1927 in art

Events

• May - Stanley Spencer moves to Burghclere to work on the Sandham Memorial Chapel.
• May 16 - A pair of oval rooms built at the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris as a permanent home for eight of Monet's water lily paintings is opened by the Government of France.^[1]
• July 24 - Unveiling of Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing at Ypres, Belgium, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.
• October 4 - Gutzon Borglum begins work on Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the United States.
• Clarice Cliff introduces her 'Bizarre' pottery decoration.
• Aristide Colotte opens his studio in Nancy, France, where he produces glasswork and carved crystal statues.

Exhbitions

• February - Stanley Spencer has his first solo exhibition, at the Goupil Gallery in London.
• Alice Prin ("Kiki de Montparnasse") has an exhibition of her own paintings at the Galerie au Sacre du Printemps in Paris.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: George W. Lambert - Mrs Murdoch

Works

Lowry - Oldfield Road Dwellings, Salford, oil on wood, 43.2cm x 53.3cm, Tate Gallery

• Salvador Dalí - Apparatus and Hand
• Max Ernst
  • Forest and Dove
  • The Wood
• George Grosz - Self-Portrait, Warning
• Edward Hopper - Automat
• Gaston Lachaise - Floating Figure
• Fernand Léger - Nude on a Red Background
• Will Longstaff - Menin Gate at Midnight
• L. S. Lowry - Peel Park, Salford; A View from the Bridge; Coming Out of School; Oldfield Road Dwellings, Salford
• René Magritte - The Menaced Assassin
• Henri Matisse - Reclining Nude, Back
• Lasar Segall - Portrait of Mário de Andrade
• Stanley Spencer - The Resurrection, Cookham

Births

January to June

• January 1 - Jean-Paul Mousseau, Canadian artist (d.1991).
• March 13 - Robert Denning, American interior designer (d.2005)
• March 19 - Gisèle Lestrange, French graphic artist (d.1991)
• April 6 - Joash Woodrow, English artist (d.2006)
• April 16 - John Chamberlain, sculptor
• May 5 - Eva Fuka, photographer
• June 29 - Dick Martin, illustrator (d. 1990)

July to December

• July 14 - Mike Esposito, comic book artist
• July 24 - Robert Rosenblum, American Art Historian (d.2006).
• August 23 - Allan Kaprow, American painter, assemblagist and art theorist (d.2006)
• September 22 - Norbert Lynton, British art historian and Professor of the History of Art (d.2007)
• October 3 - Kenojuak Ashevak, Inuit artist
• October 4 - Wolf Kahn, painter
• October 29
  • Pierre Alechinsky, painter, engraver and calligrapher
  • Alfred Leslie, American painter and filmmaker
• November 2 - Steve Ditko, comic book artist
• November 23 - Guy Davenport, American writer, translator, illustrator, painter and teacher (d.2005)
• December 24 - John Glashan, Scottish cartoonist, illustrator and playwright (d.1999)

Deaths

• January 1 - Isabelle de Steiger, painter, theosophist, occultist and writer (b. 1836)
• January 15 - Harald Giersing, painter (b. 1881)
• February 28 - Sir Luke Fildes, painter and illustrator (b. 1843)
• March 23 - Paul César Helleu, portrait painter (b. 1859)
• May 10 - Andrea Gram, painter (b. 1853)
• May 11 - Juan Gris, painter (b. 1887)
• May 28 - Boris Kustodiev, painter and stage designer (b. 1878)
• June 26 - Armand Guillaumin, impressionist painter and lithographer (b. 1841)
• June 28 - Otto Bache, painter of historical subjects (b. 1839)
• July 10 - Louise Abbéma, Impressionist painter (b. 1858)
• August 4 - Eugène Atget, photographer (b. 1857)
• August 18 - Sascha Schneider, painter and sculptor (b. 1870)
• September 19 - Michael Peter Ancher, painter (b. 1849)
• October 7 - Paul Sérusier, abstract painter (b. 1864)
• November 25 - József Rippl-Rónai, painter (b. 1861)
• date unknown
  • Frederick Morgan, painter (b. c.1850)
  • Caroline Reboux (b. 1837)

See also

• 1927 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References