Events

• January 7 - The Tate Gallery, London, is flooded by the River Thames.
• August - Ben Nicholson and Kit Wood visit St. Ives, Cornwall, and meet the ex-fisherman painter Alfred Wallis.^[1]
• 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.
• Clarice Cliff introduces her Crocus pottery decoration.^[2]
• Eric Gill leaves Capel-y-ffin for 'Pigotts', near High Wycombe.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: John Longstaff - Portrait of Dr Alexander Leeper
• Carnegie Prize - Andr Derain
• Art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics
  • Painting: Isaac Isra ls - Cavalier Rouge
  • Drawing: Jean Jacoby - Rugby
  • Graphic work: William Nicholson - An Almanac of Twelve Sports

Exhibitions

• Alexander Calder's first solo exhibition at the Weyhe Gallery, New York City.
• L'Exposition surr aliste at the Galerie du Sacre du Printemps, Paris.

Works

• W in 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)
• Frida Kahlo - Dama de Blanco
• Tamara de Lempicka - Portrait of Dr. Boucard
• L. S. Lowry
  • A Street Scene
  • Going to the Match
• Ren Magritte - The Empty Mask
• Henri Matisse - Odalisque au fauteuil turc
• Ivan Me trovi - The Bowman and The Spearman (equestrian sculptures, Chicago)
• Christian Schad - Two Girlfriends
• John French Sloan - Sixth Avenue Elevated at Third Street
• Alexej von Jawlensky - Abstract Head

Births

January to June

• 31 January - Du an D amonja, sculptor.
• 24 April - Cy Twombly, abstract artist (d. 2011).
• 28 April - Yves Klein, abstract artist (d. 1962).
• 14 May - W adys aw 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
  • Alex Toth, American comic book artist and cartoonist (d. 2006).
  • Peyo, Belgian comics artist (d.1992).

July to December

• July 10 - Bernard Buffet, French painter (d.1999).
• August 6 - Andy Warhol, American artist, director and writer (d.1987).
• 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, painter (d.1995).
• November 3 - Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist, animator and 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, abstract expressionist painter (d. 2011).
• December 13 - Wolfgang Hutter, painter, lithographer and designer.
• December 15 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian painter, architect and sculptor (d. 2000).
• date unknown
  • Norman Carlberg, sculptor.
  • Wally Hedrick, American artist (d. 2003).

Deaths

• 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)
• 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 Ti ov, 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)

See also

• 1928 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References

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