1930 in art

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The year 1930 in art involved some significant events and new works.

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".^[1]
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.
Spanish postage stamps depict Goya's La maja desnuda.
Approximate date – Gertrud Arndt begins a series of photographic self-portraits at the Bauhaus.

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

26 January – Napoleon Abueva, sculptor
3 February – Gillian Ayres, abstract painter (d.2018)
13 February – Ernst Fuchs, artist
18 February – Gahan Wilson, cartoonist
21 February – Enrique Tabara, painter
7 March – Antony Armstrong-Jones, photographer (d.2017)
11 March – David Gentleman, graphic designer
1 April – John Houston, painter
12 April – Manuel Neri, sculptor, painter and printmaker
14 May – James Beck, American art historian (d.2007)
15 May – Jasper Johns, painter, sculptor and printmaker
22 May – Marisol Escobar, sculptor and printmaker (d.2016)
23 May
- Aslan, pin-up artist
- Richard Anuszkiewicz, painter, sculptor and printmaker
30 May – Robert Ryman, painter
16 June – Allan D'Arcangelo, 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)

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
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)
date unknown – Susan Weil, American painter

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)
April 17 – Aleksandr Golovin, Russian stage designer (b. 1863)
April 30 – John Peter 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 – 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)

^ "Gruppe Abstraction-Création". Ketterer Kunst. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
^ "W L Wyllie and the Panorama of Trafalgar". Royal Naval Museum. 2005. Retrieved 2012-12-05.