1935 in art

Events from the year 1935 in art.

Events

 * January – First issue of Axis, a quarterly review of abstract art edited by Myfanwy Piper in England, is published.
 * February 15–March 2 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People stages an exhibition Art Commentary on Lynching in New York City.
 * May 7 – Artists' Unit group of British modernists announced, superseding Unit One.
 * December – Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler undergoes forced sterilization in accordance with Nazi eugenics policies and never paints again.
 * Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, designed by Hendrik Petrus Berlage, completed in the Netherlands.
 * William Coldstream edits the GPO Film Unit documentary Coal Face.
 * Picasso's poetry takes precedence over his graphic work this year.

Works

 * Pierre Bonnard – Nude in the Bathtub
 * Alessandro Bruschetti – Fascist Synthesis
 * Óscar Domínguez – Le Dimanche
 * Gerardo Dottori – Fascist Creations
 * Jacob Epstein – Ecce Homo (marble)
 * M. C. Escher – Hand with Reflecting Sphere (lithograph)
 * James Earle Fraser – sculptures, Washington, D.C.
 * Guardianship
 * Heritage
 * Frida Kahlo
 * A Few Small Nips (Unos cuantos piquetitos)
 * Self-Portrait with Curly Hair
 * Fernand Léger – Two Sisters
 * L. S. Lowry – The Fever Van
 * René Magritte
 * The Discovery of Fire
 * The Human Condition (second version)
 * The Portrait
 * Joan Miró
 * Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excrement
 * Metamorphosis
 * Paul Nash – Equivalents for the Megaliths
 * Pablo Picasso – Jeune Fille Endormie
 * Candido Portinari – Coffee
 * Diego Rivera – The Spanish Conquest of Mexico
 * William Rothenstein – Barn at Cherington, Gloucestershire
 * Amrita Sher-Gil
 * Camels
 * Hill Women
 * Three Girls
 * Kārlis Zāle – Freedom Monument (Riga, Latvia)

Awards

 * Archibald Prize: John Longstaff – A B ('Banjo') Paterson
 * Knighthood: William Reid Dick

Births

 * 2 January – David McKee, English author and illustrator (d. 2022)
 * 12 January – Teresa del Conde, Mexican art critic and historian (d. 2017)
 * 26 January – Paula Rego, Portuguese-born painter (d. 2022)
 * 10 February
 * John Alcorn, American illustrator (d. 1992)
 * Konrad Klapheck, German painter (d. 2023)
 * 1 June – Vladislav Lalicki, Serbian painter (d. 2008)
 * 13 June – Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Bulgarian & Moroccan-born American installation artists (d. 2020 & 2009 respectively)
 * 22 June – Floyd Norman, American animator, writer and comic book artist
 * 19 August – Victor Ambrus, Hungarian-born British illustrator (d. 2021)
 * 23 August – Roy Strong, English art historian and curator
 * 8 September – William Vance, Belgian comics artist (d. 2018)
 * 16 September – Carl Andre, American minimalist artist (d. 2024)
 * 26 September – Juan Zanotto, Italian-born Argentine comic book artist (d. 2005)
 * 30 September – James McKendry, Northern Irish sculptor and painter
 * 1 October – Walter De Maria, American minimalist, conceptual artist and land artist (d. 2013)
 * 3 October – Sinikka Kurkinen, Finnish painter
 * 9 October – Don McCullin, English war photographer
 * Full date unknown
 * Nina Alovert, Russian-born American ballet photographer
 * Rasheed Araeen, Pakistan-born British conceptual artist
 * Félix Aráuz, Ecuadorean painter (d. 2024)
 * John Barry, English film set designer (d. 1979)

Deaths

 * February 8 – Max Liebermann, German-Jewish impressionist painter (b. 1847)
 * February 16 – Carolina Benedicks-Bruce, Swedish sculptor (b. 1856)
 * March 25 – William de Leftwich Dodge, American muralist (b. 1867)
 * April 15 – Anna Ancher, Danish member of the Skagen Painters group (b. 1859)
 * April 22 – Frederick Farrell, Scottish watercolourist, war artist, pneumonia (b. 1882)
 * May 3 – Jessie Willcox Smith, American illustrator (b. 1863)
 * May 15 – Kazimir Malevich, Polish-Russian painter, art theoretician (b. 1879)
 * May 24 – Granville Redmond, American landscape painter (b. 1871)
 * July 17 – George William Russell ('Æ'), Irish critic, poet and painter (b. 1867)
 * August 15 – Paul Signac, French neo-impressionist painter (b. 1863)
 * August 27 – Childe Hassam, American impressionist painter (b. 1859)
 * October 2 – Georg Jensen, Danish silversmith (b. 1866)
 * October 4 – Jean Béraud, French painter (b. 1849)
 * October 9 – Archibald Thorburn, Scottish-born wildlife painter (b. 1860)
 * October 11 – Samuel Peploe, Scottish painter (b. 1871)
 * October 18 – Gaston Lachaise, French-American sculptor (b. 1882)
 * October 23 – Charles Demuth, American painter (b. 1883)
 * November 28 – Joaquín Clausell, Mexican impressionist landscape painter, lawyer and political activist (b. 1866)
 * Undated
 * Harry Fidler, English painter (b. 1856)
 * Eva Watson-Schütze, American portrait photographer and curator (b. 1867)