1936 in art

Events

• February 15 - Exhibition Abstract and Concrete, curated by Nicolete Gray, opens at 41 St Giles', Oxford, prior to touring England. It is the first showing of abstract art, and of the work of Mondrian, in the country.^[1]
• November - Exhibition Cubism and Abstract Art, curated by Alfred H. Barr, Jr., opens at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
• November 23 - Margaret Bourke-White's photographs of the construction of the Fort Peck Dam are featured in the first issue of Life magazine.

Works

Dalí - Lobster Telephone

• Balthus - André Derain (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
• Salvador Dalí
  • Lobster Telephone
  • Morphological Echo (two versions)
  • Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War)
• Herndon Davis - The Face on the Barroom Floor (Teller House, Central City, Colorado)

Méret Oppenheim - Le Déjeuner en fourrure

• M. C. Escher - first Regular Division of the Plane drawings
• Sylvia Shaw Judson - Bird Girl (bronze)
• Carl Milles - Indian God of Peace (onyx)
• Joan Miró - series
  • Metamorphosis
  • Paintings on masonite
• Méret Oppenheim - Objet: Le Déjeuner en fourrure
• Diego Rivera - Indian Spinning
• Han van Meegeren - The Supper at Emmaus (forgery in the style of Vermeer)

Awards

• Archibald Prize: W B McInnes - Dr. Julian Smith
• Dame Laura Knight becomes the first woman elected to the Royal Academy

Births

• January 11 - Eva Hesse, German-born American sculptor (d.1970).
• January 23 - Willoughby Sharp, American author, curator, critic (d.2008)
• May 10 - Isaac Witkin, South African sculptor (d.2006)
• May 12 - Frank Stella, painter
• August 1 - Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (d.2008)
• August 12 - Hans Haacke, conceptual artist
• August 29 - Richard Haas, muralist
• September 14
  • Terence Donovan, photographer
  • Lucas Samaras, photographer and sculptor
• November 29 - Gregory Gillespie, American magic realist painter (d.2000).
• Full date unknown
  • Edward Avedisian, American abstract painter (d.2007).
  • Joan Jonas, video, performance artist and other media

Deaths

• February 25 - Anna Boch, painter (b. 1848)
• March 8 - Victor Noble Rainbird, painter , stained glass artist and illustrator (b. 1887)
• April 21 - Ottó Baditz, Hungarian painter (b. 1849)
• July 7 - Heinrich Hoerle, constructivist artist (b. 1895)
• July 10 - Carl von Marr, painter (b. 1858)
• October 12 - Edwin Blashfield, painter and interior decorator
• November 12 - Patrick Henry Bruce, American Cubist painter (b. 1881)
• date unknown - W. Herbert Dunton, member of the Taos art colony

See also

• 1936 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References