1923 in art

Events

• March 20 – The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States show, Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso.
• May 8 – Göteborgs Konsthall opens as the art gallery for the Gothenburg Exhibition.
• Publication of The Art Spirit by Robert Henri.
• Chaim Soutine sells sixty of his paintings from a Paris showing to the American art collector Albert C. Barnes and begins his series of paintings of beef carcasses.
• A joint exhibition with his mother, Suzanne Valadon, at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune in Paris brings the paintings of Maurice Utrillo to prominence.^[1]
• Freer Gallery of Art opens in Washington, D.C. as the first Smithsonian museum dedicated to the fine arts.^[2]
• Remington Art Memorial established in Ogdensburg, New York.
• Harwood Museum of Art established in Taos, New Mexico.
• Beaux Arts Gallery established in London by Frederick and Helen Lessore.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: W B McInnes – Portrait of a Lady

Works

• Max Beckmann – Dance in Baden-Baden
• Constantin Brâncuși – Bird in Space (sculpture; first version)
• Felice Casorati – Meriggio (Noon)
• Robert Delaunay – Portrait of Tristan Tzara
• Marcel Duchamp – The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) is completed
• Max Ernst – Pietà or Revolution by Night
• M. C. Escher – Dolphins (woodcut)
• George Grosz – Ecce Homo (portfolio of lithographs)
• Auguste Herbin – Bowls Players
• Marguerite Huré – Stained glass windows at Église Notre-Dame du Raincy
• Wassily Kandinsky – On White II
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – The Sleigh Ride
• Sir John Lavery – The Red Rose
• Sir Bertram Mackennal
  • Phoebus Driving the Horses of the Sun (Australia House, London)
  • Mother Courage (war memorial, Caledonian Club, London)
  • Eton College War Memorial (male nude, now National Gallery of Victoria, Australia)
• Henri Matisse
  • Odalisque with Raised Arms
  • Window at Tangier
• Mikhail Nesterov – Girl by the Pool
• William Orpen – To the Unknown British Soldier in France
• Pablo Picasso
  • The Pipes of Pan
  • Paulo on a Donkey
• Man Ray – Object to Be Destroyed (destroyed 1957)
• Gerrit Rietveld – Red and Blue Chair (colours added in De Stijl style at about this date)
• Stanley Spencer – The Betrayal
• Lorado Taft – The Recording Angel (sculpture, Waupun, Wisconsin)^[3]
• Suzanne Valadon – Blue Room
• World War I Memorial (Berwick, Pennsylvania)
• Yokoyama Taikan – Metempsychosis (生々流転, Seisei ruten, "The Wheel of Life", Nihonga scroll painting)

Births

• 10 February – Shirley Jaffe, American-born abstract painter and sculptor (d. 2016).
• 9 March – André Courrèges, French fashion designer (d. 2016).
• 8 April – George Fisher, American political cartoonist (d. 2003).
• 3 May – Norman Thelwell, English cartoonist (d. 2004).
• 15 May – Richard Avedon, American photographer (d. 2004).
• 22 May – Max Velthuijs, Dutch painter, illustrator and author (d. 2005).
• 27 May – Inge Morath, Austrian photographer (d. 2002).
• 31 May – Ellsworth Kelly, American artist (d. 2015).
• 24 June – Marc Riboud, French photographer (d. 2016).
• 12 July – Paul Jenkins, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 2012).
• 25 June – Sam Francis, American painter and printmaker (d. 1994).
• 13 September – Edouard Boubat, French photographer (d. 1999).
• 7 October – Jean-Paul Riopelle, Canadian painter and sculptor (d. 2002).
• 27 October – Roy Lichtenstein, American pop artist (d. 1997).
• 1 December – Morris, Belgian cartoonist (d. 2001).
• 13 December – Antoni Tàpies, Spanish painter (d. 2012).
• date unknown
  • David Aronson, Lithuanian American painter
  • François Ozenda, French painter (d. 1976).

Deaths

• January 12 – Marc Ferrez, Brazilian photographer (b. 1843)
• January 31 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish modernist painter, art critic and assassin (b. 1869)
• March 22 – Benjamin Williams Leader, English landscape painter (b. 1831)
• April 15 – Aleksander Sochaczewski, Polish painter (b. 1843)
• April 17 – Jan Kotěra, artist, architect and designer (b. 1871)
• May 29 – Adolf Oberländer, caricaturist (b. 1845)
• June 15 – Joseph B. Davol, marine painter (b. 1864)
• June 21 – Edward Clark Potter, sculptor (b. 1857)
• October 2 – John Wilson Bengough, cartoonist
• November 2 – Stevan Aleksić, Serbian painter (b. 1876).
• November 27 – Penleigh Boyd, landscape painter (b. 1890) (car accident)
• December 13 – Théophile Steinlen, Swiss/French painter (b. 1859)
• date unknown
  • Edwin Romanzo Elmer, painter (b. 1850)
  • Candace Wheeler, designer (b. 1827)

See also

• 1923 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References