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Overview of the events of 1939 in art
Events from the year 1939 in art .
Events
Awards
Works
John Angel –
Statue of Alexander Hamilton
Maurice Ascalon –
The Scholar, The Laborer, and The Toiler of the Soil (beaten copper relief sculpture for Jewish Palestine Pavilion at
1939 New York World's Fair )
James Bateman –
Haytime in the Cotswolds
Thomas Hart Benton –
Persephone
Alexander Calder –
Lobster Trap and Fish Tail (
mobile )
Salvador Dalí
Paul Delvaux
Aaron Douglas –
Power Plant, Harlem
James Earle Fraser –
Equestrian Statue of Theodore Roosevelt
Jared French - Calvarymen Crossing a River (mural) at the
Lewis F. Powell Courthouse annex in
Richmond, Virginia
[11]
Leo Friedlander –
Pioneer Woman (sculpture)
Julio González –
Monsieur Cactus (Cactus Man 1) (sculpture)
Edward Hopper
Frida Kahlo
Fernand Léger –
Adam and Eve
David Low –
Rendezvous (
political cartoon )
Musa McKim – Spanish Hill and the Early Inhabitants of the Vicinity (mural at
United States Post Office (Waverly, New York) )
Marino Marini –
The Pilgrim (bronze)
Joan Miró –
Constellations (series begun)
Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen – The Young Man playing Pan-pipes on a Wingless Pegasus (monument to the sculptor's husband, the composer
Carl Nielsen (d. 1931), in
Copenhagen )
José Clemente Orozco – "Hombre de fuego" (
Man of Fire ) (
fresco in
Hospicio Cabañas ,
Guadalajara ,
Mexico , 1936–39)
Eric Ravilious –
watercolours
Beachy Head
Train Landscape
Westbury Horse
Percy Shakespeare –
Tropical Bird House, Dudley Zoo
Charles Sheeler – Power series (paintings)
Situ Qiao –
Guqin
Elizabeth Wyn Wood –
Welland-Crowland War Memorial (
Welland , Ontario)
Grant Wood
Xu Beihong –
Put Down Your Whip
Births
February 16 –
David Griffiths ,
Welsh portrait painter
February 21 –
Gert Neuhaus ,
German mural artist
March 17 –
Jim Gary ,
American
sculptor (d.
2006 )
March 24 –
Gérard Coste ,
French painter and diplomat
April 1 –
Spider Martin , American
photographer (d.
2003 )
April 8 –
Trina Schart Hyman , American
illustrator of children's books (d.
2004 )
April 25 –
Patrick Lichfield ,
English photographer (d.
2005 )
April 27 –
Erik Pevernagie , Belgian painter
June 26 –
Barbara Chase-Riboud , American visual artist, bestselling novelist and award-winning poet
July 20 –
Judy Chicago , born Judith Cohen, American feminist artist
July 27 –
William Eggleston , American color photographer
September 6 –
Brigid Berlin , American actress and artist, Warhol associate (d.
2020 )
September 30 -
Anthony Green , British painter, member of the
RA (d.
2023 )
October 2 –
Heinz Zander , German painter and writer
October 5 –
A. R. Penck , born Ralf Winkler, German artist and jazz drummer (d.
2017 )
October 12 –
Carolee Schneemann , American visual artist (d.
2019 )
November 2 –
Richard Serra , American sculptor
December 23 –
Nancy Graves , American sculptor, painter and
printmaker (d.
1996 )
unknown date
Deaths
February 16 –
Phyllis Gardner , British graphic artist and dog breeder, beloved of Rupert Brooke (b.
1890 )
[12]
April 11 –
Willard Huntington Wright , American art critic and detective-story writer as S. S. Van Dine (b.
1888 )
April 19 –
János Vaszary , Hungarian painter and graphic artist (b.
1867 )
[13]
May 25 –
Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen , English art dealer (b.
1869 )
June 3 –
Sir Philip Sassoon, 3rd Baronet , English art collector (b.
1888 )
[14]
June 17 –
Jean Boucher , French sculptor (b.
1870 )
June 23 –
Mark Gertler , English painter (b.
1891 ) (suicide by
carbon monoxide poisoning )
[15]
July 4 –
Louis Wain , English artist (b.
1860 )
[16]
July 21 –
Ambroise Vollard , French art dealer (b.
1866 )
August 14 –
Isaak Brodsky , Russian socialist realist painter (b.
1884 )
August 24 –
Frederick Carl Frieseke , American Impressionist painter (b.
1874 )
August 29 –
Jessica Dismorr , English Vorticist painter (b.
1885 ) (
suicide by hanging )
September 6 –
Arthur Rackham , English illustrator (b.
1867 )
[17]
September 18
December 1 –
Jorma Gallen-Kallela , Finnish painter (b.
1898 )
[18]
December 3 –
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll , member of the
British Royal Family and sculptor (b.
1848 )
December 14 –
Helene Kröller-Müller , German-born Dutch art collector (b.
1869 )
[19]
December 18 –
Ernest Lawson , Canadian-American painter, member of The Eight (b.
1873 )
December 25 –
Margrethe Mather , American photographer and painter (b.
1886 )
December 27 –
Rinaldo Cuneo , American painter (b.
1877 )
[20]
date unknown –
Jane Mary Dealy , English painter and illustrator (b.
1856 )
See also
References
^ Grosshans, Henry (1983). Hitler and the Artists . New York: Holmes & Meyer. p. 113.
ISBN
0-8419-0746-3 .
^ Hammerstingl, Werner (1998).
"Entartete Kunst" . Olinda.com. Retrieved 2013-12-28 .
^ A Celebration of Marine Art: Fifty Years of the Royal Society of Marine Artists . Blandford. 1996.
ISBN
9780713725643 .
^
"21 Facts About Salvador Dalí | Impressionist & Modern Art | Sotheby's" . Archived from
the original on 2021-05-01. Retrieved 2020-11-11 .
^
Prose, Francine (2015).
Peggy Guggenheim: the shock of the new . New Haven: Yale University Press.
ISBN
978-0-300-20348-6 .
^ Pramstaller, Christopher (2014-11-06).
"Als Hitler "entartete Kunst" verscherbeln ließ" .
Die Zeit . Retrieved 2021-12-12 .
^ Bosman, Suzanne (2008). The National Gallery in Wartime . London: National Gallery Company. p. 25.
ISBN
978-1-85709-424-4 .
^ Maclean, Caroline (2020). Circles and Squares: the lives and art of the Hampstead Modernists . London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
ISBN
978-1-4088-8969-5 .
^ Saunders, Gill, ed. (2011). Recording Britain . London:
V&A .
ISBN
978-1-85177-661-0 .
^
"The Enigma of Hitler, 1939 by Salvador Dali" . Dalipaintings.com . Retrieved 13 November 2021 .
^ Davis, John; Greenhill, Jennifer A.; LaFountain, Jason D. (2015-01-23).
A Companion to American Art . John Wiley & Sons.
ISBN
978-1-118-54254-5 .
^ Robert McCrum (29 March 2015).
"Secret memoir uncovers the real life and loves of doomed war poet Rupert Brooke" . The Guardian . Retrieved 1 April 2024 .
^
The Hungarian Quarterly . MTI. 2008. p. 94.
^
"Sir Philip Sassoon: Death in England" . The Argus . No. 28949. Melbourne. 5 June 1939. p. 9.
^ Mark Gertler: Biography of a Painter 1891-1939, John Woodeson, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1972, p. 411
^ Rodney Dale (1968).
Louis Wain: the Man who Drew Cats . Kimber. p. 151.
ISBN
978-0-7183-0141-5 .
^ Carpenter, Humphrey; Prichard, Mari (1984).
"Rackham, Arthur (1867–1939)" .
The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature . Oxford: Oxford University Press. p.
440 .
^ Myöhänen, Raimo (9 July 2009).
"Venäläinen desantti ampui Jorma Gallen-Kallelan" . puheenvuoro.uusisuomi.fi . Uusi Suomi. Retrieved 25 August 2020 .
^
"From a merchant family" . Kröller-Müller Museum. Retrieved 8 February 2020 .
^ "Cuneo, Landscape Artist, Succumbs".
Los Angeles Times . December 28, 1939. p. 9.