1935 in art

Events

• January – First issue of Axis, a quarterly review of abstract art edited by Myfanwy Piper in England, is published.
• February 15–March 2 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People stages an exhibition Art Commentary on Lynching in New York City.
• May 7 – Artists' Unit group of British modernists announced, superseding Unit One.
• December – Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler undergoes forced sterilization in accordance with Nazi eugenics policies and never paints again.
• Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, designed by Hendrik Petrus Berlage, completed in the Netherlands.
• William Coldstream edits the GPO Film Unit documentary Coal Face.
• Picasso's poetry takes precedence over his graphic work this year.

Works

• Pierre Bonnard – Nude in the Bathtub
• Alessandro Bruschetti – Fascist Synthesis
• Óscar Domínguez – Le Dimanche
• Gerardo Dottori – Fascist Creations
• Jacob Epstein – Ecce Homo (marble)
• M. C. Escher – Hand with Reflecting Sphere (lithograph)
• James Earle Fraser – sculptures, Washington, D.C.
  • Guardianship
  • Heritage
• Frida Kahlo
  • A Few Small Nips (Unos cuantos piquetitos)
  • Self-Portrait with Curly Hair
• Fernand Léger – Two Sisters
• L. S. Lowry – The Fever Van
• René Magritte
  • The Discovery of Fire
  • The Human Condition (second version)
  • The Portrait
• Joan Miró
  • Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excrement
  • Metamorphosis
• Paul Nash – Equivalents for the Megaliths
• Pablo Picasso – Jeune Fille Endormie
• Candido Portinari – Coffee
• Diego Rivera – The Spanish Conquest of Mexico
• William Rothenstein – Barn at Cherington, Gloucestershire
• Amrita Sher-Gil
  • Camels
  • Hill Women
  • Three Girls
• Kārlis Zāle – Freedom Monument (Riga, Latvia)

Awards

• Archibald Prize: John Longstaff – A B ('Banjo') Paterson
• Knighthood: William Reid Dick

Births

• 2 January – David McKee, English author and illustrator (d. 2022)
• 12 January – Teresa del Conde, Mexican art critic and historian (d. 2017)
• 26 January – Paula Rego, Portuguese-born painter (d. 2022)
• 10 February
  • John Alcorn, American illustrator (d. 1992)
  • Konrad Klapheck, German painter (d. 2023)
• 1 June – Vladislav Lalicki, Serbian painter (d. 2008)
• 13 June – Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Bulgarian & Moroccan-born American installation artists (d. 2020 & 2009 respectively)
• 22 June – Floyd Norman, American animator, writer and comic book artist
• 19 August – Victor Ambrus, Hungarian-born British illustrator (d. 2021)
• 23 August – Roy Strong, English art historian and curator
• 8 September – William Vance, Belgian comics artist (d. 2018)
• 16 September – Carl Andre, American minimalist artist (d. 2024)
• 26 September – Juan Zanotto, Italian-born Argentine comic book artist (d. 2005)
• 30 September – James McKendry, Northern Irish sculptor and painter
• 1 October – Walter De Maria, American minimalist, conceptual artist and land artist (d. 2013)
• 3 October – Sinikka Kurkinen, Finnish painter
• 9 October – Don McCullin, English war photographer
• Full date unknown
  • Nina Alovert, Russian-born American ballet photographer
  • Rasheed Araeen, Pakistan-born British conceptual artist
  • Félix Aráuz, Ecuadorean painter (d. 2024)
  • John Barry, English film set designer (d. 1979)

Deaths

• February 8 – Max Liebermann, German-Jewish impressionist painter (b. 1847)
• February 16 – Carolina Benedicks-Bruce, Swedish sculptor (b. 1856)
• March 25 – William de Leftwich Dodge, American muralist (b. 1867)
• April 15 – Anna Ancher, Danish member of the Skagen Painters group (b. 1859)
• April 22 – Frederick Farrell, Scottish watercolourist, war artist, pneumonia (b. 1882)
• May 3 – Jessie Willcox Smith, American illustrator (b. 1863)
• May 15 – Kazimir Malevich, Polish-Russian painter, art theoretician (b. 1879)
• May 24 – Granville Redmond, American landscape painter (b. 1871)
• July 17 – George William Russell ('Æ'), Irish critic, poet and painter (b. 1867)
• August 15 – Paul Signac, French neo-impressionist painter (b. 1863)
• August 27 – Childe Hassam, American impressionist painter (b. 1859)
• October 2 – Georg Jensen, Danish silversmith (b. 1866)
• October 4 – Jean Béraud, French painter (b. 1849)
• October 9 – Archibald Thorburn, Scottish-born wildlife painter (b. 1860)
• October 11 – Samuel Peploe, Scottish painter (b. 1871)
• October 18 – Gaston Lachaise, French-American sculptor (b. 1882)
• October 23 – Charles Demuth, American painter (b. 1883)
• November 28 – Joaquín Clausell, Mexican impressionist landscape painter, lawyer and political activist (b. 1866)
• Undated
  • Harry Fidler, English painter (b. 1856)
  • Eva Watson-Schütze, American portrait photographer and curator (b. 1867)

References

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