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Events
- Ben Nicholson visits St. Ives, Cornwall, and meets the fisherman and painter Alfred Wallis.
- Pierre Chareau and colleagues begin construction of the Maison de Verre ("house of glass") on the rue Saint-Guillaume in Paris for client Jean Dalsace.
Awards
- Archibald Prize: John Longstaff - Portrait of Dr Alexander Leeper
- Carnegie Prize - André Derain
Exhibitions
- Alexander Calder's first solo exhibition at the Weyhe Gallery, New York City.
Works
Paintings
- Tarsila do Amaral - Abaporu
- Pierre Bonnard - Flowers on a Red Carpet
- John Steuart Curry - Bathers and Baptism in Kansas
- Charles Demuth - I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
- Christian Schad - Two Girlfriends
- John French Sloan - Sixth Avenue Elevated at Third Street
- René Magritte - The Treachery of Images
See also: Category:1928 paintings
Sculptures
- Wäinö Aaltonen - bust of Jean Sibelius
Births
January to June
- 31 January - Dušan Džamonja, sculptor.
- 24 April - Cy Twombly, abstract artist.
- 28 April - Yves Klein, abstract artist (d.1962).
- 14 May - Władysław Hasior, Polish sculptor, painter and set designer (d.1999).
- 30 May - Pro Hart, Australian painter (d.2006).
- 3 June - Donald Judd, American sculptor (d.1994).
- 25 June - Alex Toth, American comic book artist and cartoonist (d.2006).
- 25 June - Peyo, Belgian comics artist (d.1992).
July to December
- 10 July - Bernard Buffet, French painter (d.1999).
- 6 August - Andy Warhol, American artist, director and writer (d.1987).
- 9 September - Sol LeWitt, American conceptual and minimalist artist (d.2007).
- 7 October - Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and a painter (d.1980).
- 12 October - Al Held, American Abstract expressionist painter (d.2005).
- 30 October - Michael Andrews, painter (d.1995).
- 3 November - Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist, animator and producer (d.1989).
- 17 November - Arman, French-born American artist (d.2005).
- 27 November - Josh Kirby, English commercial artist (d.2001).
- 2 December - Guy Bourdin, French photographer (d.1991).
- 12 December - Helen Frankenthaler, abstract expressionist painter.
- 13 December - Wolfgang Hutter, painter, lithographer and designer.
- 15 December - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian painter, architect and sculptor (d.2000).
Full date unknown
- Norman Carlberg, sculptor.
- Wally Hedrick, American artist (d.2003).
Deaths
- January 13 - Frederick Arthur Bridgman, painter (b. 1847)
- January 26 - Henrietta Rae, English painter (b. 1859)
- March 31 - Medardo Rosso, sculptor (b. 1858)
- June 22 - A. B. Frost, illustrator (b. 1851)
- July 10 - John Chambers, landscape and portrait painter (b. 1852)
- December 2 - Robert Reid, Impressionist painter (b. 1862)
- December 10 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, architect and designer (b. 1868)
- date unknown - Raffaello Romanelli, sculptor (b. 1856)
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