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1930 in art
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June 12, 2025
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Events
Awards
Exhibitions
Works
Births
January to June
July to December
Deaths
See also
References
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Events from the year
1930 in art
.
Events
June–July –
Christopher Wood
paints in
Brittany
.
29 November
– Première of the
Surrealist
film
L'Age d'Or
by
Luis Buñuel
(co-written with
Salvador Dalí
) at Studio 28 in
Paris
.
Theo van Doesburg
produces a "Manifesto of
Concrete art
".
[
1
]
Vanessa Bell
and
Duncan Grant
complete the decoration of the dining room for
Dorothy Wellesley
at Penns-in-the-Rocks,
Withyham
,
England
.
Malvina Hoffman
begins sculpting life-size figures for the
Field Museum
's Hall of Man.
Great Bardfield Artists
community established in England.
Bernard Berenson
publishes
The Italian Painters of the Renaissance
.
Milt Gross
publishes his
wordless novel
He Done Her Wrong
in the United States.
Soviet sale of Hermitage paintings
begins.
Spanish postage stamps
depict
Goya
's
La maja desnuda
.
Approximate date –
Gertrud Arndt
begins a series of photographic self-portraits at the
Bauhaus
.
Awards
Archibald Prize
:
W. B. McInnes
–
Drum-Major Harry McClelland
Exhibitions
April –
Cercle et Carré
exhibition opens at
Galerie 23
in the
Rue La Boétie
, Paris.
Works
Grant Wood
–
American Gothic
José Clemente Orozco
–
Prometheus
See also:
Category:1930 sculptures
and
Category:1930 paintings
Edward Bawden
and
Eric Ravilious
–
Mural
in refectory of
Morley College
, London (begun 1928; destroyed in
The Blitz
1940)
Pierre Bonnard
–
Pots
Patrick Henry Bruce
–
Peinture
(
Museum of Modern Art
, New York)
Edward Burra
–
The Snack Bar
John Steuart Curry
–
Hogs Killing a Snake
Theo van Doesburg
–
Arithmetic Composition
Raoul Dufy
–
Pink Nude
M. C. Escher
The Bridge
(
lithograph
)
Castrovalva
(lithograph)
Palizzi, Calabria
(
woodcut
)
Pentedattilo
, Calabria
(lithograph)
Street in Scanno, Abruzzi
(lithograph)
Thomas Cooper Gotch
–
The Exile: Heavy Is The Price I Paid For Love
James Guthrie
–
Statesmen of World War I
Edward Hopper
–
Early Sunday Morning
Augustus John
–
Portrait of
Tallulah Bankhead
Paul Klee
–
Has Head, Hand, Feet and Heart
Rozsa Klein (
Rogi André
) –
Bonnard's Palette
Helmut Kolle
Self-Portrait in Hunting Attire
Young Man with a Colored Scarf
Abel Lafleur
–
Victory
[
broken anchor
]
(
trophy
)
Fernand Léger
–
Mona Lisa with Keys
L. S. Lowry
–
Coming from the Mill
Jeanne Mammen
–
Free Room
Henri Matisse
–
The Back Series
(
bas-reliefs
)
Piet Mondrian
-
Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow
Alice Neel
–
Ethel Ashton
(nude portrait)
Georgia O'Keeffe
–
Rust Red Hills
José Clemente Orozco
–
Prometheus
(fresco at
Pomona College
, California)
Diego Rivera
–
History of Morelos, Conquest and Revolution
Charles Sheeler
–
American Landscape
T. F. Šimon
–
View in Old Prague
(woodcut)
Grace Cossington Smith
–
The Bridge in Curve
Herbert Tyson Smith
– bronze reliefs for
Liverpool Cenotaph
Sophie Taeuber-Arp
–
Composition of Circles and Overlapping Angles
Edward Trumbull
–
Transport and Human Endeavor
(ceiling mural, lobby,
Chrysler Building
,
New York City
)
[
2
]
Suzanne Valadon
–
Nude Woman with a Blue Shawl
Christopher Wood
Anemones in a Cornish Window
Zebra and Parachute
Grant Wood
American Gothic
Arnold Comes of Age
Stone City, Iowa
N. C. Wyeth
–
Reception to Washington on April 21, 1789, at Trenton on his way to New York to Assume the Duties of the Presidency of the United States
W. L. Wyllie
–
Panorama of the Battle of Trafalgar
(
Royal Naval Museum
,
Portsmouth
)
[
3
]
Xu Beihong
–
A Portrait of Sun Duoci
Statler Fountain
Births
January to June
15 January
–
Paul Ahyi
, Togolese artist and sculptor (d.
2010
)
26 January
–
Napoleon Abueva
, Filipino sculptor (d.
2018
)
[
4
]
3 February
–
Gillian Ayres
,
English
abstract painter (d.
2018
)
10 February
–
Eva Frankfurther
, German-born portrait painter (suicide
1959
)
13 February
–
Ernst Fuchs
, Austrian artist (d.
2015
)
[
5
]
18 February
–
Gahan Wilson
,
American
cartoonist (d.
2019
)
21 February
–
Enrique Tábara
, Ecuadorian painter (d.
2021
)
24 February
–
Anita Steckel
, American feminist artist (d.
2012
)
25 February
–
Wendy Beckett
, English contemplative nun and
art historian
(d.
2018
)
7 March
–
Antony Armstrong-Jones
, English photographer (d.
2017
)
[
6
]
8 March
–
Hector Lombana
, Colombian sculptor, painter and architect (d.
2008
)
11 March
–
David Gentleman
, English graphic designer
27 March
–
Daniel Spoerri
, Romanian-Swiss artist and writer
[
7
]
30 March
–
Rolf Harris
, Australian entertainer, painter and child sexual abuser (d.
2023
)
[
8
]
31 March
–
Susan Weil
, American painter
[
9
]
1 April
–
John Houston
, Scottish painter (d.
2008
)
12 April
–
Manuel Neri
, American sculptor, painter and printmaker (d.
2021
)
14 May
–
James Beck
, American art historian (d.
2007
)
15 May
–
Jasper Johns
, American painter, sculptor and printmaker
[
10
]
22 May
–
Marisol Escobar
, French-born sculptor and printmaker (d.
2016
)
23 May
Richard Anuszkiewicz
, American painter, sculptor and printmaker (d.
2020
)
Aslan
, French-born pin-up artist (d.
2014
)
24 May
–
Unity Spencer
, English artist (d.
2017
)
30 May
–
Robert Ryman
, American monochrome painter (d.
2019
)
5 June
–
Vladimir Popov
, Soviet animator, animation and art director (d.
1987
)
15 June
–
Ikuo Hirayama
, Japanese painter (d.
2009
)
16 June
–
Allan D'Arcangelo
, American painter and graphic artist (d.
1998
)
19 June
–
Bryan Kneale
, Manx sculptor and academic
20 June
–
Magdalena Abakanowicz
,
Polish
sculptor (d.
2017
)
[
11
]
24 June
Pierre Restany
,
French
art critic
and cultural
philosopher
(d.
2003
)
Flip Schulke
, American photojournalist (d. 2008)
July to December
4 July
–
Mohamed Demagh
, Algerian sculptor (d.
2018
)
4 August
-
Astrid Zydower
, German-born British sculptor (d.
2005
)
[
12
]
5 September
–
Ibrahim El-Salahi
, Sudanese painter
24 September
–
Bernard Nevill
, English textile designer and art collector (d.
2019
)
[
13
]
28 September
–
Nikolai Pozdneev
, Russian painter (d.
1978
)
3 October
–
Robyn Denny
, British abstract artist (d.
2014
)
7 October
–
Kurt Dornis
, German painter, graphic artist and draughtsman
8 October
–
Faith Ringgold
,
African American
painter and fabric artist
18 October
–
Trevor Bell
, English painter (d.
2017
)
29 October
–
Niki de Saint Phalle
, French sculptor, painter and film maker (d.
2002
)
[
14
]
7 November
–
Robert Natkin
, American painter (d.
2010
)
13 November
–
Benny Andrews
, American painter and academic (d.
2006
)
14 November
–
Elisabeth Frink
, English sculptor (d.
1993
)
31 December
–
Luis Marsans
,
Catalan
painter (d.
2015
)
Deaths
January 7
–
Max Schmalzl
, German religious painter and illustrator (b.
1850
)
March 3
–
W. W. Quatremain
, English landscape painter (b.
1857
)
March 19
–
Andreas Walser
, Swiss
painter
(b.
1908
)
March 24
–
Eugeen Van Mieghem
, Belgian painter (b.
1875
)
[
15
]
April 17
–
Aleksandr Golovin
,
Russian
stage designer (b.
1863
)
April 30
–
John Russell
, Australian Impressionist painter (b.
1858
)
May 10
–
Julio Romero de Torres
, Spanish painter (b.
1874
)
May 28
–
George Washington Lambert
, Australian portrait painter and war artist (b.
1873
)
June 3
–
Alexander Bogomazov
,
Ukrainian
painter and
modern art
theoretician
of
Russian avant-garde
(b.
1880
)
June 5
Sophie Holten
, Danish painter (b.
1858
)
[
16
]
[
17
]
Jules Pascin
, Bulgarian-born painter and draftsman (b.
1885
)
[
18
]
July 22
–
Wacław Szymanowski
, Polish sculptor and painter (b.
1859
)
August 21
–
Christopher Wood
, English painter (b.
1901
) (
suicide
)
August 28
–
Stanisław Bergman
, Polish painter (b.
1862
)
September 6
–
Sir James Guthrie
, Scottish painter (b.
1859
)
September 24
–
Otto Mueller
, German Expressionist painter (b.
1874
)
September 25
–
Abram Arkhipov
, Russian painter (b.
1862
)
September 29
–
Ilya Yefimovich Repin
, Russian painter (b.
1844
)
December 9
–
Laura Muntz Lyall
, Canadian Impressionist painter (b.
1860
)
[
19
]
December 17
–
Nikolay Kasatkin
, Russian painter (b.
1859
)
December 28
–
Antonio Mancini
, Italian painter (b.
1852
)
date unknown
–
Peter Moog
, outsider artist (b.
1871
)
See also
1930 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
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