1928 in art

• January 7 – The Tate Gallery, London, is one of the buildings flooded by the 1928 Thames flood.{{cite web |title=The great 1928 flood of London |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26153241 |website=BBC News |access-date=5 September 2021 |date=16 February 2014}}
• 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.{{cite web|first=Ben |last=Nicholson |title=Alfred Wallis |url=http://www.andyblair.co.uk/alfredwallis/nicholson.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810091712/http://www.andyblair.co.uk/alfredwallis/nicholson.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-08-10 |year=1943 |accessdate=2011-03-11 }}
• 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.{{cite book|last=Griffin|first=Leonard|title=The Fantastic Flowers of Clarice Cliff|location=London|publisher=Pavilion|year=1998|isbn=1-86205-053-8}}
• 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

• Alexander Calder's first solo exhibition at the Weyhe Gallery, New York City.
• L'Exposition surréaliste at the Galerie du Sacre du Printemps, Paris.
• December – East London Group (as East London Art Club) exhibits at Whitechapel Gallery.

{{See also|Category:1928 sculptures}}

• Wäinö Aaltonen – bust of Jean Sibelius
• Tarsila do Amaral – Abaporu
• Pierre Bonnard – Flowers on a Red Carpet
• John Steuart Curry
• Baptism in Kansas
• Bathers
• Charles Demuth – [http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections/488315 I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold]
• Edwin Dickinson – The Fossil Hunters
• Otto Dix – Metropolis
• M. C. Escher – Tower of Babel (woodcut)
• Meredith Frampton – [https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/frampton-marguerite-kelsey-t03415 Marguerite Kelsey]
• George Grosz – Hinterground (portfolio of lithographs)
• Edward Hopper
• [https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/487834 From Williamsburg Bridge]
• Manhattan Bridge Loop
• [http://www.moma.org/collection/works/79270 Night Windows]
• Prudence Heward – [http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/prudence-heward/girl-on-a-hill-1928 Girl on a Hill]
• Frida Kahlo – Dama de Blanco
• André Kertész – The Fork (photograph)
• Sir John Lavery – [https://web.archive.org/web/20130410114331/http://onlinecollection.nationalgallery.ie/view/objects/asitem/342/2/invno-asc?t:state:flow=273521df-c2e9-4356-8714-b7aaafef8700 Portrait of Lady Lavery as Kathleen Ni Houlihan]
• Tamara de Lempicka
• Andromeda
• 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)
• Georgia O'Keeffe
• [https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/484832 East River from the Shelton Hotel]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20160624005246/http://www.nbmaa.org/original-site-assets/timeline_highlights/essays/okeefe.html East River from the Thirtieth Story of the Shelton Hotel]
• Mahmoud Mokhtar – Egypt's Renaissance (sculpture group, Cairo University, begun 1919, completed)
• Frederick Roth – Equestrian statue of George Washington (Morristown, New Jersey) (bronze)
• Frank O. Salisbury – Clarence Winthrop Bowen
• Christian Schad – Two Girlfriends
• Charles Sheeler – [http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/2005.100.155/ 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
• Joseph Southall – The Botanists
• Alexej von Jawlensky – Abstract Head
• George Fite Waters – Statue of Abraham Lincoln (Portland, Oregon) (bronze)

• January 20 – Malang, Filipino artist (d. 2017)
• January 31 – Dušan Džamonja, Macedonian sculptor (d. 2009)
• March 1 – Jacques Rivette, French filmmaker (d. 2016){{cite web |title=Jacques Rivette, 1928–2016 {{!}} Obituary {{!}} Sight & Sound |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/comment/obituaries/french-new-wave-director-jacques-rivette-dies |website=British Film Institute |date=18 December 2019 |access-date=5 September 2021 |language=en}}
• March 3 – Jean Rustin, French painter (d. 2013)
• March 18 – Mirka Mora, French-Australian artist and cultural figure (d. 2018)
• March 25 – Hans Steinbrenner, German sculptor (d. 2008)
• April 25 – Cy Twombly, American abstract artist (d. 2011){{cite news|title= CY TWOMBLY, 1928-2011 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/06/arts/cy-twombly-american-artist-is-dead-at-83.html?pagewanted=all|work=The New York Times| date=6 July 2011 |access-date=2013-03-14 | last1=Kennedy | first1=Randy }}
• April 28 – Yves Klein, French abstract artist (d. 1962){{cite book|author1=Yves Klein|author2=Gilbert Perlein|author3=Bruno Corà|title=Yves Klein: Long Live the Immaterial|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=baJPAAAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Delano Greenidge Editions|isbn=978-0-929445-08-3|page=7}}
• May 4 – Brian O'Doherty aka Patrick Ireland, Irish-born art critic and installation artist (d. 2022)
• May 14 – Władysław Hasior, Polish sculptor, painter and set designer (d. 1999)
• May 30 – Pro Hart, Australian painter (d. 2006)
• June 3 – Donald Judd, American sculptor (d. 1994){{cite book|author1=Bernard Blistène|author2=Centre Georges Pompidou|author3=Lisa Dennison|title=Rendezvous: Masterpieces from the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Guggenheim Museums|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0FIkAQAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Guggenheim Museum Publications|isbn=978-0-8109-6916-2|page=646}}
• June 16 – Pierrette Bloch, French-Swiss painter, textile artist (d. 2017){{cite web|url=https://dianedepolignac.com/en/home-gb/artists-en/pierrette-bloch/|title=Pierrette Bloch - Artist|website=Diane de Polignac Gallery|access-date=August 21, 2021}}
• June 25
• Peyo, Belgian comics artist (d. 1992){{cite book|title=Contemporary Authors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G6viAAAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Gale Research Company|isbn=978-0-8103-1971-4|page=102}}
• Alex Toth, American comic book artist and cartoonist (d. 2006)

• July 8 – Pat Adams, American painter and printmaker
• July 10 – Bernard Buffet, French painter (d. 1999)
• July 14 – Anwar Shemza, Pakistan-born British artist and writer (d. 1985)
• July 21 – Anne Harris, Canadian sculptor
• August 6 – Andy Warhol, American artist, director and writer (d. 1987){{cite book|author=Victor Bockris|title=The Life and Death of Andy Warhol|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AKFIAQAAIAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Fourth Estate|isbn=978-1-85702-805-8|page=15}}
• August 12 – Charles Blackman, Australian painter and illustrator (d. 2018){{Cite web |last=Moran |first=Robert |date=2018-08-20 |title=Artist Charles Blackman dead, aged 90 |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/artist-charles-blackman-dead-aged-90-20180820-p4zyim.html |access-date=2023-03-31 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en}}
• August 15 – Alan Collins, English figurative religious sculptor (d. 2016)
• August 22 – Roberto Aizenberg, Argentine painter and sculptor (d. 1996)
• August 31 – Jeremy Maas, English art dealer and historian of Victorian painting (d. 1997)
• September 9 – Sol LeWitt, American conceptual and minimalist artist (d. 2007){{cite book|author1=Worcester Art Museum|author2=David Acton|author3=Davenport Museum of Art (Davenport, Iowa)|title=Master Drawings from the Worcester Art Museum|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JW1QAAAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Hudson Hills Press|isbn=978-1-55595-147-4|page=212}}
• September 10 - Ward Jackson, American painter (d. 2004)
• September 12 – Robert Irwin, American installation artist
• September 13 – Robert Indiana, born Clark, American pop artist (d. 2018)
• October 7 – Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and 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){{cite book|author=Osamu Tezuka|title=Ludwig B Vol. 2|year=2020|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uDv1DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA255|publisher=Digital Manga, Inc.|isbn=978-1-61313-821-2|pages=255}}
• November 6 – Norman Carlberg, American sculptor (d. 2018)
• November 17 – Arman, French-born American artist (d. 2005){{cite book|author1=Sarah Wilson|author2=Eric de Chassey|author3=Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)|title=Paris: capital of the arts, 1900-1968|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FczQ5haSfFUC|date=March 2002|publisher=Royal Academy of Arts|isbn=978-0-900946-98-1|page=431}}
• 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 (d. 2014)
• December 15 – Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian painter, architect and sculptor (d. 2000){{cite book|title=Austrian Information|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g09xC1sMmBgC&pg=RA1-PA8|year=2000|publisher=Information Department of the Austrian Consulate General|pages=8}}
• December 31 – Siné, French cartoonist (d. 2016)

• Franco the Great, born Frankin Gaskin, Panamanian-born American street artist
• Wally Hedrick, American counterculture artist (d. 2003){{cite book | last = LastName | first = FirstName | title = Forty years of California assemblage : UCLA Art Council annual exhibition | publisher = Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles | location = Los Angeles | year = 1989 | isbn = 9780943739090 | page=51}}

• January 4 – Hamilton Hamilton, American painter (b. 1847)
• January 6 – Adolfo de Carolis, Italian painter, xylographer, illustrator and photographer (b. 1874)
• January 8 – Gyula Basch, Hungarian painter (b. 1859)
• January 13 – Frederick Arthur Bridgman, American painter (b. 1847)
• January 21 – Nikolai Astrup, Norwegian painter (b. 1880){{cite book|author1=Terje Leiren|author2=Jan Sjåvik|title=Historical Dictionary of Norway|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=98SrDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA36|date=8 October 2019|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-5381-2312-6|pages=36}}
• January 26 – Henrietta Rae, English painter (b. 1859)
• January – Alexander Reid, Scottish art dealer (b. 1854)
• February 7 – Adolfo de Carolis, Italian painter (b. 1874)
• February 12 – Nicolás Guzmán Bustamante, Chilean painter and draftsman (b. 1850)
• March 31 – Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (b. 1858){{cite book | last = Dumas | first = Ann | title = Degas and the Italians in Paris | publisher = National Galleries of Scotland | location = Edinburgh | year = 2003 | isbn = 9781903278482 | page=96}}
• April 3 – Raffaello Romanelli, Italian sculptor (b. 1856)
• April 5 – Viktor Oliva, Czech painter and illustrator (b. 1861)
• April 13 – Charles Sims, English painter (suicide, b. 1873)
• May 16 – Frederick Arthur Verner, Canadian landscape painter (b. 1836)
• May 21 - George Frampton, English artist (b. 1860)
• June 22 – A. B. Frost, American illustrator (b. 1851)
• July 10 – John Chambers, English landscape and portrait painter (b. 1852)
• July 25 – Jane Sutherland, Australian landscape painter (b. 1853)
• August 30 – Franz Stuck, German symbolist /Art Nouveau painter, sculptor, engraver and architect (b. 1863)
• September 20 – Ivan Tišov, Croatian painter (b. 1870)
• October 24 – Arthur Bowen Davies, American artist (b. 1863){{cite book|title=15 American Artists from the Corcoran|publisher=London Art Gallery|year=1975|page=6}}
• October 30 – Percy Anderson, English stage designer and painter (b. 1851)
• November 15 – Godfred Christensen, Danish painter (b. 1845)
• December 1 – Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth, German painter (b. 1855)
• December 2 – Robert Reid, American Impressionist painter (b. 1862)
• December 10 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect and designer (b. 1868)
• December 15 – Louis Mathieu Verdilhan, French painter (b. 1875)
• December 18 – Nils Bergslien, Norwegian illustrator, painter and sculptor (b. 1853)

• 1928 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

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