Overview of the events of 1920 in art
Events from the year 1920 in art .
Events
Works
Georges Clemenceau by Cecilia Beaux War memorial at Bridgnorth , England by Adrian Jones
Publications
Births
January to June
January 12 – Bill Reid , Canadian artist (d. 1998 ).January 17 – Georges Pichard , French comics artist (d. 2003 ).January 30 – Patrick Heron , English painter, writer and designer (d. 1999 ).February 22 – Rocco Borella , Italian painter (d. 1994 ).March 3 – Ronald Searle , English cartoonist (d. 2011 ).March 14 – Hank Ketcham , American cartoonist (d. 2001 ).March 19 – Kjell Aukrust , Norwegian poet and artist (d. 2002 )[ 8] March 27 – Robin Jacques , English illustrator (d. 1995 ).April 8 – Hans Coper , German-born studio potter (d. 1981 ).April 24 – Paul Wonner , American painter (d. 2008 ).April 26 – Maynard Reece , American painter (d. 2020 )May – Hans Josephsohn , German-born sculptor (d. 2012 ).
May 8
May 10 - Erna Viitol , Estonian sculptor (d. 2001 ).June 4 – Alejandro Obregón , Colombian painter, muralist, sculptor and engraver (d. 1992 ).June 24
June 29 – Ray Harryhausen , American-born stop-motion animator, sculptor (d. 2013 ).
July to December
July 20 – Arthur Boyd , Australian painter and sculptor (d. 1999 ).July 21 – Constant Nieuwenhuys , Dutch painter, one of the innovators of Unitary Urbanism (d. 2005 ).[ 10] August 1 – Ken Bald , American comic book artist and illustrator (d. 2019 )August 5 – George Tooker , American figurative painter (d. 2011 ).August 9 – Gerda Schmidt-Panknin , German painter (d. 2021 )August 15 – Judy Cassab , born Judit Kaszab, Austrian-born Australian portrait painter (d. 2015 ).August 22 – Gene Davis , American painter (d. 1985 ).August 26
August 30 – Leonid Shvartsman , Soviet and Russian animator and artist (d. 2022 ).October 13 – Elaine Hamilton , American painter (d. 2010 ).October 31 – Helmut Newton , German-born photographer (d. 2004 ).November 23 – Wayne Thiebaud , American painter (d. 2021)November 30 – Walter Chandoha , American cat photographer (d. 2019 ).December 14 – Claire Fejes , American artistDecember 18 – Enrique Grau , Colombian painter and sculptor (d. 2004 ).December 21 – Bob Bindig , American illustrator (d. 2007 )
Full date unknown
Deaths
January 24 – Amedeo Modigliani , Italian-born painter and sculptor (b. 1884 )[ 11] January 26 – Jeanne Hébuterne , French artist, Modigliani's mistress and model (suicide) (b. 1898 )[ 11] March 3 – Theodor Philipsen , Danish painter (b. 1840 )March 13 – Mary Devens , American pictorial photographer (b. 1857 )March 15 – Edith Holden , English nature artist and art teacher (b. 1871 )March 26 – Samuel Colman , American painter and designer (b. 1832 )April 20 – Briton Rivière , British painter (b. 1840 )April 27 – Jacob Ungerer , German sculptor (b. 1840 )May 7 – Hugh Thomson , British illustrator (b. 1860 )May 12 – Georges Petit , French art dealer (b. 1856 )July 5 – Max Klinger , German painter and sculptor (b. 1857 )[ 12] July 14 – Albert von Keller , German painter (b. 1844 )[ 13] July 17 – Sir Edmund Elton, 8th Baronet , English studio potter (b. 1846 )August 4 – C. G. Finch-Davies , British bird painter (b. 1875 )August 6 – Edward Francis Searles , American interior designer (b. 1841 )August 12 – Walter W. Winans , American sculptor, painter, marksman and horse-breeder (b. 1852 )August 22 – Anders Zorn , Swedish portrait painter (b. 1860 )[ 14] September 24 – Peter Carl Fabergé , Russian-born jeweller (b. 1846 )November 13 – Luc-Olivier Merson , French painter (b. 1846 )date unknown – Edith Corbet , Australian-born British landscape painter (b. 1846 )
References
^ Fell, Alison S. (2018). Women as Veterans in Britain and France after the First World War ISBN 978-1-108-42576-6 ^ Hopkins, David (8 April 2004). Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction ISBN 978-0-19-280254-5 ^ Editors' introduction to "The Realistic Manifesto." In Art in Theory, 1900-2000 , ed. by Charles Harrison and Paul Wood. Malden: Blackwell, 2003. p.298.
^ Michelin Travel Publications (1998). New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania ISBN 978-2-06-154901-8 ^ Flynn, Tom (2021-01-07). Letter to the editor. London Review of Books 43 :1.
^ Code de la propriété intellectuelle : Chapitre II : Droits patrimoniaux, L122-8. ^ Mari Dumett (22 August 2017). Corporate Imaginations: Fluxus Strategies for Living ISBN 978-0-520-29038-9 ^ Jor, Finn . "Kjell Aukrust" . In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon . Retrieved 17 December 2011 .^ David A. Gerstner (2006). Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture ISBN 978-0-415-30651-5 ^ Wolf Stubbe (1963). History of Modern Graphic Art ^ a b Pierre Sichel (1967). Modigliani: A Biography of Amedeo Modigliani ISBN 978-0-491-00120-5 ^ Walter Yust (1951). Encyclopædia Britannica ^ Gilman, D. C. ; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Keller, Albert von" New International Encyclopedia ^ Anders Zorn (1984). Anders Zorn Rediscovered: November 27-December 19, 1984 : an Exhibition ISBN 978-0-936270-23-4
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