1922 in art

List of years in Art

Events

Week of Modern Art, in São Paulo, Brazil. February 11 to February 18.
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Awards

*Archibald Prize: W B McInnes - Professor Harrison Moore"
*Newbery Medal - Rene Paul Chambellan

Works

*Max Beckmann - "The Iron Footbridge"
*Lydia Field Emmet - "Harriet Lancashire White and Her Children"
*Dugald Sutherland MacColl - "On the Terrace"
*André Masson - "Pedestal Table in the Studio"
*Joan Miró - "La Masia (The Farm)"

Births

January to June

*17 January - Robert De Niro, Sr., American abstract expressionist painter (d.1993).
*23 January - Leon Golub, American painter (d.2004).
*3 March - Louis Maratier, French post-impressionist artist and painter (d.1998).
*27 March - Jules Olitski, American abstract painter, printmaker, and sculptor (d.2007).
*22 April - Richard Diebenkorn, American painter (d.1993).
*24 April - Richard Hamilton, painter and collage artist.
*7 May - Joe O'Donnell, American photographer (d.2007).
*22 June - Bill Blass, American fashion designer (d.2002).

July to December

*25 July - Fred Yates, English artist (d.2008).
*3 September - Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter (d.1976).
*9 September - Pauline Baynes, English book illustrator (d.2008).
*8 December - Lucian Freud, painter and printmaker.

Full date unknown

*Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, "Corneille", painter.

Deaths

*February 3 - John Butler Yeats, Irish painter (b.1839)
*September 5 -Georgette Agutte, painter
*September 8 - Léon Bonnat, painter
*December 13 - John William Godward, neo-Classicist painter (suicide)
* Paul Durand-Ruel, art dealer, patron of the Impressionists
* Leslie Ward ("Spy"), cartoonist (b. 1851)
* August Gaul, sculptor (b. 1869)