1935 in art explained

Events from the year 1935 in art.

Events

• January – First issue of Axis, a quarterly review of abstract art edited by Myfanwy Piper in England, is published.^[1]
• February 15–March 2 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People stages an exhibition Art Commentary on Lynching in New York City.
• May 7 – Artists' Unit group of British modernists announced, superseding Unit One.^[1]
• December – Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler undergoes forced sterilization in accordance with Nazi eugenics policies and never paints again.
• Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, designed by Hendrik Petrus Berlage, completed in the Netherlands.
• William Coldstream edits the GPO Film Unit documentary Coal Face.^[1]
• Picasso's poetry takes precedence over his graphic work this year.

Works

• Pierre Bonnard – Nude in the Bathtub
• Alessandro Bruschetti – Fascist Synthesis
• Óscar Domínguez – Le Dimanche
• Gerardo Dottori – Fascist Creations
• Jacob Epstein – Ecce Homo (marble)
• M. C. Escher – Hand with Reflecting Sphere (lithograph)
• James Earle Fraser – sculptures, Washington, D.C.
  • Guardianship
  • Heritage
• Frida Kahlo
  • A Few Small Nips (Unos cuantos piquetitos)
  • Self-Portrait with Curly Hair
• Fernand Léger – Two Sisters
• L. S. Lowry – The Fever Van
• René Magritte
  • The Discovery of Fire
  • The Human Condition (second version)
  • The Portrait
• Joan Miró
  • Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excrement
  • Metamorphosis
• Paul Nash – Equivalents for the Megaliths
• Pablo Picasso – Jeune Fille Endormie
• Candido Portinari – Coffee
• Diego Rivera – The Spanish Conquest of Mexico
• William Rothenstein – Barn at Cherington, Gloucestershire
• Amrita Sher-Gil
  • Camels
  • Hill Women
  • Three Girls
• Kārlis Zāle – Freedom Monument (Riga, Latvia)

Awards

• Archibald Prize: John Longstaff – A B ('Banjo') Paterson
• Knighthood: William Reid Dick

Births

• 2 January – David McKee, English author and illustrator (d. 2022)^[2]
• 12 January – Teresa del Conde, Mexican art critic and historian (d. 2017)
• 26 January – Paula Rego, Portuguese-born painter (d. 2022)
• 10 February
  • John Alcorn, American illustrator (d. 1992)
  • Konrad Klapheck, German painter (d. 2023)
• 1 June – Vladislav Lalicki, Serbian painter (d. 2008)
• 13 June – Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Bulgarian & Moroccan-born American installation artists (d. 2020 & 2009 respectively)^[3]
• 22 June – Floyd Norman, American animator, writer and comic book artist^[4]
• 19 August – Victor Ambrus, Hungarian-born British illustrator (d. 2021)
• 23 August – Roy Strong, English art historian and curator
• 8 September – William Vance, Belgian comics artist (d. 2018)
• 16 September – Carl Andre, American minimalist artist (d. 2024)^[5]
• 26 September – Juan Zanotto, Italian-born Argentine comic book artist (d. 2005)
• 30 September – James McKendry, Northern Irish sculptor and painter
• 1 October – Walter De Maria, American minimalist, conceptual artist and land artist (d. 2013)
• 3 October – Sinikka Kurkinen, Finnish painter
• 9 October – Don McCullin, English war photographer
• Full date unknown
  • Nina Alovert, Russian-born American ballet photographer
  • Rasheed Araeen, Pakistan-born British conceptual artist
  • Félix Aráuz, Ecuadorean painter (d. 2024)
  • John Barry, English film set designer (d. 1979)

Deaths

• February 8 – Max Liebermann, German-Jewish impressionist painter (b. 1847)^[6]
• February 16 – Carolina Benedicks-Bruce, Swedish sculptor (b. 1856)
• March 25 – William de Leftwich Dodge, American muralist (b. 1867)
• April 15 – Anna Ancher, Danish member of the Skagen Painters group (b. 1859)^[7]
• April 22 – Frederick Farrell, Scottish watercolourist, war artist, pneumonia (b. 1882)
• May 3 – Jessie Willcox Smith, American illustrator (b. 1863)
• May 15 – Kazimir Malevich, Polish-Russian painter, art theoretician (b. 1879)^[8]
• May 24 – Granville Redmond, American landscape painter (b. 1871)
• July 17 – George William Russell ('Æ'), Irish critic, poet and painter (b. 1867)
• August 15 – Paul Signac, French neo-impressionist painter (b. 1863)^[9]
• August 27 – Childe Hassam, American impressionist painter (b. 1859)^[10]
• October 2 – Georg Jensen, Danish silversmith (b. 1866)
• October 4 – Jean Béraud, French painter (b. 1849)
• October 9 – Archibald Thorburn, Scottish-born wildlife painter (b. 1860)
• October 11 – Samuel Peploe, Scottish painter (b. 1871)
• October 18 – Gaston Lachaise, French-American sculptor (b. 1882)^[11]
• October 23 – Charles Demuth, American painter (b. 1883)^[12]
• November 28 – Joaquín Clausell, Mexican impressionist landscape painter, lawyer and political activist (b. 1866)
• Undated
  • Harry Fidler, English painter (b. 1856)
  • Eva Watson-Schütze, American portrait photographer and curator (b. 1867)

See also

• 1935 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

Notes and References

1. Book: Maclean, Caroline. Circles and Squares. London. Bloomsbury Publishing. 2020. 978-1-4088-8969-5.
2. News: Eccleshare . Julia . 2022-04-08 . David McKee obituary . en-GB . The Guardian . 2023-03-31 . 0261-3077.
3. Book: Christo. Jeanne-Claude. Christo and Jeanne-Claude Projects: Selected from the Lilja Collection. 1996. Azimuth Editions. 978-1-898592-06-8. 15.
4. Web site: Disney Legends: Floyd Norman. D23.com (Disney). July 23, 2017. September 8, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150908003805/https://d23.com/walt-disney-legend/floyd-norman/. dead. subscription .
5. Book: National Gallery of Australia. Michael Lloyd. European and American Paintings and Sculptures 1870-1970 in the Australian National Gallery. 1992. Australian National Gallery. 978-0-642-13034-1. 332.
6. [Käthe Kollwitz]
7. Book: Delia Gaze. Maja Mihajlovic. Leanda Shrimpton. Dictionary of Women Artists: Introductory surveys ; Artists, A-I. 1997. Taylor & Francis. 978-1-884964-21-3. 183.
8. Book: Rainer Crone. David Moos. Kazimir Malevich: The Climax of Disclosure. 1991. Reaktion Books. 978-0-948462-81-8. 228.
9. Book: Sixty Paintings from the Národní Galerie, Prague: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, June 3-September L988. 1987. National Gallery. 68.
10. Book: Hiesinger, Ulrich W.. Impressionism in America: the Ten American Painters. Munich. Prestel-Verlag. 1991. 3-7913-1142-5. 171.
11. Book: National Gallery of Australia. Michael Lloyd. European and American Paintings and Sculptures 1870-1970 in the Australian National Gallery. 1992. Australian National Gallery. 978-0-642-13034-1. 160.
12. Book: Charles Demuth. Bruce Kellner. Demuth Foundation. Letters of Charles Demuth, American Artist, 1883-1935. 2000. Temple University Press. 978-1-56639-781-0. 139.