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January 31 – The
Art Gallery of Hamilton is founded in Ontario. • March –
The London Group hold their first exhibition, at the
Goupil Gallery. • March–June –
Rebel Art Centre run in
London by
Wyndham Lewis and others. •
March 10 –
Suffragette Mary Richardson damages the
Velázquez painting
Rokeby Venus (c.
1651) in the
National Gallery, London, with a meat cleaver. • April •
Umberto Boccioni publishes
Manifesto tecnico della scultura futurista ("Technical manifesto of futurist sculpture"); later this year he also publishes the book
Pittura e scultura futuriste (dinamismo plastico) ("Futurist painting and sculpture"). •
August Macke,
Louis Moilliet and
Paul Klee travel in
Tunisia. •
April 20 – English artist
Dorothy Shakespear marries American poet
Ezra Pound at
St Mary Abbots church,
Kensington, London. •
May 4 – Suffragette Mary Wood attacks
John Singer Sargent's portrait of
Henry James at the
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition of 1914 in London with a meat cleaver. At the same exhibition on May 12, Gertrude Mary Ansell attacks the recently deceased
Hubert von Herkomer's portrait of the Duke of Wellington, and on May 26 'Mary Spencer' (Maude Kate Smith) attacks
George Clausen's painting
Primavera. • June – First issue (of two) published of the
Vorticist literary magazine BLAST edited by Wyndham Lewis. • July –
David Bomberg's first solo exhibition of paintings opens at the
Chenil Gallery in
Chelsea, London; his
The Mud Bath is hung outside. •
July 17 – Suffragette Annie Hunt damages
Sir John Millais' portrait of
Thomas Carlyle (
1877) in the
National Portrait Gallery, London, with a meat cleaver. • August –
Fernand Léger is mobilised for service in the
French Army; he serves in the
Forest of Argonne. •
September 5 – The cover of magazine
London Opinion first carries the iconic drawing by
Alfred Leete of
Lord Kitchener with the recruiting slogan
Your Country Needs You. •
October 11 – English painter
John Currie dies having shot himself and his mistress and model, Dorothy ("Dolly") Eileen Henry, in
Chelsea, London. •
November 16 – The
Baltimore Museum of Art is founded at
Johns Hopkins University in the United States. • The
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum (
Museo de Bellas Artes) is established in
Bilbao. •
Futurist exhibition at the Doré Gallery in London. •
Edward Perry Warren's copy of
Rodin's sculpture
The Kiss is loaned for public display in the English town of
Lewes, but objections to its erotic nature cause it to covered over and screened off. •
Clive Bell publishes his
formalist study
Art. • Publication of
Vincent van Gogh's letters to his brother
Theo. •
Nina Hamnett and
Amedeo Modigliani meet for the first time, at La Rotonde in Montparnasse, Paris. •
Daniel Chester French is commissioned by the Lincoln Memorial committee to create a
statue of Abraham Lincoln for the
Lincoln Memorial in
Washington, D.C., unveiled in
1922. ==Works==