1928 in art

Events from the year 1928 in art.

Events

 * January 7 – The Tate Gallery, London, is one of the buildings flooded by the 1928 Thames flood.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.

Awards

 * 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

Exhibitions

 * 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.

Works

 * 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 – I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
 * Edwin Dickinson – The Fossil Hunters
 * Otto Dix – Metropolis
 * M. C. Escher – Tower of Babel (woodcut)
 * Meredith Frampton – Marguerite Kelsey
 * George Grosz – Hinterground (portfolio of lithographs)
 * Edward Hopper
 * From Williamsburg Bridge
 * Manhattan Bridge Loop
 * Night Windows
 * Prudence Heward – Girl on a Hill
 * Frida Kahlo – Dama de Blanco
 * André Kertész – The Fork (photograph)
 * Sir John Lavery – 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
 * East River from the Shelton Hotel
 * 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 – 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 to June

 * January 20 – Malang, Filipino artist (d. 2017)
 * January 31 – Dušan Džamonja, Macedonian sculptor (d. 2009)
 * March 1 – Jacques Rivette, French filmmaker (d. 2016)
 * 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)
 * April 28 – Yves Klein, French abstract artist (d. 1962)
 * 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)
 * June 16 – Pierrette Bloch, French-Swiss painter, textile artist (d. 2017)
 * June 25
 * Peyo, Belgian comics artist (d. 1992)
 * Alex Toth, American comic book artist and cartoonist (d. 2006)

July to December

 * 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)
 * August 12 – Charles Blackman, Australian painter and illustrator (d. 2018)
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * November 6 – Norman Carlberg, American sculptor (d. 2018)
 * 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, 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)
 * December 31 – Siné, French cartoonist (d. 2016)

Date unknown

 * Franco the Great, born Frankin Gaskin, Panamanian-born American street artist
 * Wally Hedrick, American counterculture artist (d. 2003)

Deaths

 * 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)
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * 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)