1920 in art

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Events

• The Cologne Dadaist group is formed by Jean Arp, Max Ernst and Alfred Grünwald.
• Katherine Dreier, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp form Société Anonyme.
• Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada set up the Leach Pottery in St Ives, Cornwall.

Works

See also: Category:1920 paintings

• Cecilia Beaux - portrait of Georges Clemenceau
• Thomas Hart Benton - People of Chilmark
• Pierre Bonnard - Landscape in Normandy
• Alexander Stirling Calder - Swann Memorial Fountain, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Lovis Corinth - Flowers and Wilhelmine
• Stanton MacDonald-Wright - Airplane Synchromy in Yellow-Orange
• Henri Matisse - Interior at Nice
• Georg Scholz - Industrial Farmers (Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal)
• Mario Sironi - Truck

Births

January to June

• January 12 - Bill Reid, Canadian artist (d.1998).
• January 17 - Georges Pichard, French comics artist (d.2003).
• January 30 - Patrick Heron, English painter, writer and designer (d.1999).
• March 14 - Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d.2001).
• March 27 - Robin Jacques, English illustrator (d.1995).
• April 24 - Paul Wonner, American painter (d.2008).
• May 8
  • Saul Bass, American graphic designer and filmmaker (d.1996).
  • Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (d.1991).
• June 4 - Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter, muralist, sculptor and engraver (d.1992).
• June 24
  • John Coplans, painter, photographer (d.2003)
  • Jimmy Ernst, American painter born in Germany (d.1984).
• June 29 - Ray Harryhausen, stop-motion animator, sculptor.

July to December

• July 20 - Arthur Boyd, Australian painter and sculptor (d.1999).
• July 21 - Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter, one of the innovators of Unitary Urbanism (d.2005).
• August 5 - George Tooker, painter.
• August 22 - Gene Davis, American painter (d.1985).
• August 26
  • Mauri Favén, Finnish painter (d.2006).
  • Brant Parker, American cartoonist (d.2007).
• October 31 - Helmut Newton, photographer (d.2004).
• November 23 - Wayne Thiebaud, Amreican painter.
• December 18 - Enrique Grau, Colombian painter and sculptor (d.2004).

Full date unknown

• Elaine Hamilton, painter.
• Daniel O'Neill, Irish painter (d.1974).

Deaths

• January 24 - Amedeo Modigliani, painter and sculptor (b. 1884)
• January 26 - Jeanne Hébuterne, artist, Modigliani's mistress and model (suicide) (b. 1898)
• March 15 - Edith Holden, nature artist and art teacher (b. 1871)
• March 26 - Samuel Colman, painter and designer (b. 1832)
• April 27 - Jacob Ungerer, sculptor (b. 1840)
• August 4 - C. G. Finch-Davies, bird painter (b. 1875)
• August 6 - Edward Francis Searles, interior designer (b. 1841)
• August 12 - Walter Winans, sculptor and painter (b. 1852)
• August 22 - Anders Zorn, Swedish portrait painter (b. 1860)
• September 24 - Peter Carl Fabergé, jeweller (b. 1846)
• November 13 - Luc-Olivier Merson, French painter (b. 1846)
• date unknown
  • Edith Corbet, landscape painter (b. 1846)
  • Briton Rivière, painter (b. 1840)