1920 in art
Events from the year 1920 in art.
Events
- February 1 – The National Art Gallery of Georgia opens in Tbilisi.
- March 17 – The Edith Cavell Memorial, by George Frampton, is unveiled in London.
- March 27 – Society of Wood Engravers founded in the United Kingdom.
- June 30–August 25 – The first Dadaist Fair is held in Berlin. The Cologne group is formed by Jean Arp, Max Ernst and Alfred Grünwald.
- August 5 – Publication of the 'Realistic Manifesto', a Constructivist text, by Naum Gabo with his brother Anton Pevsner in Moscow.
- November 7 – The "mass action" The Storming of the Winter Palace, directed by Nikolai Evreinov, is staged outside the Winter Palace in Petrograd.
- unknown dates
- * Katherine Dreier, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp form Société Anonyme.
- * Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada set up the Leach Pottery in St Ives, Cornwall.
- * The Heckscher Museum of Art is established in Huntington, New York.
- * The Latvian Museum of Foreign Art is established in Riga.
- * Droit de suite is introduced in France.
Works
- Hans Baluschek – City of Workers
- Cecilia Beaux – portrait of Georges Clemenceau
- Thomas Hart Benton – People of Chilmark
- Pierre Bonnard – Normand Landscape
- Alexander Stirling Calder – Swann Memorial Fountain
- Sydney Carline – The Destruction of the Turkish Transport in the Gorge of the Wadi Fara, Palestine
- Giorgio de Chirico – Self-portrait
- Lovis Corinth – Flowers and Wilhelmine
- Charles Demuth – Machinery
- Otto Dix
- * The Skat Players
- * The Match Seller
- * Prague Street
- Max Ernst
- * The Hat Makes the Man
- * Murdering Airplane
- James Earle Fraser – Frederick Keep Monument
- Daniel Chester French
- * Abraham Lincoln
- * Dupont Circle Fountain
- * Wisconsin
- Albert Gleizes – Woman with Black Glove
- J. W. Godward – A Red, Red Rose
- George Grosz
- * Daum marries her pedantic automaton George in May 1920, John Heartfield is very glad of it
- * Republican Automatons
- Richard Jack – '
- Goscombe John – Equestrian statue of the Viscount Wolseley
- Einar Jónsson – Thorfinn Karlsefni
- Eric Kennington – The Victims
- Winifred Knights – The Deluge
- Boris Kustodiev
- * Blue House
- * The Bolshevik
- * Portrait of Isaak Brodsky
- * Trinity Day
- George Washington Lambert – A Sergeant of the Light Horse
- Fernand Léger – The Tugboat
- Edwin Lutyens
- * The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London
- * with Alfred Munnings – Equestrian statue of Edward Horner, St Andrew's Church, Mells, Somerset, England
- Paul Klee
- * Angelus Novus
- * Camel (in Rhythmic Landscape with Trees)
- Stanton Macdonald-Wright – Airplane Synchromy in Yellow-Orange
- Henri Matisse – Interior at Nice
- Joan Miró
- * Horse, Pipe and Red Flower
- * The Spanish Playing Cards '
- C. R. W. Nevinson – The Soul of the Soulless City
- William Nicholson
- * Gertrude Jekyll
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- Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin – 1918 in Petrograd
- Victor Rousseau – Bronze figure group for Anglo-Belgian Memorial, London
- Charles Marie Louis Joseph Sarrabezolles – L'Âme de la France
- Georg Scholz – Industrial Farmers
- Charles Sheeler – Church Street El
- Mario Sironi – Truck
- Stanley Spencer
- * The Last Supper
- * Christ Carrying the Cross
- Lorado Taft – Fountain of Time
- Aston Webb and Alfred Drury – London Troops War Memorial
Publications
- Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler – Der Weg zum Kubismus.
Births
January to June
- January 12 – Bill Reid, Canadian artist.
- January 17 – Georges Pichard, French comics artist.
- January 30 – Patrick Heron, English painter, writer and designer.
- February 22 – Rocco Borella, Italian painter.
- March 3 – Ronald Searle, English cartoonist.
- March 14 – Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist.
- March 19 – Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian poet and artist
- March 27 – Robin Jacques, English illustrator.
- April 8 – Hans Coper, German-born studio potter.
- April 24 – Paul Wonner, American painter.
- April 26 – Maynard Reece, American painter
- May – Hans Josephsohn, German-born sculptor.
- May 8
- * Saul Bass, American graphic designer and filmmaker.
- * Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist.
- May 10 - Erna Viitol, Estonian sculptor.
- June 4 – Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter, muralist, sculptor and engraver.
- June 24
- * John Coplans, British-born painter and photographer
- * Jimmy Ernst, German-born American painter.
- June 29 – Ray Harryhausen, American-born stop-motion animator, sculptor.
July to December
- July 20 – Arthur Boyd, Australian painter and sculptor.
- July 21 – Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter, one of the innovators of Unitary Urbanism.
- August 1 – Ken Bald, American comic book artist and illustrator
- August 5 – George Tooker, American figurative painter.
- August 9 – Gerda Schmidt-Panknin, German painter
- August 15 – Judy Cassab, born Judit Kaszab, Austrian-born Australian portrait painter.
- August 22 – Gene Davis, American painter.
- August 26
- * Mauri Favén, Finnish painter.
- * Brant Parker, American cartoonist.
- August 30 – Leonid Shvartsman, Soviet and Russian animator and artist.
- October 13 – Elaine Hamilton, American painter.
- October 31 – Helmut Newton, German-born photographer.
- November 23 – Wayne Thiebaud, American painter
- November 30 – Walter Chandoha, American cat photographer.
- December 14 – Claire Fejes, American artist.
- December 18 – Enrique Grau, Colombian painter and sculptor.
- December 21 – Bob Bindig, American illustrator
Full date unknown
- Adrian Heath, Burmese-born English painter.
- Raymond Moore, English landscape photographer.
- Daniel O'Neill, Irish painter.
Deaths
- January 24 – Amedeo Modigliani, Italian-born painter and sculptor
- January 26 – Jeanne Hébuterne, French artist, Modigliani's mistress and model
- March 3 – Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter
- March 13 – Mary Devens, American pictorial photographer
- March 15 – Edith Holden, English nature artist and art teacher
- March 26 – Samuel Colman, American painter and designer
- April 20 – Briton Rivière, British painter
- April 27 – Jacob Ungerer, German sculptor
- May 7 – Hugh Thomson, British illustrator
- May 12 – Georges Petit, French art dealer
- July 5 – Max Klinger, German painter and sculptor
- July 14 – Albert von Keller, German painter
- July 17 – Sir Edmund Elton, 8th Baronet, English studio potter
- August 4 – C. G. Finch-Davies, British bird painter
- August 6 – Edward Francis Searles, American interior designer
- August 12 – Walter W. Winans, American sculptor, painter, marksman and horse-breeder
- August 22 – Anders Zorn, Swedish portrait painter
- September 24 – Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian-born jeweller
- November 13 – Luc-Olivier Merson, French painter date unknown – Edith Corbet, Australian-born British landscape painter