Editing 1937 in art

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Events from the year '''1937 in art'''.

==Events==
[[File:Watercolrs and Drawings, FAP poster 1937.jpg|thumb|upright|[[September 20]] – The [[Federal Art Project]] opens a show in New York]]
* [[January 9]] – [[Leon Trotsky]] begins exile in Mexico with his wife [[Natalia Sedova]]; they share [[Frida Kahlo Museum|The Blue House]] in [[Coyoacán]] with painters [[Frida Kahlo]] and [[Diego Rivera]] and Trotsky has an affair with Frida.
* [[March 24]] - [[National Gallery of Art]] in Washington, D.C., established by the United States Congress.
* [[April 12]] - [[East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing]] established in England by [[Cedric Morris]] and [[Arthur Lett-Haines]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Richard|last=Morphet|title=Cedric Morris|location=London|publisher=Tate Gallery|year=1984|isbn=0-946590-06-0}}</ref>
* [[May 1]]–[[June 4]] – [[Pablo Picasso]] paints ''[[Guernica (painting)|Guernica]]'', a large cubistic monochrome oil painting created in reaction to the German bombing of the Spanish [[Gernika|Basque town of the same name]] on 26 April. It is first exhibited in July at the [[Second Spanish Republic|Spanish Republican]] government pavilion (designed by [[Josep Lluís Sert]]) in the ''[[Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne]]'' in [[Paris]] before commencing a world tour. [[René Iché]] created a sculpture ''[[Guernica (sculpture)|Guernica]]'' the day after the bombing took place, but will not exhibit it in his lifetime. The Spanish Government pavilion at the International Exhibition also includes Horacio Ferrer's ''[http://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/collection/artwork/madrid-1937-aviones-negros-madrid-1937-black-aeroplanes Madrid 1937 (Black Aeroplanes)]'', [[Joan Miró]]'s ''[[The Reaper (Miró painting)|The Reaper]]'' and a [[mercury fountain]] by [[Alexander Calder]]. [[Vera Mukhina]]'s sculpture ''[[Worker and Kolkhoz Woman]]'' is also created for the Exhibition.
* May – [[Stanley Spencer]] and his wife [[Hilda Carline|Hilda]] are divorced; within a week he marries [[Patricia Preece]] who departs on honeymoon to [[St Ives, Cornwall|St Ives]] with her partner [[Dorothy Hepworth]] while he resumes relations with Hilda at [[Cookham]].
* [[July 18]] – ''[[Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung]]'' ("Great German Art Exhibition") opened by [[Adolf Hitler]] in the ''[[Haus der deutschen Kunst]]'' ("House of German Art") in [[Munich]], newly completed to the designs of [[Paul Troost]] (d. 1934) to display [[art of the Third Reich]]. Hitler has rejected the choices of the original selection jury and placed his personal photographer [[Heinrich Hoffmann (photographer)|Heinrich Hoffmann]] in charge of curating the display, but even so has rejected some of the more experimental paintings.
* [[July 19]] – ''Entartete Kunst'' ("[[Degenerate art]]") exhibition, mounted by the [[Nazi]]s, opens in Munich.
* October – Formation in [[London]] of the [[Euston Road School]], a private School of Drawing and Painting originally established in [[Fitzroy Street, London|Fitzroy Street]] by [[William Coldstream]], [[Claude Rogers (artist)|Claude Rogers]] and [[Victor Pasmore]], and giving name to the group of [[Naturalism (art)|naturalist artists]] associated with it.<ref>{{cite web|title=Euston Road School|url=http://www.artbiogs.co.uk/2/schools/euston-road-school|work=Artist Biographies|date=2011-04-28|access-date=2012-04-10}}</ref>
* December 21 – Premiere of [[Walt Disney]]'s ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]]'' in the [[United States]], the first full-length [[Traditional animation|animated]] [[feature film]] (concept artist: Albert Hurter).
* The exhibition ''The Origins and Development of International Independent Art'' held at the [[Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume]] in Paris brings [[Chaïm Soutine]] to prominence.
* [[Surrealist]] exhibition ''Objects and Poems'' arranged at his newly opened London Gallery (on [[Cork Street]]) by [[Roland Penrose]].<ref name=Maclean>{{cite book|first=Caroline|last=Maclean|title=Circles and Squares: the lives and art of the Hampstead Modernists|location=London|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|year=2020|isbn=978-1-4088-8969-5}}</ref>
* The Avant-Garde Image Group is founded by [[Japan]]ese photographer [[Terushichi Hirai]].
* ''Circle'', a manifesto for abstract-constructivist art, is published.<ref name=Maclean/>
* [[Americans|American]] painters [[Paul Cadmus]], [[Jared French]] and Margaret French (née Hoening) form the PaJaMa photographic collective.
* Statues by [[Jacob Epstein]] on [[Embassy of Zimbabwe, London|Rhodesia House, London]], are mutilated.<ref>{{cite book|first=Richard|last=Buckle|author-link=Richard Buckle|title=Jacob Epstein, Sculptor|location=London|publisher=Faber|year=1963|chapter=1907-08: Strand Statues|pages=24–37}}</ref>
* 1937–[[1938 in art|1938]] – [[Benito Mussolini|Mussolini]] has the [[Ara Pacis Augustae]] reconstructed in its present location.

==Works==
===Paintings===
* [[Endre Bálint]] – ''My Room at the Bindendorfs''
* [[Balthus]] – ''The Mountain''
* [[William Coldstream]]
** ''[http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/coldstream-on-the-map-t03068 On the Map]''
** ''[http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/coldstream-winifred-burger-t00339 Winifred Burger]''
* [[Ralston Crawford]] – ''[https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/buffalo-grain-elevators-5948 Buffalo Grain Elevators]''
* [[John Steuart Curry]] – ''[[Ajax (painting)|Ajax]]''
* [[Salvador Dalí]]
** ''[[The Burning Giraffe]]''
** ''[[Couple with Their Heads Full of Clouds]]'' (second version)
** ''[[Metamorphosis of Narcissus]]'', a surrealist work influenced by the Greek myth of Narcissus
** ''[[Swans Reflecting Elephants]]''
* [[Edwin Dickinson]] – ''[[Composition with Still Life]]''
* [[Óscar Domínguez]] – ''The Infernal Machine''
* [[Max Dupain]] – ''[[Sunbaker]]''
* [[Arthur Dove]] – ''Me and the Moon''
* [[M. C. Escher]] – [[woodcut]]s
** ''[[Metamorphosis I]]''
** ''[[Still Life and Street]]'', his first impossible reality
* [[Alberto Giacometti]] – ''The Artist's Mother''
* [[Gluck (painter)|Gluck]] – ''[[:File:Gluck - Medallion.jpg|Medallion]]''
* Herman Otto Hoyer – ''Am Anfang war das Wort'' ("In the beginning was the word")
* [[Gladys Hynes]] – ''Private View''
* [[Edwin Boyd Johnson]] – ''[[Airmail (fresco)|Airmail]]'' (fresco for United States Post Office, [[Melrose Park, Illinois]])
* [[Frida Kahlo]]
** ''[http://www.fridakahlo.org/the-deceased-dimas.jsp The Deceased Dimas]''
** ''[http://www.fridakahlo.org/me-and-my-doll.jsp Me and My Doll]''
** ''[http://www.fridakahlo.org/memory-the-heart.jsp Memory - the heart]''
** ''[http://www.fridakahlo.org/my-nurse-and-i.jsp My Nurse and I]''
** ''[[Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky]]''
* [[Oskar Kokoschka]]
** ''Olda Palkovská''
** ''[https://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/artists-a-z/k/artist/oskar-kokoschka/object/self-portrait-as-a-degenerate-artist-gml-285 Self-portrait as a degenerate artist]''
* Hubert Lanzinger
** ''[[The Standard Bearer (Lanzinger painting)|The Standard Bearer]]''
* [[René Magritte]]
** ''[http://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/artists-a-z/M/3111/artist_name/René%20Magritte/record_id/2034 The Black Flag]''
** ''[[Not to be Reproduced]]''
** ''[[On the Threshold of Liberty]]''
* [[Henri Matisse]]
** ''Lady in Blue''
** ''[[Robe violette et Anémones]]''
** ''[[Woman in a Purple Coat]]''
** ''[[Yellow Odalisque]]'' (second version, [[Philadelphia Museum of Art]])
* [[Joan Miró]]
** ''[[Naked woman climbing a staircase]]''
** ''[[Still Life with Old Shoe]]''
** ''[[Aidez l'Espagne]]''
** ''[[The Reaper (Miró painting)|The Reaper]]''
* [[Georgia O'Keeffe]] – ''Jimson Weed''
* [[Pablo Picasso]]
** ''[[Guernica (painting)|Guernica]]''
** ''[[Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter)]]''
** ''Portrait of Lee Miller'' (7 individual paintings)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Picasso Lee Miller Portrait |url=https://www.christies.com/features/picasso-lee-miller-portrait-12716-1.aspx |access-date=August 26, 2024 |website=www.christies.com}}</ref>
** ''[[The Weeping Woman]]''
** ''[[Woman in Hat and Fur Collar]]''
* [[Georges Rouault]] - ''The Breton Wedding''<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.66435.html | title=The Breton Wedding | date=1937 }}</ref>
* [[Amrita Sher-Gil]]
** ''Brahmacharis''
** ''[[Bride's Toilet]]''
** ''The South Indian Villagers''
* [[Stanley Spencer]] – ''[[Leg of mutton nude|Double Nude Portrait: The Artist and his Second Wife]]''
* [[Edward Wadsworth]] – ''[[The Beached Margin]]''
* [[Rex Whistler]] – ''[[Capriccio (Rex Whistler)|Capriccio]]'' (Dining room mural), [[Plas Newydd (Anglesey)|Plas Newydd]], [[Anglesey]]
* [[Adolf Ziegler]] – ''[http://arthistory.about.com/od/from_exhibitions/ig/Chaos-and-Classicism/Adolf-Ziegler-The-Four-Elements-before-1937.htm Die vier Elemente] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141109021918/http://arthistory.about.com/od/from_exhibitions/ig/Chaos-and-Classicism/Adolf-Ziegler-The-Four-Elements-before-1937.htm |date=2014-11-09 }}'' ("The Four Elements", [[triptych]])

===Photographs===
* [[Margaret Bourke-White]] – ''[[At the Time of the Louisville Flood]]'' (photograph)<ref>Sexton, Robby (May 7, 2014). [https://www.artic.edu/articles/467/worlds-highest-standard-of-living "World's Highest Standard of Living"]. [[Art Institute of Chicago]]. Retrieved March 14, 2025.</ref>
* [[H. S. Wong]] – ''[[Bloody Saturday (photograph)|Bloody Saturday]]'' (photograph)

===Sculptures===
{{See also|Category:1937 sculptures}}
* [[Franz Ehrlich]] – [[:File:Germany06 513aa.jpg|Gates]] to [[Buchenwald concentration camp]]
* [[John Gregory (sculptor)|John Gregory]] – ''[[Anthony Wayne, (Gregory)|Anthony Wayne]]''
* [[Alfred Frank Hardiman|A. F. Hardiman]] – [[Earl Haig Memorial]]
* [[René Iché]] – ''[[Guernica (sculpture)|Guernica]]''
* [[Charles Keck]] – [[Statue of Francis P. Duffy]] (bronze, [[Duffy Square]], New York City)
* [[Lee Lawrie]] – ''[[Atlas (statue)|Atlas]]''
* [[Ronald Moody]] – ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20111005161721/http://vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=72922 Midonz]'' (carved wood head)
* [[Vera Mukhina]] – ''[[Worker and Kolkhoz Woman]]''
* [[Edith Barretto Stevens Parsons]] – [[Frog Baby Fountain]]

==Awards==
* [[Archibald Prize]]: [[Normand Baker]] – ''Self Portrait''

==Births==
* [[January 21]] – [[Sally Soames]], born Winkleman, English photographer (d.[[2019 in art|2019]])
* [[February 11]] – [[Mauro Staccioli]], Italian sculptor (d. [[2018 in art|2018]])<ref>{{cite book|last1=Vv.|first1=Aa.|last2=Collective|title=Toscana. Ediz. inglese|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UmGm9V13sCIC&pg=PA29|access-date=14 July 2011|date=2006-08-01|publisher=Casa Editrice Bonechi|isbn=978-88-476-1792-6|pages=29–}}</ref>
* [[March 11]] – [[Hossein Zenderoudi]], Iranian artist
* [[March 23]] – [[Parviz Tanavoli]], [[Iran]]ian-born sculptor
* [[March 27]] – [[Thomas Aquinas Daly]], [[Americans|American]] painter
* [[May 4]] - [[Melvin Edwards]], American sculptor and printmaker
* [[May 31]] – [[Larry Zox]], American painter and printmaker (d.[[2006 in art|2006]])
* [[June 7]] – [[Red Grooms]], born Charles Rogers Grooms, American multimedia pop artist
* [[June 27]] – [[Alona Frankel]], Polish-born Israeli writer, illustrator
* [[July 9]] – [[David Hockney]], [[English people|English]] painter
* [[August 2]] – [[John Salt]], English painter
* [[August 18]] – [[Willie Rushton]], English [[cartoonist]], [[satirist]], [[comedian]], actor and performer (d.[[1996 in art|1996]])
* [[September 1]] – [[Allen Jones (artist)|Allen Jones]], English pop art sculptor and painter
* [[October 1]] – [[Larry Poons]], Japanese-born American [[op art]]ist
* [[October 6]] – [[Fritz Scholder]], Native American painter, printmaker and graphic artist (d.[[2005 in art|2005]])
* [[October 12]] – [[Robert Mangold]], American minimalist painter
* [[October 19]] – [[Peter Max]], German-born American printmaker and graphic designer
* [[December 16]] – [[Edward Ruscha]], American painter, printmaker, photographer and conceptual artist
* ''full date unknown'' – [[Ronald Davis]], American painter

==Deaths==
* [[January 29]] – [[Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté]], [[Canadians|Canadian]] painter and sculptor (b. [[1869 in art|1869]])
* [[February 11]] – [[Suzette Holten]], [[Danes|Danish]] painter and ceramist (born [[1863 in art|1863]])
* [[February 18]] – [[Joseph Ehrismann]], German-born painter and stained-glass maker (born [[1880 in art|1880]])
* [[February 28]] – [[Harrington Mann]], [[Scotland|Scottish]]-born portrait painter and decorative artist in the United States (b. [[1864 in art|1864]])
* [[March 9]] – [[Alfred Flechtheim]], German-born art dealer, collector and publisher (b. [[1877 in art|1878]])
* [[March 12]] – [[Eveleen Tennant]] Myers, English portrait photographer (b. [[1856 in art|1856]])
* [[April 19]] – [[Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington|Martin Conway]], English art critic (b. [[1856 in art|1856]])
* May – [[Peter Waals]], Dutch-born furniture designer (b. [[1870 in art|1870]])
* [[July 26]] – [[Gerda Taro]], German-born photographer, killed in [[Spanish Civil War]] (b. [[1910 in art|1910]])
* [[October 29]] – [[Élie Faure]], French [[art historian]] (b. [[1873 in art|1873]])
* [[November 6]] – [[Colin Campbell Cooper]], American painter (b. [[1856 in art|1856]])
* [[November 11]] – [[Helen Thornycroft]], English painter (b. [[1848 in art|1848]])
* [[December 5]] – [[János Thorma]], Hungarian Post-Impressionist painter (b. [[1870 in art|1870]])
* [[December 6]]
** [[Francis Cadell (artist)|Francis Cadell]], Scottish Colourist painter (b. [[1883 in art|1883]])
** [[Florence Griswold]], American curator (b. [[1850 in art|1850]])

==See also==
* [[1937 in fine arts of the Soviet Union]]

==References==
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