1918 in art

Events

• May - Stanley Spencer appointed as an official war artist.
• June 18 - Pablo Picasso marries Olga Khoklova.
• June - Alfred Stieglitz begins nude photography of Georgia O'Keeffe.
• October 15 - Kunsthalle Bern opened.
• December 3 - Founding of the November Group of expressionist artists.
• Denver Art Museum opens its first galleries.

Works

John Nash - The Cornfield (Tate Gallery)

• Victor David Brenner - Mary Schenley Memorial Fountain (Philadelphia)
• Katherine Sophie Dreier - Abstract Portrait of Marcel Duchamp
• Georges Gardet - Eternal Youth (gilded sculpture on Manitoba Legislative Building)
• George Grosz - The Funeral
• Paul Klee
  • Flower Myth
  • Warning of the Ships
• José Malhoa - Autumn
• Amedeo Modigliani - Portrait of Blaise Cendrars
• Alfred Munnings
  • Draft Horses, Lumber Mill in the Forest of Dreux
  • Warrior

John Nash - Over The Top (IWM)

• John Nash
  • The Cornfield
  • Over The Top
• Paul Nash - We Are Making A New World
• Willard Dryden Paddock - Sundial, Boy With Spider
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • Portrait of Adele Besson
  • The Bathers
• Francis Derwent Wood - Canada's Golgotha (bronze)

Births

January to June

• 6 February - Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author, painter, and art collector (d.2007).
• 7 February - Markey Robinson, Irish painter (d.1999).
• 12 March - Elaine de Kooning, American abstract expressionist painter (d.1989).
• 10 April - Cornell Capa, Hungarian-American photographer and photo curator (d.2008).
• 9 May - Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (d.2006).

July to December

• 11 July - Roy Krenkel, American illustrator (d.1983).
• 25 July - Jane Frank, American painter, sculptor, mixed media artist and textile artist (d.1986).
• 8 August - Brian Stonehouse, English painter and Special Operations Executive agent during World War II (d.1998).
• 22 September - Cleve Gray, American Abstract expressionist painter (d.2004).
• 7 October - Mimmo Rotella, Italian artist and poet (d.2006).
• 8 November - Hermann Zapf, typeface designer.
• 14 December - Jack Cole, comic book artist.

Deaths

• February 6 - Gustav Klimt, Symbolist painter (b. 1862)
• April - Niko Pirosmanashvili, painter
• April 1 - Isaac Rosenberg, painter and poet (b. 1890)
• April 23 - Paul Sébillot, painter and author (b. 1842)
• May 19 - Ferdinand Hodler, painter (b. 1853)
• June 28 - Albert Henry Munsell, inventor of the Munsell color system (b. 1858)
• October 9 - Raymond Duchamp-Villon, sculptor
• October 30 - Egon Schiele, painter (b. 1890)
• December 22 - Charles Edward Perugini, English painter (b. 1839)