1915 in art

Events from the year 1915 in art.

Events May – Ambrose Heal and others found the Design and Industries Association in London. c. May – Publication of the first modern book illustrated with wood engravings, Frances Cornford's Spring Morning (published by The Poetry Bookshop, London) with engravings by the poet's cousin Gwen Raverat. June 10 – The only contemporary Vorticist exhibition staged opens at the Doré Gallery in London. October 24 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's frescos, Translation of the House of Loreto, in the Church of the Scalzi (Venice) are destroyed by an Austrian bombardment. December 19 – Kasimir Malevich stages the 0.10 Exhibition and originates Suprematism. Pierre Bodard serves with the French Army on Martinique. Marcel Duchamp begins producing readymades Harper's Bazaar hires Erté to design its covers. Edward McKnight Kauffer is given his first commission to design a poster for the Underground Electric Railways Company of London. Shōzaburō Watanabe originates shin-hanga collaborative woodblock printing in Japan. The first of the 'Etruscan terracotta warriors', forged by sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti with the Riccardi family, is purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. 14-year-old Alice Prin ("Kiki de Montparnasse") is posing (nude) for sculptors in Paris.

Works

George Bellows – Riverfront No. 1 Frank Weston Benson – Red and Gold Umberto Boccioni Charge of the Lancers Horizontal Volumes Marc Chagall – The Poet Reclining William Merritt Chase – Self-portrait Giorgio de Chirico The Double Dream of Spring The Evil Genius of a King Portrait of Paul Guillaume The Seer Jacob Epstein – bust of Admiral Lord Fisher Albert Gleizes Brooklyn Bridge Composition for "Jazz" Portrait of an Army Doctor J. W. Godward – In The Prime Of The Summer Time Juan Gris The Breakfast Still Life with Checked Tablecloth Still Life with a Poem Alexandre Jacovleff – The Violinist Eric Kennington - The Kensingtons at Laventie Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Brandenburger Tor The Red Tower in Halle Self-portrait as a Soldier Gustav Klimt – Death and Life Carl Larsson – Midvinterblot Wyndham Lewis – The Crowd Kazimir Malevich Black Cross Black Square Red Square Henri Matisse – The Yellow Curtain Jean Metzinger – Soldier at a Game of Chess Amedeo Modigliani Beatrice Hastings in Front of a Door Portrait of Pablo Picasso Portrait of the Painter Moisè Kisling Piet Mondrian – Composition No. 10 Pier and Ocean C. R. W. Nevinson Bursting Shell La Mitrailleuse Returning to the Trenches (approximate date)

Pablo Picasso – Harlequin (1915) Musical Instruments Still Life with Compote and Glass Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Blond Girl with a Rose Diego Rivera – Portrait of Ramón Gómez de la Serna Isaac Rosenberg – Self-portrait Ladislav Šaloun – Jan Hus Memorial (Prague) John Singer Sargent – Tyrolese Interior Egon Schiele Death and the Maiden Portrait of Edith (the artist's wife) Helene Schjerfbeck – Self-portrait with black background Kathleen Scott – statue of her late husband, Robert Falcon Scott in London Zinaida Serebriakova – Harvest Walter Sickert – Brighton Pierrots Fred Spear – Enlist (poster) Stewart–Screven Monument Paul Strand – Wall Street (photograph) John William Waterhouse – I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Said the Lady of Shalott Max Weber - Chinese Restaurant W. L. Wyllie – The track of Lusitania: view of casualties and survivors in the water and in lifeboats Konstantin Yuon – March Sun Anders Zorn – Self-portrait in Red

Births January 3 – Jack Levine, American Social Realist painter and printmaker (d. 2010) January 15 – Leo Mol, Ukrainian-born Canadian artist, sculptor (d. 2009) January 24 – Robert Motherwell, American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker (d. 1991). February 4 – Virginia Admiral, American painter and poet (d. 2000) February 11 – Mervyn Levy, Welsh artist and critic (d. 1996). March 10 – Harry Bertoia, Italian-born American artist and furniture designer (d. 1978). March 19 – Maria Austria (née Marie Karoline Oeststreicher) Austro-Dutch photographer and photojournalist) (d. 1979). April 4 – Louis Archambault, Canadian sculptor (d. 2003). April 6 – Tadeusz Kantor, Polish painter, Assemblage artist, set designer and theatre director (d. 1990) April 10 – Wynona Mulcaster, Canadian painter and teacher (d. 2016) April 15 – Elizabeth Catlett, African-American graphic artist and sculptor (d. 2012) April 17 – William Pachner, Czech painter (d. 2017) May 3 – Richard Lippold, American sculptor (d. 2002) May 20 – Sam Golden, American paint maker (d. 1997) May 31 – Carmen Herrera, Cuban-American abstract minimalist visual artist (d. 2022). June 7 – Graham Ingels, American illustrator (d. 1991) June 11 – José Caballero, Spanish artist (d. 1991) June 17 – Gunther Gerzso, Mexican abstract painter (d. 2000) June 23 – Frances Gabe, American artist and inventor (d. 2016) July 8 – Malvina Cheek, British artist (d. 2016) July 15 Edith Pfau, American painter, sculptor and art educator (d. 2001) Judith Révész, Hungarian-Dutch potter and sculptor (d. 2018) July 19 – Åke Hellman, Finnish still life and portrait painter (d. 2017) July 28 – Dick Sprang, American comic book artist (d. 2000) August 6 – Stefan Kanchev, Bulgarian graphic artist (d. 2001) August 14 – Mary Fedden, English painter (d. 2012) August 28 Patrick Hennessy, Irish painter (d. 1980) Tasha Tudor, American illustrator and author of children's books (d. 2008) September 17 – M. F. Husain, Indian artist (d. 2011) September 19 – Duffy Ayers, English portrait painter (d. 2017) October 13 Terry Frost, English Abstract artist (d. 2003) Ricco (born Erich Wassmer), Swiss painter (d. 1972) October 24 – Bob Kane, American comic book artist and writer (d. 1998) November 9 – André François, French cartoonist (d. 2005) November 26 – Inge King, German-born Australian sculptor (d. 2016) November 28 – Evald Okas, Estonian painter (d. 2011)

Deaths January 15 – Luigi Crosio, Italian painter (b. 1835) January 23 – Anne Whitney, American sculptor, poet (b. 1821) February 25 – Flaxman Charles John Spurrell, English archaeologist and photographer (b. 1842) April 3 – Nadežda Petrović, Serbian Fauvist painter (b. 1873) April 9 – Karl Bitter, Austrian American sculptor (b. 1867) May 7 – Sir Hugh Lane, Irish-born art dealer, collector and benefactor (b. 1875; killed in sinking of the RMS Lusitania) June 5 – Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, French artist and sculptor (killed in action) (b. 1891) June 7 – Hilda Sjölin, Swedish photographer (b. 1835) July 10 – Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Dutch marine painter (b. 1831) July 11 – Albert Schickedanz, Austro-Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style (b. 1846) September 11 – Jens Birkholm, Danish genre and landscape painter (b. 1869) September 14 – Alfred Agache, French academic painter (b. 1843) October 24 – Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist and pioneer photographer (b. 1828) November 28 – Kobayashi Kiyochika, Japanese ukiyo-e painter and printmaker (b. 1847) December 22 – Arthur Hughes, English painter and illustrator (b. 1832) date unknown Kikuchi Shingaku, Japanese photographer (b. 1832) Krikor Torosian, Armenian illustrator (b. 1884; killed in Armenian genocide)

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