Editing 1920 in art

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Events from the year '''1920 in art'''.

==Events==
* [[February 1]] – The [[Art Museum of Georgia|National Art Gallery]] of Georgia opens in [[Tbilisi]].
* [[March 17]] – The [[Edith Cavell Memorial]], by [[George Frampton]], is unveiled in London.<ref>{{cite book|first=Alison S.|last=Fell|title=Women as Veterans in Britain and France after the First World War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rORfDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA62|year=2018|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-42576-6|pages=62}}</ref>
* [[March 27]] – [[Society of Wood Engravers]] founded in the United Kingdom.
* [[June 30]]–[[August 25]] – The first [[Dada]]ist Fair is held in Berlin (Tempelhof).<ref>{{cite book|first=David|last=Hopkins|title=Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W3kRDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA168|date=8 April 2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-280254-5|pages=168–}}</ref> The Cologne group is formed by [[Jean Arp]], [[Max Ernst]] and [[Johannes Theodor Baargeld|Alfred Grünwald]].
* [[August 5]] – Publication of the '[[Realistic Manifesto]]', a [[Constructivism (art)|Constructivist]] text, by [[Naum Gabo]] with his brother [[Anton Pevsner]] in Moscow.<ref>Editors' introduction to "The Realistic Manifesto." In ''Art in Theory, 1900-2000'', ed. by Charles Harrison and Paul Wood.  Malden: Blackwell, 2003. p.298.</ref>
* [[November 7]] – The "mass action" ''[[The Storming of the Winter Palace]]'', directed by [[Nikolai Evreinov]], is staged outside the [[Winter Palace]] in [[Petrograd]].
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** [[Katherine Dreier]], [[Man Ray]] and [[Marcel Duchamp]] form [[Société Anonyme (art)|Société Anonyme]].
** [[Bernard Leach]] and [[Shoji Hamada]] set up the [[Leach Pottery]] in [[St Ives, Cornwall]].
** The [[Heckscher Museum of Art]] is established in [[Huntington, New York]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Michelin Travel Publications|title=New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JKQXAQAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Michelin|isbn=978-2-06-154901-8|page=61}}</ref>
** The [[Latvian Museum of Foreign Art]] is established in [[Riga]].
** [[Droit de suite]] is introduced in France.<ref>Flynn, Tom (2021-01-07). Letter to the editor. ''London Review of Books'' '''43''':1.</ref><ref>[https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/id/LEGIARTI000006278925/2013-04-08/ Code de la propriété intellectuelle : Chapitre II : Droits patrimoniaux, L122-8.]</ref>

==Works==
[[File:Clemenceau Beaux 1920.jpg|thumb|[[Georges Clemenceau]] by [[Cecilia Beaux]]]]
[[File:Bridgnorth War Memorialk.jpg|thumb|War memorial at [[Bridgnorth]], England by [[Adrian Jones (sculptor)|Adrian Jones]]]]
{{See also|Category:1920 sculptures|Category:1920 paintings}}
* [[Hans Baluschek]] – ''[[City of Workers]]''
* [[Cecilia Beaux]] – portrait of [[Georges Clemenceau]]
* [[Thomas Hart Benton (painter)|Thomas Hart Benton]] – ''[[:File:People-of-Chilmark-Benton-1920-lrg.jpg|People of Chilmark (figure composition)]]''
* [[Pierre Bonnard]] – ''[[Normand Landscape]]''
* [[Alexander Stirling Calder]] – ''[[Swann Memorial Fountain]]'' ([[Philadelphia]])
* [[Sydney Carline]] – ''[[:File:Carline, Sydney W - The Destruction of the Turkish Transport in the Gorge of the Wadi Fara, Palestine - Google Art Project.jpg|The Destruction of the Turkish Transport in the Gorge of the Wadi Fara, Palestine]]''
* [[Giorgio de Chirico]] – [[:File:Giorgio de Chirico, 1920, Self-portrait, oil on wood, 50.2 x 39.5 cm, Pinakothek der Moderne.jpg|''Self-portrait'']]
* [[Lovis Corinth]] – ''Flowers and Wilhelmine''
* [[Charles Demuth]] – [[Machinery (Demuth)|''Machinery'']] (drawing)
* [[Otto Dix]]
** ''[[The Skat Players]]'' 
** ''[[The Match Seller]]''
** ''[[Prague Street]]''
* [[Max Ernst]]
** ''[[The Hat Makes the Man]]'' ([[collage]] and [[gouache]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Mari Dumett|title=Corporate Imaginations: Fluxus Strategies for Living|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hBgvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA67|date=22 August 2017|publisher=Univ of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-29038-9|pages=67}}</ref>
** ''[[Murdering Airplane]]'' (collage)
* [[James Earle Fraser (sculptor)|James Earle Fraser]] – [[Frederick Keep Monument]] ([[Washington, D.C.]])
* [[Daniel Chester French]]
** [[Statue of Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln Memorial)|Abraham Lincoln]] (statue in [[Lincoln Memorial]], Washington, D.C.)
** [[Dupont Circle Fountain]] (Washington, D.C.)
** ''[[Wisconsin (statue)|Wisconsin]]'' (statue on [[Wisconsin State Capitol]])
* [[Albert Gleizes]] – ''[[Woman with Black Glove]]''
* [[John William Godward|J. W. Godward]] – ''A Red, Red Rose''
* [[George Grosz]]
** ''[[Daum Marries Her Pedantic Automaton "George" in May 1920|Daum marries her pedantic automaton George in May 1920, John Heartfield is very glad of it]]''
** ''[[:File:Republican Automatons George Grosz 1920.jpg|Republican Automatons]]''
* [[Richard Jack]] – ''[http://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-passing-of-the-chieftain-8080 The Passing of the Chieftain]''
* [[Goscombe John]] – [[Equestrian statue of Viscount Wolseley|Equestrian statue of the Viscount Wolseley]] (London)
* [[Einar Jónsson]] – ''[[Thorfinn Karlsefni (sculpture)|Thorfinn Karlsefni]]'' (bronze statue, Philadelphia)
* [[Eric Kennington]] – ''[[:File:Eric Kennington - The Conquerors CWM 19710261-0812.jpg|The Victims]]'' (retitled ''The Conquerors'')
* [[Winifred Knights]] – ''[[:File:The Deluge.jpg|The Deluge]]''
* [[Boris Kustodiev]]
** ''[[:File:Kustodiev GoluboyDomik.jpg|Blue House]]''
** ''[[:File:Kustodiev The Bolshevik.jpg|The Bolshevik]]''
** ''[[:File:Isaak Brodsky by Kustodiev.jpg|Portrait of Isaak Brodsky]]''
** ''[[:File:Kustodiev Trinity day.jpg|Trinity Day]]''
* [[George Washington Lambert]] – ''[[A Sergeant of the Light Horse]]''
* [[Fernand Léger]] – ''[[The Tugboat (Léger)|The Tugboat]]''
* [[Edwin Lutyens]]
** [[The Cenotaph|The Cenotaph, Whitehall]], London (stone version)
** with [[Alfred Munnings]] (sculptor) – [[Equestrian statue of Edward Horner]], [[St Andrew's Church, Mells]], Somerset, England
* [[Paul Klee]]
** ''[[Angelus Novus]]'' (worked copper plate)
** ''[[Camel (in Rhythmic Landscape with Trees)]]''
* [[Stanton Macdonald-Wright]] – ''Airplane Synchromy in Yellow-Orange''
* [[Henri Matisse]] – ''Interior at Nice''
* [[:File:Joan Miró, 1920, Les cartes espagnoles (The Spanish Playing Cards), oil on canvas, 63.5 x 69.5 cm, Minneapolis Institute of Art.jpg|Joan Miró]]
** [[:File:Joan Miró, 1920, Horse, Pipe and Red Flower, oil on canvas, 82.6 x 74.9 cm, Philadelphia Museum of Art.jpg|''Horse, Pipe and Red Flower'' (''Caballo, pipa y flor roja'')]]
** [[:File:Joan Miró, 1920, Les cartes espagnoles (The Spanish Playing Cards), oil on canvas, 63.5 x 69.5 cm, Minneapolis Institute of Art.jpg|''The Spanish Playing Cards'' ''(Les cartes espagnoles)'']]
* [[C. R. W. Nevinson]] – ''[[The Soul of the Soulless City]]'' (originally ''New York – an Abstraction'')
* [[William Nicholson (artist)|William Nicholson]]
** ''[[Gertrude Jekyll]]''
** ''[http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/nicholson-miss-jekylls-gardening-boots-n05548 Miss Jekyll's Gardening Boots]''
* [[Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin]] – ''[[:File:Petrograd Madonna (Petrov-Vodkin).jpg|1918 in Petrograd (Petrograd Madonna)]]''
* [[Victor Rousseau]] – Bronze figure group for [[Anglo-Belgian Memorial, London]]
* [[Charles Marie Louis Joseph Sarrabezolles]] – ''[[L'Âme de la France]]'' (plaster version)
* [[Georg Scholz]] – ''Industrial Farmers'' (Von der Heydt Museum, [[Wuppertal]])
* [[Charles Sheeler]] – ''Church Street El''
* [[Mario Sironi]] – ''Truck''
* [[Stanley Spencer]]
** ''The Last Supper''
** ''Christ Carrying the Cross''
* [[Lorado Taft]] – ''[[Fountain of Time]]'' ([[Chicago]])
* [[Aston Webb]] (architect) and [[Alfred Drury]] (sculptor) – [[London Troops War Memorial]]

==Publications==
* [[Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler]] – ''Der Weg zum Kubismus'' ("The Rise of [[Cubism]]").

==Births==
===January to June===
* [[January 12]] – [[Bill Reid]], Canadian artist (d. [[1998 in art|1998]]).
* [[January 17]] – [[Georges Pichard]], French [[comics artist]] (d. [[2003 in art|2003]]).
* [[January 30]] – [[Patrick Heron]], English painter, writer and [[designer]] (d. [[1999 in art|1999]]).
* [[February 22]] – [[Rocco Borella]], Italian painter (d. [[1994 in art|1994]]).
* [[March 3]] – [[Ronald Searle]], English [[cartoonist]] (d. [[2011 in art|2011]]).
* [[March 14]] – [[Hank Ketcham]], American cartoonist (d. [[2001 in art|2001]]).
* [[March 19]] – [[Kjell Aukrust]], Norwegian poet and artist (d. [[2002 in art|2002]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|year=|title=Kjell Aukrust|encyclopedia=[[Norsk biografisk leksikon]]|first=Finn|last=Jor|authorlink=Finn Jor|editor=Helle, Knut|editor-link=Knut Helle|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|url=http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Kjell_Aukrust/utdypning|language=Norwegian|accessdate=17 December 2011}}</ref>
* [[March 27]] – [[Robin Jacques]], English [[illustrator]] (d. [[1995 in art|1995]]).
* [[April 8]] – [[Hans Coper]], German-born [[studio potter]] (d. [[1981 in art|1981]]).
* [[April 24]] – [[Paul Wonner]], American painter (d. [[2008 in art|2008]]).
* [[April 26]] – [[Maynard Reece]], American painter (d. [[2020 in art|2020]])
* May – [[Hans Josephsohn]], German-born sculptor (d. [[2012 in art|2012]]).
* [[May 8]]
** [[Saul Bass]], American [[graphic designer]] and filmmaker (d. [[1996 in art|1996]]).
** [[Tom of Finland]], Finnish [[fetish artist]] (d. [[1991 in art|1991]]).<ref>{{cite book|author=David A. Gerstner|title=Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XS_SnVPixE8C&pg=PA564|year=2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-30651-5|pages=564}}</ref>
* [[May 10]] - [[Erna Viitol]], Estonian sculptor (d. [[2001 in art|2001]]).
* [[June 4]] – [[Alejandro Obregón]], [[Colombia]]n painter, muralist, sculptor and engraver (d. [[1992 in art|1992]]).
* [[June 24]]
** [[John Coplans]], British-born painter and photographer (d. [[2003 in art|2003]])
** [[Jimmy Ernst]], German-born American painter (d. [[1984 in art|1984]]).
* [[June 29]] – [[Ray Harryhausen]], American-born stop-motion animator, sculptor (d. [[2013 in art|2013]]).

===July to December===
* [[July 20]] – [[Arthur Boyd]], Australian painter and sculptor (d. [[1999 in art|1999]]).
* [[July 21]] – [[Constant Nieuwenhuys]], Dutch painter, one of the innovators of [[Unitary Urbanism]] (d. [[2005 in art|2005]]).<ref>{{cite book|author=Wolf Stubbe|title=History of Modern Graphic Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yJ1Vd_pH7VcC|year=1963|publisher=Thames and Hudson|page=260}}</ref>
* [[August 1]] – [[Ken Bald]], American comic book artist and illustrator (d. [[2019 in art|2019]])
* [[August 5]] – [[George Tooker]], American figurative painter (d. [[2011 in art|2011]]).
* [[August 9]] – [[Gerda Schmidt-Panknin]], German painter (d. [[2021 in art|2021]]) 
* [[August 15]] – [[Judy Cassab]], born Judit Kaszab, Austrian-born Australian portrait painter (d. [[2015 in art|2015]]).
* [[August 22]] – [[Gene Davis (painter)|Gene Davis]], American painter (d. [[1985 in art|1985]]).
* [[August 26]]
** [[Mauri Favén]], Finnish painter (d. [[2006 in art|2006]]).
** [[Brant Parker]], American [[cartoonist]] (d. [[2007 in art|2007]]).
* [[August 30]] – [[Leonid Shvartsman]], Soviet and Russian animator and artist (d. [[2022 in art|2022]]).
* [[October 13]] – [[Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal|Elaine Hamilton]], American painter (d. [[2010 in art|2010]]).
* [[October 31]] – [[Helmut Newton]], German-born photographer (d. [[2004 in art|2004]]).
* [[November 23]] – [[Wayne Thiebaud]], American painter (d. 2021)
* [[November 30]] – [[Walter Chandoha]], American cat photographer (d. [[2019 in art|2019]]).
*[[December 14]] – [[Claire Fejes]], American artist
* [[December 18]] – [[Enrique Grau]], [[Colombia]]n painter and sculptor (d. [[2004 in art|2004]]).
* [[December 21]] – [[Bob Bindig]], American illustrator (d. [[2007 in art|2007]])

===Full date unknown===
* [[Adrian Heath (painter)|Adrian Heath]], Burmese-born English painter (d. [[1992 in art|1992]]).
* [[Raymond Moore (photographer)|Raymond Moore]], English landscape photographer (d. [[1987 in art|1987]]).
* [[Daniel O'Neill (painter)|Daniel O'Neill]], [[Ireland|Irish]] painter (d. [[1974 in art|1974]]).

==Deaths==
* [[January 24]] – [[Amedeo Modigliani]], Italian-born painter and sculptor (b. [[1884 in art|1884]])<ref name="Sichel1967">{{cite book|author=Pierre Sichel|title=Modigliani: A Biography of Amedeo Modigliani|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TVZBAQAAIAAJ|year=1967|publisher=Dutton|isbn=978-0-491-00120-5|page=500}}</ref>
* [[January 26]] – [[Jeanne Hébuterne]], French artist, Modigliani's mistress and model (suicide) (b. [[1898 in art|1898]])<ref name="Sichel1967"/>
* [[March 3]] – [[Theodor Philipsen]], Danish painter (b. [[1840 in art|1840]])
* [[March 13]] – [[Mary Devens]], American pictorial photographer (b. [[1857 in art|1857]])
* [[March 15]] – [[Edith Holden]], English nature artist and art teacher (b. [[1871 in art|1871]])
* [[March 26]] – [[Samuel Colman]], American painter and designer (b. [[1832 in art|1832]])
* [[April 20]] – [[Briton Rivière]], British painter (b. [[1840 in art|1840]])
* [[April 27]] – [[Jacob Ungerer]], German sculptor (b. [[1840 in art|1840]])
* [[May 7]] – [[Hugh Thomson]], British illustrator (b. [[1860 in art|1860]])
* [[May 12]] – [[Georges Petit]], French art dealer (b. [[1856 in art|1856]])
* [[July 5]] – [[Max Klinger]], German painter and sculptor (b. [[1857 in art|1857]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Walter Yust|title=Encyclopædia Britannica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2iA1AAAAIAAJ|year=1951|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica|page=527}}</ref>
* [[July 14]] – [[Albert von Keller]], German painter (b. [[1844 in art|1844]])<ref>{{Cite NIE|wstitle=Keller, Albert von|year=1905}}</ref>
* [[July 17]] – [[Sir Edmund Elton, 8th Baronet]], English studio potter (b. [[1846 in art|1846]])
* [[August 4]] – [[C. G. Finch-Davies]], British bird painter (b. [[1875 in art|1875]])
* [[August 6]] – [[Edward Francis Searles]], American interior designer (b. [[1841 in art|1841]])
* [[August 12]] – [[Walter W. Winans]], American sculptor, painter, marksman and horse-breeder (b. [[1852 in art|1852]])
* [[August 22]] – [[Anders Zorn]], Swedish portrait painter (b. [[1860 in art|1860]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Anders Zorn|title=Anders Zorn Rediscovered: November 27-December 19, 1984 : an Exhibition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7MdIAQAAIAAJ|year=1984|publisher=The Museum|isbn=978-0-936270-23-4|page=16}}</ref>
* [[September 24]] – [[Peter Carl Fabergé]], Russian-born jeweller (b. [[1846 in art|1846]])
* [[November 13]] – [[Luc-Olivier Merson]], French painter (b. [[1846 in art|1846]])
* ''date unknown'' – [[Edith Corbet]], Australian-born British landscape painter (b. [[1846 in art|1846]])

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