1920 in art
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[edit] Events
- The Cologne Dadaist group is formed by Jean Arp, Max Ernst and Alfred Grünwald.
- Katherine Dreier, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp form Société Anonyme
[edit] Works
- Cecilia Beaux - portrait of Georges Clemenceau
- Pierre Bonnard - Landscape in Normandy
- Thomas Hart Benton - People of Chilmark
- Alexander Stirling Calder - Swann Memorial Fountain, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Stanton MacDonald-Wright - Airplane Synchromy in Yellow-Orange
- Henri Matisse - Interior at Nice
- Georg Scholz - Industrial Farmers (Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal)
[edit] Births
- January 30 - Patrick Heron, painter and designer (d. 1999)
- June 24 - Jimmy Ernst, painter (d. 1984)
- June 29 - Ray Harryhausen (1920-), stop-motion animator, sculptor
- August 5 - George Tooker (1920-), painter
- August 22 - Gene Davis, painter (d. 1985)
- October 31 - Helmut Newton, photographer (d. 2004)
- November 23 - Wayne Thiebaud (1920-), painter
- John Coplans, painter, photographer (d. 2003)
- Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal, painter
- Daniel O'Neill, Irish painter (d.1974)
[edit] Deaths
- January 24 - Amedeo Modigliani, painter and sculptor (b. 1884)
- January 26 - Jeanne Hébuterne, artist, Modigliani's mistress and model (suicide) (b. 1898)
- March 26 - Samuel Colman, painter and designer (b. 1832)
- August 12 - Walter Winans, sculptor and painter (b. 1852)
- August 22 - Anders Zorn, portrait painter (b. 1860)
- November 13 – Luc-Olivier Merson, French painter (b. 1846)
- date unknown - Briton Rivière, painter (b. 1840)
- date unknown - Edward Francis Searles, interior designer (b. 1841)and stuff
