1936 in art

Events

• February 15 – Exhibition Abstract and Concrete, curated by Nicolete Gray, opens at 41 St Giles', Oxford, prior to touring England. It is the first showing of abstract art, and of the work of Mondrian, in the country.^[1]
• May 27 – RMS Queen Mary begins her maiden Atlantic crossing. Interior design, under the direction of E. C. Leach, is by Arthur Joseph Davis and J. C. Whipp of Mewès & Davis (UK) and Benjamin Wistar Morris (USA) with much craftsmanship undertaken by the Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts, Graphic artists commissioned to supply work include Edward Wadsworth and Anna and Doris Zinkeisen.^[2]
• June 11–July 4 – London International Surrealist Exhibition, opened by André Breton.
• November – Exhibition Cubism and Abstract Art, curated by Alfred H. Barr, Jr., opens at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
• November 23 – Margaret Bourke-White's photographs of the construction of the Fort Peck Dam are featured in the first issue of Life magazine.
• December 1 – Members of the Artists Union occupy the New York City offices of the Federal Art Project; police arrest 219 of them, the largest-ever arrest in the city at this date.

Works

• Walter Seymour Allward – Canadian National Vimy Memorial
• Balthus – André Derain (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
• Robert Capa – The Falling Soldier (Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death, Cerro Muriano, September 5, 1936; photograph)
• Salvador Dalí
  • Lobster Telephone
  • Morphological Echo (two versions)
  • Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War)
• Herndon Davis – The Face on the Barroom Floor (Teller House, Central City, Colorado)
• M. C. Escher – first Regular Division of the Plane drawings
• Bernhard Hoetger – Archangel Michael Fighting the Dragon (Lightbringer) (entrance to Böttcherstraße, Bremen)
• Sylvia Shaw Judson – Bird Girl (bronze)
• Harry Kernoff – In Davy's Parlour Snug: Self portrait with Davy Byrne and Martin Murphy
• Dorothea Lange – Migrant Mother (photograph of Florence Owens Thompson)
• Carl Milles – Indian God of Peace (onyx)
• Joan Miró – series
  • Metamorphosis
  • Paintings on masonite
• Ronald Moody – Johanaan (elm wood carving)
• Méret Oppenheim – Objet: Le Déjeuner en fourrure
• Diego Rivera – Indian Spinning
• Han van Meegeren – The Supper at Emmaus (forgery in the style of Vermeer)

Awards

• Archibald Prize: W B McInnes – Dr. Julian Smith
• Dame Laura Knight becomes the first woman elected to the Royal Academy

Births

• January 11 – Eva Hesse, German-born American sculptor (d. 1970).
• January 23 – Willoughby Sharp, American author, curator, critic (d. 2008)
• May 10 – Isaac Witkin, South African sculptor (d. 2006)
• May 12 – Frank Stella, Italian American painter
• May 15 – Ralph Steadman, British caricaturist
• August 1 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (d. 2008)
• August 12 – Hans Haacke, German conceptual artist working in the United States
• August 29 – Richard Haas, American muralist
• September 14
  • Terence Donovan, photographer
  • Lucas Samaras, photographer and sculptor
• November 29 – Gregory Gillespie, American magic realist painter (d. 2000).
• Full date unknown
  • Edward Avedisian, American abstract painter (d. 2007).
  • Joan Jonas, video, performance artist and other media
  • Marko Stupar, Serbian artist living and working in France since 1964.

Deaths

• February 25 – Anna Boch, painter (b. 1848)
• March 8 – Victor Noble Rainbird, painter, stained glass artist and illustrator (b. 1887)
• April 21 – Ottó Baditz, Hungarian painter (b. 1849)
• July 7 – Heinrich Hoerle, constructivist artist (b. 1895)
• July 10 – Carl von Marr, painter (b. 1858)
• October 12 – Edwin Blashfield, painter and interior decorator
• November 12 – Patrick Henry Bruce, American Cubist painter (b. 1881)
• date unknown – W. Herbert Dunton, member of the Taos art colony

See also

• 1936 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References