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Events from the year 1914 in art.
Events
- January 31 – The Art Gallery of Hamilton is founded in Ontario.[1]
- March – Goupil Gallery.
- March–June –
- National Gallery, London, with a meat cleaver.[3]
- April
- Umberto Boccioni publishes Manifesto tecnico della scultura futurista ("Technical manifesto of futurist sculpture"); later this year he also publishes the book Pittura e scultura futuriste (dinamismo plastico) ("Futurist painting and sculpture").
- August Macke, Louis Moilliet and Paul Klee travel in Tunisia.
- April 20 – English artist Dorothy Shakespear marries American poet Ezra Pound at St Mary Abbots church, Kensington, London.
- May 4 – Suffragette Mary Wood attacks John Singer Sargent's portrait of Henry James at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London with a meat cleaver. At the same exhibition on May 12, Gertrude Mary Ansell attacks the recently-deceased Hubert von Herkomer's portrait of the Duke of Wellington, and on May 26 'Mary Spencer' (Maude Kate Smith) attacks George Clausen's painting Primavera.[4]
- June – First issue (of two) published of the BLAST edited by Wyndham Lewis.[5]
- July – David Bomberg's first solo exhibition of paintings opens at the Chenil Gallery in Chelsea, London; his The Mud Bath is hung outside.[6]
- July 17 – Suffragette Annie Hunt damages Sir John Millais' portrait of Thomas Carlyle (1877) in the National Portrait Gallery, London, with a meat cleaver.
- August – Fernand Léger is mobilised for service in the French Army; he serves in the Forest of Argonne.
- September 5 – The cover of magazine London Opinion first carries the iconic drawing by Alfred Leete of Lord Kitchener with the recruiting slogan Your Country Needs You.[7]
- October 11 – English painter John Currie dies having shot himself and his mistress and model, Dorothy ("Dolly") Eileen Henry, in Chelsea, London.
- November 16 – The Baltimore Museum of Art is founded at Johns Hopkins University in the United States.
- The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum (Museo de Bellas Artes) is established in Bilbao.
- Futurist exhibition at the Doré Gallery in London.
- Clive Bell publishes his formalist study Art.
- Publication of Vincent van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo.
- Nina Hamnett and Amedeo Modigliani meet for the first time, at La Rotonde in Montparnasse, Paris.[9]
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Works
Paintings
- Umberto Boccioni
- Il bevitore ("The Drinker")
- I selciatori ("The Street Pavers")
- Dinamismo plastico: cavallo + caseggiato ("Plastic Dynamism: Horse + Houses"; approx. date)
- Pierre Bodard – Lili Boulanger
- David Bomberg – The Mud Bath
- Antoine Bourdelle – Dying Centaur
- John Collier
- Eugene de Blaas – In the Water
- Giorgio de Chirico
- Gare Montparnasse (The Melancholy of Departure)
- The Mystery and Melancholy of a Street
- La Nostalgie du poete
- The Song of Love (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
- Stanisława de Karłowska – Swiss Cottage
- Lord Arthur Balfour[10]
- André Derain - Portrait of a Man with a Newspaper
- Carl Eytel - Desert near Palm Springs
- Pavel Filonov – Holy Family
- Mark Gertler – The Creation of Eve
- Woman with animals (Madame Raymond Duchamp-Villon)
- J. W. Godward
- The Necklace
- The New Perfume
- Tranquility
- Marsden Hartley – Portrait of a German Officer
- Alexandre Jacovleff – Self-portrait as Harlequin and Pierrot
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – Potsdamer Platz
- Paul Klee – In the Style of Kairouan
- Oskar Kokoschka – The Bride of the Wind
- Fernand Léger – Nature morte (Still life)
- August Macke
- Farewell
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- View into a Lane
- Franz Marc
- Henri Matisse – Woman on a High Stool
- Alfred Munnings – Setting off: Huntsman and Hounds
- William Nicholson – Le retour de la Joconde ("The return of the Giaconda")
- Pablo Picasso - Guitar (sheet metal scultpture)[11]
- Walter Sickert
- Ennui (probable date of Tate Britain version)
- The Integrity of Belgium
- Soldiers of King Albert at the Ready
- Tipperary
- Xul Solar – Entierro[usurped] ("The Burial")
- Stanley Spencer – Self-portrait
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Sculptures
- Ernst Barlach – Der Rächer (The Avenger)[12]
- John H. Beaver – Fountain for Company H (Portland, Oregon)
- Edward Berge – Armistead Monument (Baltimore)
- Carrère and Hastings and Edward Clark Potter – Sidney Lanier Monument (Atlanta)
- Marcel Duchamp – Bottle Rack (readymade; original version)
- Jacob Epstein – The Rock Drill (final form; Tate Britain)
- Daniel Chester French – The Spirit of Life (Saratoga Springs, New York)
- Henri Gaudier-Brzeska – Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound
- Mario Korbel – Illinois Monument
- Evelyn Beatrice Longman – Spirit of Communication
- Adolfo Wildt – Vir Temporis Acti (Ancient Man)[13]
Interior design
- Omega Workshops – Cadena Café, 59 Westbourne Grove, London
Births
January to June
- January 5 – Nicolas de Staël, Russian-born painter (died 1955)
- January 7 – Edwin La Dell, British artist (died 1970)[14]
- January 10 – John Petts, English-born Welsh engraver (died 1991)
- January 26 – Walter Stuempfig, American painter (died 1970)
- February 3 – Felix Kelly, New Zealand-born artist (died 1994)
- February 11 – Mervyn Levy, British art critic (died 1996)
- February 21 – Park Su-geun, Korean painter (died 1965)
- February 22 – Karl Otto Götz, German painter (died 2017)[15]
- March 3 – Asger Jorn, Danish artist and essayist (died 1973)[16]
- March 4 – Ward Kimball, American Academy Award-winning animator (died 2002)
- March 9 – Piet Esser, Dutch sculptor (died 2004).
- March 14 – Abdias do Nascimento, Brazilian actor, artist and politician (died 2011)[17]
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- fashion designer (died 1982)
- May 21 – Oton Gliha, Croatian painter (died 1999)
- May 29 – Charles Mozley, British illustrator and designer (died 1991)[18]
- June 15 – Saul Steinberg, Romanian-born American cartoonist and illustrator (died 1999)
- June 29 – Franz Joseph, American artist and writer (died 1994)
July to December
- July 5 – Jean Tabaud, French artist (died 1996)
- July 7 – Erni Cabat, American artist (died 1994)
- July 23 – Virgil Finlay, American artist (died 1971)
- July 27 – Emerson Woelffer, American painter (died 2003)
- July 29 – Abram Games, English poster artist (died 1996)
- August 15 – Paul Rand, American graphic designer (died 1996)
- August 20 – Yann Goulet, French sculptor, Breton nationalist and war-time collaborationist with Nazi Germany (died 1999)
- September 6 – Bogdan Šuput, Serbian painter (died 1942)
- September 18 – Jack Cardiff, English photographer and cinematographer (died 2009)
- September 23 – Annely Juda, born Anneliese Brauer, German-born art dealer (died 2006)
- September 30 – Tom Eckersley, English poster artist (died 1997)
- October 7 – Duilio Barnabè, Italian painter (died 1961)
- October 8 – Henry C. Pearson, American abstract and modernist painter (died 2006)[19]
- October 17 – Jerry Siegel, American comic book artist (died 1996)
- October 30 – Max Angus, Australian painter (died 2017)[20]
- portraitist, illustrator and teacher (died 2005)
- November 28 – Blanch Ackers, American folk artist and painter (died 2003)
- December 12 – Frank Roper, English metal sculptor and stained glass artist (died 2000)
- December 16
- Norman Blamey, British painter (died 2000)
- O. Winston Link, American photographer (died 2001)
- December 21 – Ivan Generalić, Croatian naïve art painter (died 1992)
- December 22 – Karin Jonzen, British sculptor (died 1998)
Unknown
- Hafidh al-Droubi, Iraqi painter (died 1991)
Deaths
- January 12 – Vinnie Ream, sculptor (born 1847)
- January 15 – Peter Adolf Persson, Swedish painter (born 1862)
- January 21 – Salvador Martínez Cubells, Spanish painter and art restorer (born 1845)
- Jane Burden, artists' model closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelites (born 1839)
- February 8 – Josefa Texidor Torres, Spanish painter (born 1875)[21]
- February 9 – Bart van Hove, Dutch sculptor (born 1850)
- February 25 – Sir John Tenniel, illustrator associated with Lewis Carroll (born 1820)
- March 25 – Spencer Gore, painter (born 1878)
- Józef Marian Chełmoński, Polish painter (born 1849)
- April 14 – Antonio Frixione, Italian painter and printmaker (born 1843)
- May 5 – Johannes Pfuhl, German sculptor (born 1846)
- May 18 – Charles Sprague Pearce, painter (born 1851)
- June 1 – Árpád Feszty, Hungarian painter (born 1856)
- June 12 – Béla Spányi, Hungarian painter (born 1852)
- June 13 – Odoardo Toscani, Italian painter (born 1859)
- June 26 – Antonio Herrera Toro, Venezuelan painter, critic and professor (born 1857)
- July 22 – Charles Maurin, French painter and engraver (born 1856)
- August 22 – James Dickson Innes, landscape painter (born 1887; tuberculosis)
- September 26 – August Macke, German painter (born 1887; killed in action)
- September 27 – Carlos María Herrera, Uruguayan portrait painter (born 1875)
- October 29 – Félix Bracquemond, painter and etcher (born 1833)
- date unknown – Franz Alt, Austrian landscape painter (born 1821)
- probable – Faustin Betbeder, caricaturist (born 1847)
References
- ^ "Art Gallery of Hamilton: Chronology" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-21. Retrieved 2012-12-15.
- ^ "Rebel Art Centre". Glossary. Tate. Archived from the original on January 29, 2009. Retrieved 2011-07-20.
- ^ "Women's History Timeline: 1910-1919". Woman's Hour. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 2007-09-25.
- ^ Bonett, Helena (2014-05-02). "'Deeds not words': Suffragettes and the Summer Exhibition". London: Royal Academy of Arts. Retrieved 2016-03-09.
- ^ "Vorticism". Msn Encarta. Archived from the original on 2007-05-22. Retrieved 2009-10-17.
- ISBN 978-0-14-196223-8. The work is now in Tate Britain.
- ^ Quinn, Tony (8 December 2001). "London Opinion – the most influential cover". Magforum.com. Archived from the original on 11 September 2010. Retrieved 2010-08-07.
- ^ Minerva. Aurora Publications. 1999. p. 33.
- ISBN 978-0-691-11415-6.
- ^ "ACTIVIST DAMAGES PAINTING OF LORD BALFOUR, WHO PLAYED KEY ROLE IN CREATION OF ISRAEL". www.artforum.com. 2024-03-11. Retrieved 2024-08-20.
- ^ https://www.moma.org/collection/works/80934
- ISBN 978-3-9809809-5-1.
- ^ "Vir Temporis Acti (Ancient man) - Adolfo Wildt".
- ISBN 978-0-19-992305-2.
- ^ Werner Haftmann (1976). An analysis of the artists and their work. Translated by R. Manheim. Praeger. p. 393.
- ISBN 978-0-85331-398-4.
- ^ Bruce Weber (May 30, 2011). "Abdias do Nascimento, Rights Voice, Dies at 97". The New York Times.
- ISBN 978-0-87675-017-9.
- ^ Art Students League (New York, N.Y.) (1975). One Hundred Prints by 100 Artists of the Art Students League of New York, 1875-1975: Exhibition , April 22-May 17, 1975, at Associated American Artists, New York City. The League. p. 104.
- ISBN 978-1-74051-258-9.
- ISBN 978-84-96696-02-0
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