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Events from the year 1918 in art.




Events


February – British War Memorials Committee formed to commission artworks to create a memorial to the World War I, including a (never-built) Hall of Remembrance.
February 16 – Joan Miró's first solo exhibition opens at the Galeries Dalmau; his work is ridiculed and defaced.
March – C. R. W. Nevinson has an exhibition at the Leicester Galleries in London. His war painting Paths of Glory, condemned by the British Army censor for its depiction of dead soldiers, is displayed by the artist with a brown paper strip across the bodies bearing the word "Censored" and subsequently replaced in the exhibition by a painting of a tank.
May – Stanley Spencer, a serving British Army soldier, is appointed as an official war artist. A similar appointment is made this year for Australian soldier Frank R. Crozier.
May 3 – William Orpen's exhibition War opens in London; the paintings are donated to the British government. He is knighted in June.
May 11 – Paul Nash's exhibition The Void of War opens at the Leicester Galleries in London.
June 18 – Pablo Picasso marries Olga Khoklova.
June – Alfred Stieglitz begins nude photography of Georgia O'Keeffe.
October 15 – Kunsthalle Bern opened.
November 3 – The Robespierre Monument (Moscow), designed by Beatrice Yuryevna Sandomierz, is unveiled; it collapses four days later.
November 7–December 14 – British painter Colin Gill, having previously served as a soldier on the Western Front, returns to France to work for the British War Memorials Committee.
December 3 – The November Group (Novembergruppe) of expressionist artists is formed in Germany, and shortly afterwards merges with the Arbeitsrat für Kunst.
First of four posthumous sales of works from the studio of Degas.
Denver Art Museum in Colorado opens its first galleries.
Frans Masereel's wordless novel 25 Images of a Man's Passion is published.




Works



Anna Airy
An Aircraft Assembly Shop, Hendon
The 'L' Press: Forging the Jacket of an 18-inch Gun, Armstrong-Whitworth Works, Openshaw
A Shell Forge at a National Projectile Factory, Hackney Marshes, London
Shop for Machining 15-inch Shells: Singer Manufacturing Company, Clydebank, Glasgow
Women Working in a Gas Retort House: South Metropolitan Gas Company, London
George Bellows
The Barricade
Edith Cavell
Victor David Brenner – Mary Schenley Memorial Fountain (Pittsburgh)
Charles Buchel – Radclyffe Hall
George Clausen – In the Gun Factory at Woolwich Arsenal
Charles Demuth – Turkish Bath with self-portrait
Katherine Sophie Dreier – Abstract Portrait of Marcel Duchamp
Eric Enstrom – Grace (photograph)
Charles Buckles Falls – Books Wanted (poster)
Roger Fry
Nina Hamnett
Self-portrait
Georges Gardet – Eternal Youth (gilded sculpture on Manitoba Legislative Building)
Mark Gertler – The Pool at Garsington
J. W. Godward
A Fond Farewell
Sweet Sounds
Duncan Grant – The White Jug (finished version)
George Grosz – The Funeral
Eric Kennington – Gassed and Wounded
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – Self-portrait as a Patient
Paul Klee
Flower Myth
Warning of the Ships
Boris Kustodiev
The Merchant's Wife
Sten'ka Razin
Fernand Léger
Bargeman
In the Factory
Wyndham Lewis – A Canadian Gun-Pit
Flora Lion – Women's Canteen at Phoenix Works, Bradford
John Hodgson Lobley
Outside Charing Cross Station, July 1916. Casualties from the Battle of the Somme arriving in London
The Queen's Hospital for Facial Injuries, Frognal, Sidcup: The Toy-Makers' Shop
José Malhoa – Autumn
Ivan Meštrović – Dr. Elsie Inglis (bronze bust)
Amedeo Modigliani – Portrait of Blaise Cendrars
Alfred Munnings
Draft Horses, Lumber Mill in the Forest of Dreux
Warrior
Kaita Murayama – Self-portrait
John Nash
The Cornfield
Oppy Wood, 1917, Evening
Over The Top
Paul Nash
The Mule Track
Sunrise, Inverness Copse
We are Making a New World
Void
The Ypres Salient at Night
William Orpen
Armistice Night, Amiens
Dead Germans in a Trench
The Mad Woman of Douai
Marshal Foch
Zonnebeke
Willard Dryden Paddock – Sundial, Boy With Spider
Glyn Philpot
Italian Soldier (No. 2)
Sir James Murray
Admiral Viscount Jellicoe
Vice-Admiral Sir Roger Keyes
Admiral Sir F. C. D. Sturdee
Rear-Admiral Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Portrait of Adele Besson
The Bathers
William Roberts
The First German Gas Attack at Ypres
A Shell Dump, France
Solomon Joseph Solomon – Nina Salaman
William Strang – Lady with a Red Hat
Henry Tonks – An Advanced Dressing Station in France
Viktor Vasnetsov – Frog Princess
Edward Wolfe – Still Life with Omega Cat
Francis Derwent Wood – Canada's Golgotha (bronze)
William Lionel Wyllie – Battle of the Falkland Islands, 1914




Births


6 February – Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author, painter and art collector (d. 2007).
7 February – Markey Robinson, Irish painter (d. 1999).
12 March – Elaine de Kooning, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 1989)
22 March – Harry Devlin, American painter and illustrator (d. 2001).
10 April – Cornell Capa, Hungarian-American photographer and photo curator (d. 2008).
9 May – Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (d. 2006)
10 May – Desmond MacNamara, Irish painter, sculptor and author (d. 2008).
30 May – Károly Doncsecz, Slovenian potter (d. 2002)
2 July – Fumiko Hori, Japanese Nihonga painter (d. 2019).
11 July – Roy Krenkel, American illustrator (d. 1983).
21 July – David Piper, English curator and novelist (d. 1990).
25 July – Jane Frank, American painter, sculptor, mixed media and textile artist (d. 1986).
8 August – Brian Stonehouse, English painter, Special Operations Executive agent during World War II (d. 1998).
22 September – Cleve Gray, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 2004).
7 October – Mimmo Rotella, Italian décollage artist and poet (d. 2006).
8 November – Hermann Zapf, German typeface designer (d. 2015).
20 November – Corita Kent, American nun and silkscreen printer (d. 1986).
14 December – Jack Cole, American comic book artist (d. 1958).
18 December – Kali, born Hanna Gordziałkowska, Polish-born portrait painter, Resistance agent during World War II (d. 1998).




Deaths


January 7 – Rista Vukanović, Serbian Impressionist painter and husband of painter Beta Vukanović (b. 1873)
February 6 – Gustav Klimt, Austrian Symbolist painter (b. 1862)
April 9 – Niko Pirosmani, Georgian painter (b. 1862)
April 1 – Isaac Rosenberg, English painter and poet (b. 1890)
April 23 – Paul Sébillot, Breton painter and author (b. 1842)
May 19 – Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (b. 1853)
June 28 – Albert Henry Munsell, American inventor of the Munsell color system (b. 1858)
October 9 – Raymond Duchamp-Villon, French sculptor (b. 1876)
October 30 – Egon Schiele, Austrian painter (b. 1890)
November 20 – John Bauer, Swedish illustrator (in shipwreck) (b. 1882)
December 22 – Charles Edward Perugini, English painter (b. 1839)
December 23 – Thérèse Schwartze, Dutch portrait painter (b. 1851)




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