# 1930 in art

Events from the year 1930 in art.

## Events

* June–July – Christopher Wood paints in Brittany.
* 29 November – Première of the Surrealist film L'Age d'Or by Luis Buñuel (co-written with Salvador Dalí) at Studio 28 in Paris.
* Theo van Doesburg produces a "Manifesto of Concrete art".
* Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant complete the decoration of the dining room for Dorothy Wellesley at Penns-in-the-Rocks, Withyham, England.
* Malvina Hoffman begins sculpting life-size figures for the Field Museum's Hall of Man.
* Great Bardfield Artists community established in England.
* Bernard Berenson publishes The Italian Painters of the Renaissance.
* Milt Gross publishes his wordless novel He Done Her Wrong in the United States.
* Soviet sale of Hermitage paintings begins.
* Spanish postage stamps depict Goya's La maja desnuda.
* Approximate date – Gertrud Arndt begins a series of photographic self-portraits at the Bauhaus.

## Awards

* Archibald Prize: W. B. McInnes – Drum-Major Harry McClelland

## Exhibitions

* April – Cercle et Carré exhibition opens at Galerie 23 in the Rue La Boétie, Paris.

## Works

* Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious – Mural in refectory of Morley College, London (begun 1928; destroyed in The Blitz 1940)
* Pierre Bonnard – Pots
* Patrick Henry Bruce – Peinture (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
* Edward Burra – The Snack Bar
* John Steuart Curry – Hogs Killing a Snake
* Theo van Doesburg – Arithmetic Composition
* Raoul Dufy – Pink Nude
* M. C. Escher
** The Bridge (lithograph)
** Castrovalva (lithograph)
** Palizzi, Calabria (woodcut)
** Pentedattilo, Calabria (lithograph)
** Street in Scanno, Abruzzi (lithograph)
* Thomas Cooper Gotch – The Exile: Heavy Is The Price I Paid For Love
* James Guthrie – Statesmen of World War I
* Edward Hopper – Early Sunday Morning
* Augustus John – Portrait of Tallulah Bankhead
* Rozsa Klein (Rogi André) – Bonnard's Palette
* Helmut Kolle
** Self-Portrait in Hunting Attire
** Young Man with a Colored Scarf
* Abel Lafleur – Victory (trophy)
* Fernand Léger – Mona Lisa with Keys
* L. S. Lowry – Coming from the Mill
* Jeanne Mammen – Free Room
* Henri Matisse – The Back Series (bas-reliefs)
* Alice Neel – Ethel Ashton (nude portrait)
* José Clemente Orozco – Prometheus (fresco at Pomona College, California)
* Charles Sheeler – American Landscape
* T. F. Šimon – View in Old Prague (woodcut)
* Grace Cossington Smith – The Bridge in Curve
* Herbert Tyson Smith – bronze reliefs for Liverpool Cenotaph
* Sophie Taeuber-Arp – Composition of Circles and Overlapping Angles
* Edward Trumbull – Transport and Human Endeavor (ceiling mural, lobby, Chrysler Building, New York City)
* Suzanne Valadon – Nude Woman with a Blue Shawl
* Christopher Wood
** Anemones in a Cornish Window
** Zebra and Parachute
* Grant Wood
** American Gothic
** Stone City, Iowa
* W. L. Wyllie – Panorama of the Battle of Trafalgar (Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth)
* Xu Beihong – A Portrait of Sun Duoci
* Statler Fountain

## Births
### January to June

* 15 January – Paul Ahyi, Togolese artist and sculptor (d. 2010)
* 26 January – Napoleon Abueva, Filipino sculptor (d. 2018)
* 3 February – Gillian Ayres, English abstract painter (d. 2018)
* 10 February – Eva Frankfurther, German-born portrait painter (suicide 1959)
* 13 February – Ernst Fuchs, Austrian artist (d. 2015)
* 18 February – Gahan Wilson, American cartoonist (d. 2019)
* 21 February – Enrique Tábara, Ecuadorian painter (d. 2021)
* 24 February – Anita Steckel, American feminist artist (d. 2012)
* 25 February – Wendy Beckett, English contemplative nun and art historian (d. 2018)
* 7 March – Antony Armstrong-Jones, English photographer (d. 2017)
* 8 March – Hector Lombana, Colombian sculptor, painter and architect (d. 2008)
* 11 March – David Gentleman, English graphic designer
* 27 March – Daniel Spoerri, Romanian-Swiss artist and writer
* 30 March – Rolf Harris, Australian entertainer, painter and child sexual abuser (d. 2023)
* 31 March – Susan Weil, American painter
* 1 April – John Houston, Scottish painter (d. 2008)
* 12 April – Manuel Neri, American sculptor, painter and printmaker (d. 2021)
* 14 May – James Beck, American art historian (d. 2007)
* 15 May – Jasper Johns, American painter, sculptor and printmaker
* 22 May – Marisol Escobar, French-born sculptor and printmaker (d.2016)
* 23 May
** Richard Anuszkiewicz, American painter, sculptor and printmaker (d. 2020)
** Aslan, French-born pin-up artist (d.2014)
* 24 May – Unity Spencer, English artist (d. 2017)
* 30 May – Robert Ryman, American monochrome painter (d. 2019)
* 5 June – Vladimir Popov, Soviet animator, animation and art director (d. 1987)
* 15 June – Ikuo Hirayama, Japanese painter (d. 2009)
* 16 June – Allan D'Arcangelo, American painter and graphic artist (d. 1998)
* 19 June – Bryan Kneale, Manx sculptor and academic
* 20 June – Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish sculptor (d. 2017)
* 24 June
** Pierre Restany, French art critic and cultural philosopher (d. 2003)
** Flip Schulke, American photojournalist (d. 2008)

### July to December

* 4 July – Mohamed Demagh, Algerian sculptor (d. 2018)
* 4 August - Astrid Zydower, German-born British sculptor (d. 2005)
* 5 September – Ibrahim El-Salahi, Sudanese painter
* 24 September – Bernard Nevill, English textile designer and art collector (d. 2019)
* 28 September – Nikolai Pozdneev, Russian painter (d. 1978)
* 3 October – Robyn Denny, British abstract artist (d. 2014)
* 7 October – Kurt Dornis, German painter, graphic artist and draughtsman
* 8 October – Faith Ringgold, African American painter and fabric artist
* 18 October – Trevor Bell, English painter (d. 2017)
* 29 October – Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor, painter and film maker (d. 2002)
* 7 November – Robert Natkin, American painter (d. 2010)
* 13 November – Benny Andrews, American painter and academic (d. 2006)
* 14 November – Elisabeth Frink, English sculptor (d. 1993)
* 31 December – Luis Marsans, Catalan painter (d. 2015)

## Deaths

* January 7 – Max Schmalzl, German religious painter and illustrator (b. 1850)
* March 3 – W. W. Quatremain, English landscape painter (b. 1857)
* March 19 – Andreas Walser, Swiss painter (b. 1908)
* March 24 – Eugeen Van Mieghem, Belgian painter (b. 1875)
* April 17 – Aleksandr Golovin, Russian stage designer (b. 1863)
* April 30 – John Russell, Australian Impressionist painter (b. 1858)
* May 10 – Julio Romero de Torres, Spanish painter (b. 1874)
* May 28 – George Washington Lambert, Australian portrait painter and war artist (b. 1873)
* June 3 – Alexander Bogomazov, Ukrainian painter and modern art theoretician of Russian avant-garde (b. 1880)
* June 5
** Sophie Holten, Danish painter (b. 1858)
** Jules Pascin, Bulgarian-born painter and draftsman (b. 1885)
* July 22 – Wacław Szymanowski, Polish sculptor and painter (b. 1859)
* August 21 – Christopher Wood, English painter (b. 1901) (suicide)
* August 28 – Stanisław Bergman, Polish painter (b. 1862)
* September 6 – Sir James Guthrie, Scottish painter (b. 1859)
* September 24 – Otto Mueller, German Expressionist painter (b. 1874)
* September 25 – Abram Arkhipov, Russian painter (b. 1862)
* September 29 – Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter (b. 1844)
* December 9 – Laura Muntz Lyall, Canadian Impressionist painter (b. 1860)
* December 17 – Nikolay Kasatkin, Russian painter (b. 1859)
* December 28 – Antonio Mancini, Italian painter (b. 1852)
* date unknown – Peter Moog, outsider artist (b. 1871)