1920 in art

• February 1 – The National Art Gallery of Georgia opens in Tbilisi. • March 17 – The Edith Cavell Memorial, by George Frampton, is unveiled in London. • March 27 – Society of Wood Engravers founded in the United Kingdom. • June 30–August 25 – The first Dadaist Fair is held in Berlin (Tempelhof). The Cologne group is formed by Jean Arp, Max Ernst and Alfred Grünwald. • August 5 – Publication of the 'Realistic Manifesto', a Constructivist text, by Naum Gabo with his brother Anton Pevsner in Moscow. • November 7 – The "mass action" The Storming of the Winter Palace, directed by Nikolai Evreinov, is staged outside the Winter Palace in Petrograd. • unknown dates • Katherine Dreier, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp form Société Anonyme. • Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada set up the Leach Pottery in St Ives, Cornwall. • The Heckscher Museum of Art is established in Huntington, New York. • The Latvian Museum of Foreign Art is established in Riga. • Droit de suite is introduced in France. ==Works==

by Cecilia Beaux , England by Adrian Jones • Hans Baluschek – City of Workers • Cecilia Beaux – portrait of Georges Clemenceau • Thomas Hart Benton – People of Chilmark • Pierre Bonnard – Normand Landscape • Alexander Stirling Calder – Swann Memorial Fountain (Philadelphia) • Sydney Carline – The Destruction of the Turkish Transport in the Gorge of the Wadi Fara, Palestine • Giorgio de Chirico – Self-portrait • Lovis Corinth – Flowers and Wilhelmine • Charles Demuth – Machinery (drawing) • Otto Dix • The Skat Players • The Match Seller • Prague Street • Max Ernst • The Hat Makes the Man (collage and gouache) • Murdering Airplane (collage) • James Earle Fraser – Frederick Keep Monument (Washington, D.C.) • Daniel Chester French • Abraham Lincoln (statue in Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.) • Dupont Circle Fountain (Washington, D.C.) • Wisconsin (statue on Wisconsin State Capitol) • Albert Gleizes – Woman with Black Glove • J. W. Godward – A Red, Red Rose • George Grosz • Daum marries her pedantic automaton George in May 1920, John Heartfield is very glad of it • Republican Automatons • Richard Jack – The Passing of the Chieftain • Goscombe John – Equestrian statue of the Viscount Wolseley (London) • Einar Jónsson – Thorfinn Karlsefni (bronze statue, Philadelphia) • Eric Kennington – The Victims (retitled The Conquerors) • Winifred Knights – The Deluge • Boris Kustodiev • Blue House • The Bolshevik • Portrait of Isaak Brodsky • Trinity Day • George Washington Lambert – A Sergeant of the Light Horse • Fernand Léger – The Tugboat • Edwin Lutyens • The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London (stone version) • with Alfred Munnings (sculptor) – Equestrian statue of Edward Horner, St Andrew's Church, Mells, Somerset, England • Paul Klee • Angelus Novus (worked copper plate) • Camel (in Rhythmic Landscape with Trees) • Stanton Macdonald-Wright – Airplane Synchromy in Yellow-Orange • Henri Matisse – Interior at Nice • Joan Miró • Horse, Pipe and Red Flower (Caballo, pipa y flor roja) • The Spanish Playing Cards (Les cartes espagnoles) • C. R. W. Nevinson – The Soul of the Soulless City (originally New York – an Abstraction) • William Nicholson • Gertrude Jekyll • ''Miss Jekyll's Gardening Boots'' • Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin – 1918 in Petrograd (Petrograd Madonna) • Victor Rousseau – Bronze figure group for Anglo-Belgian Memorial, London • Charles Marie Louis Joseph Sarrabezolles – ''L'Âme de la France'' (plaster version) • Georg Scholz – Industrial Farmers (Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal) • Charles Sheeler – Church Street El • Mario Sironi – Truck • Stanley Spencer • The Last Supper • Christ Carrying the Cross • Lorado Taft – Fountain of Time (Chicago) • Aston Webb (architect) and Alfred Drury (sculptor) – London Troops War Memorial ==Publications==

• Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler – Der Weg zum Kubismus ("The Rise of Cubism"). ==Births==

January to June • January 12 – Bill Reid, Canadian artist (d. 1998). • January 17 – Georges Pichard, French comics artist (d. 2003). • January 30 – Patrick Heron, English painter, writer and designer (d. 1999). • February 22 – Rocco Borella, Italian painter (d. 1994). • March 3 – Ronald Searle, English cartoonist (d. 2011). • March 14 – Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d. 2001). • March 19 – Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian poet and artist (d. 2002) • March 27 – Robin Jacques, English illustrator (d. 1995). • April 8 – Hans Coper, German-born studio potter (d. 1981). • April 24 – Paul Wonner, American painter (d. 2008). • April 26 – Maynard Reece, American painter (d. 2020) • May – Hans Josephsohn, German-born sculptor (d. 2012). • May 8 • Saul Bass, American graphic designer and filmmaker (d. 1996). • Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (d. 1991). • May 10 - Erna Viitol, Estonian sculptor (d. 2001). • June 4 – Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter, muralist, sculptor and engraver (d. 1992). • June 24 • John Coplans, British-born painter and photographer (d. 2003) • Jimmy Ernst, German-born American painter (d. 1984). • June 29 – Ray Harryhausen, American-born stop-motion animator, sculptor (d. 2013). July to December • July 20 – Arthur Boyd, Australian painter and sculptor (d. 1999). • July 21 – Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter, one of the innovators of Unitary Urbanism (d. 2005). • August 1 – Ken Bald, American comic book artist and illustrator (d. 2019) • August 5 – George Tooker, American figurative painter (d. 2011). • August 9 – Gerda Schmidt-Panknin, German painter (d. 2021) • August 15 – Judy Cassab, born Judit Kaszab, Austrian-born Australian portrait painter (d. 2015). • August 22 – Gene Davis, American painter (d. 1985). • August 26 • Mauri Favén, Finnish painter (d. 2006). • Brant Parker, American cartoonist (d. 2007). • August 30 – Leonid Shvartsman, Soviet and Russian animator and artist (d. 2022). • October 13 – Elaine Hamilton, American painter (d. 2010). • October 31 – Helmut Newton, German-born photographer (d. 2004). • November 23 – Wayne Thiebaud, American painter (d. 2021) • November 30 – Walter Chandoha, American cat photographer (d. 2019). • December 14 – Claire Fejes, American artist (d. 1998). • December 18 – Enrique Grau, Colombian painter and sculptor (d. 2004). • December 21 – Bob Bindig, American illustrator (d. 2007) Full date unknown • Adrian Heath, Burmese-born English painter (d. 1992). • Raymond Moore, English landscape photographer (d. 1987). • Daniel O'Neill, Irish painter (d. 1974). ==Deaths==

• January 24 – Amedeo Modigliani, Italian-born painter and sculptor (b. 1884) • January 26 – Jeanne Hébuterne, French artist, Modigliani's mistress and model (suicide) (b. 1898) • March 15 – Edith Holden, English nature artist and art teacher (b. 1871) • March 26 – Samuel Colman, American painter and designer (b. 1832) • April 20 – Briton Rivière, British painter (b. 1840) • April 27 – Jacob Ungerer, German sculptor (b. 1840) • May 7 – Hugh Thomson, British illustrator (b. 1860) • May 12 – Georges Petit, French art dealer (b. 1856) • July 5 – Max Klinger, German painter and sculptor (b. 1857) • July 14 – Albert von Keller, German painter (b. 1844) • July 17 – Sir Edmund Elton, 8th Baronet, English studio potter (b. 1846) • August 4 – C. G. Finch-Davies, British bird painter (b. 1875) • August 6 – Edward Francis Searles, American interior designer (b. 1841) • August 12 – Walter W. Winans, American sculptor, painter, marksman and horse-breeder (b. 1852) • August 22 – Anders Zorn, Swedish portrait painter (b. 1860) • September 24 – Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian-born jeweller (b. 1846) • November 13 – Luc-Olivier Merson, French painter (b. 1846) • date unknown – Edith Corbet, Australian-born British landscape painter (b. 1846) ==References==