1937 in art

Events

• May–June - Pablo Picasso paints Guernica, a cubistic mural created in reaction to the German bombing of the Spanish Basque town of the same name on 26 April. It is first exhibited in July at the Spanish Republican government pavilion (designed by Josep Lluís Sert) in the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne in Paris before commencing a world tour. René Iché created a sculpture Guernica the day after the bombing took place, but will not exhibit it in his lifetime. The Spanish Government pavilion at the International Exhibition also includes a mercury fountain by Alexander Calder and Joan Miró's The Reaper. Vera Mukhina's sculpture Worker and Kolkhoz Woman is also created for the Exhibition.
• May - Stanley Spencer and his wife Hilda are divorced; within a week he marries Patricia Preece who departs on honeymoon to St Ives with her partner Dorothy Hepworth while he resumes relations with Hilda at Cookham.
• July 19 - Entartete Kunst "(Degenerate art)" exhibition, mounted by the Nazis, opens in Munich.
• October - Formation in London of the Euston Road School, a private School of Drawing and Painting originally established in Fitzroy Street by William Coldstream, Claude Rogers and Victor Pasmore, and giving name to the group of naturalist artists associated with it.^[1]
• December 21 - Premiere of Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in the United States, the first full-length animated feature film.
• The exhibition The Origins and Development of International Independent Art held at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris brings Chaim Soutine to prominence.
• The Avant-Garde Image Group is founded by Japanese photographer Terushichi Hirai.
• American painters Paul Cadmus, Jared French and Margaret French (née Hoening) form the PaJaMa photographic collective.
• Statues by Jacob Epstein on Rhodesia House, London, are mutilated.^[2]
• 1937–1938 - Mussolini has the Ara Pacis Augustae reconstructed in its present location.

Works

Paintings

• Endre Bálint - My Room at the Bindendorfs
• Balthus - The Mountain
• William Coldstream - Winifred Burger
• Salvador Dalí
  • The Burning Giraffe
  • Metamorphosis of Narcissus, a surrealist work influenced by the Greek myth of Narcissus
  • Swans Reflecting Elephants
• Edwin Dickinson - Composition with Still Life
• Óscar Domínguez - The Infernal Machine
• Max Dupain - Sunbaker
• Arthur Dove - Me and the Moon
• M. C. Escher - woodcuts
  • Metamorphosis I
  • Still Life and Street, his first impossible reality
• Alberto Giacometti - The Artist's Mother
• Gladys Hynes - Private View
• Frida Kahlo - Memory
• René Magritte
  • The Black Flag
  • Not to be Reproduced
  • On the Threshold of Liberty
• Henri Matisse
  • Lady in Blue
  • Robe violette et Anémones
  • Woman in a Purple Coat
  • Yellow Odalisque (second version, Philadelphia Museum of Art)
• Joan Miró
  • Naked woman climbing a staircase
  • Still Life with Old Shoe
  • Aidez l'Espagne
  • The Reaper
• Georgia O'Keeffe - Jimson Weed
• Pablo Picasso
  • Guernica
  • The Weeping Woman
  • Woman in Hat and Fur Collar
• Amrita Sher-Gil
  • Brahmacharis
  • Bride's Toilet
  • The South Indian Villagers
• Stanley Spencer - Double Nude Portrait: The Artist and his Second Wife
• Rex Whistler - Dining room mural, Plas Newydd, Anglesey

Sculptures

• John Gregory - Anthony Wayne
• A. F. Hardiman - Earl Haig Memorial
• René Iché - Guernica
• Lee Lawrie - Atlas
• Ronald Moody - Midonz (carved wood head)
• Vera Mukhina - Worker and Kolkhoz Woman
• Edith Barretto Stevens Parsons - Frog Baby Fountain

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Normand Baker - Self Portrait

Births

• May 31 - Larry Zox, American painter and printmaker (d.2006)
• June 7 - Red Grooms, multimedia, pop artist
• July 9 - David Hockney, painter
• August 18 - Willie Rushton, English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer (d.1996)
• October 1 - Larry Poons, op artist
• October 6 -Fritz Scholder, painter, printmaker and graphic artist (d.2005)
• October 12 - Robert Mangold, minimalist painter
• October 19 - Peter Max, printmaker and graphic designer
• December 16 - Edward Ruscha, painter, printmaker, photographer and conceptual artist
• full date unknown - Ronald Davis, painter

Deaths

• January 29 - Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté, Canadian painter and sculptor (b. 1869)
• April 19 - Martin Conway, English art critic (b. 1856)
• May - Peter Waals, Dutch-born furniture designer (b. 1870)
• October 29 - Élie Faure, French art historian (b. 1873)
• November 6 - Colin Campbell Cooper, American painter (b. 1856)
• November 11 - Helen Thornycroft, English painter (b. 1848)
• December 5 - János Thorma, Hungarian Post-Impressionist painter (b. 1870)
• December 6
  • Francis Cadell, Scottish Colourist painter (b. 1883)
  • Florence Griswold, American curator (b. 1850)

See also

• 1937 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References