1936 in art
Overview of the events of 1936 in art
Overview of the events of 1936 in art
Events from the year 1936 in art .
Events
February 15 – Exhibition Abstract and Concrete , curated by Nicolete Gray , opens at 41 St Giles', Oxford , prior to touring England . It is the first showing of abstract art , and of the work of Mondrian , in the country.[1]
May 27 – RMS Queen Mary begins her maiden Atlantic crossing. Interior design, under the direction of E. C. Leach, is by Arthur Joseph Davis and J. C. Whipp of Mewès & Davis (UK) and Benjamin Wistar Morris (USA) with much craftsmanship undertaken by the Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts . Graphic artists commissioned to supply work include Edward Wadsworth and Anna and Doris Zinkeisen .[2]
June 11 –July 4 – London International Surrealist Exhibition , opened by André Breton .
November – Exhibition Cubism and Abstract Art , curated by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. , opens at the Museum of Modern Art , New York .
Summer – Spanish Civil War breaks out. Photographers Endre Friedmann and Gerda Taro , who have jointly devised the name Robert Capa , journey from Paris to cover it. The Second Spanish Republic appoints Pablo Picasso as "director of the Prado , albeit in absentia" and he arranges for evacuation of its principal paintings.
November 23 – Margaret Bourke-White 's photographs of the construction of the Fort Peck Dam are featured in the first issue of Life magazine.
December 1 – Members of the Artists Union occupy the New York City offices of the Federal Art Project ; police arrest 219 of them, the largest-ever arrest in the city at this date.
Naum Gabo settles in London.
Works
Walter Seymour Allward – Canadian National Vimy Memorial
Balthus – André Derain (Museum of Modern Art , New York City )
Robert Capa – The Falling Soldier (Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death, Cerro Muriano, September 5, 1936 ; photograph)
Salvador Dalí
Herndon Davis – The Face on the Barroom Floor (Teller House , Central City, Colorado )
Paul Delvaux – Procession in Lace
M. C. Escher – first Regular Division of the Plane drawings
Walker Evans – Allie Mae Burroughs, Wife of a Cotton Sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama (photograph)
Charles Hartwell – St Mary-le-bone War Memorial with sculpture of St George and the Dragon, London (bronze)
Bernhard Hoetger – Lichtbringer (relief over entrance to Böttcherstraße , Bremen )
Sylvia Shaw Judson – Bird Girl (bronze)
Harry Kernoff – In Davy's Parlour Snug: Self portrait with Davy Byrne and Martin Murphy
Dorothea Lange – Migrant Mother (photograph of Florence Owens Thompson )
Carl Milles – Indian God of Peace (onyx)
Joan Miró – series
Ronald Moody – Johanaan (elm wood carving)
Méret Oppenheim – Objet: Le Déjeuner en fourrure
Pablo Picasso - Minotaur with a dead mare in front of a cave
Joseph Pollia – General Philip Henry Sheridan (bronze statue, New York City)
Georges Rouault - "The Old King "
Diego Rivera – Indian Spinning
David Alfaro Siqueiros - Collective Suicide [3]
Charles Sheeler – City Interior
James Walker Tucker – Hikers
Edward Weston – Nude (Charis, Santa Monica) (photograph)
Awards
Births
January 11 – Eva Hesse , German-born American sculptor (d. 1970 )
January 23 – Willoughby Sharp , American author, curator and critic (d. 2008 )
February 16 – Gillian Wise , English abstract artist (d. 2020 )
February 29 – Frank Bowling , Guyana-born British abstract artist
March 23 – Jannis Kounellis , Greek -born artist (d. 2017 )
April 1 – Dhiraj Choudhury , Indian painter (d. 2018 )
May 10
May 12 – Frank Stella , Italian American painter
May 15 – Ralph Steadman , English caricaturist
June 15 – Edward Avedisian , American abstract painter (d. 2007 )
June 27 – Tadanori Yokoo , Japanese graphic designer, illustrator, printmaker and painter
July 13 – Joan Jonas , American visual artist, pioneer of video and performance art
July 28 – Victor Moscoso , Spanish graphic artist
August 1 – Yves Saint Laurent , French fashion designer (d. 2008)
August 12 – Hans Haacke , German conceptual artist working in the United States
August 29 – Richard Haas , American muralist
September 14
October 13 – Robert Ingpen , Australian illustrator
November 5 – William Christenberry , American photographer and conceptual artist (d. 2016 )
November 29 – Gregory Gillespie , American magic realist painter (d. 2000 )
December 5 – Robert Freeman , English photographer and designer (d. 2019 )
Full date unknown
Deaths
February 25 – Anna Boch , Belgian painter (b. 1848 )
March 8 – Victor Noble Rainbird , English painter, stained glass artist and illustrator (b. 1887 )
March 18 – W. Herbert Dunton , American Western painter, member of the Taos art colony (b. 1878 )
April 21 – Ottó Baditz , Hungarian painter (b. 1849 )
July 7 – Heinrich Hoerle , German constructivist artist (b. 1895 )
July 10 – Carl von Marr , American-born German painter (b. 1858 )
October 12 – Edwin Blashfield , American painter and muralist (b. 1848 )
November 12 – Patrick Henry Bruce , American Cubist painter (b. 1881 )
Alexander Fisher , English silversmith and enamel painter (b. 1864 )
Donald Maxwell , English illustrator and travel writer (b. 1877 )
See also
References
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