1922 in art
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Awards
- Archibald PrizeArchibald PrizeThe Archibald Prize is regarded as the most important portraiture prize in Australia. It was first awarded in 1921 after a bequest from J. F. Archibald, the editor of The Bulletin who died in 1919...
: W B McInnes - Professor Harrison Moore - Newbery MedalNewbery MedalThe John Newbery Medal is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association . The award is given to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. The award has been given since 1922. ...
- Rene Paul ChambellanRene Paul ChambellanRene Paul Chambellan was an American sculptor, born in West Hoboken, New Jersey.Chambellan studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Julian in Paris and with Solon Borglum in New York City. Chambellan specialized in architectural sculpture...
Works
- Max BeckmannMax BeckmannMax Beckmann was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement...
- The Iron Footbridge - Lydia Field EmmetLydia Field EmmetLydia Field Emmet was an American artist best known for her work as a portraitist. She studied with, among others, prominent artists such as William Merritt Chase, Henry Siddons Mowbray, Kenyon Cox and Tony Robert-Fleury...
- Harriet Lancashire White and Her Children - L. S. LowryL. S. LowryLaurence Stephen Lowry was an English artist born in Barrett Street, Stretford, Lancashire. Many of his drawings and paintings depict nearby Salford and surrounding areas, including Pendlebury, where he lived and worked for over 40 years at 117 Station Road , opposite St...
- A Manufacturing Town - Dugald Sutherland MacCollDugald Sutherland MacCollDugald Sutherland MacColl was a Scottish watercolour painter, art critic, lecturer and writer. He was keeper of the Tate gallery for five years.- Life :...
- On the Terrace - André MassonAndré MassonAndré-Aimé-René Masson was a French artist.-Biography:Masson was born in Balagny-sur-Thérain, Oise, but was brought up in Belgium. He began his study of art at the age of eleven in Brussels, at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts under the guidance of Constant Montald, and later he studied in Paris...
- Pedestal Table in the Studio - Joan MiróJoan MiróJoan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona.Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride...
- La Masia (The Farm)
January to June
- January 17 - Robert De Niro, Sr.Robert De Niro, Sr.Robert Henry De Niro, Sr. was an American abstract expressionist painter and the father of actor Robert De Niro.-Life and career:...
, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
abstract expressionist painter (d.19931993 in artThe year 1993 in art involved some significant events.-Events:* 7 March – Beavis and Butt-head first appears on MTV.* May – Jay Jopling opens the London gallery White Cube...
). - January 23 - Leon GolubLeon GolubLeon Golub was an American painter. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, where he also studied, receiving his BA at the University of Chicago in 1942, his BFA and MFA at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1949 and 1950, respectively.He was married to and collaborated with the artist Nancy Spero...
, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
(d.20042004 in artThe year 2004 in art involved some significant events.-Events:*24 May – A fire in the Momart storage warehouse destroys major works by Helen Chadwick, Tracey Emin, Patrick Heron, Damien Hirst and other British artists.-Awards:...
). - March 3 - Louis MaratierLouis MaratierLouis Maratier was a French post-impressionist artist and painter who specialised in austere still life and static depictions of animals. His best known work is, however, a Landscape; Les Atlanteans...
, FrenchFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
post-impressionist artistArtistAn artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
and painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
(d.19981998 in art-Events:*April – Fans of Newcastle United FC decorate the newly-erected Angel of the North sculpture with a giant replica of Alan Shearer's no. 9 shirt...
). - March 10 - Kiyoshi YamashitaKiyoshi Yamashitawas a Japanese artist. He is famous for his wanderings throughout Japan, during which he wore only a vest, garnering the nickname "The Naked General".- Early life :Yamashita was born in Asakusa, Tokyo...
, JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese outsider artOutsider ArtThe term outsider art was coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for art brut , a label created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the boundaries of official culture; Dubuffet focused particularly on art by insane-asylum inmates.While...
ist. - March 27 - Jules OlitskiJules OlitskiJules Olitski was an American abstract painter, printmaker, and sculptor.-Early life:Olitski was born Jevel Demikovski in Snovsk, in the Russian SFSR , a few months after his father, a commissar, was executed by the Russian government...
, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
abstract painter, printmaker, and sculptor (d.20072007 in art-Events:*18 October – In New York City one of the worlds leading art galleries, the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, is forced into closure on the evening of the opening of a major Caravaggio exhibition, amidst scandal and lawsuits....
). - March 28 - Grace HartiganGrace HartiganGrace Hartigan was an American Abstract Expressionist painter of the New York School in the 1950s.-Biography and early career:...
, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
Abstract Expressionist painter, (d.20082008 in art-Awards:* Caldecott Medal – Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret* Hugo Boss Prize – Emily Jacir* Doug Moran National Portrait Prize – Fiona Lowry* Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts – Mona Hatoum...
) - April 22 - Richard DiebenkornRichard DiebenkornRichard Diebenkorn was a well-known 20th century American painter. His early work is associated with Abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. His later work were instrumental to his achievement of worldwide acclaim.-Biography:Richard Clifford Diebenkorn Jr...
, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
painter (d.19931993 in artThe year 1993 in art involved some significant events.-Events:* 7 March – Beavis and Butt-head first appears on MTV.* May – Jay Jopling opens the London gallery White Cube...
). - April 24 - Richard HamiltonRichard Hamilton (artist)Richard William Hamilton, CH was a British painter and collage artist. His 1956 collage, Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?, produced for the This Is Tomorrow exhibition of the Independent Group in London, is considered by critics and historians to be one of the...
, painter and collageCollageA collage is a work of formal art, primarily in the visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole....
artist. - May 7 - Joe O'Donnell, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
photographer (d.20072007 in art-Events:*18 October – In New York City one of the worlds leading art galleries, the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, is forced into closure on the evening of the opening of a major Caravaggio exhibition, amidst scandal and lawsuits....
). - June 22 - Bill Blass, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
fashion designer (d.20022002 in art-Events:*10 July – At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million to Lord Thomson of Fleet....
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July to December
- July 3 - Guillaume Cornelis van BeverlooGuillaume Cornelis van BeverlooGuillaume Cornelis van Beverloo , better known under his pseudonym Corneille, was a Dutch artist.Corneille was born in Liege, Belgium, although his parents were Dutch and moved back to the Netherlands when he was 12. He studied art at the Academy of Art in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands...
, "Corneille", painter - July 25 - Fred Yates, EnglishEnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
artistArtistAn artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
(d.20082008 in art-Awards:* Caldecott Medal – Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret* Hugo Boss Prize – Emily Jacir* Doug Moran National Portrait Prize – Fiona Lowry* Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts – Mona Hatoum...
). - September 3 - Steffan DanielsenSteffan DanielsenJohan Steffan Danielsen was a Faroese painter.-Life and work:...
, FaroeseFaroe IslandsThe Faroe Islands are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately halfway between Scotland and Iceland. The Faroe Islands are a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, along with Denmark proper and Greenland...
painter (d.19761976 in art-Events:*Completion of the Cubist-influenced Church of the Holy Trinity, Vienna, by Fritz Wotruba.-Exhibitions:*21 July - Opening of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, New York...
). - September 9 - Pauline BaynesPauline BaynesPauline Diana Baynes was an English book illustrator, whose work encompassed more than 100 books, notably those by C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. She was born in Hove, Sussex....
, EnglishEnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
book illustrator (d.20082008 in art-Awards:* Caldecott Medal – Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret* Hugo Boss Prize – Emily Jacir* Doug Moran National Portrait Prize – Fiona Lowry* Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts – Mona Hatoum...
). - December 8 - Lucian FreudLucian FreudLucian Michael Freud, OM, CH was a British painter. Known chiefly for his thickly impasted portrait and figure paintings, he was widely considered the pre-eminent British artist of his time...
, British painter and printmaker (d.20112011 in artThe year 2011 in art involves some significant events.-Events:* April 3 – The Chinese artist and dissident Ai Wei Wei is arrested and detained and his studio sealed off, by the government of the Peoples Republic of China, during an apparent crackdown by the regime on activists and dissidents...
). - December 31 - Theodoros StamosTheodoros StamosTheodoros Stamos , was a Greek American artist. He is one of the youngest painters of the original group of abstract expressionist painters , which included Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko...
, GreekGreeceGreece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
abstract expressionist painter (d.19971997 in art-Events:*27 January – It is revealed that French museums had nearly 2,000 pieces of art that had been stolen by Nazis.*6 March – Pablo Picasso's Tête de Femme is stolen from a London gallery ....
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Deaths
- February - Algernon GravesAlgernon GravesAlgernon Graves was a British art sales and art exhibition documenter. He created reference sources that began the modern discipline of provenance research.-Early life:...
, art historian (b. 18451845 in art-Events:*February 7 – The Portland Vase is destroyed by a drunk. It has since been reconstructed three times.-Works:*Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – Portrait of Countess Haussonville*Jan August Hendrik Leys – Franz Floris se rendant a une fête...
) - February 3 - John Butler YeatsJohn Butler YeatsJohn Butler Yeats was an Irish artist and the father of William Butler Yeats, Lily Yeats, Lollie Yeats and Jack B. Yeats. He is probably best known for his portrait of the young William Butler Yeats which is one of a number of his portraits of Irishmen and women in the Yeats museum in the National...
, Irish painter (b.18391839 in art-Works:*Sir Edwin Landseer – Dignity and Impudence*Carl Spitzweg – The Poor Poet*J. M. W. Turner – The Fighting Temeraire-Births:*January 19 – Paul Cézanne, French painter *March 16 – John Butler Yeats, Irish painter...
) - February 5 - Paul Durand-RuelPaul Durand-RuelPaul Durand-Ruel was a French art dealer who is associated with the Impressionists. He was one of the first modern art dealers who provided support to his painters with stipends and solo exhibitions....
, art dealer, patron of the Impressionists - February 19 - Karl IsaksonKarl IsaksonKarl Oscar Isakson was a Swedish painter who spent much of his professional life in Denmark where he is considered to be one of the fathers of Modernism. He had close associations with the Bornholm school of painters and made many paintings of Christiansø.-Biography:Isakson was brought up in...
, Swedish artist (b. 18781878 in art-Events:*James McNeill Whistler sues critic John Ruskin for libel over his painting Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket. Whistler wins a farthing in nominal damages, and is bankrupted by his legal costs.-Works:...
) - March 16 - Reinhold LepsiusReinhold LepsiusReinhold Lepsius was a German painter, especially of portraits, and graphic artist.He was born in Berlin, a son of Elisabeth Klein and Carl Richard Lepsius, the founder of German Egyptology. He was stylistically affiliated with the Berlin Secession school and to some degree with Impressionism. He...
, painter (b. 18571857 in art-Events:*Lewis Carroll meets John Ruskin and begins to associate with the Pre-Raphaelites. In the same year, Ruskin publishes his Political Economy of Art.-Works:...
) - May 15 - Leslie WardLeslie WardSir Leslie Matthew Ward , was a British portrait artist and caricaturist who drew or painted numerous portraits which were regularly published by Vanity Fair, under the pseudonyms "Spy" and "Drawl".-Background:...
("Spy"), cartoonist (b. 18511851 in art-Events:*May 1 - The Great Exhibition opens at Crystal Palace, London. Works of art on display include the Tara Brooch, handicrafts and ornaments by the Khudabadi Sindhi Swarankar, and a demonstration by makers of Bristol blue glass.-Works:...
) - September 5 -Georgette AgutteGeorgette AgutteGeorgette Agutte was a French painter.She was the daughter of Jean Georges Agutte. In 1893 she joined Gustave Moreau's classes as a free pupil, and retained his teachings on the freedom of mind and independence....
, painter - September 8 - Léon BonnatLéon BonnatLéon Joseph Florentin Bonnat was a French painter.He was born in Bayonne, but from 1846 to 1853 he lived in Madrid, where his father owned a bookshop. While tending his father's shop, he copied engravings of works by the Old Masters, developing a passion for drawing...
, painter (b. 18331833 in art-Events:*January – Honoré Daumier is released from prison after serving a 6-month term for caricaturing King Louis-Philippe of France as Gargantua in La Caricature.-Births:*April 17 – George Vicat Cole, painter...
) - October 18 - August GaulAugust GaulAugust Gaul was a German sculptor.August Gaul was a founding member of the Berlin Secession. On close terms with art dealers like Bruno and Paul Cassirer, he became a leading figure in the Berlin art scene before World War I.Gaul died of cancer in 1922.-External links:Der Tierbildhauer August...
, sculptor (b. 18691869 in art-Paintings:*Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The Wine Shop*Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - Femme Lisant *Gustave Courbet - The Cliff at Etretat after the Storm...
) - December 13 - John William GodwardJohn William GodwardJohn William Godward was an English painter from the end of the Pre-Raphaelite / Neo-Classicist era. He was a protégé of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema but his style of painting fell out of favour with the arrival of painters like Picasso...
, neo-Classicist painter (suicide) - date unknown
- Robert BatemanRobert Bateman (artist)Robert Bateman was an English painter, illustrator, sculptor, architect and scholar.He was the third son of James Bateman , the accomplished horticulturist and landowner, who built Biddulph Grange and its gardens, in Staffordshire.Robert attended the Royal Academy schools in the 1860s, and from...
, painter, illustrator, sculptor and architect (b. 18421842 in art-Events:*Richard Dadd becomes mentally ill during a tour of the Middle East and is thought to be suffering from sunstroke.*Construction work resumes on Cologne Cathedral, after a gap of nearly three centuries....
) - Milly ChildersMilly ChildersEmily Maria Eardley Childers , known as Milly, was an English painter of the later Victorian era and the early twentieth century....
, painter (b. 18661866 in art-Works:*Paul Cézanne - Portrait of Louis-Auguste Cézanne, Father of the Artist, reading l'Evénement *Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - Agostino...
) - Marie-Hortense FiquetMarie-Hortense FiquetMarie-Hortense Fiquet Cézanne was a French artists' model. She is best-known for her marriage to Paul Cézanne and the 27 portraits, mostly in oil, he painted of her between 1869 and the late 1890s.-Life:...
, wife and model of Paul CézannePaul CézannePaul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th...
(b. 18501850 in art-Events:*Francisco Goya's engravings, Proverbios, are posthumously published.*Edouard Pingret relocates to Mexico City.-Awards:* Grand Prix de Rome, painting: William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Paul Baudry.* Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:...
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- Robert Bateman