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1917 in art
Overview of the events of 1917 in art
Events from the year 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. Frederick Farrell, uniquely, is sent by Glasgow, the only British city to sponsor a painter.[1]
- 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.[2]
Works
![]() The original Fountain photographed by Alfred Stieglitz at the 291 after the 1917 Society of Independent Artists exhibit to which Duchamp submitted it.[3]
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
- December 21 – Wilhelm Trübner, German painter (b. 1851)
- (date unknown) – Raffaele Belliazzi, Italian sculptor (b. 1835)
References
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