1914 in art

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Events from the year 1914 in art.

Events

  • January 31 – The Art Gallery of Hamilton is founded in Ontario.{{Cite web |url=http://www.artgalleryofhamilton.com/images/aa/AGH_chronology.pdf |title=Art Gallery of Hamilton: Chronology |access-date=2012-12-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120421122637/http://www.artgalleryofhamilton.com/images/aa/AGH_chronology.pdf |archive-date=2012-04-21 |url-status=dead }}
  • March – The London Group hold their first exhibition, at the Goupil Gallery.
  • March–June – Rebel Art Centre run in London by Wyndham Lewis and others.{{cite web|title=Rebel Art Centre|work=Glossary|publisher=Tate|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/collections/glossary/definition.jsp?entryId=633|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090129144625/https://www.tate.org.uk/collections/glossary/definition.jsp?entryId=633|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 29, 2009|accessdate=2011-07-20}}
  • March 10Suffragette Mary Richardson damages the Velázquez painting Rokeby Venus (c. 1651) in the National Gallery, London, with a meat cleaver.{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/timeline/1910.shtml|publisher=BBC Radio 4|work=Woman's Hour|title=Women's History Timeline: 1910-1919|accessdate=2007-09-25}}
  • April
  • Umberto Boccioni publishes Manifesto tecnico della scultura futurista ("Technical manifesto of futurist sculpture"); later this year he also publishes the book Pittura e scultura futuriste (dinamismo plastico) ("Futurist painting and sculpture").
  • August Macke, Louis Moilliet and Paul Klee travel in Tunisia.
  • April 20 – English artist Dorothy Shakespear marries American poet Ezra Pound at St Mary Abbots church, Kensington, London.
  • May 4 – Suffragette Mary Wood attacks John Singer Sargent's portrait of Henry James at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London with a meat cleaver. At the same exhibition on May 12, Gertrude Mary Ansell attacks the recently deceased Hubert von Herkomer's portrait of the Duke of Wellington, and on May 26 'Mary Spencer' (Maude Kate Smith) attacks George Clausen's painting Primavera.{{cite web|title='Deeds not words': Suffragettes and the Summer Exhibition|first=Helena|last=Bonett|date=2014-05-02|url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/deeds-not-words-suffragettes-and|publisher=Royal Academy of Arts|location=London|accessdate=2016-03-09}}
  • June – First issue (of two) published of the Vorticist literary magazine BLAST edited by Wyndham Lewis.{{cite web|url=http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761580283 |title=Vorticism |publisher=Msn Encarta |accessdate=2009-10-17 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070522043958/http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761580283 |archivedate=2007-05-22 }}
  • July – David Bomberg's first solo exhibition of paintings opens at the Chenil Gallery in Chelsea, London; his The Mud Bath is hung outside.{{cite book|last=Bostridge|first=Mark|title=The Fateful Year: England 1914|year=2014|publisher=Penguin UK|isbn=978-0-14-196223-8|page=133}} The work is now in Tate Britain.
  • July 17 – Suffragette Annie Hunt damages Sir John Millais' portrait of Thomas Carlyle (1877) in the National Portrait Gallery, London, with a meat cleaver.
  • August – Fernand Léger is mobilised for service in the French Army; he serves in the Forest of Argonne.
  • September 5 – The cover of magazine London Opinion first carries the iconic drawing by Alfred Leete of Lord Kitchener with the recruiting slogan Your Country Needs You.{{cite web|first=Tony|last=Quinn|date=8 December 2001|title=London Opinion – the most influential cover|publisher=Magforum.com|url=http://www.magforum.com/mens/london-opinion.htm|accessdate=2010-08-07|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100911080923/http://www.magforum.com/mens/london-opinion.htm|archivedate=11 September 2010|url-status=live}}
  • October 11 – English painter John Currie dies having shot himself and his mistress and model, Dorothy ("Dolly") Eileen Henry, in Chelsea, London.
  • November 16 – The Baltimore Museum of Art is founded at Johns Hopkins University in the United States.
  • The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum (Museo de Bellas Artes) is established in Bilbao.
  • Futurist exhibition at the Doré Gallery in London.
  • Edward Perry Warren's copy of Rodin's sculpture The Kiss is loaned for public display in the English town of Lewes, but objections to its erotic nature cause it to covered over and screened off.{{cite book|title=Minerva|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EhdIAQAAIAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Aurora Publications|page=33}}
  • Clive Bell publishes his formalist study Art.
  • Publication of Vincent van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo.
  • Nina Hamnett and Amedeo Modigliani meet for the first time, at La Rotonde in Montparnasse, Paris.{{cite book|author1=Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)|author2=Richard R. Brettell|title=The Robert Lehman Collection|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CuYwAQAAIAAJ|year=1987|publisher=The Museum|isbn=978-0-691-11415-6|page=354}}
  • Daniel Chester French is commissioned by the Lincoln Memorial committee to create a statue of Abraham Lincoln for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., unveiled in 1922.

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