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1927 in art

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Events

  • May – Stanley Spencer moves to Burghclere (England) to work on the Sandham Memorial Chapel.
  • May 16 – A pair of oval rooms built at the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris as a permanent home for eight of Monet's water lily paintings is opened by the Government of France.
  • June 28 – Unveiling of "The Building of Britain" series of historical paintings by various artists in St Stephen's Hall of the Palace of Westminster in London. Charles Sims' King John confronted by his Barons assembled in force at Runnymede gives unwilling consent to Magna Carta, the foundation of justice and individual freedom in England, 1215 attracts criticism from the press, Members of Parliament and other artists for its idiosyncrasy.
  • July 24 – Unveiling of Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing at Ypres, Belgium, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.
  • September 29 – Unveiling of 107th Infantry Memorial in Central Park, New York City, designed by Karl Illava, a former sergeant in the regiment.
  • October 4 – Gutzon Borglum begins work on Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the United States.
  • November – Ferens Art Gallery in Kingston upon Hull, England, opens.
  • Clarice Cliff introduces her 'Bizarre' pottery decoration.
  • Aristide Colotte opens his studio in Nancy, France, where he produces glasswork and carved crystal statues.
  • Exhibitions

  • February – Stanley Spencer has his first solo exhibition, at the Goupil Gallery in London.
  • April–May – Ben and Winifred Nicholson and Christopher Wood exhibit at the Beaux Arts Gallery in London.
  • Alice Prin ("Kiki de Montparnasse") has an exhibition of her own paintings at the Galerie au Sacre du Printemps in Paris.
  • Awards

  • Archibald Prize: George W. Lambert – Mrs Murdoch

  • Works

    Ansel Adams – Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras (photographic portfolio)

    Contents

    Ernst Barlach – Der schwebende Engel ("The Floating Angel", sculpture (original cast destroyed))

    Edwin Blashfield – Spring Scattering Stars

    Pompeo Coppini – Statue of George Washington (bronze, Portland, Oregon)

    Salvador Dalí – Apparatus and Hand

    Max Ernst

        Forest and Dove

        The Wood

    George Grosz – Self-Portrait, Warning

    Edward Hopper – Automat

    Karl Illava (sculptor) and Rogers and Haneman (architects) – 107th Infantry Memorial, New York City

    Gaston Lachaise – Floating Figure

    Fernand Léger – Nude on a Red Background

    Tamara de Lempicka – La tunique rose

    Will Longstaff – Menin Gate at Midnight

    L. S. Lowry

        Coming Out of School

        Oldfield Road Dwellings, Salford

        Peel Park, Salford

        A View from the Bridge

    René Magritte

        The Enchanted Pose

        Le Jouer Secret (The Secret Player)

        The Menaced Assassin

        The Tiredness of Life

    Henri Matisse – Reclining Nude, Back

    Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen – Equestrian Statue of King Christian IX of Denmark (Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen)

    Georgia O'Keeffe –

        Black Abstraction

        Radiator Building - Night, New York

    Frederick Roth – Equestrian statue of George Washington (bronze, Washington's Headquarters, Morristown, New Jersey)

    Antonio Sciortino – Great Siege Monument

    Lasar Segall – Portrait of Mário de Andrade

    Charles Sheeler – Criss-Crossed Conveyors, River Rouge Plant, Ford Motor Company (photograph)

    Stanley Spencer – The Resurrection, Cookham

    Lajos Tihanyi – Portrait of Tristan Tzara (Hungarian National Gallery)

    Henry Scott Tuke – The Critics

    Alexander Weygers – Mourning (sculpture)

    Rex Whistler – The Expedition in Pursuit of Rare Meats (mural, Tate Gallery restaurant, London)

    Births

    January to June

    January 1 – Jean-Paul Mousseau, Canadian artist (d.1991)

    January 15 – Olle Zetterquist, Swedish artist

    January 20 – Olivier Strebelle, Belgian sculptor (d.2017)

    January 23 – Fred Williams, Australian painter and printmaker (d. 1982)

    February 3 – Sarah Jiménez, Mexican artist (d. 2017)

    February 14 – Myles Murphy, English painter (d.2016)

    March 5 – Jan Snoeck, Dutch sculptor and ceramist (d. 2018)

    March 13 – Robert Denning, American interior designer (d.2005)

    March 19 – Gisèle Lestrange, French graphic artist (d.1991)

    March 31 – David Budd, American abstract painter (d.1991)

    April 6 – Joash Woodrow, English artist (d.2006)

    April 7 – Wolfgang Mattheuer, German painter (d.2004)

    April 15 – David Carritt, English art historian, dealer and critic (d.1982)

    April 16 – John Chamberlain, American sculptor (d. 2011)

    April 25 – Albert Uderzo, French comic book artist and scriptwriter (d. 2020)

    May 5 – Eva Fuka, Czech-born photographer

    June 5 — Ladjane Bandeira, Brazilian artist and journalist (d. 1999)

    June 25 – Patricia Martin Bates, Canadian artist

    June 29

        Dick Martin, American illustrator (d. 1990)

        Kenneth Snelson, American contemporary sculptor and photographer (d. 2016)

    July to December

    July 14 – Mike Esposito, American comic book artist (d. 2010)

    July 24

        Alex Katz, American figurative artist

        Robert Rosenblum, American art historian (d. 2006).

    August 8 – Bruno Caruso, Sicilian painter, illustrator, writer, graphic designer and political activist (d. 2018)

    August 23

        Dick Bruna, Dutch illustrator (d. 2017)

        Allan Kaprow, American painter, assemblagist and art theorist (d. 2006)

    August 26 – Ma Jir Bo, Chinese Realist oil painter (d. 1985

    September 22 – Norbert Lynton, British art historian and Professor of the History of Art (d.2007)

    October 3 – Kenojuak Ashevak, Canadian Inuit artist (d. 2013)

    October 4 – Wolf Kahn, German-born painter (d. 2020)

    October 29

        Pierre Alechinsky, Belgian painter, engraver and calligrapher

        Alfred Leslie, American painter and filmmaker

    November 2 – Steve Ditko, American comic book artist (d.2018)

    November 23 – Guy Davenport, American writer, translator, illustrator, painter and teacher (d. 2005)

    December 24 – John Glashan, Scottish cartoonist, illustrator and playwright (d. 1999)

    December 30 – Jan Kubíček, Czech constructivist painter, sculptor (d. 2013)

    Deaths

    January 1 – Isabelle de Steiger, painter, theosophist, occultist and writer (b. 1836)

    January 15 – Harald Giersing, painter (b. 1881)

    February 28 – Sir Luke Fildes, painter and illustrator (b. 1843)

    March 23 – Paul César Helleu, portrait painter (b. 1859)

    April 3 – Frederick Morgan, painter (b. c.1850)

    May 10 – Andrea Gram, painter (b. 1853)

    May 11 – Juan Gris, painter (b. 1887)

    May 28 – Boris Kustodiev, painter and stage designer (b. 1878)

    June 26 – Armand Guillaumin, impressionist painter and lithographer (b. 1841)

    June 28 – Otto Bache, painter of historical subjects (b. 1839)

    July 10 – Louise Abbéma, Impressionist painter (b. 1853)

    July 27 – Solomon Joseph Solomon, portrait painter (b. 1860)

    August 4 – Eugène Atget, photographer (b. 1857)

    August 18 – Sascha Schneider, painter and sculptor (b. 1870)

    September 19 – Michael Ancher, painter (b. 1849)

    October 7 – Paul Sérusier, abstract painter (b. 1864)

    October 9 – João Marques de Oliveira, Portuguese painter (b. 1853)

    November 21 – Laurits Tuxen, painter (b. 1853)

    November 25 – József Rippl-Rónai, painter (b. 1861)

    December 13 – Maria Oakey Dewing, American painter (b. 1845)

    date unknown

        Adolphe Demange, portrait painter (b. 1857)

        Caroline Reboux, fashion designer (b. 1837)

        Madame Virot, fashion designer (b. 1826)

    References

    1927 in art Wikipedia


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