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Events from the year 1928 in art.




Events


January 7 – The Tate Gallery, London, is one of the buildings flooded by the 1928 Thames flood.
March 26 – The China Academy of Art is founded in Hangzhou (originally named the National Academy of Art).
August – Ben Nicholson and Kit Wood visit St. Ives, Cornwall, and meet the ex-fisherman painter Alfred Wallis.
October – English artist and designer Eric Gill moves with some of his artistic community from Capel-y-ffin in Wales to 'Pigotts' at Speen, Buckinghamshire, near High Wycombe.
November 18 – Film debut of Mickey Mouse, designed by Ub Iwerks.
Clarice Cliff introduces her Crocus pottery decoration.
Pierre Chareau and colleagues begin construction of the Maison de Verre ("house of glass") on the rue Saint-Guillaume in Paris for client Jean Dalsace.
Charles Haslewood Shannon suffers a fall while hanging a picture which ends his career as an artist.




Awards


Archibald Prize: John Longstaff – Portrait of Dr Alexander Leeper
Carnegie Prize – André Derain
Art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Painting: Isaac Israëls – Cavalier Rouge
Drawing: Jean Jacoby – Rugby
Graphic work: William Nicholson – An Almanac of Twelve Sports




Exhibitions


Alexander Calder's first solo exhibition at the Weyhe Gallery, New York City.
L'Exposition surréaliste at the Galerie du Sacre du Printemps, Paris.
December – East London Group (as East London Art Club) exhibits at Whitechapel Gallery.




Works



Wäinö Aaltonen – bust of Jean Sibelius
Tarsila do Amaral – Abaporu
Pierre Bonnard – Flowers on a Red Carpet
John Steuart Curry
Baptism in Kansas
Bathers
Charles Demuth – I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
Edwin Dickinson – The Fossil Hunters
Otto Dix – Metropolis
M. C. Escher – Tower of Babel (woodcut)
Meredith Frampton – Marguerite Kelsey
George Grosz – Hinterground (portfolio of lithographs)
Edward Hopper
From Williamsburg Bridge
Manhattan Bridge Loop
Night Windows
Prudence Heward – Girl on a Hill
Frida Kahlo – Dama de Blanco
André Kertész – The Fork (photograph)
Sir John Lavery – Portrait of Lady Lavery as Kathleen Ni Houlihan
Tamara de Lempicka
Andromeda
Portrait of Dr. Boucard
L. S. Lowry
A Street Scene
Going to the Match
Eugenie McEvoy – Taxi! Taxi!
René Magritte – The Empty Mask
Henri Matisse – Odalisque au fauteuil turc
Ivan Meštrović – The Bowman and The Spearman (equestrian sculptures, Chicago)
Georgia O'Keeffe
East River from the Shelton Hotel
East River from the Thirtieth Story of the Shelton Hotel
Mahmoud Mokhtar – Egypt's Renaissance (sculpture group, Cairo University, begun 1919, completed)
Frederick Roth – Equestrian statue of George Washington (Morristown, New Jersey) (bronze)
Frank O. Salisbury – Clarence Winthrop Bowen
Christian Schad – Two Girlfriends
Charles Sheeler – Upper Deck (photograph, approximate date)
Zinaida Serebriakova – Lit By The Sun
Charles Sims – I Am the Abyss and I Am Light
John French Sloan – Sixth Avenue Elevated at Third Street
Joseph Southall – The Botanists
Alexej von Jawlensky – Abstract Head
George Fite Waters – Statue of Abraham Lincoln (Portland, Oregon) (bronze)




Births






= January to June

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January 20 – Malang, Filipino artist (d. 2017)
January 31 – Dušan Džamonja, Macedonian sculptor (d. 2009)
March 1 – Jacques Rivette, French filmmaker (d. 2016)
March 3 – Jean Rustin, French painter (d. 2013)
March 18 – Mirka Mora, French-Australian artist and cultural figure (d. 2018)
March 25 – Hans Steinbrenner, German sculptor (d. 2008)
April 25 – Cy Twombly, American abstract artist (d. 2011)
April 28 – Yves Klein, French abstract artist (d. 1962)
May 4 – Brian O'Doherty aka Patrick Ireland, Irish-born art critic and installation artist (d. 2022)
May 14 – Władysław Hasior, Polish sculptor, painter and set designer (d. 1999)
May 30 – Pro Hart, Australian painter (d. 2006)
June 3 – Donald Judd, American sculptor (d. 1994)
June 16 – Pierrette Bloch, French-Swiss painter, textile artist (d. 2017)
June 25
Peyo, Belgian comics artist (d. 1992)
Alex Toth, American comic book artist and cartoonist (d. 2006)




= July to December

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July 8 – Pat Adams, American painter and printmaker
July 10 – Bernard Buffet, French painter (d. 1999)
July 14 – Anwar Shemza, Pakistan-born British artist and writer (d. 1985)
July 21 – Anne Harris, Canadian sculptor
August 6 – Andy Warhol, American artist, director and writer (d. 1987)
August 12 – Charles Blackman, Australian painter and illustrator (d. 2018)
August 15 – Alan Collins, English figurative religious sculptor (d. 2016)
August 22 – Roberto Aizenberg, Argentine painter and sculptor (d. 1996)
August 31 – Jeremy Maas, English art dealer and historian of Victorian painting (d. 1997)
September 9 – Sol LeWitt, American conceptual and minimalist artist (d. 2007)
September 10 - Ward Jackson, American painter (d. 2004)
September 12 – Robert Irwin, American installation artist
September 13 – Robert Indiana, born Clark, American pop artist (d. 2018)
October 7 – Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d. 1980)
October 12 – Al Held, American Abstract expressionist painter (d. 2005)
October 30 – Michael Andrews, English painter (d. 1995)
November 3 – Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist, animator and film producer (d. 1989)
November 6 – Norman Carlberg, American sculptor (d. 2018)
November 17 – Arman, French-born American artist (d. 2005)
November 27 – Josh Kirby, English commercial artist (d. 2001)
December 2 – Guy Bourdin, French photographer (d. 1991)
December 12 – Helen Frankenthaler, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 2011)
December 13 – Wolfgang Hutter, Austrian painter, lithographer and designer (d. 2014)
December 15 – Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian painter, architect and sculptor (d. 2000)
December 31 – Siné, French cartoonist (d. 2016)




= Date unknown

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Franco the Great, born Frankin Gaskin, Panamanian-born American street artist
Wally Hedrick, American counterculture artist (d. 2003)




Deaths


January 4 – Hamilton Hamilton, American painter (b. 1847)
January 6 – Adolfo de Carolis, Italian painter, xylographer, illustrator and photographer (b. 1874)
January 8 – Gyula Basch, Hungarian painter (b. 1859)
January 13 – Frederick Arthur Bridgman, American painter (b. 1847)
January 21 – Nikolai Astrup, Norwegian painter (b. 1880)
January 26 – Henrietta Rae, English painter (b. 1859)
January – Alexander Reid, Scottish art dealer (b. 1854)
February 7 – Adolfo de Carolis, Italian painter (b. 1874)
February 12 – Nicolás Guzmán Bustamante, Chilean painter and draftsman (b. 1850)
March 31 – Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (b. 1858)
April 3 – Raffaello Romanelli, Italian sculptor (b. 1856)
April 5 – Viktor Oliva, Czech painter and illustrator (b. 1861)
April 13 – Charles Sims, English painter (suicide, b. 1873)
May 16 – Frederick Arthur Verner, Canadian landscape painter (b. 1836)
May 21 - George Frampton, English artist (b. 1860)
June 22 – A. B. Frost, American illustrator (b. 1851)
July 10 – John Chambers, English landscape and portrait painter (b. 1852)
July 25 – Jane Sutherland, Australian landscape painter (b. 1853)
August 30 – Franz Stuck, German symbolist /Art Nouveau painter, sculptor, engraver and architect (b. 1863)
September 20 – Ivan Tišov, Croatian painter (b. 1870)
October 24 – Arthur Bowen Davies, American artist (b. 1863)
October 30 – Percy Anderson, English stage designer and painter (b. 1851)
November 15 – Godfred Christensen, Danish painter (b. 1845)
December 1 – Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth, German painter (b. 1855)
December 2 – Robert Reid, American Impressionist painter (b. 1862)
December 10 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect and designer (b. 1868)
December 15 – Louis Mathieu Verdilhan, French painter (b. 1875)
December 18 – Nils Bergslien, Norwegian illustrator, painter and sculptor (b. 1853)




See also


1928 in fine arts of the Soviet Union




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