1915 in art

Events from the year 1915 in art.

Events

 * May – Ambrose Heal and others found the Design and Industries Association in London.
 * c. May – Publication of the first modern book illustrated with wood engravings, Frances Cornford's Spring Morning (published by The Poetry Bookshop, London) with engravings by the poet's cousin Gwen Raverat.
 * June 10 – The only contemporary Vorticist exhibition staged opens at the Doré Gallery in London.
 * October 24 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's frescos, Translation of the House of Loreto, in the Church of the Scalzi (Venice) are destroyed by an Austrian bombardment.
 * December 19 – Kasimir Malevich stages the 0.10 Exhibition and originates Suprematism.
 * Pierre Bodard serves with the French Army on Martinique.
 * Harper's Bazaar hires Erté to design its covers.
 * Edward McKnight Kauffer is given his first commission to design a poster for the Underground Electric Railways Company of London.
 * Shōzaburō Watanabe originates shin-hanga collaborative woodblock printing in Japan.
 * The first of the 'Etruscan terracotta warriors', forged by sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti with the Riccardi family, is purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
 * 14-year-old Alice Prin ("Kiki de Montparnasse") is posing (nude) for sculptors in Paris.

Works



 * George Bellows – Riverfront No. 1
 * Frank Weston Benson – Red and Gold
 * Umberto Boccioni
 * Charge of the Lancers
 * Horizontal Volumes
 * Marc Chagall – The Poet Reclining
 * William Merritt Chase – Self-portrait
 * Giorgio de Chirico – The Double Dream of Spring
 * Marcel Duchamp – begins producing readymades
 * Jacob Epstein – bust of Admiral Lord Fisher
 * J. W. Godward – In The Prime Of The Summer Time
 * Alexandre Jacovleff – The Violinist
 * Eric Kennington - The Kensingtons at Laventie
 * Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
 * Brandenburger Tor
 * Self-portrait as a Soldier
 * Carl Larsson – Midvinterblot
 * Wyndham Lewis – The Crowd
 * Kazimir Malevich – Black Square
 * Henri Matisse – Le rideau jaune
 * Jean Metzinger – Soldier at a Game of Chess
 * Piet Mondrian – Composition No. 10 Pier and Ocean
 * C. R. W. Nevinson
 * Bursting Shell
 * La Mitrailleuse
 * Returning to the Trenches (approximate date)
 * Diego Rivera – cubist portrait of Ramón Gómez de la Serna
 * Isaac Rosenberg – Self-portrait
 * Ladislav Šaloun – Jan Hus Memorial (Prague)
 * Helene Schjerfbeck – Self-portrait with black background
 * Kathleen Scott – statue of her late husband Robert Falcon Scott
 * Zinaida Serebriakova
 * Harvest
 * Peasants
 * Fred Spear – Enlist (poster)
 * Stewart–Screven Monument
 * Paul Strand – Wall Street (photograph)
 * W. L. Wyllie – The track of Lusitania: view of casualties and survivors in the water and in lifeboats
 * Konstantin Yuon – March Sun
 * Anders Zorn – Self-portrait in Red

Births

 * January 3 – Jack Levine, American Social Realist painter and printmaker (d. 2010)
 * January 15 – Leo Mol, Ukrainian-born Canadian artist, sculptor (d. 2009)
 * January 24 – Robert Motherwell, American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker (d. 1991).
 * February 4 – Virginia Admiral, American painter and poet (d. 2000)
 * February 11 – Mervyn Levy, Welsh artist and critic (d. 1996).
 * March 10 – Harry Bertoia, Italian-born American artist and furniture designer (d. 1978).
 * March 19 – Maria Austria (née Marie Karoline Oeststreicher) Austro-Dutch photographer and photojournalist)
 * April 4 – Louis Archambault, Canadian sculptor (d. 2003).
 * April 6 – Tadeusz Kantor, Polish painter, Assemblage artist, set designer and theatre director (d. 1990)
 * April 10 – Wynona Mulcaster, Canadian painter and teacher (d. 2016)
 * April 15 – Elizabeth Catlett, African-American graphic artist and sculptor (d. 2012)
 * April 17 – William Pachner, Czech painter (d. 2017)
 * May 3 – Richard Lippold, American sculptor (d. 2002)
 * May 20 – Sam Golden, American paint maker (d. 1997)
 * May 31 – Carmen Herrera, Cuban-American abstract minimalist visual artist
 * June 7 – Graham Ingels, American illustrator (d. 1991)
 * June 11 – José Caballero, Spanish artist (d. 1991)
 * June 17 – Gunther Gerzso, Mexican abstract painter (d. 2000)
 * June 23 – Frances Gabe, American artist and inventor (d. 2016)
 * July 8 – Malvina Cheek, British artist (d. 2016)
 * July 15
 * Edith Pfau, American painter, sculptor and art educator (d. 2001)
 * Judith Révész, Hungarian-Dutch potter and sculptor (d. 2018)
 * July 19 – Åke Hellman, Finnish still life and portrait painter (d. 2017)
 * July 28 – Dick Sprang, American comic book artist (d. 2000)
 * August 14 – Mary Fedden, English painter (d. 2012)
 * August 28
 * Patrick Hennessy, Irish painter (d. 1980)
 * Tasha Tudor, American illustrator and author of children's books (d. 2008)
 * September 17 – M. F. Husain, Indian artist (d. 2011)
 * September 19 – Duffy Ayers, born Betty FitzGerald, English portrait painter (d. 2017)
 * October 13
 * Terry Frost, English Abstract artist (d. 2003)
 * Ricco, Swiss painter (d. 1972)
 * October 24 – Bob Kane, American comic book artist and writer (d. 1998)
 * November 9 – André François, French cartoonist (d. 2005)
 * November 26 – Inge King, German-born Australian sculptor (d. 2016)
 * November 28 – Evald Okas, Estonian painter (d. 2011)

Deaths

 * January 15 – Luigi Crosio, Italian painter (b. 1835)
 * January 23 – Anne Whitney, American sculptor, poet (b. 1821)
 * February 25 – Flaxman Charles John Spurrell, English archaeologist and photographer (b. 1842)
 * April 3 – Nadežda Petrović, Serbian Fauvist painter (b. 1873)
 * April 9 – Karl Bitter, Austrian American sculptor (b. 1867)
 * May 7 – Sir Hugh Lane, Irish-born art dealer, collector and benefactor (b. 1875; killed in sinking of the RMS Lusitania)
 * June 5 – Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, French artist and sculptor (killed in action) (b. 1891)
 * June 7 – Hilda Sjölin, Swedish photographer (b. 1835)
 * July 10 – Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Dutch marine painter (b. 1831)
 * July 11 – Albert Schickedanz, Austro-Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style (b. 1846)
 * September 11 – Jens Birkholm, Danish genre and landscape painter (b. 1869)
 * September 14 – Alfred Agache, French academic painter (b. 1843)
 * October 24 – Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist and pioneer photographer (b. 1828)
 * November 28 – Kobayashi Kiyochika, Japanese ukiyo-e painter and printmaker (b. 1847)
 * December 22 – Arthur Hughes, English painter and illustrator (b. 1832)
 * date unknown
 * Kikuchi Shingaku, Japanese photographer (b. 1832)
 * Krikor Torosian, Armenian illustrator (b. 1884; killed in Armenian genocide)