1934 in art

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Events

• April – David Low's cartoon character Colonel Blimp first appears in the London Evening Standard.
• August 31 – John Smiukse destroys the mural Nightmare of 1934 in Tarrytown, New York.
• Publication in the United States of Irving Stone's biographical novel of Vincent van Gogh, Lust for Life.

Works

See also: Category:1934 sculptures

• Eileen Agar – The Autobiography of an Embryo
• Hans Arp – Human Concretion (Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris)
• Balthus – Guitar Lesson
• Paul Cadmus
  • Coney Island
  • The Fleet's In!
  • Greenwich Village Cafeteria
• Salvador Dalí – The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table
• Edwin Dickinson – Stranded Brig
• Antonio Donghi – Canzone
• Raoul Dufy – Regatta at Cowes (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)
• Jacob Epstein – Portrait bust of George Bernard Shaw
• M. C. Escher – Still Life with Spherical Mirror (lithograph)
• Leo Friedlander – marble reliefs outside Oregon State Capitol
  • Covered Wagon
  • Lewis and Clark
• Lily Furedi – The Subway
• Edward Hopper – East Wind Over Weehawken
• Paul Manship – Prometheus (gilded bronze sculpture, Rockefeller Center, New York City)
• Joan Miró – Woman
• Ronald Moody – Wohin (carved oak head)
• José Clemente Orozco – The Epic of American Civilization (mural, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, 1932-34)
• Pablo Picasso – Minotauromachy
• Diego Rivera – Man, Controller of the Universe (mural, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City)
• Raphael Soyer – How Long Since You Wrote to Mother?

Exhibitions

• April - The Unit One group holds its only exhibition, in Cork Street (London), accompanied by a book, Unit 1: the Modern Movement in English Architecture, Painting and Sculpture, edited by Herbert Read.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Henry Hanke – Self Portrait
• Légion d'honneur: Gen Paul

Births

• January 18 – Raymond Briggs, English illustrator
• February 11 – Mary Quant, English fashion designer
• February 27 – Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (d. 1992)
• March 20 – Eric Hebborn, English art forger (k. 1996)
• April 16 – Vicar, Chilean comic book artist
• June 20 – Rius, Mexican cartoonist
• July 11 – Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer
• July 24 – Lee Friedlander, American photographer
• August 14 – Lucien Clergue, French photographer (d. 2014)
• date unknown
  • Sheila Hicks, American-born textile artist
  • Neil Williams, American painter (d. 1988)

Deaths

• March 23 – Wenzel Hablik, German painter, graphic artist and designer (b. 1881)
• March 28 – Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor (b. 1891)
• April 11 – John Collier, English Pre-Raphaelite painter (b. 1850)
• June 29 – Adolf Kašpar, Czech painter and illustrator (b. 1877)
• August 17 – Alexander Alexeyevich Borisov, Russian Arctic landscape painter (b. 1866)
• September 1 – Yumeji Takehisa, Japanese poet and painter (b. 1884)
• October 12 – Gertrude Käsebier, American portrait photographer (b. 1852)
• October 17 – Adolf Hölzel, German painter of an Impressionism to expressive modernism style (b. 1853)
• November 4 – Sir Alfred Gilbert, English sculptor (b. 1854)
• December 4 – Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter (b. 1849)
• December 28 – Pablo Gargallo, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1881)
• date unknown
  • Alfred Boucher, French sculptor (b. 1850)
  • Melvin Ormond Hammond, Canadian photographer (b. 1876)

See also

• 1934 in fine arts of the Soviet Union