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Overview of the events of 1934 in art
Events from the year 1934 in art .
Events
Works
Eileen Agar –
The Autobiography of an Embryo
Hans Arp – Human Concretion (
Musée National d'Art Moderne ,
Paris )
Balthus –
Guitar Lesson
Paul Cadmus
Salvador Dalí –
The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table
Edwin Dickinson –
Stranded Brig
Antonio Donghi – Canzone
Raoul Dufy – Regatta at Cowes (
National Gallery of Art ,
Washington D.C. )
Jacob Epstein – Portrait bust of
George Bernard Shaw
M. C. Escher –
Still Life with Spherical Mirror (
lithograph )
Leo Friedlander – marble reliefs outside Oregon State Capitol
Lily Furedi –
The Subway
Edward Hopper –
East Wind Over Weehawken
Paul Manship –
Prometheus (gilded bronze sculpture, Rockefeller Center, New York City)
Joan Miró – Woman
Ronald Moody – Wohin (carved oak head)
Ben Nicholson –
1934 (relief)
José Clemente Orozco – The Epic of American Civilization (
mural ,
Dartmouth College ,
New Hampshire , 1932-34)
Pablo Picasso –
Minotauromachy
Diego Rivera –
Man, Controller of the Universe (mural,
Palacio de Bellas Artes ,
Mexico City )
Amrita Sher-Gil –
The Little Girl in Blue
Raphael Soyer – How Long Since You Wrote to Mother?
Exhibitions
April - The Unit One group holds its only exhibition, in
Cork Street (London) , accompanied by a book, Unit 1: the Modern Movement in English Architecture, Painting and Sculpture , edited by
Herbert Read .
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Awards
Births
January 18 –
Raymond Briggs ,
English illustrator (d.
2022 )
February 11 –
Mary Quant , English fashion designer (d.
2023 )
February 26
February 27 –
Vincent Fourcade ,
French
interior designer (d.
1992 )
March 1 –
Jean-Michel Folon , Belgian sculptor (d.
2005 )
March 7 –
Gray Morrow ,
American comic book artist and book illustrator (d.
2001 )
March 20 –
Eric Hebborn , English
art forger (d.
1996 )
April 16 –
Vicar , Chilean comic book artist
May 29 –
Jef Geys , Belgian artist (d.
2018 )
June 15 –
Aron Tager , American-
Canadian actor, voice actor and artist (d.
2019 )
June 18 –
Dimitris Mytaras , Greek painter (d.
2017 )
June 20 –
Rius , Mexican cartoonist (d.
2017 )
July 11 –
Giorgio Armani , Italian fashion designer
July 18 –
Jean-Michel Sanejouand , French painter and sculptor (d.
2021 )
July 24 –
Lee Friedlander , American photographer
August 14 –
Lucien Clergue , French photographer (d.
2014 )
September 14 –
Kate Millett , American sculptor and feminist activist (d.
2017 )
October 14 –
Rose Wylie , English painter
December 28 –
Alasdair Gray , Scottish fiction writer and artist (d.
2019 )
date unknown
Deaths
March 23 –
Wenzel Hablik , German painter, graphic artist and designer (b.
1881 )
March 28 –
Mahmoud Mokhtar ,
Egyptian sculptor (b.
1891 )
April 11 –
John Collier , English Pre-Raphaelite painter (b.
1850 )
June 29 –
Adolf Kašpar , Czech painter and
illustrator (b.
1877 )
July 1 –
Jules Monge , French painter (b.
1855 )
August 17 –
Aleksandr Borisov , Russian Arctic landscape painter (b.
1866 )
September 1 –
Yumeji Takehisa , Japanese poet and painter (b.
1884 )
October 11 –
M. O. Hammond , Canadian photographer (b.
1876 )
October 12 –
Gertrude Käsebier , American portrait photographer (b.
1852 )
October 17 –
Adolf Hölzel , German painter of an
Impressionism to expressive
modernism style (b.
1853 )
November 4 –
Sir Alfred Gilbert , English sculptor (b.
1854 )
December 4 –
Paul-Albert Besnard , French painter (b.
1849 )
December 28 –
Pablo Gargallo , Spanish painter and sculptor (b.
1881 )
date unknown –
Alfred Boucher , French sculptor (b.
1850 )
See also
References