# 1928 in art

Events from the year 1928 in art.

## Events

* January 7 – The Tate Gallery, London, is one of the buildings flooded by the 1928 Thames flood.
* March 26 – The China Academy of Art is founded in Hangzhou (originally named the National Academy of Art).
* August – Ben Nicholson and Kit Wood visit St. Ives, Cornwall, and meet the ex-fisherman painter Alfred Wallis.
* October – English artist and designer Eric Gill moves with some of his artistic community from Capel-y-ffin in Wales to 'Pigotts' at Speen, Buckinghamshire, near High Wycombe.
* November 18 – Film debut of Mickey Mouse, designed by Ub Iwerks.
* Clarice Cliff introduces her Crocus pottery decoration.
* Pierre Chareau and colleagues begin construction of the Maison de Verre ("house of glass") on the rue Saint-Guillaume in Paris for client Jean Dalsace.
* Charles Haslewood Shannon suffers a fall while hanging a picture which ends his career as an artist.

## Awards

* Archibald Prize: John Longstaff – Portrait of Dr Alexander Leeper
* Carnegie Prize – André Derain
* Art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics
** Painting: Isaac Israëls – Cavalier Rouge
** Drawing: Jean Jacoby – Rugby
** Graphic work: William Nicholson – An Almanac of Twelve Sports

## Exhibitions

* Alexander Calder's first solo exhibition at the Weyhe Gallery, New York City.
* L'Exposition surréaliste at the Galerie du Sacre du Printemps, Paris.
* December – East London Group (as East London Art Club) exhibits at Whitechapel Gallery.

## Works

* Wäinö Aaltonen – bust of Jean Sibelius
* Tarsila do Amaral – Abaporu
* Pierre Bonnard – Flowers on a Red Carpet
* John Steuart Curry
** Baptism in Kansas
** Bathers
* Charles Demuth – I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
* Edwin Dickinson – The Fossil Hunters
* Otto Dix – Metropolis
* M. C. Escher – Tower of Babel (woodcut)
* Meredith Frampton – Marguerite Kelsey
* George Grosz – Hinterground (portfolio of lithographs)
* Edward Hopper
** From Williamsburg Bridge
** Manhattan Bridge Loop
** Night Windows
* Prudence Heward – Girl on a Hill
* Frida Kahlo – Dama de Blanco
* André Kertész – The Fork (photograph)
* Sir John Lavery – Portrait of Lady Lavery as Kathleen Ni Houlihan
* Tamara de Lempicka
** Andromeda
** Portrait of Dr. Boucard
* L. S. Lowry
** A Street Scene
** Going to the Match
* Eugenie McEvoy – Taxi! Taxi!
* René Magritte – The Empty Mask
* Henri Matisse – Odalisque au fauteuil turc
* Ivan Meštrović – The Bowman and The Spearman (equestrian sculptures, Chicago)
* Georgia O'Keeffe
** East River from the Shelton Hotel
** East River from the Thirtieth Story of the Shelton Hotel
* Mahmoud Mokhtar – Egypt's Renaissance (sculpture group, Cairo University, begun 1919, completed)
* Frederick Roth – Equestrian statue of George Washington (Morristown, New Jersey) (bronze)
* Frank O. Salisbury – Clarence Winthrop Bowen
* Christian Schad – Two Girlfriends
* Charles Sheeler – Upper Deck (photograph, approximate date)
* Zinaida Serebriakova – Lit By The Sun
* Charles Sims – I Am the Abyss and I Am Light
* John French Sloan – Sixth Avenue Elevated at Third Street
* Joseph Southall – The Botanists
* Alexej von Jawlensky – Abstract Head
* George Fite Waters – Statue of Abraham Lincoln (Portland, Oregon) (bronze)

## Births
### January to June

* January 20 – Malang, Filipino artist (d. 2017)
* January 31 – Dušan Džamonja, Macedonian sculptor (d. 2009)
* March 1 – Jacques Rivette, French filmmaker (d. 2016)
* March 3 – Jean Rustin, French painter (d. 2013)
* March 18 – Mirka Mora, French-Australian artist and cultural figure (d. 2018)
* March 25 – Hans Steinbrenner, German sculptor (d. 2008)
* April 25 – Cy Twombly, American abstract artist (d. 2011)
* April 28 – Yves Klein, French abstract artist (d. 1962)
* May 4 – Brian O'Doherty aka Patrick Ireland, Irish-born art critic and installation artist (d. 2022)
* May 14 – Władysław Hasior, Polish sculptor, painter and set designer (d. 1999)
* May 30 – Pro Hart, Australian painter (d. 2006)
* June 3 – Donald Judd, American sculptor (d. 1994)
* June 16 – Pierrette Bloch, French-Swiss painter, textile artist (d. 2017)
* June 25
** Peyo, Belgian comics artist (d. 1992)
** Alex Toth, American comic book artist and cartoonist (d. 2006)

### July to December

* July 8 – Pat Adams, American painter and printmaker
* July 10 – Bernard Buffet, French painter (d. 1999)
* July 14 – Anwar Shemza, Pakistan-born British artist and writer (d. 1985)
* July 21 – Anne Harris, Canadian sculptor
* August 6 – Andy Warhol, American artist, director and writer (d. 1987)
* August 12 – Charles Blackman, Australian painter and illustrator (d. 2018)
* August 15 – Alan Collins, English figurative religious sculptor (d. 2016)
* August 22 – Roberto Aizenberg, Argentine painter and sculptor (d. 1996)
* August 31 – Jeremy Maas, English art dealer and historian of Victorian painting (d. 1997)
* September 9 – Sol LeWitt, American conceptual and minimalist artist (d. 2007)
* September 10 - Ward Jackson, American painter (d. 2004)
* September 12 – Robert Irwin, American installation artist
* September 13 – Robert Indiana, born Clark, American pop artist (d. 2018)
* October 7 – Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d. 1980)
* October 12 – Al Held, American Abstract expressionist painter (d. 2005)
* October 30 – Michael Andrews, English painter (d. 1995)
* November 3 – Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist, animator and film producer (d. 1989)
* November 6 – Norman Carlberg, American sculptor (d. 2018)
* November 17 – Arman, French-born American artist (d. 2005)
* November 27 – Josh Kirby, English commercial artist (d. 2001)
* December 2 – Guy Bourdin, French photographer (d. 1991)
* December 12 – Helen Frankenthaler, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 2011)
* December 13 – Wolfgang Hutter, Austrian painter, lithographer and designer (d. 2014)
* December 15 – Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian painter, architect and sculptor (d. 2000)
* December 31 – Siné, French cartoonist (d. 2016)

### Date unknown

* Franco the Great, born Frankin Gaskin, Panamanian-born American street artist
* Wally Hedrick, American counterculture artist (d. 2003)

## Deaths

* January 4 – Hamilton Hamilton, American painter (b. 1847)
* January 6 – Adolfo de Carolis, Italian painter, xylographer, illustrator and photographer (b. 1874)
* January 8 – Gyula Basch, Hungarian painter (b. 1859)
* January 13 – Frederick Arthur Bridgman, American painter (b. 1847)
* January 21 – Nikolai Astrup, Norwegian painter (b. 1880)
* January 26 – Henrietta Rae, English painter (b. 1859)
* January – Alexander Reid, Scottish art dealer (b. 1854)
* February 7 – Adolfo de Carolis, Italian painter (b. 1874)
* February 12 – Nicolás Guzmán Bustamante, Chilean painter and draftsman (b. 1850)
* March 31 – Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (b. 1858)
* April 3 – Raffaello Romanelli, Italian sculptor (b. 1856)
* April 5 – Viktor Oliva, Czech painter and illustrator (b. 1861)
* April 13 – Charles Sims, English painter (suicide, b. 1873)
* May 16 – Frederick Arthur Verner, Canadian landscape painter (b. 1836)
* May 21 - George Frampton, English artist (b. 1860)
* June 22 – A. B. Frost, American illustrator (b. 1851)
* July 10 – John Chambers, English landscape and portrait painter (b. 1852)
* July 25 – Jane Sutherland, Australian landscape painter (b. 1853)
* August 30 – Franz Stuck, German symbolist /Art Nouveau painter, sculptor, engraver and architect (b. 1863)
* September 20 – Ivan Tišov, Croatian painter (b. 1870)
* October 24 – Arthur Bowen Davies, American artist (b. 1863)
* October 30 – Percy Anderson, English stage designer and painter (b. 1851)
* November 15 – Godfred Christensen, Danish painter (b. 1845)
* December 1 – Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth, German painter (b. 1855)
* December 2 – Robert Reid, American Impressionist painter (b. 1862)
* December 10 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect and designer (b. 1868)
* December 15 – Louis Mathieu Verdilhan, French painter (b. 1875)
* December 18 – Nils Bergslien, Norwegian illustrator, painter and sculptor (b. 1853)