1928 in art

Events

January 7 – The Tate Gallery, London, is flooded by the River Thames.
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.^[1]
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.^[2]
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.

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

Wäinö Aaltonen – bust of Jean Sibelius
Tarsila do Amaral – Abaporu
Pierre Bonnard – Flowers on a Red Carpet
John Steuart Curry – Bathers and Baptism in Kansas
Charles Demuth – I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
Edwin Dickinson – The Fossil Hunters
M. C. Escher – Tower of Babel (woodcut)
George Grosz – Hinterground (portfolio of lithographs)
Edward Hopper – 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 – 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)
Mahmoud Mokhtar – Egypt's Renaissance (sculpture group, Cairo University, begun 1919, completed)
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
Alexej von Jawlensky – Abstract Head
George Fite Waters – Abraham Lincoln (bronze, Portland, Oregon)

31 January – Dušan Džamonja, Macedonian sculptor
1 March – Jacques Rivette, French filmmaker (d. 2016)
3 March – Jean Rustin, French painter
24 April – Cy Twombly, American abstract artist (d. 2011)
28 April – Yves Klein, French abstract artist (d. 1962)
14 May – Władysław Hasior, Polish sculptor, painter and set designer (d. 1999)
30 May – Pro Hart, Australian painter (d. 2006)
3 June – Donald Judd, American sculptor (d. 1994)
June 25
- Peyo, Belgian comics artist (d. 1992)
- Alex Toth, American comic book artist and cartoonist (d. 2006)

July 10 – Bernard Buffet, French painter (d. 1999)
August 6 – Andy Warhol, American artist, director and writer (d. 1987)
August 12 – Charles Blackman, Australian painter and illustrator
August 15 – Alan Collins, English figurative religious sculptor (d. 2016)
September 9 – Sol LeWitt, American conceptual and minimalist artist (d. 2007)
October 7 – Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and a 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 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
December 15 – Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian painter, architect and sculptor (d. 2000)
December 31 – Siné, French cartoonist (d. 2016)

Norman Carlberg, American sculptor
Wally Hedrick, American artist (d. 2003)
Brian O'Doherty aka Patrick Ireland, Irish-born art critic and installation artist

January 6 – Adolfo de Carolis, painter, xylographer, illustrator and photographer (b. 1874)
January 8 – Gyula Basch, painter (b. 1859)
January 13 – Frederick Arthur Bridgman, painter (b. 1847)
January 26 – Henrietta Rae, English painter (b. 1859)
March 31 – Medardo Rosso, sculptor (b. 1858)
April 5 – Viktor Oliva, painter and illustrator (b. 1861)
April 13 – Charles Sims, English painter (suicide, b. 1873)
May 16 – Frederick Arthur Verner, landscape painter (b. 1836)
June 22 – A. B. Frost, illustrator (b. 1851)
July 10 – John Chambers, landscape and portrait painter (b. 1852)
July 25 – Jane Sutherland, landscape painter (b. 1853)
August 30 – Franz Stuck, symbolist /Art Nouveau painter, sculptor, engraver and architect (b. 1863)
September 20 – Ivan Tišov, painter (b. 1870)
October 30 – Percy Anderson, stage designer and painter (b. 1851)
November 15 – Godfred Christensen, painter (b. 1845)
December 1 – Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth, painter (b. 1855)
December 2 – Robert Reid, Impressionist painter (b. 1862)
December 10 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, architect and designer (b. 1868)
December 18 – Nils Bergslien, illustrator, painter and sculptor (b. 1853)
date unknown – Raffaello Romanelli, sculptor (b. 1856)

↑ Nicholson, Ben (1943). "Alfred Wallis". Alfred Wallis. Retrieved 2011-03-11.
↑ Griffin, Leonard (1998). The Fantastic Flowers of Clarice Cliff. London: Pavilion. ISBN 1-86205-053-8.

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