February 15 – Abstraction-Création group formed in Paris by Theo van Doesburg to promote non-figurative, non-surrealist art. Other founder members include Auguste Herbin, Jean Hélion and Georges Vantongerloo.
October 4 – Debut appearance of the Dick Tracy comic strip, created by cartoonist Chester Gould.
The Whitney Museum of American Art is founded by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in its original building in Greenwich Village, New York City.
The Pierre Matisse Gallery opens in New York City.
Henry Moore holds his first solo exhibition of sculptures, at The Leicester Galleries in London.
Works
Max Beckmann – Paris Society
Thomas Hart Benton – America Today
Heitor da Silva Costa and Paul Landowski – Christ the Redeemer (statue, Rio de Janeiro)
Salvador Dalí – The Persistence of Memory
Robert William Davidson – Eve (sculpture)
Frida Kahlo – Frida and Diego Rivera
Tamara de Lempicka – Adam and Eve
René Magritte – The Voice of Space
Carl Milles – Flygarmonumentet (Stockholm)
Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen – The Herd Boy playing a Wooden Flute (monument to the sculptor's husband, the composer Carl Nielsen (d. 1931), at his birthplace, Nørre Lyndelse)
Georgia O'Keeffe – Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Pablo Picasso – Figures by the Sea
Lorado Taft – The Crusader (sculpture)
Grant Wood
The Birthplace of Herbert Hoover
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
Awards
Archibald Prize: John Longstaff – Sir John Sulman
Births
January 21 – Paul Deliège, Belgian comic strip artist and writer (d. 2005)
February 9 – Robert Morris, American sculptor
February 16 – Irina Dobrekova, Russian painter
February 17 – Fay Godwin, German-born English landscape photographer (d. 2005)
February 18 – Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (d. 2007)
February 21 – Derek Hyatt, English abstract landscape painter (d. 2015)
February 23 – Tom Wesselmann, American pop artist (d. 2004)
February 26
Jacques Rouxel, French animator (d. 2004)
Radomir Stević Ras, Serbian painter and designer (d. 1982).
March 4 – Gwilym Prichard, Welsh landscape painter (d. 2015)
March 13 – Michael Podro, English art historian (d. 2008)
March 25 – Jack Chambers, Canadian artist and filmmaker (d. 1978)
April 24 – Bridget Riley, English op art painter
April 25 – David Shepherd, English wildlife and military painter
April 26 – Vera Nazina, Russian painter
April 29 – Frank Auerbach, German-born painter
June 7 – Malcolm Morley, English-American photographer and painter
July 8 – Leo Dee, American silverpoint artist (d. 2004)
July 15 – Brian Sewell, English art critic (d. 2015)
July 28 – Hans Schröder, German sculptor and painter (d. 2010)
August 20 – Bernd Becher, German photographer (d. 2007)
August 24 – Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos, Portuguese artist and professor (d. 2008)
