1916 in art

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
 * George Clausen – Youth Mourning
 * Giorgio de Chirico
 * The Disquieting Muses
 * The Melancholy of Departure
 * Metaphysical Interior with Biscuits
 * 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
 * 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).