1915 in art
Overview of the events of 1915 in art From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Events from the year 1915 in art.
- May – Ambrose Heal and others found the Design and Industries Association in London.[1]
- c. May – Publication of the first modern book illustrated with wood engravings, Frances Cornford's Spring Morning (published by The Poetry Bookshop, London) with engravings by the poet's cousin Gwen Raverat.[2]
- June 10 – The only contemporary Vorticist exhibition staged opens at the Doré Gallery in London.[3]
- October 24 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's frescos, Translation of the House of Loreto, in the Church of the Scalzi (Venice) are destroyed by an Austrian bombardment.
- December 19 – Kasimir Malevich stages the 0.10 Exhibition and originates Suprematism.[4]
- Pierre Bodard serves with the French Army on Martinique.
- Harper's Bazaar hires Erté to design its covers.
- Edward McKnight Kauffer is given his first commission to design a poster for the Underground Electric Railways Company of London.
- Shōzaburō Watanabe originates shin-hanga collaborative woodblock printing in Japan.
- The first of the 'Etruscan terracotta warriors', forged by sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti with the Riccardi family, is purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
- 14-year-old Alice Prin ("Kiki de Montparnasse") is posing (nude) for sculptors in Paris.
- George Bellows – Riverfront No. 1
- Frank Weston Benson – Red and Gold
- Umberto Boccioni
- Marc Chagall – The Poet Reclining
- William Merritt Chase – Self-portrait
- Giorgio de Chirico – The Double Dream of Spring
- Marcel Duchamp – begins producing readymades
- Jacob Epstein – bust of Admiral Lord Fisher
- J. W. Godward – In The Prime Of The Summer Time
- Alexandre Jacovleff – The Violinist
- Eric Kennington - The Kensingtons at Laventie
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
- Carl Larsson – Midvinterblot
- Wyndham Lewis – The Crowd
- Kazimir Malevich – Black Square
- Henri Matisse – Le rideau jaune
- Jean Metzinger – Soldier at a Game of Chess
- Piet Mondrian – Composition No. 10 Pier and Ocean
- C. R. W. Nevinson
- Bursting Shell
- La Mitrailleuse
- Returning to the Trenches (approximate date)
- Diego Rivera – cubist portrait of Ramón Gómez de la Serna
- Isaac Rosenberg – Self-portrait
- Ladislav Šaloun – Jan Hus Memorial (Prague)
- Helene Schjerfbeck – Self-portrait with black background
- Kathleen Scott – statue of her late husband Robert Falcon Scott
- Zinaida Serebriakova
- Harvest
- Peasants
- Fred Spear – Enlist (poster)
- Stewart–Screven Monument
- Paul Strand – Wall Street (photograph)
- W. L. Wyllie – The track of Lusitania: view of casualties and survivors in the water and in lifeboats
- Konstantin Yuon – March Sun
- Anders Zorn – Self-portrait in Red
- January 3 – Jack Levine, American Social Realist painter and printmaker (d. 2010)[5]
- January 15 – Leo Mol, Ukrainian-born Canadian artist, sculptor (d. 2009)[6]
- January 24 – Robert Motherwell, American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker (d. 1991).[7]
- February 4 – Virginia Admiral, American painter and poet (d. 2000)[8]
- February 11 – Mervyn Levy, Welsh artist and critic (d. 1996).[9]
- March 10 – Harry Bertoia, Italian-born American artist and furniture designer (d. 1978).[10]
- March 19 – Maria Austria (née Marie Karoline Oeststreicher) Austro-Dutch photographer and photojournalist)[11]
- April 4 – Louis Archambault, Canadian sculptor (d. 2003).[12]
- April 6 – Tadeusz Kantor, Polish painter, Assemblage artist, set designer and theatre director (d. 1990)[13]
- April 10 – Wynona Mulcaster, Canadian painter and teacher (d. 2016)
- April 15 – Elizabeth Catlett, African-American graphic artist and sculptor (d. 2012)[14]
- April 17 – William Pachner, Czech painter (d. 2017)[15]
- May 3 – Richard Lippold, American sculptor (d. 2002)[16]
- May 20 – Sam Golden, American paint maker (d. 1997)
- May 31 – Carmen Herrera, Cuban-American abstract minimalist visual artist[17]
- June 7 – Graham Ingels, American illustrator (d. 1991)[18]
- June 11 – José Caballero, Spanish artist (d. 1991)[19]
- June 17 – Gunther Gerzso, Mexican abstract painter (d. 2000)[20]
- June 23 – Frances Gabe, American artist and inventor (d. 2016)
- July 8 – Malvina Cheek, British artist (d. 2016)[21]
- July 15
- Edith Pfau, American painter, sculptor and art educator (d. 2001)
- Judith Révész, Hungarian-Dutch potter and sculptor (d. 2018)
- July 19 – Åke Hellman, Finnish still life and portrait painter (d. 2017)[22]
- July 28 – Dick Sprang, American comic book artist (d. 2000)[23]
- August 14 – Mary Fedden, English painter (d. 2012)[24]
- August 28
- Patrick Hennessy, Irish painter (d. 1980)
- Tasha Tudor, American illustrator and author of children's books (d. 2008)[25]
- September 17 – M. F. Husain, Indian artist (d. 2011)[26]
- September 19 – Duffy Ayers, born Betty FitzGerald, English portrait painter (d. 2017)[27]
- October 13
- Terry Frost, English Abstract artist (d. 2003)[28]
- Ricco, Swiss painter (d. 1972)
- October 24 – Bob Kane, American comic book artist and writer (d. 1998)[29]
- November 9 – André François, French cartoonist (d. 2005)[30]
- November 26 – Inge King, German-born Australian sculptor (d. 2016)
- November 28 – Evald Okas, Estonian painter (d. 2011)[31]
- January 15 – Luigi Crosio, Italian painter (b. 1835)
- January 23 – Anne Whitney, American sculptor, poet (b. 1821)[32]
- February 25 – Flaxman Charles John Spurrell, English archaeologist and photographer (b. 1842)
- April 3 – Nadežda Petrović, Serbian Fauvist painter (b. 1873)
- April 9 – Karl Bitter, Austrian American sculptor (b. 1867)
- May 7 – Sir Hugh Lane, Irish-born art dealer, collector and benefactor (b. 1875; killed in sinking of the RMS Lusitania)
- June 5 – Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, French artist and sculptor (killed in action) (b. 1891)[33]
- June 7 – Hilda Sjölin, Swedish photographer (b. 1835)
- July 10 – Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Dutch marine painter (b. 1831)
- July 11 – Albert Schickedanz, Austro-Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style (b. 1846)
- September 11 – Jens Birkholm, Danish genre and landscape painter (b. 1869)
- September 14 – Alfred Agache, French academic painter (b. 1843)
- October 24 – Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist and pioneer photographer (b. 1828)
- November 28 – Kobayashi Kiyochika, Japanese ukiyo-e painter and printmaker (b. 1847)
- December 22 – Arthur Hughes, English painter and illustrator (b. 1832)
- date unknown
- Kikuchi Shingaku, Japanese photographer (b. 1832)
- Krikor Torosian, Armenian illustrator (b. 1884; killed in Armenian genocide)
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