1920 in art

List of years in Art

Events

*The Cologne Dadaist group is formed by Jean Arp, Max Ernst and Alfred Grünwald.
*Katherine Dreier, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp form Société Anonyme

Works

*Cecilia Beaux - portrait of Georges Clemenceau
*Pierre Bonnard - "Landscape in Normandy"
*Thomas Hart Benton - "People of Chilmark"
*Alexander Stirling Calder - "Swann Memorial Fountain", Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
*Stanton MacDonald-Wright - "Airplane Synchromy in Yellow-Orange"
*Henri Matisse - "Interior at Nice"
*Georg Scholz - "Industrial Farmers" (Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal)

Births

January to June

*12 January - Bill Reid, Canadian artist (d.1998).
*17 January - Georges Pichard, French comics artist (d.2003).
*30 January - Patrick Heron, English painter, writer and designer (d.1999).
*14 March - Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d.2001).
*27 March - Robin Jacques, English illustrator (d.1995).
*8 May - Saul Bass, American graphic designer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker (d.1996).
*8 May - Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (d.1991).
*4 June - Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter, muralist, sculptor and engraver (d.1992).
*24 June - Jimmy Ernst, American painter born in Germany (d.1984).
*29 June - Ray Harryhausen, stop-motion animator, sculptor.

July to December

*20 July - Arthur Boyd, Australian painter and sculptor (d.1999).
*21 July - Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter, one of the innovators of Unitary Urbanism (d.2005).
*5 August - George Tooker, painter.
*22 August - Gene Davis, painter (d.1985).
*26 August - Mauri Favén, Finnish painter (d.2006).
*26 August - Brant Parker, American cartoonist (d.2007).
*31 October - Helmut Newton, photographer (d.2004).
*23 November - Wayne Thiebaud, painter.
*18 December - Enrique Grau, Colombian painter and sculptor (d.2004).

Full date unknown

*John Coplans, painter, photographer (d.2003).
*Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal, painter.
*Daniel O'Neill, Irish painter (d.1974).
*Paul Wonner, American painter (d.2008).

Deaths

*January 24 - Amedeo Modigliani, painter and sculptor (b. 1884)
*January 26 - Jeanne Hébuterne, artist, Modigliani's mistress and model (suicide) (b. 1898)
*March 26 - Samuel Colman, painter and designer (b. 1832)
*August 12 - Walter Winans, sculptor and painter (b. 1852)
*August 22 - Anders Zorn, portrait painter (b. 1860)
*November 13 – Luc-Olivier Merson, French painter (b. 1846)
*"date unknown" - Briton Rivière, painter (b. 1840)
*"date unknown" - Edward Francis Searles, interior designer (b. 1841)

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