1930 in art

Events from the year 1930 in art.

Events June–July – Christopher Wood paints in Brittany. 29 November – Première of the Surrealist film L'Age d'Or by Luis Buñuel (co-written with Salvador Dalí) at Studio 28 in Paris. Theo van Doesburg produces a "Manifesto of Concrete art". Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant complete the decoration of the dining room for Dorothy Wellesley at Penns-in-the-Rocks, Withyham, England. Malvina Hoffman begins sculpting life-size figures for the Field Museum's Hall of Man. Great Bardfield Artists community established in England. Bernard Berenson publishes The Italian Painters of the Renaissance. Milt Gross publishes his wordless novel He Done Her Wrong in the United States. Soviet sale of Hermitage paintings begins. Spanish postage stamps depict Goya's La maja desnuda. Approximate date – Gertrud Arndt begins a series of photographic self-portraits at the Bauhaus.

Awards Archibald Prize: W. B. McInnes – Drum-Major Harry McClelland

Exhibitions April – Cercle et Carré exhibition opens at Galerie 23 in the Rue La Boétie, Paris.

Works

Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious – Mural in refectory of Morley College, London (begun 1928; destroyed in The Blitz 1940) Pierre Bonnard – Pots Patrick Henry Bruce – Peinture (Museum of Modern Art, New York) Edward Burra – The Snack Bar John Steuart Curry – Hogs Killing a Snake Theo van Doesburg – Arithmetic Composition Raoul Dufy – Pink Nude M. C. Escher The Bridge (lithograph) Castrovalva (lithograph) Palizzi, Calabria (woodcut) Pentedattilo, Calabria (lithograph) Street in Scanno, Abruzzi (lithograph) Thomas Cooper Gotch – The Exile: Heavy Is The Price I Paid For Love James Guthrie – Statesmen of World War I Edward Hopper – Early Sunday Morning Augustus John – Portrait of Tallulah Bankhead Paul Klee – Has Head, Hand, Feet and Heart Rozsa Klein (Rogi André) – Bonnard's Palette Helmut Kolle Self-Portrait in Hunting Attire Young Man with a Colored Scarf Abel Lafleur – Victory (trophy) Fernand Léger – Mona Lisa with Keys L. S. Lowry – Coming from the Mill Jeanne Mammen – Free Room Henri Matisse – The Back Series (bas-reliefs) Piet Mondrian - Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow Alice Neel – Ethel Ashton (nude portrait) C.R.W. Nevinson – Amongst the Nerves of the Worldhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/amongst-the-nerves-of-the-world-50506 Georgia O'Keeffe – Rust Red Hills José Clemente Orozco – Prometheus (fresco at Pomona College, California) Diego Rivera – History of Morelos, Conquest and Revolution Charles Sheeler – American Landscape T. F. Šimon – View in Old Prague (woodcut) Grace Cossington Smith – The Bridge in Curve Herbert Tyson Smith – bronze reliefs for Liverpool Cenotaph Sophie Taeuber-Arp – Composition of Circles and Overlapping Angles Sam Tate, James Watt – Oglethorpe Monument Edward Trumbull – Transport and Human Endeavor (ceiling mural, lobby, Chrysler Building, New York City) Suzanne Valadon – Nude Woman with a Blue Shawl Christopher Wood Anemones in a Cornish Window Zebra and Parachute Grant Wood American Gothic Arnold Comes of Age Stone City, Iowa N. C. Wyeth – Reception to Washington on April 21, 1789, at Trenton on his way to New York to Assume the Duties of the Presidency of the United States W. L. Wyllie – Panorama of the Battle of Trafalgar (Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth) Xu Beihong – A Portrait of Sun Duoci Statler Fountain

Births

January to June 15 January – Paul Ahyi, Togolese artist and sculptor (d. 2010) 26 January – Napoleon Abueva, Filipino sculptor (d. 2018) 3 February – Gillian Ayres, English abstract painter (d. 2018) 10 February – Eva Frankfurther, German-born portrait painter (suicide 1959) 13 February – Ernst Fuchs, Austrian artist (d. 2015) 18 February – Gahan Wilson, American cartoonist (d. 2019) 21 February – Enrique Tábara, Ecuadorian painter (d. 2021) 24 February – Anita Steckel, American feminist artist (d. 2012) 25 February – Wendy Beckett, English contemplative nun and art historian (d. 2018) 7 March – Antony Armstrong-Jones, English photographer (d. 2017) 8 March – Hector Lombana, Colombian sculptor, painter and architect (d. 2008) 11 March – David Gentleman, English graphic designer 27 March – Daniel Spoerri, Romanian-Swiss artist and writer 30 March – Rolf Harris, Australian entertainer, painter and child sexual abuser (d. 2023) 31 March – Susan Weil, American painter 1 April – John Houston, Scottish painter (d. 2008) 12 April – Manuel Neri, American sculptor, painter and printmaker (d. 2021) 14 May – James Beck, American art historian (d. 2007) 15 May – Jasper Johns, American painter, sculptor and printmaker 22 May – Marisol Escobar, French-born sculptor and printmaker (d.2016) 23 May Richard Anuszkiewicz, American painter, sculptor and printmaker (d. 2020) Aslan, French-born pin-up artist (d.2014) 24 May – Unity Spencer, English artist (d. 2017) 30 May – Robert Ryman, American monochrome painter (d. 2019) 5 June – Vladimir Popov, Soviet animator, animation and art director (d. 1987) 15 June – Ikuo Hirayama, Japanese painter (d. 2009) 16 June – Allan D'Arcangelo, American painter and graphic artist (d. 1998) 19 June – Bryan Kneale, Manx sculptor and academic 20 June – Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish sculptor (d. 2017) 24 June Pierre Restany, French art critic and cultural philosopher (d. 2003) Flip Schulke, American photojournalist (d. 2008)

July to December 4 July – Mohamed Demagh, Algerian sculptor (d. 2018) 4 August - Astrid Zydower, German-born British sculptor (d. 2005) 5 September – Ibrahim El-Salahi, Sudanese painter 24 September – Bernard Nevill, English textile designer and art collector (d. 2019) 28 September – Nikolai Pozdneev, Russian painter (d. 1978) 3 October – Robyn Denny, British abstract artist (d. 2014) 7 October – Kurt Dornis, German painter, graphic artist and draughtsman 8 October – Faith Ringgold, African American painter and fabric artist 18 October – Trevor Bell, English painter (d. 2017) 29 October – Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor, painter and film maker (d. 2002) 7 November – Robert Natkin, American painter (d. 2010) 13 November – Benny Andrews, American painter and academic (d. 2006) 14 November – Elisabeth Frink, English sculptor (d. 1993) 31 December – Luis Marsans, Catalan painter (d. 2015)

Deaths January 7 – Max Schmalzl, German religious painter and illustrator (b. 1850) March 3 – W. W. Quatremain, English landscape painter (b. 1857) March 19 – Andreas Walser, Swiss painter (b. 1908) March 24 – Eugeen Van Mieghem, Belgian painter (b. 1875) April 17 – Aleksandr Golovin, Russian stage designer (b. 1863) April 30 – John Russell, Australian Impressionist painter (b. 1858) May 10 – Julio Romero de Torres, Spanish painter (b. 1874) May 28 – George Washington Lambert, Australian portrait painter and war artist (b. 1873) June 3 – Alexander Bogomazov, Ukrainian painter and modern art theoretician of Russian avant-garde (b. 1880) June 5 Sophie Holten, Danish painter (b. 1858) Jules Pascin, Bulgarian-born painter and draftsman (b. 1885) July 22 – Wacław Szymanowski, Polish sculptor and painter (b. 1859) August 21 – Christopher Wood, English painter (b. 1901) (suicide) August 28 – Stanisław Bergman, Polish painter (b. 1862) September 6 – Sir James Guthrie, Scottish painter (b. 1859) September 24 – Otto Mueller, German Expressionist painter (b. 1874) September 25 – Abram Arkhipov, Russian painter (b. 1862) September 29 – Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter (b. 1844) December 9 – Laura Muntz Lyall, Canadian Impressionist painter (b. 1860) December 17 – Nikolay Kasatkin, Russian painter (b. 1859) December 28 – Antonio Mancini, Italian painter (b. 1852) date unknown – Peter Moog, outsider artist (b. 1871)

See also 1930 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

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