# 1919 in art

Events from the year 1919 in art.

## Events

* January–June – Paris Peace Conference at Versailles; Sir William Orpen attends as British official artist and Noël Dorville as a French journalist-illustrator.
* April 15 – Publication in England of W. Somerset Maugham's novel The Moon and Sixpence, loosely based on the life of Paul Gauguin.
* April 25 – The Bauhaus architectural and design movement is founded in Weimar, Germany, by Walter Gropius.
* December – The National War Paintings and Other Records exhibition staged at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
* Seven and Five Society established in London.
* Piet Mondrian, in Paris, begins painting his grid-based compositions (Neo-Plasticism).
* The first bronze castings from Degas sculptures are made, posthumously.
* Musée Rodin opens in Paris at the Hôtel Biron and Villa des Brillants, Meudon.
* Chaïm Soutine first visits Céret in the Pyrenees where he begins a series of landscapes.
* Les Champs Magnétiques, the first book produced using the techniques of surrealist automatism, is written by André Breton and Philippe Soupault.

## Works

* Norman G. Arnold – The Last Fight of Captain Ball, VC, DSO and 2 Bars, MC, 7th May 1917
* Max Beckmann – The Night
* David Bomberg – Sappers at Work: A Canadian Tunnelling Company, Hill 60, St Eloi
* John Arnesby Brown – The Line of the Plough
* Sydney Carline
** Flying Above Kirkuk, Kurdistan
** Flying Over the Desert at Sunset, Mesopotamia
** The Trail of War
* Harry Clarke – illustrations to Tales of Mystery & Imagination
* Dorothy Coke – War Allotments in a London Suburb
* Philip Connard
** The Guns of HMS 'Caesar' 1919 – Off Constantinople, looking towards the Golden Horn
** The Port of Constantinople – The Guns of HMS 'Caesar'
* Leonard Crunelle – Statue of Richard J. Oglesby
* Evelyn De Morgan – The Gilded Cage
* Marcel Duchamp – L.H.O.O.Q.
* Aleksandra Ekster – City at Night
* Jacob Epstein – Sergeanat D. F. Hunter VC, 1/5 Highland Light Infantry (bronze bust)
* Max Ernst
** Aquis Submersus
** Trophy, Hypertrophied (line-block printing and drawing)
* Luke Fildes – Paul Fildes
* Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven – Portrait of Marcel Duchamp (sculpture of found objects)
* Colin Gill
** Evening, After a Push
** Heavy Artillery
** Observation of Fire
* Eileen Gray – "Dragons" armchair
* Elioth Gruner – Spring Frost
* Hannah Höch – Schnitt mit dem Küchenmesser DADA durch die letzte weimarer Bierbauchkulturepoche Deutschlands ("Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany"; collage)
* Augustus John – Marchesa Casati
* Henry Lamb – Irish troops in the Judean hills surprised by a Turkish bombardment
* Fernand Léger
** The City
** The Railway Crossing
* Ivor Lewis – Timothy Eaton statues
* Wyndham Lewis – A Battery Shelled
* David Low – Strange, I seem to hear a child weeping (political cartoon)
* Hermon Atkins MacNeil – Statue of Ezra Cornell
* Albert Marquet – La femme blonde (Femme blonde sur un fond de châle espagnol)
* Henri Matisse – Les plumes blanches ("White Plumes")
* Claude Monet – paintings in Water Lilies series
** Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas
** Water Lilies
* Edvard Munch – Self-Portrait with the Spanish Flu
* Paul Nash – The Menin Road
* C. R. W. Nevinson – The Harvest of Battle
* Sir William Orpen
** A Peace Conference at the Quai d'Orsay
** The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors, Versailles, 28th June 1919
* Pablo Picasso
** Le Tricorne
** Still Life with Pitcher and Apples
* John Singer Sargent – Gassed
* Zinaida Serebriakova – House of Cards
* Charles Sims – The Old German Front Line, Arras, 1916
* Stanley Spencer – Travoys with Wounded Soldiers Arriving at a Dressing Station at Smol, Macedonia, September 1916
* Edward Wadsworth – Dazzle-ships in Drydock at Liverpool

## Births
### January to June

* January 5 – Frederick Hammersley, American painter (d. 2009)
* January 9 – Henrietta Berk, American painter (d. 1990)
* January 19 – Joan Brossa, Catalan poet, playwright, graphic designer and plastic artist (d. 1998)
* January 22 – John Russell, British American art critic (d. 2008)
* January 24 – William Copley, American artist (d. 1996)
* March 23 – Salvatore Scarpitta, American sculptor (d. 2007)
* April 9 – Gordon Lambert, Irish art collector (d. 2005)
* April 24 – César Manrique, Spanish artist and architect (d. 1992)
* May 3 – John Cullen Murphy, American comics artist (d. 2004)
* May 9 – Anne Yeats, Irish painter and stage designer (d. 2001)
* May 27 – Emvin Cremona, Maltese artist (d. 1987)
* June 2 – Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (d. 2005)
* June 7 – Mira Schendel, born Myrrha Dub, Swiss-Brazilian modernist artist and poet (d. 1988)
* June 18 – Gordon A. Smith, Canadian artist and teacher (d. 2020)
* June 21 – Jean Joyet, French artist (d. 1994)

### July to December

* July 6 – Oswaldo Guayasamín, Ecuadorian painter and sculptor (d. 1999)
* July 17 – Jean Leymarie, French art historian (d. 2006)
* July 18 – Daniel du Janerand, French painter (d. 1990)
* July 31 – Maurice Boitel, French painter (d. 2007)
* September 8 – Maria Lassnig, Austrian painter (d. 2014)
* September 29 – Vladimír Vašíček, Czech painter (d. 2003)
* November 3 – Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic books author and artist (d. 1995)
* December 12 – Cliff Holden, English painter, designer and silk-screen printer (d. 2020)
* December 24 – Pierre Soulages, French "painter of black" (d. 2022)

### Full date unknown

* Avni Arbaş, Turkish artist (d. 2003)

## Deaths

* January 22 – Carl Larsson, Swedish painter (b. 1853)
* February 18 – Antonin Carlès, French sculptor (b. 1851)
* February 27 – Robert Harris, Canadian painter (b. 1848)
* March 24 – Franz Metzner, German sculptor (b. 1870)
* March 25 – Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German sculptor (b. 1881) (suicide)
* May 2 – Evelyn De Morgan, English painter (born 1855)
* May 13 – Helen Hyde, American etcher and engraver (b. 1868)
* August 9 – Ralph Albert Blakelock, American painter (b. 1847)
* November 18 – John Dibblee Crace, British interior decorator (b. 1838)
* December 2 – Henry Clay Frick, American founder of the Frick Collection (b. 1849)
* December 3 – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French Impressionist painter (b. 1841)
* December 18 – James Coutts Michie, Scottish painter b. 1859)
* Full date unknown – Edmund Elisha Case, American painter (b 1844)