# 1915 in art

Events from the year 1915 in art.

## Events

* May – Ambrose Heal and others found the Design and Industries Association in London.
* c. May – Publication of the first modern book illustrated with wood engravings, Frances Cornford's Spring Morning (published by The Poetry Bookshop, London) with engravings by the poet's cousin Gwen Raverat.
* June 10 – The only contemporary Vorticist exhibition staged opens at the Doré Gallery in London.
* October 24 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's frescos, Translation of the House of Loreto, in the Church of the Scalzi (Venice) are destroyed by an Austrian bombardment.
* December 19 – Kasimir Malevich stages the 0.10 Exhibition and originates Suprematism.
* Pierre Bodard serves with the French Army on Martinique.
* Harper's Bazaar hires Erté to design its covers.
* Edward McKnight Kauffer is given his first commission to design a poster for the Underground Electric Railways Company of London.
* Shōzaburō Watanabe originates shin-hanga collaborative woodblock printing in Japan.
* The first of the 'Etruscan terracotta warriors', forged by sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti with the Riccardi family, is purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
* 14-year-old Alice Prin ("Kiki de Montparnasse") is posing (nude) for sculptors in Paris.

## Works

* George Bellows – Riverfront No. 1
* Frank Weston Benson – Red and Gold
* Umberto Boccioni
** Charge of the Lancers
** Horizontal Volumes
* Marc Chagall – The Poet Reclining
* William Merritt Chase – Self-portrait
* Giorgio de Chirico – The Double Dream of Spring
* Marcel Duchamp – begins producing readymades
* Jacob Epstein – bust of Admiral Lord Fisher
* J. W. Godward – In The Prime Of The Summer Time
* Alexandre Jacovleff – The Violinist
* Eric Kennington - The Kensingtons at Laventie
* Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
** Brandenburger Tor
** Self-portrait as a Soldier
* Carl Larsson – Midvinterblot
* Wyndham Lewis – The Crowd
* Kazimir Malevich – Black Square
* Henri Matisse – Le rideau jaune
* Jean Metzinger – Soldier at a Game of Chess
* Piet Mondrian – Composition No. 10 Pier and Ocean
* C. R. W. Nevinson
** Bursting Shell
** La Mitrailleuse
** Returning to the Trenches (approximate date)
* Diego Rivera – cubist portrait of Ramón Gómez de la Serna
* Isaac Rosenberg – Self-portrait
* Ladislav Šaloun – Jan Hus Memorial (Prague)
* Helene Schjerfbeck – Self-portrait with black background
* Kathleen Scott – statue of her late husband Robert Falcon Scott
* Zinaida Serebriakova
** Harvest
** Peasants
* Fred Spear – Enlist (poster)
* Stewart–Screven Monument
* Paul Strand – Wall Street (photograph)
* W. L. Wyllie – The track of Lusitania: view of casualties and survivors in the water and in lifeboats
* Konstantin Yuon – March Sun
* Anders Zorn – Self-portrait in Red

## Births

* January 3 – Jack Levine, American Social Realist painter and printmaker (d. 2010)
* January 15 – Leo Mol, Ukrainian-born Canadian artist, sculptor (d. 2009)
* January 24 – Robert Motherwell, American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker (d. 1991).
* February 4 – Virginia Admiral, American painter and poet (d. 2000)
* February 11 – Mervyn Levy, Welsh artist and critic (d. 1996).
* March 10 – Harry Bertoia, Italian-born American artist and furniture designer (d. 1978).
* March 19 – Maria Austria (née Marie Karoline Oeststreicher) Austro-Dutch photographer and photojournalist)
* April 4 – Louis Archambault, Canadian sculptor (d. 2003).
* April 6 – Tadeusz Kantor, Polish painter, Assemblage artist, set designer and theatre director (d. 1990)
* April 10 – Wynona Mulcaster, Canadian painter and teacher (d. 2016)
* April 15 – Elizabeth Catlett, African-American graphic artist and sculptor (d. 2012)
* April 17 – William Pachner, Czech painter (d. 2017)
* May 3 – Richard Lippold, American sculptor (d. 2002)
* May 20 – Sam Golden, American paint maker (d. 1997)
* May 31 – Carmen Herrera, Cuban-American abstract minimalist visual artist
* June 7 – Graham Ingels, American illustrator (d. 1991)
* June 11 – José Caballero, Spanish artist (d. 1991)
* June 17 – Gunther Gerzso, Mexican abstract painter (d. 2000)
* June 23 – Frances Gabe, American artist and inventor (d. 2016)
* July 8 – Malvina Cheek, British artist (d. 2016)
* July 15
** Edith Pfau, American painter, sculptor and art educator (d. 2001)
** Judith Révész, Hungarian-Dutch potter and sculptor (d. 2018)
* July 19 – Åke Hellman, Finnish still life and portrait painter (d. 2017)
* July 28 – Dick Sprang, American comic book artist (d. 2000)
* August 14 – Mary Fedden, English painter (d. 2012)
* August 28
** Patrick Hennessy, Irish painter (d. 1980)
** Tasha Tudor, American illustrator and author of children's books (d. 2008)
* September 17 – M. F. Husain, Indian artist (d. 2011)
* September 19 – Duffy Ayers, born Betty FitzGerald, English portrait painter (d. 2017)
* October 13
** Terry Frost, English Abstract artist (d. 2003)
** Ricco, Swiss painter (d. 1972)
* October 24 – Bob Kane, American comic book artist and writer (d. 1998)
* November 9 – André François, French cartoonist (d. 2005)
* November 26 – Inge King, German-born Australian sculptor (d. 2016)
* November 28 – Evald Okas, Estonian painter (d. 2011)

## Deaths

* January 15 – Luigi Crosio, Italian painter (b. 1835)
* January 23 – Anne Whitney, American sculptor, poet (b. 1821)
* February 25 – Flaxman Charles John Spurrell, English archaeologist and photographer (b. 1842)
* April 3 – Nadežda Petrović, Serbian Fauvist painter (b. 1873)
* April 9 – Karl Bitter, Austrian American sculptor (b. 1867)
* May 7 – Sir Hugh Lane, Irish-born art dealer, collector and benefactor (b. 1875; killed in sinking of the RMS Lusitania)
* June 5 – Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, French artist and sculptor (killed in action) (b. 1891)
* June 7 – Hilda Sjölin, Swedish photographer (b. 1835)
* July 10 – Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Dutch marine painter (b. 1831)
* July 11 – Albert Schickedanz, Austro-Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style (b. 1846)
* September 11 – Jens Birkholm, Danish genre and landscape painter (b. 1869)
* September 14 – Alfred Agache, French academic painter (b. 1843)
* October 24 – Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist and pioneer photographer (b. 1828)
* November 28 – Kobayashi Kiyochika, Japanese ukiyo-e painter and printmaker (b. 1847)
* December 22 – Arthur Hughes, English painter and illustrator (b. 1832)
* date unknown
** Kikuchi Shingaku, Japanese photographer (b. 1832)
** Krikor Torosian, Armenian illustrator (b. 1884; killed in Armenian genocide)