1916 in art

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Events from the year 1916 in art.

Events

February 5 – Cabaret Voltaire is opened by German poet Hugo Ball and his future wife Emmy Hennings in the back room of Ephraim Jan's Holländische Meierei in Zürich; although surviving only until the summer it is pivotal in the creation of Dada. Those who gather here include Marcel Janco, Richard Huelsenbeck, Tristan Tzara, Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Jean Arp.
February 9 : 6.00 p.m. – Tristan Tzara "founds" Dada (according to Hans Arp).
March 1 – Liljevalchs konsthall inaugurated in Stockholm.
May 20 – Boy with Baby Carriage is Norman Rockwell's first cover for The Saturday Evening Post.
May – Muirhead Bone recruited as a war artist by the British War Propaganda Bureau. At the end of the year, his album of drawings The Western Front begins publication.
June 16 – Cleveland Museum of Art opens in the United States.
July 14 – Hugo Ball recites the Dada manifesto in Zürich.
Summer – Paul Strand experiments with 'straight' abstract photography at Twin Lakes (Connecticut).
August 31 – Kestnergesellschaft founded in Hanover, Germany.
September 19 – Edvard Munch's paintings for the Aula (festival hall) of Det Kongelige Frederiks Universitet, Christiania, are inaugurated.
September 26 – C. R. W. Nevinson's first major single-artist exhibition opens in London.
November – John Nash arrives with the Artists Rifles in France.
Vanessa Bell's first single-artist exhibition is staged at Omega Workshops in London.
Provincial Fine Arts Museum completed in Córdoba, Argentina.
Gilbert Cannan publishes his novel Mendel: a story of youth, based on the lives of those in his artistic circle of friends with a young Mark Gertler as the central figure, together with Dora Carrington, C. R. W. Nevinson and John Currie.
Ezra Pound publishes Gaudier-Brzeska: A Memoir.

Works

Paul Wayland Bartlett – Apotheosis of Democracy (pediment sculpture on United States Capitol)
Vanessa Bell – Nude with Poppies
Umberto Boccioni – Portrait of Ferruccio Busoni
Constantin Brâncuși – Princess X (sculpture)
Frank Brangwyn – Mosaic for apse of St Aidan's Church, Leeds, England^[1]^[2]
George Clausen – Youth Mourning
Giorgio de Chirico
Marcel Duchamp – Apolinère Enameled (approximate date)
Jacob Epstein – The Tin Hat (bronze head)
Abel Faivre – On les aura! (recruiting poster)
Paul Gustav Fischer – Sunbathing in the Dunes
Mark Gertler
- Gilbert Cannan at his Mill
- Merry-Go-Round
J. W. Godward
- Ancient Pastimes
- By The Blue Ionian Sea
- Lesbia With Her Sparrow
George Grosz – Suicide
Richard Jack – The Return to the Front: Victoria Railway Station
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – Königstein Station
Laura Knight – Spring (original version)
Boris Kustodiev
- Fontanka
- Shrovetide (Масленица)

Alfred Laliberté – Les petits Baigneurs (bronze, Montreal)
Fernand Léger – Soldier with a Pipe
Wilhelm Lehmbruck – The Fallen (sculpture)
Kazimir Malevich – Suprematist Composition
Edward Middleton Manigault
- Still Life with Lemons
- Vorticist Landscape (War Impressions) (approximate date)
Henri Matisse – The Piano Lesson
Jean Metzinger
- Femme au miroir (Femme à sa toilette, Lady at her Dressing Table)
- Fruit and a Jug on a Table
Amedeo Modigliani
- portrait of Beatrice Hastings
- Léon Indenbaum
- portrait of Max Jacob
- Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz
- two portraits of Chaïm Soutine
- Reclining Nude
Claude Monet – paintings in Water Lilies series
- Nympheas (Musée Marmottan Monet)
- Water Lilies (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
C. R. W. Nevinson
- Archies
- The Doctor
- Dog-Tired
- French Troops Resting
Maxfield Parrish and Louis Comfort Tiffany - Dream Garden (glass mosaic) commissioned for and installed in the lobby of the Curtis Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania^[3]
Glyn Philpot
- Man in a Flying Jacket
- The Skyscraper
Morton Livingston Schamberg – Untitled (Mechanical Abstraction)
Matthew Smith – Fitzroy Street Nude No. 1
Paul Strand (photographs)
- Abstraction, Porch Shadows, Twin Lakes, Connecticut
- White Fence

Births

January 23 – David Douglas Duncan, American war photographer (died 2018)
April 11 – Irv Novick, American comic book artist (died 2004)
April 20 – Gerald Dillon, Irish painter (died 1971)
April 26 – Eyvind Earle, American illustrator and Disney artist (died 2000)
June 24 – Saloua Raouda Choucair, Lebanese painter and sculptor (died 2017)
July 25 – Fred Lasswell, American cartoonist (died 2001)
September 29 – Carl Giles, English cartoonist (died 1995)
October 18 – Jean-Yves Couliou, French painter (died 1995)
November 3 – Harry Lampert, American cartoonist, advertising artist and author (died 2004)
November 10 – Louis le Brocquy, Irish painter (died 2012)
November 25 – Villu Toots, Estonian calligrapher, book designer, educator, paleograph and author (died 1993)
December 7 – John G. Morris, American picture editor (died 2017)

Deaths

January 17 – Marie Bracquemond, French Impressionist painter (born 1840)
February 13 – Vilhelm Hammershøi, Danish painter (born 1864)
March 4 – Franz Marc, German Expressionist painter (born 1880) (killed in action during Battle of Verdun)
June 25 – Thomas Eakins, American painter, sculptor and teacher (born 1844)
June 29 – Georges Lacombe, French artist (born 1868)
July 6 – Odilon Redon, French Symbolist painter and graphic artist (born 1840)
July 29 – Eleanor Vere Boyle, English watercolorist (born 1825)
August 17 – Umberto Boccioni, Italian Futurist painter and sculptor (born 1882) (died following a fall during cavalry training)
August 23 – Jean-Paul Aubé, French sculptor (born 1837)
August 28 – Henri Harpignies, French landscape painter of the Barbizon school (born 1819)
October 25 – William Merritt Chase, American Impressionist painter (born 1849)
December 13 – Antonin Mercié, French sculptor and painter (born 1845)
date unknown
- Wu Shixian, Chinese landscape painter during the Qing dynasty (born unknown)
- Branko Radulović, Serbian painter (born 1885).

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