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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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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

  • 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 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)
  • 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)
  • April 28 – Yves Klein, French abstract artist (d. 1962)
  • 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)
  • June 16 – Pierrette Bloch, French-Swiss painter, textile artist (d. 2017)
  • June 25
  • Peyo, Belgian comics artist (d. 1992)
  • 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)
  • August 12 – Charles Blackman, Australian painter and illustrator (d. 2018)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • November 6 – Norman Carlberg, American sculptor (d. 2018)
  • November 17 – Arman, French-born American artist (d. 2005)
  • 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)
  • 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)

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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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

References