1917 in art

The year 1917 in art involved some significant events and new works.

Events

• January – A drunken Amedeo Modigliani is ejected from a party for Georges Braque, by the hostess, Marie Vassilieff.
• January 29 – Rodin marries his mistress, Rose Beuret; she dies two weeks later.
• Eric Kennington, William Orpen, C. R. W. Nevinson, Paul Nash and William Rothenstein are sent as war artists to the Western Front from England.
• De Stijl artistic movement is established by Theo van Doesburg.
• The Allen Memorial Art Museum is established at Oberlin College in Ohio.
• The Marc Chagall illustrated version of The Magician (דער קונצענמאכער, Der Kuntsenmakher) by I. L. Peretz (d. 1915) is published in Vilnius.^[1]

Works

The original Fountain photographed by Alfred Stieglitz at the 291 after the 1917 Society of Independent Artists exhibit to which Duchamp submitted it.^[2]

• Max Beckmann – Deposition (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
• Lovis Corinth – Portrait of Julius Meier-Graefe
• Heinrich Maria Davringhausen – The Poet Däubler
• Marcel Duchamp (anonymously) – Fountain (readymade)
• Jacob Epstein – An American Soldier (bust)
• Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven – God (readymade sculpture)
• J. W. Godward
  • The Fruit Vendor
  • A Lily Pond
  • Under The Blossom That Hangs On The Bough
• George Grosz
  • The City^[3]
  • Explosion
  • Metropolis
• Rudolf Alfred Höger – Nach dem Vorstoß, Russische Kriegsgefangene (After the Foray: Russian Prisoners of War)
• Paul Klee – Ab ovo
• Gustav Klimt – Portrait of a Lady
• Isidore Konti – Nymph and Fawn (bronze fountain)
• Boris Kustodiev – Portrait of Countess Grabowska
• Hans Larwin – Soldat und Tod
• Fernand Léger – The Card Game
• L. S. Lowry – Coming from the Mill
• Maximilien Luce – La Gare de l'Est in snow
• George Luks – Houston Street
• Henri Matisse
  • The Music Lesson
  • The Painter and His Model
• Joan Miró
  • Portrait of Vincent Nubiola
  • The Village
• Amedeo Modigliani
  • Anna Zborowska
  • Nu couché ("Reclining Nude")
  • Nude Sitting on a Divan
• C. R. W. Nevinson
  • After a Push
  • Britain's Efforts and Ideals series of lithographs
  • A Group of Soldiers
  • A Howitzer Gun in Elevation
  • Over the Lines
  • Paths of Glory
  • The Road from Arras to Bapaume
  • Swooping Down on a Hostile Plane
  • A Tank
• Hilda Rix Nicholas – Desolation (approximate date; destroyed)
• Georgia O'Keeffe – Light Coming on the Plains (watercolor series)
• William Orpen
  • An Airman – Lieutenant R.T.C. Hoidge MC
  • Blown Up, Mad
  • Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig
  • German 'Planes Visiting Cassel
  • A Highlander Passing a Grave
  • Ready to Start: Self Portrait
  • Schwaben Redoubt
  • Self-portrait
  • Theipval
  • The Thinker on the Butte de Warlencourt (original pencil & watercolour version)
  • View from the Old British Trenches, Looking towards La Boisselle, Courcelette on the Left, Martinpuich on the Right
• Glyn Philpot
  • Siegfried Sassoon
  • A Young Breton (Guillaume Rolland)
• Pablo Picasso – Olga Picasso in an Armchair
• Auguste Rodin – The Gates of Hell (sculpture unfinished at his death)
• Egon Schiele – The Embrace
• Zinaida Serebriakova – Bleaching Cloth
• Charles Sheeler – Doylestown House – Stairs from Below (photograph)
• John French Sloan – Passing through Gloucester
• Alfred Stieglitz – The Last Days of 291 (photograph)
• Tom Thomson
  • April in Algonquin Park
  • The Jack Pine (National Gallery of Canada)
  • The West Wind
• Félix Vallotton
  • The Church of Souain in Silhouette
  • Senegalese Soldiers at the camp of Mailly
• J. W. Waterhouse – Fair Rosamund
• Christopher Williams – The Red Dress
• The Enchanted Pose

Births

• 9 January – Virginia Surtees, English art historian and biographer (d. 2017)
• 5 February – Lucienne Day, née Conradi, British textile designer (d. 2010)
• 20 February – Manny Farber, American painter and film critic (d. 2008)
• 20 February – Louisa Matthíasdóttir, Icelandic-American painter (d. 2000)
• 1 March – Tom Keating, English art restorer and art faker (d. 1984)
• 12 March – Milton Resnick, American painter (d. 2004)
• 24 March – Constantine Andreou, Greek painter and sculptor (d. 2007)
• 6 April – Leonora Carrington, English-born surrealist painter working in Mexico (d. 2011)
• 21 May – Frank Bellamy, English comics artist (d. 1976)
• 12 July – Andrew Wyeth, American painter (d. 2009)
• 14 July – Ben Enwonwu, Nigerian painter and sculptor (d. 1994)
• 11 August – Dik Browne, American cartoonist (d. 1989)
• 28 August – Jack Kirby, American comic book artist, writer and editor (d. 1994)
• 3 September – Anthony Robert Klitz, English artist (d. 2000)
• 7 September – Jacob Lawrence, African American painter (d. 2000)
• 11 September – Daniel Wildenstein, French international art dealer and scholar (d. 2001)
• 25 December – John Minton, English painter (d. 1957)

Deaths

Tom Thomson – April in Algonquin Park

• January 15 – William De Morgan, English ceramic artist (b. 1839)
• January 21 – Francesca Alexander, American illustrator (b. 1837)
• February 10 – John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist (b. 1849)
• February 17 – Carolus-Duran, French painter (b. 1837)
• March 27 – Moses Jacob Ezekiel, American sculptor working in Italy (b. 1844)
• March 28 – Albert Pinkham Ryder, American painter (b. 1847)
• April 23 – Robert Koehler, German American painter (b. 1850)
• June 30 – Antonio de La Gandara, French painter (b. 1861)
• July 8 – Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877) (drowned during a canoeing trip on Canoe Lake in Algonquin Park)
• September 27 – Edgar Degas, French painter and sculptor (b. 1834)
• October 14 – Nathaniel Hone the Younger, Irish painter (b. 1831)
• October 23 – Eugène Grasset, Swiss artist (b. 1845)
• November 17
  • Sir Charles Holroyd, English etcher (b. 1861)
  • Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b. 1840)
• December 21 – Wilhelm Trübner, German painter (b. 1851)
• (date unknown) – Raffaele Belliazzi, Italian sculptor (b. 1835)

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