1914 in art

Events

• January 31 – The Art Gallery of Hamilton is founded in Ontario.
• March – The London Group hold their first exhibition, at the Goupil Gallery.
• March–June – Rebel Art Centre run in London by Wyndham Lewis and others.
• March 10 – Suffragette Mary Richardson damages the Velázquez painting Rokeby Venus in the National Gallery, London, with a meat cleaver.
• April
• * Umberto Boccioni publishes Manifesto tecnico della scultura futurista ; later this year he also publishes the book Pittura e scultura futuriste .
• * August Macke, Louis Moilliet and Paul Klee travel in Tunisia.
• April 20 – English artist Dorothy Shakespear marries American poet Ezra Pound at St Mary Abbots church, Kensington, London.
• May 4 – Suffragette Mary Wood attacks John Singer Sargent's portrait of Henry James at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London with a meat cleaver. At the same exhibition on May 12, Gertrude Mary Ansell attacks the recently deceased Hubert von Herkomer's portrait of the Duke of Wellington, and on May 26 'Mary Spencer' attacks George Clausen's painting Primavera.
• June – First issue published of the Vorticist literary magazine BLAST edited by Wyndham Lewis.
• July – David Bomberg's first solo exhibition of paintings opens at the Chenil Gallery in Chelsea, London; his The Mud Bath is hung outside.
• July 17 – Suffragette Annie Hunt damages Sir John Millais' portrait of Thomas Carlyle in the National Portrait Gallery, London, with a meat cleaver.
• August – Fernand Léger is mobilised for service in the French Army; he serves in the Forest of Argonne.
• September 5 – The cover of magazine London Opinion first carries the iconic drawing by Alfred Leete of Lord Kitchener with the recruiting slogan Your Country Needs You.
• October 11 – English painter John Currie dies having shot himself and his mistress and model, Dorothy Eileen Henry, in Chelsea, London.
• November 16 – The Baltimore Museum of Art is founded at Johns Hopkins University in the United States.
• The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum is established in Bilbao.
• Futurist exhibition at the Doré Gallery in London.
• Edward Perry Warren's copy of Rodin's sculpture The Kiss is loaned for public display in the English town of Lewes, but objections to its erotic nature cause it to covered over and screened off.
• Clive Bell publishes his formalist study Art.
• Publication of Vincent van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo.
• Nina Hamnett and Amedeo Modigliani meet for the first time, at La Rotonde in Montparnasse, Paris.
• Daniel Chester French is commissioned by the Lincoln Memorial committee to create a statue of Abraham Lincoln for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., unveiled in 1922.

Works

Paintings

• Umberto Boccioni
• * Il bevitore
• * I selciatori
• * Dinamismo plastico: cavallo + caseggiato
• Pierre Bodard – Lili Boulanger
• David Bomberg – The Mud Bath
• Antoine Bourdelle – Dying Centaur
• John Collier
• * Angela McInnes
• * Clytemnestra
• Eugene de Blaas – In the Water
• Giorgio de Chirico
• * Gare Montparnasse (The Melancholy of Departure)
• * The Mystery and Melancholy of a Street
• * La Nostalgie du poete
• * The Song of Love
• Stanisława de Karłowska – '
• Philip de László - Portrait of Lord Arthur Balfour
• André Derain - Portrait of a Man with a Newspaper
• Carl Eytel - Desert near Palm Springs
• Pavel Filonov – Holy Family
• Mark Gertler – The Creation of Eve
• Albert Gleizes – Woman with animals (Madame Raymond Duchamp-Villon)
• J. W. Godward
• * The Necklace
• * The New Perfume
• * Tranquility
• Marsden Hartley – Portrait of a German Officer
• Alexandre Jacovleff – Self-portrait as Harlequin and Pierrot
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – Potsdamer Platz
• Paul Klee – '
• Oskar Kokoschka – The Bride of the Wind
• Fernand Léger – Nature morte
• August Macke
• * Farewell
• * Kairouan
• * View into a Lane
• Franz Marc
• * Animals in a Landscape
• * Fighting Form
• * Landscape with house, dog and cattle
• * Rehe im Walde
• Henri Matisse – Woman on a High Stool
• Alfred Munnings – Setting off: Huntsman and Hounds
• William Nicholson – Le retour de la Joconde
• Pablo Picasso - Guitar
• Walter Sickert
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• Xul Solar –
• Stanley Spencer – ''Self-portrait''

Sculptures

• Ernst Barlach – Der Rächer
• John H. Beaver – Fountain for Company H
• Edward Berge – Armistead Monument
• Carrère and Hastings and Edward Clark Potter – Sidney Lanier Monument
• Marcel Duchamp – Bottle Rack
• Jacob Epstein – The Rock Drill
• Daniel Chester French – The Spirit of Life
• Henri Gaudier-Brzeska – Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound
• Mario Korbel – Illinois Monument
• Evelyn Beatrice Longman – Spirit of Communication
• Adolfo Wildt – ''Vir Temporis Acti''

Interior design

• Omega Workshops – Cadena Café, 59 Westbourne Grove, London

Births

January to June

• January 5 – Nicolas de Staël, Russian-born painter
• January 7 – Edwin La Dell, British artist
• January 10 – John Petts, English-born Welsh engraver
• January 26 – Walter Stuempfig, American painter
• February 3 – Felix Kelly, New Zealand-born artist
• February 11 – Mervyn Levy, British art critic
• February 21 – Park Su-geun, Korean painter
• February 22 – Karl Otto Götz, German painter
• March 3 – Asger Jorn, Danish artist and essayist
• March 4 – Ward Kimball, American Academy Award-winning animator
• March 9 – Piet Esser, Dutch sculptor.
• March 14 – Abdias do Nascimento, Brazilian actor, artist and politician
• April 13 – John Russell Harper, Canadian art historian
• May 18 – Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer
• May 21 – Oton Gliha, Croatian painter
• May 29 – Charles Mozley, British illustrator and designer
• June 15 – Saul Steinberg, Romanian-born American cartoonist and illustrator
• June 29 – Franz Joseph, American artist and writer

July to December

• July 5 – Jean Tabaud, French artist
• July 7 – Erni Cabat, American artist
• July 23 – Virgil Finlay, American artist
• July 27 – Emerson Woelffer, American painter
• July 29 – Abram Games, English poster artist
• August 15 – Paul Rand, American graphic designer
• August 20 – Yann Goulet, French sculptor, Breton nationalist and war-time collaborationist with Nazi Germany
• September 6 – Bogdan Šuput, Serbian painter
• September 18 – Jack Cardiff, English photographer and cinematographer
• September 23 – Annely Juda, born Anneliese Brauer, German-born art dealer
• September 30 – Tom Eckersley, English poster artist
• October 7 – Duilio Barnabè, Italian painter
• October 8 – Henry C. Pearson, American abstract and modernist painter
• October 17 – Jerry Siegel, American comic book artist
• October 30 – Max Angus, Australian painter
• November 5 – Alton Tobey, American painter, historical artist, muralist, portraitist, illustrator and teacher
• November 28 – Blanch Ackers, American folk artist and painter
• December 12 – Frank Roper, English metal sculptor and stained glass artist
• December 16
• * Norman Blamey, British painter
• * O. Winston Link, American photographer
• December 21 – Ivan Generalić, Croatian naïve art painter
• December 22 – Karin Jonzen, British sculptor

Unknown

• Hafidh al-Droubi, Iraqi painter

Deaths

• January 12 – Vinnie Ream, sculptor
• January 15 – Peter Adolf Persson, Swedish painter
• January 21 – Salvador Martínez Cubells, Spanish painter and art restorer
• January 26 – Jane Burden, artists' model closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelites
• February 8 – Josefa Texidor Torres, Spanish painter
• February 9 – Bart van Hove, Dutch sculptor
• February 25 – Sir John Tenniel, illustrator associated with Lewis Carroll
• March 25 – Spencer Gore, painter
• April 6 – Józef Marian Chełmoński, Polish painter
• April 14 – Antonio Frixione, Italian painter and printmaker
• May 5 – Johannes Pfuhl, German sculptor
• May 18 – Charles Sprague Pearce, painter
• June 1 – Árpád Feszty, Hungarian painter
• June 12 – Béla Spányi, Hungarian painter
• June 13 – Odoardo Toscani, Italian painter
• June 26 – Antonio Herrera Toro, Venezuelan painter, critic and professor
• July 22 – Charles Maurin, French painter and engraver
• August 22 – James Dickson Innes, landscape painter
• September 26 – August Macke, German painter
• September 27 – Carlos María Herrera, Uruguayan portrait painter
• October 29 – Félix Bracquemond, painter and etcher date unknown – Franz Alt, Austrian landscape painter probable – Faustin Betbeder, caricaturist