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.

Works

*Max Beckmann - "Deposition" (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
*Henri Matisse - "The Painter and his Model"
*Joan Miró - "The Village"
*Amedeo Modigliani - "Anna Zborowska"
*Pablo Picasso - "Olga Picasso in an Armchair"
*Egon Schiele - "The Embrace"
*Marcel Duchamp - "Fountain"

Births

*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).
*24 March - Constantine Andreou, Greek painter and sculptor (d.2007).
*17 July - Andrew Wyeth.
*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, American painter (d.2000).
*11 September - Daniel Wildenstein, French international art dealer and scholar (d.2001).
*25 December - John Minton (d.1957).

Deaths

*January 21 - Francesca Alexander, illustrator (b. 1837)
*February 10 - John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist (b. 1849)
*March 28 - Albert Pinkham Ryder, painter (b. 1847)
*June 30 - Antonio de La Gandara, French painter (b. 1861)
*September 27 - Edgar Degas, painter and sculptor (b. 1834)
*October 23 - Eugène Grasset, Swiss artist (b. 1845)
*November 17 - Auguste Rodin, sculptor (b. 1840)
*December 21 - Wilhelm Trübner, painter (b. 1851)
* Nathaniel Hone the Younger - Irish painter (b. 1831)
* Carolus-Duran, painter (b. 1837)
* Moses Jacob Ezekiel, sculptor (b. 1844)
* Robert Koehler, painter (b. 1850)
* Sir Charles Holroyd, etcher (b. 1861)