1934 in art
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Events
- April – David Low's cartoon character Colonel Blimp first appears in the London Evening Standard.[1]
- August 31 – John Smiukse destroys the mural Nightmare of 1934 in Tarrytown, New York.
- Publication in the United States of Irving Stone's biographical novel of Vincent van Gogh, Lust for Life.
Works
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- Eileen Agar – The Autobiography of an Embryo
- Hans Arp – Human Concretion (Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris)
- Balthus – Guitar Lesson
- Paul Cadmus
- Coney Island
- The Fleet's In!
- Greenwich Village Cafeteria
- 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)
- Lily Furedi – The Subway
- Edward Hopper – East Wind Over Weehawken
- Joan Miró – Woman
- Ronald Moody – Wohin (carved oak head)
- 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)
- 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.[2]
Awards
- Archibald Prize: Henry Hanke – Self Portrait
- Légion d'honneur: Gen Paul
Births
- January 18 – Raymond Briggs, English illustrator
- February 11 – Mary Quant, English fashion designer
- February 27 – Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (d. 1992)
- March 20 – Eric Hebborn, English art forger (k. 1996)
- April 16 – Vicar, Chilean comic book artist
- June 20 – Rius, Mexican cartoonist
- July 11 – Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer
- July 24 – Lee Friedlander, American photographer
- August 14 – Lucien Clergue, French photographer (d. 2014)
- date unknown – Neil Williams, American painter (d. 1988)
Deaths
- March 23 – Wenzel Hablik, German painter, graphic artist, designer (b. 1881)
- March 28 – Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor (b. 1891)
- April 11 – John Collier, painter (b. 1850)
- June 29 – Adolf Kašpar, Czech painter and illustrator (b. 1877)
- August 17 – Alexander Borisov, landscape painter (b. 1866)
- September 1 – Yumeji Takehisa, poet and painter (b. 1884)
- October 17 – Adolf Hölzel, German artist/[painter of an Impressionism to expressive modernism style (b. 1853)
- November 4 – Sir Alfred Gilbert, sculptor (b. 1854)
- December 4 – Paul-Albert Besnard, painter (b. 1849)
- December 28 – Pablo Gargallo, painter and sculptor (b. 1881)
- date unknown
- Alfred Boucher, sculptor (b. 1850)
- Melvin Ormond Hammond, photographer (b. 1876)
