental Poppies
• Mahmoud Mokhtar – Egypt's Renaissance (sculpture group, Cairo University, begun 1919, completed)
• Frederick Roth – Equestrian statue of George Washington (Morristown, New Jersey) (bronze)
• Frank O. Salisbury – Clarence Winthrop Bowen
• Christian Schad – Two Girlfriends
• Charles Sheeler – Upper Deck (photograph, approximate date)
• Zinaida Serebriakova – Lit By The Sun
• Charles Sims – I Am the Abyss and I Am Light
• John French Sloan – Sixth Avenue Elevated at Third Street
• Joseph Southall – The Botanists
• Alexej von Jawlensky – Abstract Head
• George Fite Waters – Statue of Abraham Lincoln (Portland, Oregon) (bronze)

Births

January to June

• January 20 – Malang, Filipino artist (d. 2017)
• January 31 – Dušan Džamonja, Macedonian sculptor (d. 2009)
• March 1 – Jacques Rivette, French filmmaker (d. 2016) ^[5]
• March 3 – Jean Rustin, French painter (d. 2013)
• March 18 – Mirka Mora, French-Australian artist and cultural figure (d. 2018)
• March 25 – Hans Steinbrenner, German sculptor (d. 2008)
• April 25 – Cy Twombly, American abstract artist (d. 2011) ^[6]
• April 28 – Yves Klein, French abstract artist (d. 1962) ^[7]
• May 4 – Brian O'Doherty aka Patrick Ireland, Irish-born art critic and installation artist (d. 2022)
• May 14 – Władysław Hasior, Polish sculptor, painter and set designer (d. 1999)
• May 30 – Pro Hart, Australian painter (d. 2006)
• June 3 – Donald Judd, American sculptor (d. 1994) ^[8]
• June 16 – Pierrette Bloch, French-Swiss painter, textile artist (d. 2017) ^[9]
• June 25
  • Peyo, Belgian comics artist (d. 1992) ^[10]
  • Alex Toth, American comic book artist and cartoonist (d. 2006)

July to December

• July 8 – Pat Adams, American painter and printmaker
• July 10 – Bernard Buffet, French painter (d. 1999)
• July 14 – Anwar Shemza, Pakistan-born British artist and writer (d. 1985)
• July 21 – Anne Harris, Canadian sculptor
• August 6 – Andy Warhol, American artist, director and writer (d. 1987) ^[11]
• August 12 – Charles Blackman, Australian painter and illustrator (d. 2018) ^[12]
• August 15 – Alan Collins, English figurative religious sculptor (d. 2016)
• August 22 – Roberto Aizenberg, Argentine painter and sculptor (d. 1996)
• August 31 – Jeremy Maas, English art dealer and historian of Victorian painting (d. 1997)
• September 9 – Sol LeWitt, American conceptual and minimalist artist (d. 2007) ^[13]
• September 10 - Ward Jackson, American painter (d. 2004)
• September 12 – Robert Irwin, American installation artist
• September 13 – Robert Indiana, born Clark, American pop artist (d. 2018)
• October 7 – Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d. 1980)
• October 12 – Al Held, American Abstract expressionist painter (d. 2005)
• October 30 – Michael Andrews, English painter (d. 1995)
• November 3 – Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist, animator and film producer (d. 1989) ^[14]
• November 6 – Norman Carlberg, American sculptor (d. 2018)
• November 17 – Arman, French-born American artist (d. 2005) ^[15]
• November 27 – Josh Kirby, English commercial artist (d. 2001)
• December 2 – Guy Bourdin, French photographer (d. 1991)
• December 12 – Helen Frankenthaler, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 2011)
• December 13 – Wolfgang Hutter, Austrian painter, lithographer and designer (d. 2014)
• December 15 – Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian painter, architect and sculptor (d. 2000) ^[16]
• December 31 – Siné, French cartoonist (d. 2016)

Date unknown

• Ben Birillo, American painter and art curator
• Franco the Great, born Frankin Gaskin, Panamanian-born American street artist
• Wally Hedrick, American counterculture artist (d. 2003) ^[17]

Deaths

• January 4 – Hamilton Hamilton, American painter (b. 1847)
• January 6 – Adolfo de Carolis, Italian painter, xylographer, illustrator and photographer (b. 1874)
• January 8 – Gyula Basch, Hungarian painter (b. 1859)
• January 13 – Frederick Arthur Bridgman, American painter (b. 1847)
• January 21 – Nikolai Astrup, Norwegian painter (b. 1880) ^[18]
• January 26 – Henrietta Rae, English painter (b. 1859)
• January – Alexander Reid, Scottish art dealer (b. 1854)
• February 7 – Adolfo de Carolis, Italian painter (b. 1874)
• February 12 – Nicolás Guzmán Bustamante, Chilean painter and draftsman (b. 1850)
• March 31 – Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (b. 1858) ^[19]
• April 3 – Raffaello Romanelli, Italian sculptor (b. 1856)
• April 5 – Viktor Oliva, Czech painter and illustrator (b. 1861)
• April 13 – Charles Sims, English painter (suicide, b. 1873)
• May 16 – Frederick Arthur Verner, Canadian landscape painter (b. 1836)
• May 21 - George Frampton, English artist (b. 1860)
• June 22 – A. B. Frost, American illustrator (b. 1851)
• July 10 – John Chambers, English landscape and portrait painter (b. 1852)
• July 25 – Jane Sutherland, Australian landscape painter (b. 1853)
• August 30 – Franz Stuck, German symbolist /Art Nouveau painter, sculptor, engraver and architect (b. 1863)
• September 20 – Ivan Tišov, Croatian painter (b. 1870)
• October 24 – Arthur Bowen Davies, American artist (b. 1863) ^[20]
• October 30 – Percy Anderson, English stage designer and painter (b. 1851)
• November 15 – Godfred Christensen, Danish painter (b. 1845)
• December 1 – Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth, German painter (b. 1855)
• December 2 – Robert Reid, American Impressionist painter (b. 1862)
• December 10 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect and designer (b. 1868)
• December 15 – Louis Mathieu Verdilhan, French painter (b. 1875)
• December 18 – Nils Bergslien, Norwegian illustrator, painter and sculptor (b. 1853)

See also

• 1928 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

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