1917 in art

Events

• January - A drunken Amedeo Modigliani is ejected from a party for Georges Braque, by the hostess, Marie Vassilieff.
• January 29 - Rodin marries his mistress, Rose Beuret; she dies two weeks later.
• Eric Kennington, William Orpen, C. R. W. Nevinson, Paul Nash and William Rothenstein sent as war artists to the Western Front from England.
• De Stijl artistic movement established by Theo van Doesburg.
• Allen Memorial Art Museum established at Oberlin College.

Works

The original Fountain by Marcel Duchamp, 1917, photographed by Alfred Stieglitz at the 291 after the 1917 Society of Independent Artists exhibit.^[1]

• Max Beckmann - Deposition (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
• Lovis Corinth - Portrait of Julius Meier-Graefe
• Marcel Duchamp - Fountain (readymade)
• Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven - God (readymade sculpture)
• Paul Klee - Ab ovo
• Isidore Konti - Nymph and Fawn (bronze fountain)
• L. S. Lowry - Coming from the Mill
• Henri Matisse
  • The Music Lesson
  • The Painter and His Model
• Joan Miró
  • Portrait of Vincent Nubiola
  • The Village
• Amedeo Modigliani
  • Anna Zborowska
  • Nude Sitting on a Divan
• C. R. W. Nevinson - Paths of Glory
• Georgia O'Keeffe - Light Coming on the Plains series
• Pablo Picasso - Olga Picasso in an Armchair
• Auguste Rodin - The Gates of Hell (sculpture unfinished at his death)
• Egon Schiele - The Embrace
• Alfred Stieglitz - The Last Days of 291 (photograph)
• Tom Thomson
  • April in Algonquin Park
  • The Jack Pine (National Gallery of Canada)
  • The West Wind

Births

• 20 February - Manny Farber, American painter and film critic (d.2008).
• 20 February - Louisa Matthíasdóttir, Icelandic-American painter (d.2000).
• 1 March - Tom Keating, English art restorer and art faker (d.1984).
• 12 March - Milton Resnick, American painter (d. 2004
• 24 March - Constantine Andreou, Greek painter and sculptor (d.2007).
• 17 July - Andrew Wyeth (d. 2009).
• 11 August - Dik Browne, American cartoonist (d.1989).
• 28 August - Jack Kirby, American comic book artist, writer and editor (d.1994).
• 3 September - Anthony Robert Klitz, English artist (d.2000).
• 7 September - Jacob Lawrence, American painter (d.2000).
• 11 September - Daniel Wildenstein, French international art dealer and scholar (d.2001).
• 25 December - John Minton (d.1957).

Deaths

Tom Thomson - April in Algonquin Park

• January 21 - Francesca Alexander, illustrator (b. 1837)
• February 10 - John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist (b. 1849)
• February 17 - Carolus-Duran, painter (b. 1837)
• March 27 - Moses Jacob Ezekiel, sculptor (b. 1844)
• March 28 - Albert Pinkham Ryder, painter (b. 1847)
• April 23 - Robert Koehler, painter (b. 1850)
• June 30 - Antonio de La Gandara, French painter (b. 1861)
• July 8 - Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877) (drowned during a canoeing trip on Canoe Lake in Algonquin Park)
• September 27 - Edgar Degas, painter and sculptor (b. 1834)
• October 14 - Nathaniel Hone the Younger - Irish painter (b. 1831)
• October 23 - Eugène Grasset, Swiss artist (b. 1845)
• November 17
  • Sir Charles Holroyd, English etcher (b. 1861)
  • Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b. 1840)
• December 21 - Wilhelm Trübner, painter (b. 1851)

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