1923 in art explained

Events from the year 1923 in art.

Events

• March 20 – The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States show, Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso.
• May 8 – Göteborgs Konsthall opens as the art gallery for the Gothenburg Exhibition.
• Publication of The Art Spirit by Robert Henri.
• English industrialist and collector Samuel Courtauld acquires the first painting by Paul Cézanne to be purchased for a British collection, Still life with Plaster Cupid (c.1894).^[1]
• Chaïm Soutine sells sixty of his paintings from a Paris showing to the American art collector Albert C. Barnes and begins his series of paintings of beef carcasses.
• A joint exhibition with his mother, Suzanne Valadon, at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune in Paris brings the paintings of Maurice Utrillo to prominence.^[2]
• East London Group forms as an amateur art club in the East End of London.
• Freer Gallery of Art opens in Washington, D.C. as the first Smithsonian museum dedicated to the fine arts.^[3]
• Remington Art Memorial established in Ogdensburg, New York.
• Harwood Museum of Art established in Taos, New Mexico.
• Beaux Arts Gallery established in London by Frederick and Helen Lessore.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: W B McInnes – Portrait of a Lady

Works

• Max Beckmann – Dance in Baden-Baden
• Pierre Bonnard - La Cote D'azur^[4]
• Constantin Brâncuși – Bird in Space (sculpture; first version)
• Felice Casorati – Meriggio (Noon)
• Tamara de Lempicka – Les Deux amies
• Robert Delaunay – Portrait of Tristan Tzara
• Marcel Duchamp – The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) (completed)
• Max Ernst – Pietà or Revolution by Night
• M. C. Escher – Dolphins (woodcut)
• George Grosz – Ecce Homo (portfolio of lithographs)
• Auguste Herbin – Bowls Players
• Marguerite Huré – Stained glass windows at Église Notre-Dame du Raincy
• Wassily Kandinsky – On White II
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – The Sleigh Ride
• Sir John Lavery – The Red Rose
• Sir Bertram Mackennal
  • Phoebus Driving the Horses of the Sun (Australia House, London)
  • Mother Courage (war memorial, Caledonian Club, London)
  • Here I Am, male nude for Eton College War Memorial (now National Gallery of Victoria, Australia)
• Henri Matisse
  • Odalisque with Raised Arms
  • Window at Tangier
• Mikhail Nesterov – Girl by the Pool
• William Orpen – To the Unknown British Soldier in France (first finished state)
• Pablo Picasso
  • The Pipes of Pan
  • Paulo on a Donkey
• Man Ray – Object to Be Destroyed (destroyed 1957)
• Gerrit Rietveld – Red and Blue Chair (colours added in De Stijl style at about this date)
• Stanley Royle – Sheffield from Wincobank Wood
• John Singer Sargent – Sir Philip Sassoon^[5]
• Stanley Spencer – The Betrayal
• Lorado Taft – The Recording Angel (sculpture, Waupun, Wisconsin)^[6]
• Suzanne Valadon – Blue Room
• World War I Memorial (Berwick, Pennsylvania)
• Yokoyama Taikan – Metempsychosis (生々流転, Seisei ruten, "The Wheel of Life", Nihonga scroll painting)

Births

• January 16 – Keith Shackleton, English painter and television host (d. 2015)
• February 10 – Shirley Jaffe, American-born abstract painter and sculptor (d. 2016)
• March 9 – André Courrèges, French fashion designer (d. 2016)
• April 8 – George Fisher, American political cartoonist (d. 2003)
• April 24 – Cordelia Oliver, Scottish journalist, painter and art critic (d. 2009)^[7]
• May 3 – Norman Thelwell, English cartoonist (d. 2004)
• May 15 – Richard Avedon, American photographer (d. 2004)
• May 22 – Max Velthuijs, Dutch painter, illustrator and author (d. 2005)
• May 27 – Inge Morath, Austrian photographer (d. 2002)
• May 31 – Ellsworth Kelly, American artist (d. 2015)
• June 3 – June Newton, Australian-born photographer (d. 2021)
• June 24 – Marc Riboud, French photographer (d. 2016)
• July 12 – Paul Jenkins, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 2012)
• June 25 – Sam Francis, American painter and printmaker (d. 1994)
• September 13 – Edouard Boubat, French photographer (d. 1999)
• September 23 – Osuitok Ipeelee, Canadian Inuit sculptor (d. 2005)
• October 7 – Jean-Paul Riopelle, Canadian painter and sculptor (d. 2002)
• October 27 – Roy Lichtenstein, American pop artist (d. 1997)
• October 28 – David Aronson, Lithuanian American painter (d. 2015)
• November 15 – Miriam Schapiro, Canadian American feminist artist (d. 2015)
• December 1 – Morris, Belgian cartoonist (d. 2001)
• December 13 – Antoni Tàpies, Spanish painter (d. 2012)
• date unknown – François Ozenda, French painter (d. 1976)

Deaths

• January 12 – Marc Ferrez, Brazilian photographer (b. 1843)
• January 31 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish modernist painter, art critic and assassin (b. 1869)
• March 22 – Benjamin Williams Leader, English landscape painter (b. 1831)
• April 15 – Aleksander Sochaczewski, Polish painter (b. 1843)
• April 17 – Jan Kotěra, Czech artist, architect and designer (b. 1871)
• May 29 – Adolf Oberländer, German caricaturist (b. 1845)
• June 15 – Joseph B. Davol, American marine painter (b. 1864)
• June 21 – Edward Clark Potter, American sculptor (b. 1857)
• July 23 – Willy Gretor, Danish-born painter and art dealer (b. 1868)
• August 2/3 – Jacoba van Heemskerck, Dutch painter and graphic artist (b. 1876)
• August 5 – Candace Wheeler, American designer (b. 1827)
• October 2 – John Wilson Bengough, Canadian cartoonist (b. 1851)
• October 19 – Eleanor Norcross, American painter (b. 1854)
• November 2 – Stevan Aleksić, Serbian painter (b. 1876)
• November 27 – Penleigh Boyd, Australian landscape painter (b. 1890)
• December 13 – Théophile Steinlen, Swiss/French painter (b. 1859)
• date unknown – Edwin Romanzo Elmer, American painter (b. 1850)

See also

• 1923 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Courtauld Cézannes. Courtauld Institute of Art. London. 2008. 2020-07-24.
2. Web site: 25 December – Maurice Utrillo. Art "4" "2"-Day. 2009-07-31. 2012-04-12.
3. Web site: The Freer Gallery of Art. Freer / Sackler. Smithsonian Institution. 2012-04-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20140826182047/http://www.asia.si.edu/about/freer.asp. 2014-08-26. dead.
4. https://www.artchive.com/artwork/la-cote-d'azur-c.-1923-by-pierre-bonnard/
5. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/sargent-sir-philip-sassoon-n05052
6. Web site: Recording Angel Sculpture By Lorado Taft. Waupun, Wisconsin, City of Sculptures. 2007. 2012-04-21.
7. Web site: Grigor . Murray . Cordelia Oliver obituary . the Guardian . 3 November 2022 . en . 26 January 2010.