1917 in art

Events from the year 1917 in art.

Events

January – A drunken Amedeo Modigliani is ejected from a party for Georges Braque, by the hostess, Marie Vassilieff.
January 29 – Rodin marries his mistress, Rose Beuret; she dies two weeks later.
Eric Kennington, William Orpen, C. R. W. Nevinson, Paul Nash and William Rothenstein are sent as war artists to the Western Front from England. Frederick Farrell, uniquely, is sent by Glasgow, the only British city to sponsor a painter.
De Stijl artistic movement is established by Theo van Doesburg.
The Allen Memorial Art Museum is established at Oberlin College in Ohio.
The Marc Chagall illustrated version of The Magician by I. L. Peretz is published in Vilnius.

Works

Births

9 January – Virginia Surtees, English art historian and biographer
5 February – Lucienne Day, née Conradi, British textile designer
20 February – Manny Farber, American painter and film critic
20 February – Louisa Matthíasdóttir, Icelandic-American painter
1 March – Tom Keating, English art restorer and art faker
12 March – Milton Resnick, American painter
24 March – Constantine Andreou, Greek painter and sculptor
6 April – Leonora Carrington, English-born surrealist painter working in Mexico
21 May – Frank Bellamy, English comics artist
12 July – Andrew Wyeth, American painter
14 July – Ben Enwonwu, Nigerian painter and sculptor
11 August – Dik Browne, American cartoonist
28 August – Jack Kirby, American comic book artist, writer and editor
3 September – Anthony Robert Klitz, English artist
7 September – Jacob Lawrence, African American painter
11 September – Daniel Wildenstein, French international art dealer and scholar
25 December – John Minton, English painter and illustrator

Deaths

January 15 – William De Morgan, English ceramic artist
January 21 – Francesca Alexander, American illustrator
February 10 – John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist
February 17 – Carolus-Duran, French painter
March 27 – Moses Jacob Ezekiel, American sculptor working in Italy
March 28 – Albert Pinkham Ryder, American painter
April 23 – Robert Koehler, German American painter
June 30 – Antonio de La Gandara, French painter
July 3 – Basil Temple Blackwood, British book illustrator
July 8 – Tom Thomson, Canadian painter
September 27 – Edgar Degas, French painter and sculptor
October 14 – Nathaniel Hone the Younger, Irish painter
October 23 – Eugène Grasset, Swiss artist
November 17
* Sir Charles Holroyd, English etcher
* Auguste Rodin, French sculptor
December 21 – Wilhelm Trübner, German painter
– Raffaele Belliazzi, Italian sculptor