1937 in art

Events from the year 1937 in art.

Events

January 9 – Leon Trotsky begins exile in Mexico with his wife Natalia Sedova; they share The Blue House in Coyoacán with painters Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera and Trotsky has an affair with Frida.
February 11 – Les femmes artistes d'Europe opened in Paris at the Jeu de Paume. 550 works from women from 20 countries were shown.
March 24 - National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., established by the United States Congress.
April 12 - East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing established in England by Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines.
May 1–June 4 – Pablo Picasso paints Guernica, a large cubistic monochrome oil painting created in reaction to the German bombing of the Spanish Basque town of the same name on 26 April. It is first exhibited in July at the Spanish Republican government pavilion in the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne in Paris before commencing a world tour. René Iché created a sculpture Guernica the day after the bombing took place, but will not exhibit it in his lifetime. The Spanish Government pavilion at the International Exhibition also includes Horacio Ferrer's , Joan Miró's The Reaper and a mercury fountain by Alexander Calder. Vera Mukhina's sculpture Worker and Kolkhoz Woman is also created for the Exhibition.
May – Stanley Spencer and his wife Hilda are divorced; within a week he marries Patricia Preece who departs on honeymoon to St Ives with her partner Dorothy Hepworth while he resumes relations with Hilda at Cookham.
July 18 – Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung opened by Adolf Hitler in the Haus der deutschen Kunst in Munich, newly completed to the designs of Paul Troost to display art of the Third Reich. Hitler has rejected the choices of the original selection jury and placed his personal photographer Heinrich Hoffmann in charge of curating the display, but even so has rejected some of the more experimental paintings.
July 19 – Entartete Kunst exhibition, mounted by the Nazis, opens in Munich.
October – Formation in London of the Euston Road School, a private School of Drawing and Painting originally established in Fitzroy Street by William Coldstream, Claude Rogers and Victor Pasmore, and giving name to the group of naturalist artists associated with it.
December 21 – Premiere of Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in the United States, the first full-length animated feature film.
The exhibition The Origins and Development of International Independent Art held at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris brings Chaïm Soutine to prominence.
Surrealist exhibition Objects and Poems arranged at his newly opened London Gallery by Roland Penrose.
The Avant-Garde Image Group is founded by Japanese photographer Terushichi Hirai.Circle, a manifesto for abstract-constructivist art, is published.
American painters Paul Cadmus, Jared French and Margaret French form the PaJaMa photographic collective.
Statues by Jacob Epstein on Rhodesia House, London, are mutilated.
1937–1938 – Mussolini has the Ara Pacis Augustae reconstructed in its present location.

Works

Awards

Archibald Prize: Normand Baker – ''Self Portrait''

Births

January 21 – Sally Soames, born Winkleman, English photographer
February 11 – Mauro Staccioli, Italian sculptor
March 11 – Hossein Zenderoudi, Iranian artist
March 23 – Parviz Tanavoli, Iranian-born sculptor
March 27 – Thomas Aquinas Daly, American painter
May 4 - Melvin Edwards, American sculptor and printmaker
May 31 – Larry Zox, American painter and printmaker
June 7 – Red Grooms, born Charles Rogers Grooms, American multimedia pop artist
June 27 – Alona Frankel, Polish-born Israeli writer, illustrator
July 9 – David Hockney, English painter
August 2 – John Salt, English painter
August 18 – Willie Rushton, English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer
September 1 – Allen Jones, English pop art sculptor and painter
October 1 – Larry Poons, Japanese-born American op artist
October 6 – Fritz Scholder, Native American painter, printmaker and graphic artist
October 12 – Robert Mangold, American minimalist painter
October 19 – Peter Max, German-born American printmaker and graphic designer
December 16 – Edward Ruscha, American painter, printmaker, photographer and conceptual artistfull date unknown – Ronald Davis, American painter

Deaths

January 29 – Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté, Canadian painter and sculptor
February 11 – Suzette Holten, Danish painter and ceramist
February 18 – Joseph Ehrismann, German-born painter and stained-glass maker
February 28 – Harrington Mann, Scottish-born portrait painter and decorative artist in the United States
March 9 – Alfred Flechtheim, German-born art dealer, collector and publisher
March 12 – Eveleen Tennant Myers, English portrait photographer
April 19 – Martin Conway, English art critic
May – Peter Waals, Dutch-born furniture designer
July 26 – Gerda Taro, German-born photographer, killed in Spanish Civil War
October 29 – Élie Faure, French art historian
November 6 – Colin Campbell Cooper, American painter
November 11 – Helen Thornycroft, English painter
December 5 – János Thorma, Hungarian Post-Impressionist painter
December 6
* Francis Cadell, Scottish Colourist painter
* Florence Griswold, American curator

1937 in art

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