1923 in art

Events

• March 20 - The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States show, Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso.
• May 8 - Göteborgs Konsthall opens as the art gallery for the Gothenburg Exhibition.
• Publication of The Art Spirit by Robert Henri.
• Chaim Soutine sells sixty of his paintings from a Paris showing to the American art collector Albert C. Barnes and begins his series of paintings of beef carcasses.
• A joint exhibition with his mother, Suzanne Valadon, at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune in Paris brings the paintings of Maurice Utrillo to prominence.^[1]
• Freer Gallery of Art opens in Washington, D.C. as the first Smithsonian museum dedicated to the fine arts.^[2]
• Remington Art Memorial established in Ogdensburg, New York.
• Harwood Museum of Art established in Taos, New Mexico.
• Beaux Arts Gallery established in London by Frederick and Helen Lessore.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: W B McInnes - Portrait of a Lady

Works

• Max Beckmann - Dance in Baden-Baden
• Constantin Brâncuși - Bird in Space (sculpture; first version)
• Felice Casorati - Meriggio (Noon)
• Robert Delaunay - Portrait of Tristan Tzara
• Marcel Duchamp - The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) is completed
• Max Ernst - Pietà or Revolution by Night
• M. C. Escher - Dolphins (woodcut)
• George Grosz - Ecce Homo (portfolio of lithographs)
• Auguste Herbin - Bowls Players
• Wassily Kandinsky - On White II
• Sir John Lavery - The Red Rose
• Sir Bertram Mackennal
  • Phoebus Driving the Horses of the Sun (Australia House, London)
  • Mother Courage (war memorial, Caledonian Club, London)
  • Eton College War Memorial (male nude, now National Gallery of Victoria, Australia)
• Henri Matisse
  • Odalisque with Raised Arms
  • Window at Tangier
• Mikhail Nesterov - Girl by the Pool
• William Orpen - To the Unknown British Soldier Killed in France
• Pablo Picasso
  • The Pipes of Pan
  • Paulo on a Donkey
• Man Ray - Object to Be Destroyed (destroyed 1957)
• Gerrit Rietveld - Red and Blue Chair (colours added in De Stijl style at about this date)
• Stanley Spencer - The Betrayal
• Lorado Taft - The Recording Angel (sculpture, Waupun, Wisconsin)^[3]
• Suzanne Valadon - Blue Room
• World War I Memorial (Berwick, Pennsylvania)

Births

• 8 April - George Fisher, American political cartoonist (d.2003).
• 3 May - Norman Thelwell, English cartoonist (d.2004).
• 15 May - Richard Avedon, American photographer (d.2004).
• 22 May - Max Velthuijs, Dutch painter, illustrator and author (d.2005).
• 27 May - Inge Morath, Austrian photographer (d.2002).
• 24 June - Marc Riboud, photographer.
• 25 June - Sam Francis, American painter and printmaker (d.1994).
• 13 September - Edouard Boubat, French photographer (d.1999).
• 7 October - Jean-Paul Riopelle, Canadian painter and sculptor (d.2002).
• 27 October - Roy Lichtenstein, American pop artist (d.1997).
• 1 December - Morris, cartoonist (d.2001).
• 13 December - Antoni Tàpies, painter.
• date unknown
• Paul Jenkins, abstract expressionist painter.
• François Ozenda, French painter (d.1976).

Deaths

• January 12 - Marc Ferrez, Brazilian photographer (b. 1843)
• January 31 - Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish modernist painter, art critic and assassin (b. 1869)
• March 22 - Benjamin Williams Leader, English landscape painter (b. 1831)
• April 15 - Aleksander Sochaczewski, Polish painter (b. 1843)
• April 17 - Jan Kotěra, artist, architect and designer (b. 1871)
• May 29 - Adolf Oberländer, caricaturist (b. 1845)
• June 15 - Joseph B. Davol, marine painter (b. 1864)
• June 21 - Edward Clark Potter, sculptor (b. 1857)
• October 2 - John Wilson Bengough, cartoonist
• November 2 - Stevan Aleksić, Serbian painter (b. 1876).
• November 27 - Penleigh Boyd, landscape painter (b. 1890) (car accident)
• December 13 - Théophile Steinlen, Swiss/French painter (b. 1859)
• date unknown
  • Edwin Romanzo Elmer, painter (b. 1850)
  • Candace Wheeler, designer (b. 1827)

See also

• 1923 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References