1928 IN ART

List of years in Art

Contents

Awards

Events

Exhibitions

Works

Births

Deaths

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

★ Wäinö Aaltonen - bust of Jean Sibelius

★ 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''

★ John French Sloan - ''Sixth Avenue Elevated at Third Street''

★ René Magritte - The Treachery of Images

Births

★ January 31 - Dušan Džamonja, sculptor

★ Norman Carlberg, sculptor

★ April 24 - Cy Twombly, abstract artist

★ April 28 - Yves Klein, abstract artist

★ May 14 - Władysław Hasior, sculptor, painter and stage designer

★ August 6 - Andy Warhol, painter, printmaker, filmmaker

★ September 9 - Sol Lewitt, Conceptual artist

★ October 30 - Michael Andrews, painter

★ December 12 - Helen Frankenthaler, abstract expressionist painter

★ December 13 - Wolfgang Hutter, painter, lithographer, designer

Deaths

★ June 22 - A. B. Frost, illustrator

★ December 10 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, architect and designer