1914 in art

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List of years in Art

Events

• The Baltimore Museum of Art is founded at Johns Hopkins University.
• Nina Hamnett and Amedeo Modigliani meet for the first time in Montparnasse.

Works

Giorgio de Chirico, Love Song, 1914, Museum of Modern Art, New York City

Paintings

• David Bomberg - The Mud Bath (Tate Gallery)
• Antoine Bourdelle - Dying Centaur
• Giorgio de Chirico
  • La Nostalgie du poete
  • The Mystery and Melancholy of a Street
  • The Song of Love (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
• Pavel Filonov - Holy Family
• Marsden Hartley - Portrait of a German Officer

Sculptures

• Ernst Barlach - Der Rächer (The Avenger)

Births

January to June

• 5 January - Nicolas de Staël (d.1955).
• 3 March - Asger Jorn, Danish artist and essayist (d.1973).
• 4 March - Ward Kimball, American Academy Award-winning animator (d.2002).
• March - Piet Esser, Dutch sculptor (d.2004).
• 13 April - John Russell Harper, Canadian art historian (d.1983).
• 18 May - Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (d.1982).
• 21 May - Oton Gliha, Croatian painter (d.1999).
• 15 June - Saul Steinberg, Romanian-born American cartoonist and illustrator (d.1999).

July to December

• 5 July - Jean Tabaud, French artist (d.1996).
• 27 July - Emerson Woelffer, American painter (d.2003).
• 15 August - Paul Rand, American graphic designer (d.1996).
• 20 August - Yann Goulet, French sculptor, Breton nationalist and war-time collaborationist with Nazi Germany (d.1999).
• 18 September - Jack Cardiff, photographer and cinematographer.
• 17 October - Jerry Siegel, American comic book artist (d.1996).
• 5 November - Alton Tobey, American painter, historical artist, muralist, portraitist, illustrator, and teacher (d.2005).
• 16 December - O. Winston Link, American photographer. (d.2001).
• 21 December - Ivan Generalić, Croatian naïve art painter (d.1992).

Deaths

• January 26 - Jane Burden, artists' model closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelites (b. 1839)
• February 25 - Sir John Tenniel, illustrator (b. 1820)
• March 25 - Spencer Gore, painter (b. 1878)
• May 18 - Charles Sprague Pearce, painter (b. 1851)
• September 26 - August Macke, German painter (b. 1887)
• October 29 - Felix Bracquemond, painter and etcher (b. 1833)
• date unknown
  • Faustin Betbeder, caricaturist (b. 1847)
  • Carlos María Herrera, Uruguayan portrait painter (b. 1875)