1920 in art

Events

• February 1 - National Art Gallery opens in Tblisi.
• The Cologne Dadaist group is formed by Jean Arp, Max Ernst and Alfred Grünwald.
• Katherine Dreier, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp form Société Anonyme.
• Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada set up the Leach Pottery in St Ives, Cornwall.
• Heckscher Museum of Art established in Huntington, New York.
• Latvian Museum of Foreign Art established in Riga.

Works

Georges Clemenceau by Cecilia Beaux

• Cecilia Beaux - portrait of Georges Clemenceau
• Thomas Hart Benton - People of Chilmark (figure composition)
• Pierre Bonnard - Landscape in Normandy
• Alexander Stirling Calder - Swann Memorial Fountain (Philadelphia)
• Lovis Corinth - Flowers and Wilhelmine
• Otto Dix - The Match Vendor I
• Max Ernst
  • The Hat Makes the Man (collage and gouache)
  • Murdering Airplane (collage)
• George Frampton - Memorial to Edith Cavell
• James Earle Fraser - Frederick Keep Monument (Washington, D.C.)
• Daniel Chester French
  • Abraham Lincoln (statue in Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.)
  • Dupont Circle Fountain (Washington, D.C.)
  • Wisconsin (statue on Wisconsin State Capitol)
• J. W. Godward - A Red, Red Rose
• George Grosz - Republican Automatons
• Einar Jónsson - Thorfinn Karlsefni (bronze statue, Philadelphia)
• George Washington Lambert - A sergeant of the Light Horse
• Edwin Lutyens - The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London (stone version)
• Paul Klee - Angelus Novus (worked copper plate)
• Stanton MacDonald-Wright - Airplane Synchromy in Yellow-Orange
• Henri Matisse - Interior at Nice
• William Nicholson
  • Gertrude Jekyll
  • Miss Jekyll's Gardening Boots
• Charles Marie Louis Joseph Sarrabezolles - L'Âme de la France (plaster version)
• Georg Scholz - Industrial Farmers (Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal)
• Mario Sironi - Truck
• Stanley Spencer
  • The Last Supper
  • Christ Carrying the Cross
• Lorado Taft - Fountain of Time (Chicago)

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).
• March 14 - Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d.2001).
• 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).
• May - Hans Josephsohn, German-born sculptor (d. 2012).
• May 8
  • Saul Bass, American graphic designer and filmmaker (d.1996).
  • Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (d.1991).
• June 4 - Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter, muralist, sculptor and engraver (d.1992).
• June 24
  • John Coplans, painter, photographer (d.2003)
  • Jimmy Ernst, American painter born in Germany (d.1984).
• June 29 - Ray Harryhausen, stop-motion animator, sculptor.

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).
• August 5 - George Tooker, painter.
• August 22 - Gene Davis, American painter (d.1985).
• August 26
  • Mauri Favén, Finnish painter (d.2006).
  • Brant Parker, American cartoonist (d.2007).
• October 31 - Helmut Newton, photographer (d.2004).
• November 23 - Wayne Thiebaud, Amreican painter.
• December 18 - Enrique Grau, Colombian painter and sculptor (d.2004).

Full date unknown

• Elaine Hamilton, painter.
• Daniel O'Neill, Irish painter (d.1974).

Deaths

• January 24 - Amedeo Modigliani, painter and sculptor (b. 1884)
• January 26 - Jeanne Hébuterne, artist, Modigliani's mistress and model (suicide) (b. 1898)
• March 15 - Edith Holden, nature artist and art teacher (b. 1871)
• March 26 - Samuel Colman, painter and designer (b. 1832)
• April 20 - Briton Rivière, painter (b. 1840)
• April 27 - Jacob Ungerer, sculptor (b. 1840)
• August 4 - C. G. Finch-Davies, bird painter (b. 1875)
• August 6 - Edward Francis Searles, interior designer (b. 1841)
• August 12 - Walter Winans, sculptor and painter (b. 1852)
• August 22 - Anders Zorn, Swedish portrait painter (b. 1860)
• September 24 - Peter Carl Fabergé, jeweller (b. 1846)
• November 13 - Luc-Olivier Merson, French painter (b. 1846)
• date unknown - Edith Corbet, landscape painter (b. 1846)