1930 in art

Events

• Malvina Hoffman begins sculpting life-size figures for the Field Museum's Hall of Man.
• Great Bardfield Artists community established in England.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: W B McInnes - Drum-Major Harry McClelland

Works

• Pierre Bonnard - Pots
• Patrick Henry Bruce - Peinture (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
• Grace Cossington Smith - The Bridge in Curve
• John Steuart Curry - Hogs Killing a Rattlesnake
• Theo van Doesburg - Arithmetic Composition
• Augustus John - Portrait of Tallulah Bankhead
• Fernand Léger - Mona Lisa with Keys
• L. S. Lowry - Coming from the Mill
• T. F. Simon - View in Old Prague

Births

January to June

• 3 February - Gillian Ayres, painter
• 13 February - Ernst Fuchs, artist
• 18 February - Gahan Wilson, cartoonist
• 21 February - Enrique Tabara, painter
• 11 March - David Gentleman, graphic designer
• 1 April - John Houston, painter
• 12 April - Manuel Neri, sculptor, painter and printmaker
• 14 May - James Beck, American art historian (d.2007)
• 15 May - Jasper Johns, painter, sculptor and printmaker
• 22 May - Marisol Escobar, sculptor and printmaker
• 23 May
  • Aslan, pin-up artist
  • Richard Anuszkiewicz, painter, sculptor and printmaker
• 30 May - Robert Ryman, painter
• 16 June - Allan D'Arcangelo, painter and graphic artist (d.1998)
• 20 June - Magdalena Abakanowicz, sculptor
• 24 June - Pierre Restany, French art critic and cultural philosopher (d.2003)

July to December

• 8 October - Faith Ringgold, African American painter and fabric artist
• 29 October - Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor, painter, and film maker (d.2002)
• 7 November - Robert Natkin, American painter
• 14 November - Elisabeth Frink, English sculptor (d.1993)
• 31 December - Luis Marsans, painter
• date unknown - Susan Weil, painter

Deaths

• March 3 - William Wells Quatremain, English landscape painter (b. 1857)
• March 19 - Andreas Walser, painter (b. 1908)
• April 17 - Aleksandr Golovin, stage designer (b. 1863)
• May 10 - Julio Romero de Torres, painter (b. 1874)
• May 28 - George Lambert, portrait painter and war artist (b. 1873)
• June 3 - Alexander Bogomazov, Ukrainian painter, known artist and modern art theoretician of Russian avant-garde (b. 1880)
• June 5 - Jules Pascin, painter and draftsman (b. 1885)
• July 22 - Wacław Szymanowski, sculptor and painter (b. 1859)
• August 21 - Christopher Wood, English painter (b. 1901)
• September 6 - James Guthrie, painter (b. 1859)
• September 24 - Otto Mueller, painter (b. 1874)
• September 29 - Ilya Yefimovich Repin, painter and sculptor (b. 1844)
• December 9 - Laura Muntz Lyall, Impressionist painter (b. 1860)
• December 28 - Antonio Mancini, painter (b. 1852)
• date unknown
  • Stanisław Bergman, painter (b. 1862)
  • Peter Moog, outsider artist (b. 1871)