1930 in art

Events from the year 1930 in art.

Events

 * June–July – Christopher Wood paints in Brittany.
 * 29 November – Première of the Surrealist film L'Age d'Or by Luis Buñuel (co-written with Salvador Dalí) at Studio 28 in Paris.
 * Theo van Doesburg produces a "Manifesto of Concrete art".
 * Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant complete the decoration of the dining room for Dorothy Wellesley at Penns-in-the-Rocks, Withyham, England.
 * Malvina Hoffman begins sculpting life-size figures for the Field Museum's Hall of Man.
 * Great Bardfield Artists community established in England.
 * Bernard Berenson publishes The Italian Painters of the Renaissance.
 * Milt Gross publishes his wordless novel He Done Her Wrong in the United States.
 * Soviet sale of Hermitage paintings begins.
 * Spanish postage stamps depict Goya's La maja desnuda.
 * Approximate date – Gertrud Arndt begins a series of photographic self-portraits at the Bauhaus.

Awards

 * Archibald Prize: W. B. McInnes – Drum-Major Harry McClelland

Exhibitions

 * April – Cercle et Carré exhibition opens at Galerie 23 in the Rue La Boétie, Paris.

Works



 * Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious – Mural in refectory of Morley College, London (begun 1928; destroyed in The Blitz 1940)
 * Pierre Bonnard – Pots
 * Patrick Henry Bruce – Peinture (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
 * Edward Burra – The Snack Bar
 * John Steuart Curry – Hogs Killing a Snake
 * Theo van Doesburg – Arithmetic Composition
 * Raoul Dufy – Pink Nude
 * M. C. Escher
 * The Bridge (lithograph)
 * Castrovalva (lithograph)
 * Palizzi, Calabria (woodcut)
 * Pentedattilo, Calabria (lithograph)
 * Street in Scanno, Abruzzi (lithograph)
 * Thomas Cooper Gotch – The Exile: Heavy Is The Price I Paid For Love
 * James Guthrie – Statesmen of World War I
 * Edward Hopper – Early Sunday Morning
 * Augustus John – Portrait of Tallulah Bankhead
 * Rozsa Klein (Rogi André) – Bonnard's Palette
 * Helmut Kolle
 * Self-Portrait in Hunting Attire
 * Young Man with a Colored Scarf
 * Abel Lafleur – Victory (trophy)
 * Fernand Léger – Mona Lisa with Keys
 * L. S. Lowry – Coming from the Mill
 * Jeanne Mammen – Free Room
 * Henri Matisse – The Back Series (bas-reliefs)
 * Alice Neel – Ethel Ashton (nude portrait)
 * José Clemente Orozco – Prometheus (fresco at Pomona College, California)
 * Charles Sheeler – American Landscape
 * T. F. Šimon – View in Old Prague (woodcut)
 * Grace Cossington Smith – The Bridge in Curve
 * Herbert Tyson Smith – bronze reliefs for Liverpool Cenotaph
 * Sophie Taeuber-Arp – Composition of Circles and Overlapping Angles
 * Edward Trumbull – Transport and Human Endeavor (ceiling mural, lobby, Chrysler Building, New York City)
 * Suzanne Valadon – Nude Woman with a Blue Shawl
 * Christopher Wood
 * Anemones in a Cornish Window
 * Zebra and Parachute
 * Grant Wood
 * American Gothic
 * Stone City, Iowa
 * W. L. Wyllie – Panorama of the Battle of Trafalgar (Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth)
 * Xu Beihong – A Portrait of Sun Duoci
 * Statler Fountain

January to June

 * 15 January – Paul Ahyi, Togolese artist and sculptor (d. 2010)
 * 26 January – Napoleon Abueva, Filipino sculptor (d. 2018)
 * 3 February – Gillian Ayres, English abstract painter (d. 2018)
 * 10 February – Eva Frankfurther, German-born portrait painter (suicide 1959)
 * 13 February – Ernst Fuchs, Austrian artist (d. 2015)
 * 18 February – Gahan Wilson, American cartoonist (d. 2019)
 * 21 February – Enrique Tábara, Ecuadorian painter (d. 2021)
 * 24 February – Anita Steckel, American feminist artist (d. 2012)
 * 25 February – Wendy Beckett, English contemplative nun and art historian (d. 2018)
 * 7 March – Antony Armstrong-Jones, English photographer (d. 2017)
 * 8 March – Hector Lombana, Colombian sculptor, painter and architect (d. 2008)
 * 11 March – David Gentleman, English graphic designer
 * 27 March – Daniel Spoerri, Romanian-Swiss artist and writer
 * 30 March – Rolf Harris, Australian entertainer, painter and child sexual abuser (d. 2023)
 * 31 March – Susan Weil, American painter
 * 1 April – John Houston, Scottish painter (d. 2008)
 * 12 April – Manuel Neri, American sculptor, painter and printmaker (d. 2021)
 * 14 May – James Beck, American art historian (d. 2007)
 * 15 May – Jasper Johns, American painter, sculptor and printmaker
 * 22 May – Marisol Escobar, French-born sculptor and printmaker (d.2016)
 * 23 May
 * Richard Anuszkiewicz, American painter, sculptor and printmaker (d. 2020)
 * Aslan, French-born pin-up artist (d.2014)
 * 24 May – Unity Spencer, English artist (d. 2017)
 * 30 May – Robert Ryman, American monochrome painter (d. 2019)
 * 5 June – Vladimir Popov, Soviet animator, animation and art director (d. 1987)
 * 15 June – Ikuo Hirayama, Japanese painter (d. 2009)
 * 16 June – Allan D'Arcangelo, American painter and graphic artist (d. 1998)
 * 19 June – Bryan Kneale, Manx sculptor and academic
 * 20 June – Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish sculptor (d. 2017)
 * 24 June
 * Pierre Restany, French art critic and cultural philosopher (d. 2003)
 * Flip Schulke, American photojournalist (d. 2008)

July to December

 * 4 July – Mohamed Demagh, Algerian sculptor (d. 2018)
 * 4 August - Astrid Zydower, German-born British sculptor (d. 2005)
 * 5 September – Ibrahim El-Salahi, Sudanese painter
 * 24 September – Bernard Nevill, English textile designer and art collector (d. 2019)
 * 28 September – Nikolai Pozdneev, Russian painter (d. 1978)
 * 3 October – Robyn Denny, British abstract artist (d. 2014)
 * 7 October – Kurt Dornis, German painter, graphic artist and draughtsman
 * 8 October – Faith Ringgold, African American painter and fabric artist
 * 18 October – Trevor Bell, English painter (d. 2017)
 * 29 October – Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor, painter and film maker (d. 2002)
 * 7 November – Robert Natkin, American painter (d. 2010)
 * 13 November – Benny Andrews, American painter and academic (d. 2006)
 * 14 November – Elisabeth Frink, English sculptor (d. 1993)
 * 31 December – Luis Marsans, Catalan painter (d. 2015)

Deaths

 * January 7 – Max Schmalzl, German religious painter and illustrator (b. 1850)
 * March 3 – W. W. Quatremain, English landscape painter (b. 1857)
 * March 19 – Andreas Walser, Swiss painter (b. 1908)
 * March 24 – Eugeen Van Mieghem, Belgian painter (b. 1875)
 * April 17 – Aleksandr Golovin, Russian stage designer (b. 1863)
 * April 30 – John Russell, Australian Impressionist painter (b. 1858)
 * May 10 – Julio Romero de Torres, Spanish painter (b. 1874)
 * May 28 – George Washington Lambert, Australian portrait painter and war artist (b. 1873)
 * June 3 – Alexander Bogomazov, Ukrainian painter and modern art theoretician of Russian avant-garde (b. 1880)
 * June 5
 * Sophie Holten, Danish painter (b. 1858)
 * Jules Pascin, Bulgarian-born painter and draftsman (b. 1885)
 * July 22 – Wacław Szymanowski, Polish sculptor and painter (b. 1859)
 * August 21 – Christopher Wood, English painter (b. 1901) (suicide)
 * August 28 – Stanisław Bergman, Polish painter (b. 1862)
 * September 6 – Sir James Guthrie, Scottish painter (b. 1859)
 * September 24 – Otto Mueller, German Expressionist painter (b. 1874)
 * September 25 – Abram Arkhipov, Russian painter (b. 1862)
 * September 29 – Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter (b. 1844)
 * December 9 – Laura Muntz Lyall, Canadian Impressionist painter (b. 1860)
 * December 17 – Nikolay Kasatkin, Russian painter (b. 1859)
 * December 28 – Antonio Mancini, Italian painter (b. 1852)
 * date unknown – Peter Moog, outsider artist (b. 1871)