1934 in art

List of years in art (table)
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Events

April – David Low's cartoon character Colonel Blimp first appears in the London Evening Standard.^[1]
August 31 – John Smiukse destroys the mural Nightmare of 1934 in Tarrytown, New York.
Publication in the United States of Irving Stone's biographical novel of Vincent van Gogh, Lust for Life.

Eileen Agar – The Autobiography of an Embryo
Hans Arp – Human Concretion (Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris)
Balthus – Guitar Lesson
Paul Cadmus
- Coney Island
- The Fleet's In!
- Greenwich Village Cafeteria
Salvador Dalí – The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table
Edwin Dickinson – Stranded Brig
Antonio Donghi – Canzone
Raoul Dufy – Regatta at Cowes (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)
Jacob Epstein – Portrait bust of George Bernard Shaw
M. C. Escher – Still Life with Spherical Mirror (lithograph)
Edward Hopper – East Wind Over Weehawken
Joan Miró – Woman
Ronald Moody – Wohin (carved oak head)
José Clemente Orozco – The Epic of American Civilization (mural, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, 1932-34)
Pablo Picasso – Minotauromachy
Diego Rivera – Man, Controller of the Universe (mural, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City)
Raphael Soyer – How Long Since You Wrote to Mother?

April - The Unit One group holds its only exhibition, in Cork Street (London), accompanied by a book, Unit 1: the Modern Movement in English Architecture, Painting and Sculpture, edited by Herbert Read.^[2]

February 11 – Mary Quant, English fashion designer
February 27 – Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (d.1992)
March 20 – Eric Hebborn, English art forger (k.1996)
April 16 – Vicar, comic book artist
June 20 – Rius, cartoonist
July 11 – Giorgio Armani, fashion designer
July 24 – Lee Friedlander, American photographer
August 14 – Lucien Clergue, French photographer (d.2014)
date unknown
- Brian O'Doherty aka Patrick Ireland, installation artist
- Neil Williams, American painter (d.1988)

March 23 – Wenzel Hablik, painter, graphic artist, designer (b. 1881)
April 11 – John Collier, painter (b. 1850)
June 29 – Adolf Kašpar, Czech painter and illustrator (b. 1877)
August 17 – Alexander Borisov, landscape painter (b. 1866)
September 1 – Yumeji Takehisa, poet and painter (b. 1884)
October 17 – Adolf Hölzel, German artist/[painter of an Impressionism to expressive modernism style (b. 1853)
November 4 – Sir Alfred Gilbert, sculptor (b. 1854)
December 4 – Paul-Albert Besnard, painter (b. 1849)
December 28 – Pablo Gargallo, painter and sculptor (b. 1881)
date unknown
- Alfred Boucher, sculptor (b. 1850)
- Melvin Ormond Hammond, photographer (b. 1876)