Overview of the events of 1912 in art
The year 1912 in art involved some significant events and new works.
Events
- January 5 (Old Style December 23, 1911) – Moscow Art Theatre production of Hamlet, designed by Edward Gordon Craig, opens.
- May – The Blue Rider Almanac published in Munich, containing reproductions of more than 140 multi-ethnic artworks, articles on the visual arts and music and Vasilly Kandinsky's experimental theater composition The Yellow Sound.
- June 26 – Austrian writer Frida Strindberg opens The Cave of the Golden Calf, a London nightclub decorated by Spencer Gore, Wyndham Lewis, Charles Ginner and Jacob Epstein with its motif by Eric Gill; it becomes a haunt of Futurists.
- July – At the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, American marksman, horse breeder and artist Walter W. Winans wins a silver medal for shooting and a gold in the sculpture category of the art competitions for his bronze statuette An American Trotter.
- December 24 – William Zorach marries Marguerite Thompson.
- In Paris, Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger publish the first major treatise on Cubism, Du "Cubisme", followed by André Salmon's La jeune peinture française including Histoire anecdotique du cubisme.
- Ludwig Meidner begins producing his "Apocalyptic Landscapes".
Exhibitions
Works
Albert Gleizes, 1912,
l'Homme au Balcon, Man on a Balcony (Portrait of Dr. Théo Morinaud), oil on canvas, 195.6 x 114.9 cm (77 x 45 1/4 in.), Philadelphia Museum of Art. Completed the same year that the painter co-authors the book
Du "Cubisme" with
Jean Metzinger. Exhibited at Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1912,
Armory show, New York, Chicago, Boston, 1913
- Giacomo Balla – Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash[1]
- Vanessa Bell – Three portraits of her sister Virginia Woolf[2]
- George Bellows – Men of the Docks[3]
- David Bomberg – Vision of Ezekiel
- Pierre Bonnard – St Tropez, Pier
- Richard E. Brooks – Statue of John McGraw (bronze sculpture, Seattle)
- Paul Émile Chabas – September Morn (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
- Jerome Connor – Bishop John Carroll (bronze sculpture, Washington, D.C.)[4]
- John Currie – Some Later Primitives and Madame Tisceron
- Roger de la Fresnaye – Mon Ami, Jean Cocteau[5]
- Robert Delaunay – Simultaneous Windows on the City[6]
- Marcel Duchamp – Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2
- Lydia Field Emmet – Self Portrait
- Jacob Epstein – Tomb of Oscar Wilde (Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris)
- E. Phillips Fox – Nasturtiums
- Roger Fry
- Laura Gilpin – Basket of Peaches (color photograph)
- Albert Gleizes
- J. W. Godward
- Juan Gris – Verre et Bouteilles
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
- Boris Kustodiev
- Jacques Henri Lartigue – Grand Prix de l'A.C.F. (photograph)[7]
- Fernand Léger
- Wyndham Lewis – Smiling Woman Ascending a Stair
- J. B. Manson – Approximate date
- Franz Marc
- Henri Matisse
- Jean Metzinger
- Amedeo Modigliani – Tête (sculpture)
- Piet Mondrian – Gray Tree
- Mikhail Nesterov – Crucifixion
- Emil Nolde – The Prophet (woodcut)
- William Orpen – Portrait of Gardenia St. George With Riding Crop
- Pablo Picasso
- Charles A. Platt – Josephine Shaw Lowell Memorial Fountain (New York City)
- Franz Roubaud – Battle of Borodino Panorama
- Egon Schiele
- Kathleen Scott – Charles Stewart Rolls (bronze sculpture, Dover)
- T. F. Simon – Second Hand Booksellers, Spring
- Max Slevogt – The Singer Francisco D'Andrade as Don Giovanni in Mozart's Opera ("The Red d'Andrade")
- Stanley Spencer – The Nativity
- James Wehn – Statue of Chief Seattle (copper sculpture, Seattle)
- Christopher Whall and Mabel Esplin – Lady chapel windows, St John the Divine, Richmond, London
Births
January to June
- January 7 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d.1988)
- January 28 – Jackson Pollock, American painter (d.1956)
- February 7 – Russell Drysdale, Australian artist (d.1981)
- March 4 – Afro Basaldella, Italian painter (d.1976)
- March 22 – Agnes Martin, Canadian-US painter (d.2004)
- April 14 – Robert Doisneau, French photographer (d.1994)
- April 21 – Eve Arnold, née Cohen, American photographer (d.2012)
- May 8 – John Deakin, English photographer (d.1972)
- June 4 – Robert Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and painter (d.1993)
- June 8 – Harry Holtzman, American artist (died 1987)
- June 11 – William Baziotes, American painter (d.1963)
July to December
- August 1 – Rachel Baes, Belgian painter (d.1983)
- August 23 – Keith Vaughan, English painter (d.1977)
- August 29 – Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austrian-born documentary photographer and cinematographer (d.2016)
- September 4
- September 5
- September 23 – Tony Smith, US sculptor, visual artist and theorist on art (d.1980)
- October 31 – Ollie Johnston, US animator (d.2008)
- November 3 – Ida Kohlmeyer, US painter and sculptor (d.1997)
- November 28 – Morris Louis, US painter (d.1962)
- December 27 – Conroy Maddox, English surrealist painter, collagist, writer and lecturer (d.2005)
Deaths
- February 14 – Mathurin Moreau, French sculptor (born 1822)
- March 16 – Elizabeth Forbes, Canadian painter of the Newlyn School (born 1859; cancer)[9]
- March 29 – John Gerrard Keulemans, Dutch bird illustrator (born 1842)
- March 31 – Robert Loftin Newman, American painter and stained-glass designer (born 1827)
- April 15 – Francis Davis Millet, American painter, sculptor and writer (born 1846) (died on board the Titanic)
- May 2 – Homer Davenport, American cartoonist (born 1867)
- May 20 – Louis Hasselriis, Danish sculptor known for public monuments (born 1844)
- June 25 – Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch painter (born 1836)
- June 30 – John Ford Paterson, Scottish–Australian artist, president of the Victorian Artists Society (born 1851)
- July 16 – Thomas Fitzpatrick, Irish cartoonist (born 1860)
- August 20 – Walter Goodman, English painter, illustrator and author (born 1838)
- September 15 – John Leighton, English book illustrator (born 1822)
- October 11 – Nils Hansteen, Norwegian painter (born 1855)
- November 1 – John Emms, English painter (born 1844)
- November 22 – Otto Lessing, German historicist sculptor (born 1846)
- December 1 – John Moyr Smith, Scottish-born ceramic artist (born 1839)
- December 8 – Tony Robert-Fleury, French painter (born 1865)
- December 23 – Édouard Detaille, French painter
- date unknown
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