1924 in art

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Events

• February - El Lissitzky enters a Swiss sanatorium, suffering from tuberculosis
• December - The Bucharest International Modern Art Exhibit, an avant-garde event hosted by Contimporanul, displaying works by Constantin Brâncuşi, Hans Arp, Paul Klee, János Mattis-Teutsch, Kurt Schwitters, Michel Seuphor, Miliţa Pătraşcu, Marcel Janco, Victor Brauner, and M. H. Maxy
• The Surrealist Manifesto is conceived
• Juan Gris delivers his lecture Des possibilités de la peinture at the University of Paris
• Vilmos Aba Novák's works are on display for the first time
• Daniel Chester French begins work on his statue of Abraham Lincoln (located at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.); completed in 1925
• Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant open a common studio

Awards

• Archibald Prize: William Beckwith McInnes - Portrait of Miss Collins
• Tagea Brandt Rejselegat: Anna Ancher

Works

Paintings

• Tarsila do Amaral - Estação de Ferro Central do Brasil
• Romaine Brooks - Una, Lady Troubridge
• Carlo Carrà - San Giacomo di Varallo
• Edwin Holgate - Portrait of Albert Henry Stewart Gillson
• Edward Hopper - New York Pavements
• A. Y. Jackson - In Jasper Park
• Wassily Kandinsky - Contrasting Sounds
• Paul Klee - Asiatic God, Carnival in the Mountains, Flower Garden
• Fernand Léger - Elément Mécanique
• Joan Miró - Le Piège, Le Carnaval d'Arlequin, Head of a Catalan Peasant (sequence commenced)
• Emil Nolde - Madonna with Begonia
• Samuel John Peploe - Roses in a White Vase with Fruit
• Diego Rivera - Day of the Dead and other frescos at the Ministry of Education building (Mexico City)
• Philippe Robert - Frescos at Biel/Bienne railway station
• Nicolae Tonitza - The Forester's Daughter

Photographs

• Man Ray - Le Violon d'Ingres

Sculptures

• Constantin Brâncuşi
  • Bird in Space (early version)
  • The Cock
• Charles Keck - Liberty Monument (Ticonderoga, New York)
• Augustus Lukeman - Francis Asbury (equestrian, Washington, D.C.)
• Paul Manship - Statue of Diana (Hudson River Museum, Yonkers)
• Andrew O'Connor - Lafayette Monument (Baltimore, Maryland)
• Albin Polasek - Theodore Thomas Memorial (Chicago)
• Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney - Buffalo Bill - The Scout

Births

• 29 January - Marcelle Ferron, Canadian painter and stained glass artist (d.2001).
• 7 March - Eduardo Paolozzi, Scottish sculptor and artist (d.2005).
• 8 March - Anthony Caro, English sculptor.
• 13 March - Paul Brach, American abstract painter, lecturer and educator (d.2007).
• 10 April - Kenneth Noland, American painter.
• 20 June - Fritz Koenig, German sculptor.
• 7 August - Georges Lévis, French comic artist (d.1988).
• 8 August - Edouard Jaguer, French poet and art critic (d.2006).
• 21 September - David Sylvester, English art critic and curator (d.2001).
• 22 September - Charles Keeping, English illustrator, children's book author and lithographer (d.1988).
• 26 November - George Segal, American painter and sculptor (d.2000).
• 17 December - Clifton Pugh, Australian artist (d.1990).
• 24 December - Nissim Ezekiel, Indian poet, playwright and art critic (d.2004).
• 24 December - Michael Goldberg, American abstract expressionist painter and teacher (d.2007).
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  • Art Brenner - American painter and sculptor.
  • William H. Burns, Northern Irish artist (d.1995).

Deaths

• February 1 - Maurice Prendergast, American painter (b. 1858)
• February 11 - Jean-François Raffaëlli, painter, sculptor and printmaker (b. 1850)
• April 3 - Franz von Bayros, erotic artist and illustrator (b. 1866)
• April 18 - Frank X. Leyendecker, American illustrator (b. 1877)
• May 30 - Amélie Beaury-Saurel, painter (b. 1849)
• June 14 - Emile Claus, painter (b. 1849)
• July 12 - Henrietta Ward, English painter (b. 1832)
• August 19 - Ferdinand Cheval, architect of the "Palais Idéal" (b. 1836)
• November 7 - Hans Thoma, German painter (b. 1839)
• December 21 - Francesco Negri, photographer (b. 1841)
• December 28 - Léon Bakst, Russian painter and theatrical designer (b. 1866)
• December 31 - Tomioka Tessai, Japanese painter and calligrapher in Meiji period (b. 1837)

See also

• 1924 in fine arts of the Soviet Union