# 1935 in art

Events from the year 1935 in art.

## Events

* January – First issue of Axis, a quarterly review of abstract art edited by Myfanwy Piper in England, is published.
* February 15–March 2 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People stages an exhibition Art Commentary on Lynching in New York City.
* May 7 – Artists' Unit group of British modernists announced, superseding Unit One.
* December – Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler undergoes forced sterilization in accordance with Nazi eugenics policies and never paints again.
* Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, designed by Hendrik Petrus Berlage, completed in the Netherlands.
* William Coldstream edits the GPO Film Unit documentary Coal Face.
* Picasso's poetry takes precedence over his graphic work this year.

## Works

* Pierre Bonnard – Nude in the Bathtub
* Alessandro Bruschetti – Fascist Synthesis
* Óscar Domínguez – Le Dimanche
* Gerardo Dottori – Fascist Creations
* Jacob Epstein – Ecce Homo (marble)
* M. C. Escher – Hand with Reflecting Sphere (lithograph)
* James Earle Fraser – sculptures, Washington, D.C.
** Guardianship
** Heritage
* Frida Kahlo
** A Few Small Nips (Unos cuantos piquetitos)
** Self-Portrait with Curly Hair
* Fernand Léger – Two Sisters
* L. S. Lowry – The Fever Van
* René Magritte
** The Discovery of Fire
** The Human Condition (second version)
** The Portrait
* Joan Miró
** Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excrement
** Metamorphosis
* Paul Nash – Equivalents for the Megaliths
* Pablo Picasso – Jeune Fille Endormie
* Candido Portinari – Coffee
* Diego Rivera – The Spanish Conquest of Mexico
* William Rothenstein – Barn at Cherington, Gloucestershire
* Amrita Sher-Gil
** Camels
** Hill Women
** Three Girls
* Kārlis Zāle – Freedom Monument (Riga, Latvia)

## Awards

* Archibald Prize: John Longstaff – A B ('Banjo') Paterson
* Knighthood: William Reid Dick

## Births

* 2 January – David McKee, English author and illustrator (d. 2022)
* 12 January – Teresa del Conde, Mexican art critic and historian (d. 2017)
* 26 January – Paula Rego, Portuguese-born painter (d. 2022)
* 10 February
** John Alcorn, American illustrator (d. 1992)
** Konrad Klapheck, German painter (d. 2023)
* 1 June – Vladislav Lalicki, Serbian painter (d. 2008)
* 13 June – Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Bulgarian & Moroccan-born American installation artists (d. 2020 & 2009 respectively)
* 22 June – Floyd Norman, American animator, writer and comic book artist
* 19 August – Victor Ambrus, Hungarian-born British illustrator (d. 2021)
* 23 August – Roy Strong, English art historian and curator
* 8 September – William Vance, Belgian comics artist (d. 2018)
* 16 September – Carl Andre, American minimalist artist (d. 2024)
* 26 September – Juan Zanotto, Italian-born Argentine comic book artist (d. 2005)
* 30 September – James McKendry, Northern Irish sculptor and painter
* 1 October – Walter De Maria, American minimalist, conceptual artist and land artist (d. 2013)
* 3 October – Sinikka Kurkinen, Finnish painter
* 9 October – Don McCullin, English war photographer
* Full date unknown
** Nina Alovert, Russian-born American ballet photographer
** Rasheed Araeen, Pakistan-born British conceptual artist
** Félix Aráuz, Ecuadorean painter (d. 2024)
** John Barry, English film set designer (d. 1979)

## Deaths

* February 8 – Max Liebermann, German-Jewish impressionist painter (b. 1847)
* February 16 – Carolina Benedicks-Bruce, Swedish sculptor (b. 1856)
* March 25 – William de Leftwich Dodge, American muralist (b. 1867)
* April 15 – Anna Ancher, Danish member of the Skagen Painters group (b. 1859)
* April 22 – Frederick Farrell, Scottish watercolourist, war artist, pneumonia (b. 1882)
* May 3 – Jessie Willcox Smith, American illustrator (b. 1863)
* May 15 – Kazimir Malevich, Polish-Russian painter, art theoretician (b. 1879)
* May 24 – Granville Redmond, American landscape painter (b. 1871)
* July 17 – George William Russell ('Æ'), Irish critic, poet and painter (b. 1867)
* August 15 – Paul Signac, French neo-impressionist painter (b. 1863)
* August 27 – Childe Hassam, American impressionist painter (b. 1859)
* October 2 – Georg Jensen, Danish silversmith (b. 1866)
* October 4 – Jean Béraud, French painter (b. 1849)
* October 9 – Archibald Thorburn, Scottish-born wildlife painter (b. 1860)
* October 11 – Samuel Peploe, Scottish painter (b. 1871)
* October 18 – Gaston Lachaise, French-American sculptor (b. 1882)
* October 23 – Charles Demuth, American painter (b. 1883)
* November 28 – Joaquín Clausell, Mexican impressionist landscape painter, lawyer and political activist (b. 1866)
* Undated
** Harry Fidler, English painter (b. 1856)
** Eva Watson-Schütze, American portrait photographer and curator (b. 1867)