1924 in art
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[edit] Events
- February - El Lissitzky enters a Swiss sanatorium, suffering from tuberculosis
- December - The Bucharest International Modern Art Exhibit, an avant-garde event hosted by Contimporanul, displaying works by Constantin Brâncuşi, Hans Arp, Paul Klee, János Mattis-Teutsch, Kurt Schwitters, Michel Seuphor, Miliţa Pătraşcu, Marcel Janco, Victor Brauner, and M. H. Maxy
- The Surrealist Manifesto is conceived
- Juan Gris delivers his lecture Des possibilités de la peinture at the University of Paris
- Vilmos Aba Novák's works are on display for the first time
- Daniel Chester French begins work on his statue of Abraham Lincoln (located at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.); completed in 1925
- Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant open a common studio
[edit] Awards
- Archibald Prize: William Beckwith McInnes - Portrait of Miss Collins
- Tagea Brandt Rejselegat: Anna Ancher
[edit] Works
[edit] Paintings
- Tarsila do Amaral - Estação de Ferro Central do Brasil
- Romaine Brooks - Una, Lady Troubridge
- Carlo Carrà - San Giacomo di Varallo
- Edwin Holgate - Portrait of Albert Henry Stewart Gillson
- Edward Hopper - New York Pavements
- A. Y. Jackson - In Jasper Park
- Wassily Kandinsky - Contrasting Sounds
- Paul Klee - Asiatic God, Carnival in the Mountains, Flower Garden
- Fernand Léger - Elément Mécanique
- Joan Miró - Le Piège, Le Carnaval d'Arlequin, Head of a Catalan Peasant (sequence commenced)
- Emil Nolde - Madonna with Begonia
- Samuel John Peploe - Roses in a White Vase with Fruit
- Diego Rivera - Day of the Dead and other frescos at the Ministry of Education building (Mexico City)
- Philippe Robert - Frescos at Biel/Bienne railway station
- Nicolae Tonitza - The Forester's Daughter
[edit] Photographs
[edit] Sculptures
See also: Category:1924 sculptures
- Constantin Brâncuşi
- Bird in Space (early version)
- The Cock
- Charles Keck - Liberty Monument (Ticonderoga, New York)
- Augustus Lukeman - Francis Asbury (equestrian, Washington, D.C.)
- Paul Manship - Statue of Diana (Hudson River Museum, Yonkers)
- Andrew O'Connor - Lafayette Monument (Baltimore, Maryland)
- Albin Polasek - Theodore Thomas Memorial (Chicago)
- Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney - Buffalo Bill - The Scout
[edit] Births
- 29 January - Marcelle Ferron, Canadian painter and stained glass artist (d.2001).
- 7 March - Eduardo Paolozzi, Scottish sculptor and artist (d.2005).
- 8 March - Anthony Caro, English sculptor.
- 13 March - Paul Brach, American abstract painter, lecturer and educator (d.2007).
- 10 April - Kenneth Noland, American painter.
- 20 June - Fritz Koenig, German sculptor.
- 7 August - Georges Lévis, French comic artist (d.1988).
- 8 August - Edouard Jaguer, French poet and art critic (d.2006).
- 21 September - David Sylvester, English art critic and curator (d.2001).
- 22 September - Charles Keeping, English illustrator, children's book author and lithographer (d.1988).
- 26 November - George Segal, American painter and sculptor (d.2000).
- 17 December - Clifton Pugh, Australian artist (d.1990).
- 24 December - Nissim Ezekiel, Indian poet, playwright and art critic (d.2004).
- 24 December - Michael Goldberg, American abstract expressionist painter and teacher (d.2007).
- date unknown
- Art Brenner - American painter and sculptor.
- William H. Burns, Northern Irish artist (d.1995).
[edit] Deaths
- February 1 - Maurice Prendergast, American painter (b. 1858)
- February 11 - Jean-François Raffaëlli, painter, sculptor and printmaker (b. 1850)
- April 3 - Franz von Bayros, erotic artist and illustrator (b. 1866)
- April 18 - Frank X. Leyendecker, American illustrator (b. 1877)
- May 30 - Amélie Beaury-Saurel, painter (b. 1849)
- June 14 - Emile Claus, painter (b. 1849)
- July 12 - Henrietta Ward, English painter (b. 1832)
- August 19 - Ferdinand Cheval, architect of the "Palais Idéal" (b. 1836)
- November 7 - Hans Thoma, German painter (b. 1839)
- December 21 - Francesco Negri, photographer (b. 1841)
- December 28 - Léon Bakst, Russian painter and theatrical designer (b. 1866)
- December 31 - Tomioka Tessai, Japanese painter and calligrapher in Meiji period (b. 1837)
