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1938 in art
Summary
Events from the year
1938 in art
.
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(
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)
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Events
edit
January 2
–
SS
Alba
sinks off
St Ives, Cornwall
; the wreck is painted by local ex-fisherman
naïve artist
Alfred Wallis
in several versions, one of which will subsequently be displayed in
Tate St Ives
, metres from the wreck.
January 16
– International Exposition of Surrealism opens at the Galerie des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
January 24
–
Peggy Guggenheim
opens her Guggenheim Jeune gallery at 30
Cork Street
in London with a display of work by
Jean Cocteau
, followed in February by the first showing of
Wassily Kandinsky
's work in Britain.
[1]
Spring/Summer –
Wyndham Lewis
's
Portrait of T. S. Eliot
is submitted for exhibition at the
Royal Academy of Arts
in London but rejected (as expected by the artist),
[2]
[3]
although
Eliot
himself approves of the painting and
Augustus John
resigns from the academy in reaction to its rejection.
[4]
July 8
– Exhibition of twentieth century German art opens in London at the
New Burlington Galleries
, challenging the Nazi view of "
degenerate art
" in its home country.
[5]
July 10
– Second
Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung
("Great German Art Exhibition") opened by
Adolf Hitler
in the
Haus der deutschen Kunst
("House of German Art") in
Munich
; Hitler attacks the contemporary London exhibition.
[5]
July 13
–
Kröller-Müller Museum
, designed by
Henry van de Velde
, opens in
Otterlo
, Netherlands.
September –
Piet Mondrian
moves from Paris to London.
[6]
December 5
–
17
–
Albert Namatjira
exhibition in
Melbourne
includes over 2,000 works, the first solo display of
indigenous Australian art
.
American
art collector Louis J. Caldor 'discovers' the naïve paintings of
Grandma Moses
.
Awards
edit
Archibald Prize
:
Nora Heysen
–
Mme Elink Schuurman
Works
edit
Vilmos Aba-Novák
–
Fair in Transylvania
Rita Angus
–
Head of a Maori Boy
Thomas Hart Benton
–
Haystack
Constantin Brâncuși
–
The Endless Column
(sculpture)
Javier Bueno –
The Fighter of Madrid
Marc Chagall
–
White Crucifixion
William Coldstream
–
Bolton
Salvador Dalí
Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach
Impressions of Africa
[7]
Rainy Taxi
Charles Despiau
–
Assia
(sculpture,
Museum of Modern Art
,
New York
)
Arthur Dove
–
Swing Music
M. C. Escher
–
Sky and Water II
(
lithograph
)
Leonor Fini
Composition with Figures on a Terrace
D'Un jour à l'autre
(From One Day to Another, diptych)
Jared French
-
Lunchtime with Early Miners
(mural) in
Plymouth, Pennsylvania
[8]
Edward Hopper
–
Compartment C, Car 293
Kurt Hutton
–
Funfair, Southend, Essex
(photograph)
Frida Kahlo
Four Inhabitants of Mexico City
Self-Portrait with Monkey
The Suicide of Dorothy Hale
What the Water Gave Me
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
–
Violet House in Front of a Snowy Mountain
Paul Klee
-
Oriental Bliss
[9]
L. S. Lowry
–
Family Group
René Magritte
–
Time Transfixed
Aristide Maillol
–
Air
Ronald Moody
–
Tacet
(carved wood head)
Paul Nash
Landscape from a Dream
Nocturnal Landscape
John Petts
–
Fishwife of Ynys Mon
Pablo Picasso
Femme au beret rouge-orange
Maya with Doll
Walter Sickert
–
Sir
Thomas Beecham
Conducting
Steffen Thomas
–
Pioneer Women
Rex Whistler
–
Capriccio
(dining room mural at
Plas Newydd
in
North Wales
)
Ignacio Zuloaga
–
The Alcázar in Flames (Heroic Landscape of Toledo)
Births
edit
January 2
David Bailey
,
English
photographer
Robert Smithson
,
American
artist
(d.
1973
)
January 7
–
Roland Topor
,
French
illustrator
,
painter
,
writer
and
filmmaker
(d.
1997
)
February 13
–
Joan Brown
, American figurative painter (d.
1990
)
February 22
–
Paul Neagu
,
Romanian
-born artist (d.
2004
)
[10]
March 6
–
Pauline Boty
, English
pop art
painter (d.
1966
)
March 15
–
Dick Higgins
, English composer, poet, printer and early
Fluxus
artist (d.
1998
)
April 20
–
Andrew Vicari
, Welsh-born portrait painter (d.
2016
)
May 12
–
Paul Huxley
, English painter and academic
May 18
–
Janet Fish
, American Realist painter
May 20
–
Astrid Kirchherr
, German photographer (d.
2020
)
July 24
–
Eugene J. Martin
, American
visual artist
(d.
2005
)
July 28
–
Robert Hughes
,
Australian
-born art critic (d.
2012
)
July 30
–
Terry O'Neill
, British photographer (d.
2019
)
August 19
–
Robert Graham
, Mexican-American sculptor (d.
2008
)
August 29
–
Hermann Nitsch
,
Austrian
performance artist
September 1
–
Per Kirkeby
, Danish artist (d.
2018
)
September 25
–
Bill Owens
, American photographer
September 27
–
Günter Brus
, Austrian performance artist
October 10
–
Daidō Moriyama
, Japanese photographer
October 15
–
Brice Marden
, American painter
October 20
–
Iain Macmillan
,
Scottish
photographer (d.
2006
)
November 2
–
Richard Serra
, American abstract sculptor (d.
2024
)
November 10
–
Claude Serre
,
French
cartoonist (d.
1998
)
December 25
–
Duane Armstrong
, American painter
date unknown
John Behan
,
Irish
sculptor
Rotraut Klein-Moquay
, German-French visual artist
Takeshi Mizukoshi
,
Japanese
landscape photographer
Deaths
edit
January 1
–
Alice Bailly
, Swiss painter and multimedia artist (b.
1872
)
January 19
–
Rosa Mayreder
, Austrian freethinker, author, painter, musician and feminist (b.
1858
)
February 3
–
Niels Skovgaard
, Danish sculptor and painter (b. 1858)
February 28
–
C. E. Brock
, English painter and illustrator (b.
1870
)
April 7
–
Suzanne Valadon
, French artists' model and painter, mother of Utrillo (b.
1865
)
April 24
–
John Wycliffe Lowes Forster
, Canadian historical portrait painter (b.
1850
)
May 22
–
William Glackens
, American realist painter (b. 1870)
June 5
–
Mikuláš Galanda
, Slovak modernist painter and illustrator (b.
1895
)
June 15
–
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
, German Expressionist painter (b.
1880
; suicide)
June 19
–
María Obligado de Soto y Calvo
, Argentinian painter (b.
1857
)
June 24
–
C. Yarnall Abbott
, American photographer and painter (b.
1870
)
September 6
–
Mary Seton Watts
, British symbolist craftswoman and designer (b.
1849
)
October 24
–
Ernst Barlach
, German Expressionist sculptor (b. 1870)
Antonio Fabrés
, Catalan painter (b.
1854
)
See also
edit
1938 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
References
edit
^
Prose, Francine
(2015).
Peggy Guggenheim: the shock of the new
. New Haven: Yale University Press.
ISBN
978-0-300-20348-6
.
^
Sherwin, Skye (2017-07-07). "Wyndham Lewis's TS Eliot: a jigsaw puzzle of rebellion and radicalism".
The Guardian
. London
. Retrieved
2023-07-03
.
^
Meyers, Jeffrey (1980). "Wyndham Lewis and T.S. Eliot: A Friendship".
Virginia Quarterly Review
.
56
(3)
. Retrieved
2023-07-03
.
^
Birchenough, Tom (2016). "Wyndham Lewis: Portraits of friends and foes".
The Tretyakov Gallery Magazine
.
51
(2)
. Retrieved
2023-07-03
.
^
a
b
Aaronovitch, David
(2018-06-09). "The treasure hunt that revealed Germany's 'degenerate' delights".
The Times
Saturday Review
. London. pp. 8–9.
^
Grant, Simon (2010-06-25). "Artist Piet Mondrian in London: the forgotten years".
The Guardian
. London
. Retrieved
2021-06-04
.
^
"Impressions of Africa, 1938 by Salvador Dali".
^
https://ultrawolvesunderthefullmoon.blog/2015/11/18/jared-french-lunchtime-with-early-miners-1938/jared-french-lunchtime-with-early-miners-1938-mural-in-the-plymouth-us-post-office-building-in-pennsylvania-new-deal-public-woks-of-art-project-copy-2/
^
"Oriental Bliss, 1938 Paul Klee".
Louvre Abu Dhabi
.
^
Anish Kapoor (28 June 2004). "Paul Neagu".
The Guardian
. Retrieved
3 December
2019
.