1938 in art

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Overview of the events of 1938 in art

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Events from the year 1938 in art.

## Events

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* January 2 – SS Alba sinks off St Ives, Cornwall; the wreck is painted by local ex-fisherman naïve artist Alfred Wallis in several versions, one of which will subsequently be displayed in Tate St Ives, metres from the wreck.
* January 16 – International Exposition of Surrealism opens at the Galerie des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
* January 24 – Peggy Guggenheim opens her Guggenheim Jeune gallery at 30 Cork Street in London with a display of work by Jean Cocteau, followed in February by the first showing of Wassily Kandinsky's work in Britain.[1]
* Spring/Summer – Wyndham Lewis's Portrait of T. S. Eliot is submitted for exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London but rejected (as expected by the artist),[2][3] although Eliot himself approves of the painting and Augustus John resigns from the academy in reaction to its rejection.[4]
* July 8 – Exhibition of twentieth century German art opens in London at the New Burlington Galleries, challenging the Nazi view of "degenerate art" in its home country.[5]
* July 10 – Second Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung ("Great German Art Exhibition") opened by Adolf Hitler in the Haus der deutschen Kunst ("House of German Art") in Munich; Hitler attacks the contemporary London exhibition.[5]
* July 13 – Kröller-Müller Museum, designed by Henry van de Velde, opens in Otterlo, Netherlands.
* September – Piet Mondrian moves from Paris to London.[6]
* December 5–17 – Albert Namatjira exhibition in Melbourne includes over 2,000 works, the first solo display of indigenous Australian art.
* American art collector Louis J. Caldor 'discovers' the naïve paintings of Grandma Moses.

## Awards

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* Archibald Prize: Nora Heysen – Mme Elink Schuurman

## Works

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See also: Category:1938 sculptures

* Vilmos Aba-Novák – Fair in Transylvania
* Rita Angus – Head of a Maori Boy
* Thomas Hart Benton – Haystack
* Constantin Brâncuși – The Endless Column (sculpture)
* Javier Bueno – The Fighter of Madrid
* Marc Chagall – White Crucifixion
* William Coldstream – Bolton
* Salvador Dalí
* Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach
* Impressions of Africa[7]
* Rainy Taxi
* Charles Despiau – Assia (sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York)
* Arthur Dove – Swing Music
* M. C. Escher – Sky and Water II (lithograph)
* Leonor Fini
* Composition with Figures on a Terrace
* D'Un jour à l'autre (From One Day to Another, diptych)
* Jared French \- Lunchtime with Early Miners (mural) in Plymouth, Pennsylvania[8]
* Edward Hopper – Compartment C, Car 293
* Kurt Hutton – Funfair, Southend, Essex (photograph)
* Frida Kahlo
* Four Inhabitants of Mexico City
* Self-Portrait with Monkey
* The Suicide of Dorothy Hale
* What the Water Gave Me
* Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – Violet House in Front of a Snowy Mountain
* Paul Klee \- Oriental Bliss[9]
* L. S. Lowry – Family Group
* René Magritte – Time Transfixed
* Aristide Maillol – Air
* Ronald Moody – Tacet (carved wood head)
* Paul Nash
* Landscape from a Dream
* Nocturnal Landscape
* John Petts – Fishwife of Ynys Mon
* Pablo Picasso
* Femme au beret rouge-orange
* Maya with Doll
* Walter Sickert – Sir Thomas Beecham Conducting
* Steffen Thomas – Pioneer Women
* Rex Whistler – Capriccio (dining room mural at Plas Newydd in North Wales)
* Ignacio Zuloaga – The Alcázar in Flames (Heroic Landscape of Toledo)

## Births

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* January 2
* David Bailey, English photographer
* Robert Smithson, American artist (d. 1973)
* January 7 – Roland Topor, French illustrator, painter, writer and filmmaker (d. 1997)
* February 13 – Joan Brown, American figurative painter (d. 1990)
* February 22 – Paul Neagu, Romanian-born artist (d. 2004)[10]
* March 6 – Pauline Boty, English pop art painter (d. 1966)
* March 15 – Dick Higgins, English composer, poet, printer and early Fluxus artist (d. 1998)
* April 20 – Andrew Vicari, Welsh-born portrait painter (d. 2016)
* May 12 – Paul Huxley, English painter and academic
* May 18 – Janet Fish, American Realist painter
* May 20 – Astrid Kirchherr, German photographer (d. 2020)
* July 24 – Eugene J. Martin, American visual artist (d. 2005)
* July 28 – Robert Hughes, Australian-born art critic (d. 2012)
* July 30 – Terry O'Neill, British photographer (d. 2019)
* August 19 – Robert Graham, Mexican-American sculptor (d. 2008)
* August 29 – Hermann Nitsch, Austrian performance artist
* September 1 – Per Kirkeby, Danish artist (d. 2018)
* September 25 – Bill Owens, American photographer
* September 27 – Günter Brus, Austrian performance artist
* October 10 – Daidō Moriyama, Japanese photographer
* October 15 – Brice Marden, American painter
* October 20 – Iain Macmillan, Scottish photographer (d. 2006)
* November 2 – Richard Serra, American abstract sculptor (d. 2024)
* November 10 – Claude Serre, French cartoonist (d. 1998)
* December 25 – Duane Armstrong, American painter
* date unknown
* John Behan, Irish sculptor
* Rotraut Klein-Moquay, German-French visual artist
* Takeshi Mizukoshi, Japanese landscape photographer

## Deaths

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* January 1 – Alice Bailly, Swiss painter and multimedia artist (b. 1872)
* January 19 – Rosa Mayreder, Austrian freethinker, author, painter, musician and feminist (b. 1858)
* February 3 – Niels Skovgaard, Danish sculptor and painter (b. 1858)
* February 28 – C. E. Brock, English painter and illustrator (b. 1870)
* April 7 – Suzanne Valadon, French artists' model and painter, mother of Utrillo (b. 1865)
* April 24 – John Wycliffe Lowes Forster, Canadian historical portrait painter (b. 1850)
* May 22 – William Glackens, American realist painter (b. 1870)
* June 5 – Mikuláš Galanda, Slovak modernist painter and illustrator (b. 1895)
* June 15 – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German Expressionist painter (b. 1880; suicide)
* June 19 – María Obligado de Soto y Calvo, Argentinian painter (b. 1857)
* June 24 – C. Yarnall Abbott, American photographer and painter (b. 1870)
* September 6 – Mary Seton Watts, British symbolist craftswoman and designer (b. 1849)
* October 24 – Ernst Barlach, German Expressionist sculptor (b. 1870)
* December 4 – Gonzalo Bilbao, Spanish painter (b. 1860)[11]
* Antonio Fabrés, Catalan painter (b. 1854)

## See also

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* 1938 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

## References

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1. ^ Prose, Francine (2015). Peggy Guggenheim: the shock of the new. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-20348-6.
2. ^ Sherwin, Skye (2017-07-07). "Wyndham Lewis's TS Eliot: a jigsaw puzzle of rebellion and radicalism". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2023-07-03.
3. ^ Meyers, Jeffrey (1980). "Wyndham Lewis and T.S. Eliot: A Friendship". Virginia Quarterly Review. 56 (3). Retrieved 2023-07-03.
4. ^ Birchenough, Tom (2016). "Wyndham Lewis: Portraits of friends and foes". The Tretyakov Gallery Magazine. 51 (2). Retrieved 2023-07-03.
5. ^ a b Aaronovitch, David (2018-06-09). "The treasure hunt that revealed Germany's 'degenerate' delights". The Times Saturday Review. London. pp. 8–9.
6. ^ Grant, Simon (2010-06-25). "Artist Piet Mondrian in London: the forgotten years". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2021-06-04.
7. ^ "Impressions of Africa, 1938 by Salvador Dali".
8. ^ "Jared French, "Lunchtime with Early Miners", 1938, Mural in the Plymouth US Post Office Building in Pennsylvania, New Deal Public Works of Art Project copy 2". 19 September 2021.
9. ^ "Oriental Bliss, 1938 Paul Klee". Louvre Abu Dhabi.
10. ^ Anish Kapoor (28 June 2004). "Paul Neagu". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
11. ^ Bernardino de Pantorba (1961). Picture Galleries in Madrid: A Critical and Historical Study. Editorial Mayfe. p. 1.

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