1915 in art

Events

• May – Ambrose Heal and others found the Design and Industries Association in London.
• c. May – Publication of the first modern book illustrated with wood engravings, Frances Cornford's Spring Morning with engravings by the poet's cousin Gwen Raverat.
• June 10 – The only contemporary Vorticist exhibition staged opens at the Doré Gallery in London.
• October 24 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's frescos, Translation of the House of Loreto, in the Church of the Scalzi (Venice) are destroyed by an Austrian bombardment.
• December 19 – Kasimir Malevich stages the 0.10 Exhibition and originates Suprematism.
• Pierre Bodard serves with the French Army on Martinique.
• Marcel Duchamp begins producing readymadesHarper's Bazaar hires Erté to design its covers.
• Edward McKnight Kauffer is given his first commission to design a poster for the Underground Electric Railways Company of London.
• Shōzaburō Watanabe originates shin-hanga collaborative woodblock printing in Japan.
• The first of the 'Etruscan terracotta warriors', forged by sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti with the Riccardi family, is purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
• 14-year-old Alice Prin is posing for sculptors in Paris.

Works

• George Bellows – Riverfront No. 1
• Frank Weston Benson – Red and Gold
• Umberto Boccioni
• * Charge of the Lancers
• * Horizontal Volumes
• Marc Chagall – The Poet Reclining
• William Merritt Chase – Self-portrait
• Giorgio de Chirico
• * The Double Dream of Spring
• * The Evil Genius of a King
• * Portrait of Paul Guillaume
• * The Seer
• Jacob Epstein – bust of Admiral Lord Fisher
• Albert Gleizes
• * Brooklyn Bridge
• * Composition for "Jazz"
• * Portrait of an Army Doctor
• J. W. Godward – '
• Juan Gris
• * The Breakfast
• * Still Life with Checked Tablecloth
• * Still Life with a Poem
• Alexandre Jacovleff – The Violinist
• Eric Kennington - The Kensingtons at Laventie
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
• * Brandenburger Tor
• * The Red Tower in Halle
• * Self-portrait as a Soldier
• Gustav Klimt – Death and Life
• Carl Larsson – Midvinterblot
• Wyndham Lewis – The Crowd
• Kazimir Malevich
• * Black Cross
• * Black Square
• * Red Square
• Henri Matisse – The Yellow Curtain
• Jean Metzinger – Soldier at a Game of Chess
• Amedeo Modigliani
• * Beatrice Hastings in Front of a Door
• * Portrait of Pablo Picasso
• * Portrait of the Painter Moisè Kisling
• Piet Mondrian – Composition No. 10 Pier and Ocean
• C. R. W. Nevinson
• * '
• * La Mitrailleuse
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• Pablo Picasso –
• * Harlequin
• * Musical Instruments
• * Still Life with Compote and Glass
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Blond Girl with a Rose
• Diego Rivera – Portrait of Ramón Gómez de la Serna
• Isaac Rosenberg – Self-portrait
• Ladislav Šaloun – Jan Hus Memorial
• John Singer Sargent – Tyrolese Interior
• Egon Schiele
• * Death and the Maiden
• * Portrait of Edith (the artist's wife)
• Helene Schjerfbeck – Self-portrait with black background
• Kathleen Scott – statue of her late husband, Robert Falcon Scott in London
• Zinaida Serebriakova – Harvest
• Walter Sickert – Brighton Pierrots
• Fred Spear – Enlist
• Stewart–Screven Monument
• Paul Strand – Wall Street
• John William Waterhouse – I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Said the Lady of Shalott
• Max Weber - Chinese Restaurant
• W. L. Wyllie – The track of Lusitania: view of casualties and survivors in the water and in lifeboats
• Konstantin Yuon – March Sun
• Anders Zorn – ''Self-portrait in Red''

Births

• January 3 – Jack Levine, American Social Realist painter and printmaker
• January 15 – Leo Mol, Ukrainian-born Canadian artist, sculptor
• January 24 – Robert Motherwell, American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker.
• February 4 – Virginia Admiral, American painter and poet
• February 11 – Mervyn Levy, Welsh artist and critic.
• March 10 – Harry Bertoia, Italian-born American artist and furniture designer.
• March 19 – Maria Austria .
• April 4 – Louis Archambault, Canadian sculptor.
• April 6 – Tadeusz Kantor, Polish painter, Assemblage artist, set designer and theatre director
• April 10 – Wynona Mulcaster, Canadian painter and teacher
• April 15 – Elizabeth Catlett, African-American graphic artist and sculptor
• April 17 – William Pachner, Czech painter
• May 3 – Richard Lippold, American sculptor
• May 20 – Sam Golden, American paint maker
• May 31 – Carmen Herrera, Cuban-American abstract minimalist visual artist.
• June 7 – Graham Ingels, American illustrator
• June 11 – José Caballero, Spanish artist
• June 17 – Gunther Gerzso, Mexican abstract painter
• June 23 – Frances Gabe, American artist and inventor
• July 8 – Malvina Cheek, British artist
• July 15
• * Edith Pfau, American painter, sculptor and art educator
• * Judith Révész, Hungarian-Dutch potter and sculptor
• July 19 – Åke Hellman, Finnish still life and portrait painter
• July 28 – Dick Sprang, American comic book artist
• August 14 – Mary Fedden, English painter
• August 28
• * Patrick Hennessy, Irish painter
• * Tasha Tudor, American illustrator and author of children's books
• September 17 – M. F. Husain, Indian artist
• September 19 – Duffy Ayers, born Betty FitzGerald, English portrait painter
• October 13
• * Terry Frost, English Abstract artist
• * Ricco, Swiss painter
• October 24 – Bob Kane, American comic book artist and writer
• November 9 – André François, French cartoonist
• November 26 – Inge King, German-born Australian sculptor
• November 28 – Evald Okas, Estonian painter

Deaths

• January 15 – Luigi Crosio, Italian painter
• January 23 – Anne Whitney, American sculptor, poet
• February 25 – Flaxman Charles John Spurrell, English archaeologist and photographer
• April 3 – Nadežda Petrović, Serbian Fauvist painter
• April 9 – Karl Bitter, Austrian American sculptor
• May 7 – Sir Hugh Lane, Irish-born art dealer, collector and benefactor
• June 5 – Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, French artist and sculptor
• June 7 – Hilda Sjölin, Swedish photographer
• July 10 – Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Dutch marine painter
• July 11 – Albert Schickedanz, Austro-Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style
• September 11 – Jens Birkholm, Danish genre and landscape painter
• September 14 – Alfred Agache, French academic painter
• October 24 – Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist and pioneer photographer
• November 28 – Kobayashi Kiyochika, Japanese ukiyo-e painter and printmaker
• December 22 – Arthur Hughes, English painter and illustrator date unknown
• * Kikuchi Shingaku, Japanese photographer
• * Krikor Torosian, Armenian illustrator