1927 in art

Events from the year 1927 in art.

Events

May – Stanley Spencer moves to Burghclere to work on the Sandham Memorial Chapel.
May 16 – A pair of oval rooms built at the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris as a permanent home for eight of Monet's water lily paintings is opened by the Government of France.
June 28 – Unveiling of "The Building of Britain" series of historical paintings by various artists in St Stephen's Hall of the Palace of Westminster in London. Charles Sims' King John confronted by his Barons assembled in force at Runnymede gives unwilling consent to Magna Carta, the foundation of justice and individual freedom in England, 1215 attracts criticism from the press, Members of Parliament and other artists for its idiosyncrasy.
July 24 – Unveiling of Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing at Ypres, Belgium, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.
September 29 – Unveiling of 107th Infantry Memorial in Central Park, New York City, designed by Karl Illava, a former sergeant in the regiment.
October – Clarice Cliff begins test marketing her 'Bizarre' pottery decoration in the UK.
October 4 – Gutzon Borglum begins work on Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the United States.
November – Ferens Art Gallery in Kingston upon Hull, England, opens.date unknown – Aristide Colotte opens his studio in Nancy, France, where he produces glasswork and carved crystal statues.

Exhibitions

February – Stanley Spencer has his first solo exhibition, at the Goupil Gallery in London.
April–May – Ben and Winifred Nicholson and Christopher Wood exhibit at the Beaux Arts Gallery in London.
June 25–July 2 – Federico García Lorca exhibits a series of drawings at the Galeries Dalmau in Barcelona.
Alice Prin has an exhibition of her own paintings at the Galerie au Sacre du Printemps in Paris.

Awards

Archibald Prize: George W. Lambert – ''Mrs Murdoch''

Works

Ansel Adams – Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras
Ernst Barlach – Der schwebende Engel
Max Beckmann – Self-Portrait in Tuxedo
Edwin Blashfield – Spring Scattering Stars
Pompeo Coppini – Statue of George Washington
Salvador Dalí – Apparatus and Hand
Charles Demuth – My Egypt
Max Ernst
* Forest and Dove
* The Wood
George Grosz – Self-Portrait, Warning
Edward Hopper
* Automat
* Coast Guard Station, Two Lights, Maine
Paul Klee – Limits of Reason
Karl Illava and Rogers and Haneman – 107th Infantry Memorial, New York City
Gaston Lachaise – Floating Figure
Fernand Léger – Nude on a Red Background
Tamara de Lempicka
* The Dream
* La tunique rose
Will Longstaff – Menin Gate at Midnight
L. S. Lowry
* Coming Out of School
* Oldfield Road Dwellings, Salford
* Peel Park, Salford
* A View from the Bridge
René Magritte
* The Enchanted Pose
* Le Joueur Secret
* The Menaced Assassin
* The Meaning of Night
Henri Matisse – Reclining Nude, Back
Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen – Equestrian Statue of King Christian IX of Denmark
Joan Miró – Painting (Blue Star)
Georgia O'Keeffe –
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* Radiator Building - Night, New York
Frederick Roth – Equestrian statue of George Washington
Antonio Sciortino – Great Siege Monument
Lasar Segall – Portrait of Mário de Andrade
Charles Sheeler – '
Stanley Spencer –
Lajos Tihanyi – Portrait of Tristan Tzara
Henry Scott Tuke – The Critics
Alexander Weygers – Mourning
Rex Whistler – ''The Expedition in Pursuit of Rare Meats''

Births

January to June

January 1 – Jean-Paul Mousseau, Canadian artist
January 15 – Olle Zetterquist, Swedish artist
January 20 – Olivier Strebelle, Belgian sculptor
January 23 – Fred Williams, Australian painter and printmaker
February 3 – Sarah Jiménez, Mexican artist
February 14 – Myles Murphy, English painter
March 5 – Jan Snoeck, Dutch sculptor and ceramist
March 13 – Robert Denning, American interior designer
March 19 – Gisèle Lestrange, French graphic artist
March 31 – David Budd, American abstract painter
April 6 – Joash Woodrow, English artist
April 7 – Wolfgang Mattheuer, German painter
April 15 – David Carritt, English art historian, dealer and critic
April 16 – John Chamberlain, American sculptor
April 25 – Albert Uderzo, French comic book artist and scriptwriter
May 5 – Eva Fuka, Czech-born photographer
June 5 — Ladjane Bandeira, Brazilian artist and journalist
June 25 – Patricia Martin Bates, Canadian artist
June 29
* Dick Martin, American illustrator
* Kenneth Snelson, American contemporary sculptor and photographer

July to December

July 14 – Mike Esposito, American comic book artist
July 24
* Alex Katz, American figurative artist
* Robert Rosenblum, American art historian.
August 8 – Bruno Caruso, Sicilian painter, illustrator, writer, graphic designer and political activist
August 23
* Dick Bruna, Dutch illustrator
* Allan Kaprow, American painter, assemblagist and art theorist
August 26 – Ma Jir Bo, Chinese Realist oil painter
October 3 – Kenojuak Ashevak, Canadian Inuk artist
October 4 – Wolf Kahn, German-born painter
October 29
* Pierre Alechinsky, Belgian painter, engraver and calligrapher
* Alfred Leslie, American painter and filmmaker
November 2 – Steve Ditko, American comic book artist
November 23 – Guy Davenport, American writer, translator, illustrator, painter and teacher
December 24 – John Glashan, Scottish cartoonist, illustrator and playwright
December 30 – Jan Kubíček, Czech constructivist painter, sculptor

Deaths

January 1 – Isabelle de Steiger, painter, theosophist, occultist and writer
January 15 – Harald Giersing, painter
February 28 – Sir Luke Fildes, painter and illustrator
March 23 – Paul César Helleu, portrait painter
April 3 – Frederick Morgan, painter
May 10 – Andrea Gram, painter
May 11 – Juan Gris, painter
May 24, 1927 – Frederick Melville DuMond
May 28 – Boris Kustodiev, painter and stage designer
June 26 – Armand Guillaumin, impressionist painter and lithographer
June 28 – Otto Bache, painter of historical subjects
July 10 – Louise Abbéma, Impressionist painter
July 27 – Solomon Joseph Solomon, portrait painter
August 4 – Eugène Atget, photographer
August 18 – Sascha Schneider, painter and sculptor
September 19 – Michael Ancher, painter
October 7 – Paul Sérusier, abstract painter
October 9 – João Marques de Oliveira, Portuguese painter
November 21 – Laurits Tuxen, painter
November 25 – József Rippl-Rónai, painter
December 13 – Maria Oakey Dewing, American painter date unknown
* Adolphe Demange, portrait painter
* Caroline Reboux, fashion designer
* Madame Virot, fashion designer