1935 in art

Events from the year 1935 in art.

Events

January – First issue of Axis, a quarterly review of abstract art edited by Myfanwy Piper in England, is published.
February 15–March 2 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People stages an exhibition Art Commentary on Lynching in New York City.
May 7 – Artists' Unit group of British modernists announced, superseding Unit One.
December – Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler undergoes forced sterilization in accordance with Nazi eugenics policies and never paints again.
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, designed by Hendrik Petrus Berlage, completed in the Netherlands.
William Coldstream edits the GPO Film Unit documentary Coal Face.
Picasso's poetry takes precedence over his graphic work this year.

2 January – David McKee, English author and illustrator
12 January – Teresa del Conde, Mexican art critic and historian
26 January – Paula Rego, Portuguese-born painter
10 February
* John Alcorn, American illustrator
* Konrad Klapheck, German painter
1 June – Vladislav Lalicki, Serbian painter
13 June – Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Bulgarian & Moroccan-born American installation artists
22 June – Floyd Norman, American animator, writer and comic book artist
19 August – Victor Ambrus, Hungarian-born British illustrator
23 August – Roy Strong, English art historian and curator
8 September – William Vance, Belgian comics artist
16 September – Carl Andre, American minimalist artist
26 September – Juan Zanotto, Italian-born Argentine comic book artist
30 September – James McKendry, Northern Irish sculptor and painter
1 October – Walter De Maria, American minimalist, conceptual artist and land artist
3 October – Sinikka Kurkinen, Finnish painter
9 October – Don McCullin, English war photographerFull date unknown
* Nina Alovert, Russian-born American ballet photographer
* Rasheed Araeen, Pakistan-born British conceptual artist
* Félix Aráuz, Ecuadorean painter
* John Barry, English film set designer

February 8 – Max Liebermann, German-Jewish impressionist painter
February 16 – Carolina Benedicks-Bruce, Swedish sculptor
March 25 – William de Leftwich Dodge, American muralist
April 15 – Anna Ancher, Danish member of the Skagen Painters group
April 22 – Frederick Farrell, Scottish watercolourist, war artist, pneumonia
May 3 – Jessie Willcox Smith, American illustrator
May 15 – Kazimir Malevich, Polish-Russian painter, art theoretician
May 24 – Granville Redmond, American landscape painter
July 17 – George William Russell, Irish critic, poet and painter
August 15 – Paul Signac, French neo-impressionist painter
August 27 – Childe Hassam, American impressionist painter
October 2 – Georg Jensen, Danish silversmith
October 4 – Jean Béraud, French painter
October 9 – Archibald Thorburn, Scottish-born wildlife painter
October 11 – Samuel Peploe, Scottish painter
October 18 – Gaston Lachaise, French-American sculptor
October 23 – Charles Demuth, American painter
November 28 – Joaquín Clausell, Mexican impressionist landscape painter, lawyer and political activist
Undated
* Harry Fidler, English painter
* Eva Watson-Schütze, American portrait photographer and curator