1922 in art

Events from the year 1922 in art.

• February 1 – Akron Art Institute opens in Ohio.
• February 10–17 – Modern Art Week (Semana de Arte Moderna) at the Theatro Municipal, São Paulo, marks the start of Modernism in Brazil.
• March 5 – Release of influential German silent vampire film Nosferatu with production design by Albin Grau.
• December 16
  • Zachęta
    art gallery in Warsaw.
  • Lady Lever Art Gallery opens in Port Sunlight, England.
• Gabrielle Chanel. There are some protests by Dadaists.^[1]
• Perm State Art Gallery in the Soviet Union established in a former Orthodox cathedral.
• Max Beerbohm's collection of caricatures, Rossetti and His Circle, is published in London.^[2]
• Alfonso XIII of Spain, is appointed director of the Museo del Prado
  in Madrid.
• Painter Annie Swynnerton becomes the first woman elected as an Associate of the Royal Academy of Arts in London.^[3]
• German psychiatrist Hans Prinzhorn publishes Bildnerei der Geisteskranken (Artistry of the Mentally Ill).

• W B McInnes
  – Professor Harrison Moore
• Newbery Medal – Rene Paul Chambellan

• Max Beckmann – The Iron Footbridge
• Alvar Cawén – Sokea soittoniekka (Blind Musician)
• Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso
  , Mexico City)
• Salvador Dalí – Cabaret Scene
• Giorgio de Chirico – The Prodigal Son (Il figliol prodigo)
• Otto Dix – Lustmord ("Lust Murder", watercolor)
• Lydia Field Emmet – Harriet Lancashire White and Her Children
• Mark Gertler – Queen of Sheba
• J. W. Godward
  • Contemplation
  • Nu Sur la Plage
• Juan Gris – Le Pierrot
• Paul Klee – Twittering Machine
• George Washington Lambert – Anzac, the landing, 1915
• John Lavery – Michael Collins (Love of Ireland)
• Max Liebermann – Albert Einstein
• L. S. Lowry – A Manufacturing Town
• Edward McCartan – Dream Lady (Eugene Field Memorial, Chicago)
• Dugald Sutherland MacColl – On the Terrace
• Sydney March
  • Bromley War Memorial (London)
  • Lancaster Monument (The Angel of Death, East Sheen Cemetery, London)
• André Masson – Pedestal Table in the Studio
• Joan Miró – The Farm
• Charles Henry Niehaus – Orpheus with the Awkward Foot
• William Orpen – To the Unknown British Soldier in France^[4]
• Maxfield Parrish – Daybreak
• Pablo Picasso – Two Women Running on the Beach (The Race)
• Charles Sheeler – Pertaining to Yachts and Yachting
• John Singer Sargent - General Officers of World War I
• Sophie Taeuber-Arp – Oval Composition with Abstract Motifs

• January 1 – Jerry Robinson, American illustrator (d. 2011)
• January 8 – Jan Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (d. 1986)
• sculptor (d. 2012
  )
• abstract expressionist painter (d. 1993
  )
• January 23 – Leon Golub, American painter (d. 2004)
• Post-Impressionist artist and painter (d. 1998
  )
• March 10 – Kiyoshi Yamashita, Japanese outsider artist (d. 1971)
• March 27 – Jules Olitski, American abstract painter, printmaker, and sculptor (d. 2007)
• Abstract Expressionist painter (d. 2008
  )
• April 22 – Richard Diebenkorn, American painter (d. 1993)
• April 24 – Richard Hamilton, English painter and collage artist (d. 2011)
• May 7 – Joe O'Donnell, American photographer (d. 2007)
• May 15 – Hedi Turki, Tunisian abstract painter (d. 2019)
• fashion designer (d. 2002
  )

• July 3 – Corneille Guillaume Beverloo, "Corneille", Dutch painter (d. 2010)
• July 25 – Fred Yates, English artist (d. 2008)
• August 1 – Paul Fitzgerald, Australian painter (d. 2017)
• August 8 – Rudi Gernreich, Austrian American fashion designer (d. 1985)
• September 3 – Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter (d. 1976)
• September 9 – Pauline Baynes, English book illustrator (d. 2008)
• October 3 – John Craxton, English painter (d. 2009)
• October 6 – Ljubinka Jovanović, Serbian painter living and working in Paris and Belgrade (d. 2015)
• December 8 – Lucian Freud, German-born British painter and printmaker (d. 2011)^[5]
• December 17 – Aart van den IJssel, Dutch sculptor (d. 1983)
• abstract expressionist painter (d.1997
  )

• January 23 – René Beeh, German painter and draughtsman from Alsace (b. 1886)
• February – Algernon Graves, English art historian (b. 1845)
• February 3 – John Butler Yeats, Irish painter (b. 1839)
• February 5 – Paul Durand-Ruel, French art dealer, patron of the Impressionists (b. 1831)
• February 19 – Karl Isakson, Swedish artist (b. 1878)
• March 16 – Reinhold Lepsius, German painter (b. 1857)
• May 15 – Leslie Ward ("Spy"), English cartoonist (b. 1851)
• June 22 – Étienne Terrus, French painter (b. 1857)
• August 22 - Thomas Brock, English sculptor and medalist (b. 1847)
• August – Robert Bateman, English painter, illustrator, sculptor and architect (b. 1842)^[6]
• September 1 – Edmund Leighton, English historical genre painter (b. 1852)
• September 5 – Georgette Agutte, French painter (b. 1867)
• September 8 – Léon Bonnat, French painter (b. 1833)
• October 18 – August Gaul, German sculptor (b. 1869)
• December 13 – John William Godward, English neo-Classicist painter (b. 1861) (suicide)
• December 15 – Sir Sydney Prior Hall, English portraitist and illustrator (b. 1842)
• date unknown
  • Milly Childers, English painter (b. 1866)
  • Marie-Hortense Fiquet, French model and wife of Paul Cézanne (b. 1850)
  • Jean Baptiste Guth, French watercolor portraitist (b. 1855)

• 1922 in fine arts of the Soviet Union