1928 in art

List of years in Art

Awards

*Archibald Prize: John Longstaff - "Portrait of Dr Alexander Leeper"
*Carnegie Prize - André Derain

Events

*Ben Nicholson visits St. Ives, Cornwall, and meets the fisherman and painter Alfred Wallis.

Exhibitions

*Alexander Calder's first solo exhibition at the Weyhe Gallery, New York City.

Works

Paintings

*Tarsila do Amaral - "Abaporu"
*Pierre Bonnard - "Flowers on a Red Carpet"
*John Steuart Curry - "Bathers" and "Baptism in Kansas"
*Charles Demuth - "I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold"
*Christian Schad - "Two Girlfriends"
*John French Sloan - "Sixth Avenue Elevated at Third Street"
*René Magritte - "The Treachery of Images"

culptures

*Wäinö Aaltonen - bust of Jean Sibelius

Births

January to June

*31 January - Dušan Džamonja, sculptor.
*24 April - Cy Twombly, abstract artist.
*28 April - Yves Klein, abstract artist (d.1962).
*14 May - Władysław Hasior, Polish sculptor, painter and set designer (d.1999).
*30 May - Pro Hart, Australian painter (d.2006).
*3 June - Donald Judd, American sculptor (d.1994).
*25 June - Alex Toth, American comic book artist and cartoonist (d.2006).
*25 June - Peyo, Belgian comics artist (d.1992).

July to December

*10 July - Bernard Buffet, French painter (d.1999).
*6 August - Andy Warhol, American artist, director and writer (d.1987).
*9 September - Sol LeWitt, American conceptual and minimalist artist (d.2007).
*7 October - Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and a painter (d.1980).
*12 October - Al Held, American Abstract expressionist painter (d.2005).
*30 October - Michael Andrews, painter (d.1995).
*3 November - Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist, animator and producer (d.1989).
*17 November - Arman, French-born American artist (d.2005).
*27 November - Josh Kirby, English commercial artist (d.2001).
*2 December - Guy Bourdin, French photographer (d.1991).
*12 December - Helen Frankenthaler, abstract expressionist painter.
*13 December - Wolfgang Hutter, painter, lithographer and designer.
*15 December - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian painter, architect and sculptor (d.2000).

Full date unknown

*Norman Carlberg, sculptor.
*Wally Hedrick, American artist (d.2003).

Deaths

*June 22 - A. B. Frost, illustrator (b. 1851)
*December 10 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, architect and designer (b. 1868)
* Frederick Arthur Bridgman, painter (b. 1847)
* Medardo Rosso, sculptor (b. 1858)
* Robert Reid, Impressionist painter (b. 1862)