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Events from the year 1928 in art.

Events

January 7 – The Tate Gallery, London, is one of the buildings flooded by the 1928 Thames flood.^[1]
March 26 – The China Academy of Art is founded in Hangzhou (originally named the National Academy of Art).
August – Ben Nicholson and Kit Wood visit St. Ives, Cornwall, and meet the ex-fisherman painter Alfred Wallis.^[2]
October – English artist and designer Eric Gill moves with some of his artistic community from Capel-y-ffin in Wales to 'Pigotts' at Speen, Buckinghamshire, near High Wycombe.
November 18 – Film debut of Mickey Mouse, designed by Ub Iwerks.
Clarice Cliff introduces her Crocus pottery decoration.^[3]
Pierre Chareau and colleagues begin construction of the Maison de Verre ("house of glass") on the rue Saint-Guillaume in Paris for client Jean Dalsace.
Charles Haslewood Shannon suffers a fall while hanging a picture which ends his career as an artist.

Awards

Archibald Prize: John Longstaff – Portrait of Dr Alexander Leeper
Carnegie Prize – André Derain
Art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics
- Painting: Isaac Israëls – Cavalier Rouge
- Drawing: Jean Jacoby – Rugby
- Graphic work: William Nicholson – An Almanac of Twelve Sports

Exhibitions

Alexander Calder's first solo exhibition at the Weyhe Gallery, New York City.
L'Exposition surréaliste at the Galerie du Sacre du Printemps, Paris.
December – East London Group (as East London Art Club) exhibits at Whitechapel Gallery.

Works

Wäinö Aaltonen – bust of Jean Sibelius
Tarsila do Amaral – Abaporu
Pierre Bonnard – Flowers on a Red Carpet
John Steuart Curry
- Baptism in Kansas
- Bathers
Charles Demuth – I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
Edwin Dickinson – The Fossil Hunters
Otto Dix – Metropolis
M. C. Escher – Tower of Babel (woodcut)
Meredith Frampton – Marguerite Kelsey
George Grosz – Hinterground (portfolio of lithographs)
Edward Hopper
- From Williamsburg Bridge
- Manhattan Bridge Loop
- Night Windows
Prudence Heward – Girl on a Hill
Frida Kahlo – Dama de Blanco
André Kertész – The Fork (photograph)
Sir John Lavery – Portrait of Lady Lavery as Kathleen Ni Houlihan
Tamara de Lempicka
- Andromeda
- Portrait of Dr. Boucard
L. S. Lowry
- A Street Scene
- Going to the Match
Eugenie McEvoy – Taxi! Taxi!
René Magritte – The Empty Mask
Henri Matisse – Odalisque au fauteuil turc
Ivan Meštrović – The Bowman and The Spearman (equestrian sculptures, Chicago)
Georgia O'Keeffe
- East River from the Shelton Hotel
- East River from the Thirtieth Story of the Shelton Hotel
Mahmoud Mokhtar – Egypt's Renaissance (sculpture group, Cairo University, begun 1919, completed)
Frederick Roth – Equestrian statue of George Washington (Morristown, New Jersey) (bronze)
Frank O. Salisbury – Clarence Winthrop Bowen
Christian Schad – Two Girlfriends
Charles Sheeler – Upper Deck (photograph, approximate date)
Zinaida Serebriakova – Lit By The Sun
Charles Sims – I Am the Abyss and I Am Light
John French Sloan – Sixth Avenue Elevated at Third Street
Joseph Southall – The Botanists
Alexej von Jawlensky – Abstract Head
George Fite Waters – Statue of Abraham Lincoln (Portland, Oregon) (bronze)

Births

January to June

January 20 – Malang, Filipino artist (d. 2017)
January 31 – Dušan Džamonja, Macedonian sculptor (d. 2009)
March 1 – Jacques Rivette, French filmmaker (d. 2016)^[4]
March 3 – Jean Rustin, French painter (d. 2013)
March 18 – Mirka Mora, French-Australian artist and cultural figure (d. 2018)
March 25 – Hans Steinbrenner, German sculptor (d. 2008)
April 25 – Cy Twombly, American abstract artist (d. 2011)^[5]
April 28 – Yves Klein, French abstract artist (d. 1962)^[6]
May 4 – Brian O'Doherty aka Patrick Ireland, Irish-born art critic and installation artist (d. 2022)
May 14 – Władysław Hasior, Polish sculptor, painter and set designer (d. 1999)
May 30 – Pro Hart, Australian painter (d. 2006)
June 3 – Donald Judd, American sculptor (d. 1994)^[7]
June 16 – Pierrette Bloch, French-Swiss painter, textile artist (d. 2017)^[8]
June 25
- Peyo, Belgian comics artist (d. 1992)^[9]
- Alex Toth, American comic book artist and cartoonist (d. 2006)

July to December

July 8 – Pat Adams, American painter and printmaker
July 10 – Bernard Buffet, French painter (d. 1999)
July 14 – Anwar Shemza, Pakistan-born British artist and writer (d. 1985)
July 21 – Anne Harris, Canadian sculptor
August 6 – Andy Warhol, American artist, director and writer (d. 1987)^[10]
August 12 – Charles Blackman, Australian painter and illustrator (d. 2018)^[11]
August 15 – Alan Collins, English figurative religious sculptor (d. 2016)
August 22 – Roberto Aizenberg, Argentine painter and sculptor (d. 1996)
August 31 – Jeremy Maas, English art dealer and historian of Victorian painting (d. 1997)
September 9 – Sol LeWitt, American conceptual and minimalist artist (d. 2007)^[12]
September 10 - Ward Jackson, American painter (d. 2004)
September 12 – Robert Irwin, American installation artist
September 13 – Robert Indiana, born Clark, American pop artist (d. 2018)
October 7 – Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d. 1980)
October 12 – Al Held, American Abstract expressionist painter (d. 2005)
October 30 – Michael Andrews, English painter (d. 1995)
November 3 – Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist, animator and film producer (d. 1989)^[13]
November 6 – Norman Carlberg, American sculptor (d. 2018)
November 17 – Arman, French-born American artist (d. 2005)^[14]
November 27 – Josh Kirby, English commercial artist (d. 2001)
December 2 – Guy Bourdin, French photographer (d. 1991)
December 12 – Helen Frankenthaler, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 2011)
December 13 – Wolfgang Hutter, Austrian painter, lithographer and designer (d. 2014)
December 15 – Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian painter, architect and sculptor (d. 2000)^[15]
December 31 – Siné, French cartoonist (d. 2016)

Date unknown

Franco the Great, born Frankin Gaskin, Panamanian-born American street artist
Wally Hedrick, American counterculture artist (d. 2003)^[16]

Deaths

January 4 – Hamilton Hamilton, American painter (b. 1847)
January 6 – Adolfo de Carolis, Italian painter, xylographer, illustrator and photographer (b. 1874)
January 8 – Gyula Basch, Hungarian painter (b. 1859)
January 13 – Frederick Arthur Bridgman, American painter (b. 1847)
January 21 – Nikolai Astrup, Norwegian painter (b. 1880)^[17]
January 26 – Henrietta Rae, English painter (b. 1859)
January – Alexander Reid, Scottish art dealer (b. 1854)
February 7 – Adolfo de Carolis, Italian painter (b. 1874)
February 12 – Nicolás Guzmán Bustamante, Chilean painter and draftsman (b. 1850)
March 31 – Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (b. 1858)^[18]
April 3 – Raffaello Romanelli, Italian sculptor (b. 1856)
April 5 – Viktor Oliva, Czech painter and illustrator (b. 1861)
April 13 – Charles Sims, English painter (suicide, b. 1873)
May 16 – Frederick Arthur Verner, Canadian landscape painter (b. 1836)
May 21 - George Frampton, English artist (b. 1860)
June 22 – A. B. Frost, American illustrator (b. 1851)
July 10 – John Chambers, English landscape and portrait painter (b. 1852)
July 25 – Jane Sutherland, Australian landscape painter (b. 1853)
August 30 – Franz Stuck, German symbolist /Art Nouveau painter, sculptor, engraver and architect (b. 1863)
September 20 – Ivan Tišov, Croatian painter (b. 1870)
October 24 – Arthur Bowen Davies, American artist (b. 1863)^[19]
October 30 – Percy Anderson, English stage designer and painter (b. 1851)
November 15 – Godfred Christensen, Danish painter (b. 1845)
December 1 – Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth, German painter (b. 1855)
December 2 – Robert Reid, American Impressionist painter (b. 1862)
December 10 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect and designer (b. 1868)
December 15 – Louis Mathieu Verdilhan, French painter (b. 1875)
December 18 – Nils Bergslien, Norwegian illustrator, painter and sculptor (b. 1853)

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