page_title: 1917 in art
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: 1917 in art / Works
caption_attribution_description: Urinal "readymade" signed R. Mutt; early example of "Dada" art. A paradigmatic example of found-art. Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz. Captions read: "Fountain by R. Mutt, Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz, THE EXHIBIT REFUSED BY THE INDEPENDENTS"
context_page_description: The year 1917 in art involved some significant events and new works.
context_section_description: Max Beckmann – Deposition (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
  Lovis Corinth – Portrait of Julius Meier-Graefe
  Heinrich Maria Davringhausen – The Poet Däubler
  Marcel Duchamp (anonymously) – Fountain (readymade)
  Jacob Epstein – An American Soldier (bust)
  Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven – God (readymade sculpture)
  J. W. Godward
  The Fruit Vendor
  A Lily Pond
  Under The Blossom That Hangs On The Bough
  George Grosz
  The City
  Explosion
  Metropolis
  Rudolf Alfred Höger – Nach dem Vorstoß, Russische Kriegsgefangene (After the Foray: Russian Prisoners of War)
  Paul Klee – Ab ovo
  Gustav Klimt – Portrait of a Lady
  Isidore Konti – Nymph and Fawn (bronze fountain)
  Boris Kustodiev – Portrait of Countess Grabowska
  Hans Larwin – Soldat und Tod
  Fernand Léger – The Card Game
  L. S. Lowry – Coming from the Mill
  Maximilien Luce – La Gare de l'Est in snow
  George Luks – Houston Street
  Henri Matisse
  The Music Lesson
  The Painter and His Model
  Joan Miró
  Portrait of Vincent Nubiola
  The Village
  Amedeo Modigliani
  Anna Zborowska
  Nu couché ("Reclining Nude")
  Nude Sitting on a Divan
  C. R. W. Nevinson
  After a Push
  Britain's Efforts and Ideals series of lithographs
  A Group of Soldiers
  A Howitzer Gun in Elevation
  Over the Lines
  Paths of Glory
  The Road from Arras to Bapaume
  Swooping Down on a Hostile Plane
  A Tank
  Hilda Rix Nicholas – Desolation (approximate date; destroyed)
  Georgia O'Keeffe – Light Coming on the Plains (watercolor series)
  William Orpen
  An Airman – Lieutenant R.T.C. Hoidge MC
  Blown Up, Mad
  Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig
  German 'Planes Visiting Cassel
  A Highlander Passing a Grave
  Ready to Start: Self Portrait
  Schwaben Redoubt
  Self-portrait
  Theipval
  The Thinker on the Butte de Warlencourt (original pencil & watercolour version)
  View from the Old British Trenches, Looking towards La Boisselle, Courcelette on the Left, Martinpuich on the Right
  Glyn Philpot
  Siegfried Sassoon
  A Young Breton (Guillaume Rolland)
  Pablo Picasso – Olga Picasso in an Armchair
  Auguste Rodin – The Gates of Hell (sculpture unfinished at his death)
  Egon Schiele – The Embrace
  Zinaida Serebriakova – Bleaching Cloth
  Charles Sheeler – Doylestown House – Stairs from Below (photograph)
  John French Sloan – Passing through Gloucester
  Alfred Stieglitz – The Last Days of 291 (photograph)
  Tom Thomson
  April in Algonquin Park
  The Jack Pine (National Gallery of Canada)
  The West Wind
  Félix Vallotton
  The Church of Souain in Silhouette
  Senegalese Soldiers at the camp of Mailly
  J. W. Waterhouse – Fair Rosamund
  Christopher Williams – The Red Dress
  The Enchanted Pose
caption: The original Fountain photographed by Alfred Stieglitz at the 291 after the 1917 Society of Independent Artists exhibit to which Duchamp submitted it.[2]
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