1917 in art
Events
- January – A drunken Amedeo Modigliani is ejected from a party for Georges Braque, by the hostess, Marie Vassilieff.
- January 29 – Rodin marries his mistress, Rose Beuret; she dies two weeks later.
- Eric Kennington, William Orpen, C. R. W. Nevinson, Paul Nash and William Rothenstein are sent as war artists to the Western Front from England.
- De Stijl artistic movement is established by Theo van Doesburg.
- The Allen Memorial Art Museum is established at Oberlin College in Ohio.
- The Marc Chagall illustrated version of The Magician (דער קונצענמאכער, Der Kuntsenmakher) by I. L. Peretz (d. 1915) is published in Vilnius.[1]
Works
The original Fountain photographed by Alfred Stieglitz at the 291 after the 1917 Society of Independent Artists exhibit to which Duchamp submitted it.[2]
- Max Beckmann – Deposition (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
- Lovis Corinth – Portrait of Julius Meier-Graefe
- Heinrich Maria Davringhausen – The Poet Däubler
- Marcel Duchamp (anonymously) – Fountain (readymade)
- Jacob Epstein – An American Soldier (bust)
- Daniel Chester French – Lafayette Memorial
- Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven – God (readymade sculpture)
- J. W. Godward
- The Fruit Vendor
- A Lily Pond
- Under The Blossom That Hangs On The Bough
- George Grosz
- Rudolf Alfred Höger – Nach dem Vorstoß, Russische Kriegsgefangene (After the Foray: Russian Prisoners of War)
- Paul Klee – Ab ovo
- Gustav Klimt – Portrait of a Lady
- Isidore Konti – Nymph and Fawn (bronze fountain)
- Boris Kustodiev – Portrait of Countess Grabowska
- Hans Larwin – Soldat und Tod
- Fernand Léger – The Card Game
- L. S. Lowry – Coming from the Mill
- Maximilien Luce
- The Execution of Varlin
- La Gare de l'Est in snow
- George Luks – Houston Street
- Henri Matisse
- Joan Miró
- Portrait of Vincent Nubiola
- The Village
- Amedeo Modigliani
- Anna Zborowska
- Nu couché ("Reclining Nude")
- Nude Sitting on a Divan
- C. R. W. Nevinson
- After a Push
- Britain's Efforts and Ideals series of lithographs
- A Group of Soldiers
- A Howitzer Gun in Elevation
- Over the Lines
- Paths of Glory
- The Road from Arras to Bapaume
- Swooping Down on a Hostile Plane
- A Tank
- Hilda Rix Nicholas – Desolation (approximate date; destroyed)
- Georgia O'Keeffe – Light Coming on the Plains (watercolor series)
- William Orpen
- An Airman – Lieutenant R.T.C. Hoidge MC
- Blown Up, Mad
- Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig
- German 'Planes Visiting Cassel
- A Highlander Passing a Grave
- Ready to Start: Self Portrait
- Schwaben Redoubt
- Self-portrait
- Theipval
- The Thinker on the Butte de Warlencourt (original pencil & watercolour version)
- View from the Old British Trenches, Looking towards La Boisselle, Courcelette on the Left, Martinpuich on the Right
- Glyn Philpot
- Siegfried Sassoon
- A Young Breton (Guillaume Rolland)
- Pablo Picasso – Olga Picasso in an Armchair
- Auguste Rodin – The Gates of Hell (sculpture unfinished at his death)
- Egon Schiele – The Embrace
- Zinaida Serebriakova – Bleaching Cloth
- Charles Sheeler – Doylestown House – Stairs from Below (photograph)
- John French Sloan – Passing through Gloucester
- Alfred Stieglitz – The Last Days of 291 (photograph)
- Tom Thomson
- April in Algonquin Park
- The Jack Pine (National Gallery of Canada)
- The West Wind
- Félix Vallotton
- The Church of Souain in Silhouette
- Senegalese Soldiers at the camp of Mailly
- J. W. Waterhouse – Fair Rosamund
- Christopher Williams – The Red Dress
Births
- 9 January – Virginia Surtees, English art historian and biographer (d. 2017)
- 5 February – Lucienne Day, née Conradi, British textile designer (d. 2010)
- 20 February – Manny Farber, American painter and film critic (d. 2008)
- 20 February – Louisa Matthíasdóttir, Icelandic-American painter (d. 2000)
- 1 March – Tom Keating, English art restorer and art faker (d. 1984)
- 12 March – Milton Resnick, American painter (d. 2004)
- 24 March – Constantine Andreou, Greek painter and sculptor (d. 2007)
- 6 April – Leonora Carrington, English-born surrealist painter working in Mexico (d. 2011)
- 21 May – Frank Bellamy, English comics artist (d. 1976)
- 12 July – Andrew Wyeth, American painter (d. 2009)
- 14 July – Ben Enwonwu, Nigerian painter and sculptor (d. 1994)
- 11 August – Dik Browne, American cartoonist (d. 1989)
- 28 August – Jack Kirby, American comic book artist, writer and editor (d. 1994)
- 3 September – Anthony Robert Klitz, English artist (d. 2000)
- 7 September – Jacob Lawrence, African American painter (d. 2000)
- 11 September – Daniel Wildenstein, French international art dealer and scholar (d. 2001)
- 25 December – John Minton, English painter and illustrator (suicide 1957)
Deaths
Tom Thomson – April in Algonquin Park
- January 15 – William De Morgan, English ceramic artist (b. 1839)
- January 21 – Francesca Alexander, American illustrator (b. 1837)
- February 10 – John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist (b. 1849)
- February 17 – Carolus-Duran, French painter (b. 1837)
- March 27 – Moses Jacob Ezekiel, American sculptor working in Italy (b. 1844)
- March 28 – Albert Pinkham Ryder, American painter (b. 1847)
- April 23 – Robert Koehler, German American painter (b. 1850)
- June 30 – Antonio de La Gandara, French painter (b. 1861)
- July 8 – Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877) (drowned during a canoeing trip on Canoe Lake in Algonquin Park)
- September 27 – Edgar Degas, French painter and sculptor (b. 1834)
- October 14 – Nathaniel Hone the Younger, Irish painter (b. 1831)
- October 23 – Eugène Grasset, Swiss artist (b. 1845)
- November 17
- Sir Charles Holroyd, English etcher (b. 1861)
- Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b. 1840)
- December 21 – Wilhelm Trübner, German painter (b. 1851)
- (date unknown) – Raffaele Belliazzi, Italian sculptor (b. 1835)
References
- "The Magician". World Digital Library. 1917. Retrieved 2013-09-30.
- Tomkins, Calvin (1997). Duchamp: A Biography. London: Chatto & Windus. p. 186. ISBN 0701166428.
- Kranzfelder, Ivo (2005). George Grosz. Cologne: Taschen. p. 22. ISBN 3-8228-0891-1.
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