1915 in art

Events

• October 24 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's frescos, Translation of the House of Loreto, in the Church of the Scalzi (Venice) are destroyed by an Austrian bombardment.
• Harper's Bazaar hires Erté to design its covers.
• Edward McKnight Kauffer is given his first commission to design a poster for the Underground Electric Railways Company of London.
• Ambrose Heal and others found the Design and Industries Association in London.
• Kasimir Malevich originates Suprematism, staging the 0.10 Exhibition.
• The only Vorticist exhibition is staged, at the Doré Gallery in London.^[1]
• 14-year-old Alice Prin ("Kiki de Montparnasse") is posing (nude) for sculptors in Paris.

Works

Matisse - Le rideau jaune

• Frank Weston Benson - Red and Gold
• Marc Chagall - The Poet Reclining
• Giorgio de Chirico - The Double Dream of Spring
• Marcel Duchamp - begins producing readymades
• Jacob Epstein - bust of Admiral Lord Fisher
• Alexandre Jacovleff - The Violinist
• Carl Larsson - Midvinterblot
• Wyndham Lewis - The Crowd
• Kazimir Malevich - Black Square
• Henri Matisse - Le rideau jaune
• C. R. W. Nevinson - La Mitrailleuse
• Diego Rivera - cubist portrait of Ramón Gómez de la Serna
• Isaac Rosenberg - Self-portrait
• Kathleen Scott - statue of her late husband Robert Falcon Scott
• Konstantin Yuon - March Sun
• Anders Zorn - Self-portrait in Red

Births

Malevich - Black Square

• January 24 - Robert Motherwell, American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker (d.1991).
• February 11 - Mervyn Levy, Welsh artist and critic (d.1996).
• March 10 - Harry Bertoia, Italian-born American artist and designer (d.1978).
• April 4 - Louis Archambault, Canadian sculptor (d.2003).
• April 6 - Tadeusz Kantor, Polish painter, assemblage artist, set designer and theatre director (d.1990)
• April 15 - Elizabeth Catlett, African-American artist
• May 3 - Richard Lippold, American sculptor (d.2002)
• May 20 - Sam Golden, paint maker (d.1997)
• June 17 - Gunther Gerzso, abstract painter (d.2000)
• August 28 - Tasha Tudor, American illustrator and author of children's books (d.2008)
• October 13 - Terry Frost, English artist noted for his abstracts (d.2003)
• October 13 - Ricco Wassmer, Swiss painter (d.1972)
• October 24 - Bob Kane, American comic book artist and writer (d.1998)
• November 9 - André François, French cartoonist (d.2005)
• date unknown - José Caballero, Spanish artist

Deaths

• February 25 - Flaxman Charles John Spurrell, photographer (b. 1842)
• April 9 - Karl Bitter, sculptor (b. 1867)
• May 7 - Sir Hugh Lane, art collector (b. 1875)
• July 11 - Albert Schickedanz, Austro-Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style (b. 1846)
• September 14 - Alfred Agache, painter (b. 1843)
• October 24 - Désiré Charnay, pioneer photographer (b. 1828)
• November 28 - Kobayashi Kiyochika, Japanese ukiyo-e painter and printmaker (b. 1847)
• December 22 - Arthur Hughes, painter and illustrator (b. 1832)
• date unknown
  • Luigi Crosio, painter (b. 1835)
  • Kikuchi Shingaku, photographer (b. 1832)
  • Hilda Sjölin, Swedish photographer (b. 1835)

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