- 1920 in art
List of years in Art Events
*The Cologne
Dada ist group is formed byJean Arp ,Max Ernst and Alfred Grünwald.
*Katherine Dreier ,Man Ray andMarcel Duchamp form Société AnonymeWorks
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Cecilia Beaux - portrait ofGeorges 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
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12 January -Bill Reid , Canadian artist (d.1998).
*17 January -Georges Pichard , Frenchcomics artist (d.2003).
*30 January -Patrick Heron , English painter,writer anddesigner (d.1999).
*14 March -Hank Ketcham , Americancartoonist (d.2001).
*27 March -Robin Jacques , Englishillustrator (d.1995).
*8 May -Saul Bass , Americangraphic designer andAcademy Award -winning filmmaker (d.1996).
*8 May -Tom of Finland , Finnishfetish artist (d.1991).
*4 June -Alejandro Obregón ,Colombia n painter, muralist, sculptor and engraver (d.1992).
*24 June -Jimmy Ernst , American painter born inGermany (d.1984).
*29 June -Ray Harryhausen , stop-motion animator, sculptor.July to December
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20 July -Arthur Boyd ,Australia n painter and sculptor (d.1999).
*21 July -Constant Nieuwenhuys , Dutch painter, one of the innovators ofUnitary 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 , Americancartoonist (d.2007).
*31 October -Helmut Newton , photographer (d.2004).
*23 November -Wayne Thiebaud , painter.
*18 December -Enrique Grau ,Colombia n painter and sculptor (d.2004).Full date unknown
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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
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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)and stuff
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