1931 in art

Events

• February 15 - Abstraction-Création group formed in Paris by Theo van Doesburg to promote non-figurative, non-surrealist art. Other founder members include Auguste Herbin, Jean Hélion and Georges Vantongerloo.^[1]
• October 4 - Debut appearance of the Dick Tracy comic strip, created by cartoonist Chester Gould.
• The Whitney Museum of American Art is founded by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.
• Henry Moore holds his first solo exhibition of sculptures, at The Leicester Galleries in London.

Works

Dalí - The Persistence of Memory

• Max Beckmann - Paris Society
• Heitor da Silva Costa and Paul Landowski - Christ the Redeemer (statue, Rio de Janeiro)
• Salvador Dalí - The Persistence of Memory
• Robert William Davidson - Eve (sculpture)
• Frida Kahlo - Frida and Diego Rivera
• Tamara de Lempicka - Adam and Eve
• René Magritte - The Voice of Space
• Carl Milles - Flygarmonumentet (Stockholm)
• Georgia O'Keeffe - Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
• Pablo Picasso - Figures by the Sea
• Lorado Taft - The Crusader (sculpture)
• Grant Wood - The Birthplace of Herbert Hoover

Awards

• Archibald Prize: John Longstaff - Sir John Sulman

Births

• January 21 - Paul Deliège, Belgian comic strip artist and writer (d. 2005)
• February 9 - Robert Morris, American sculptor
• February 16 - Irina Dobrekova, Russian painter
• February 18 - Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (d. 2007)
• February 23 - Tom Wesselmann, American pop artist (d. 2004)
• February 26 - Jacques Rouxel, French animator (d. 2004)
• March 13 - Michael Podro, English art historian (d. 2008)
• March 25 - Jack Chambers, Canadian artist and filmmaker (d. 1978)
• April 24 - Bridget Riley, English op art painter
• April 25 - David Shepherd, English wildlife and military painter
• April 26 - Vera Nazina, Russian painter
• April 29 - Frank Auerbach, German-born painter
• August 20 - Bernd Becher, German photographer (d. 2007)
• August 24 - Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos, Portuguese artist and professor (d. 2008)
• date unknown - Serge Danot, French animator (d. 1990)

Deaths

• March 7
  • Theo van Doesburg, painter and architect, leader of De Stijl (b. 1883)
  • Akseli Gallen-Kallela, painter (b. 1865)
• March 14 - Alfred Grenander, architect (b. 1863)
• March 24 - Derwent Lees, Australian landscape painter (b. 1885)
• July 11 - Jean-Louis Forain, Impressionist painter (b. 1852)
• September 14 - Tom Roberts, painter (b. 1856)
• September 20 - Max Littmann, architect (b. 1862)
• September 29 - William Orpen, portrait painter (b. 1878)
• October 10 - Sir Bertram Mackennal, Australian-born sculptor (b. 1863)
• November 17 - Edward Simmons, Impressionist painter (b. 1852)
• date unknown
  • Bela Čikoš Sesija, Croatian painter (b. 1864)
  • Lancelot Speed, British illustrator (b. 1860)
  • William John Wainwright, English painter (b. 1855)

See also

• 1931 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References