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Events from the year 1908 in art. Events. January 20 – Hugh Lane opens the Dublin City Gallery, the world's first to display only modern art.
Imogene Robinson Morrell was a history painter. Her paintings were patriotic and contained images of historical figures, often with horses. [3] Two of her most praised paintings, Washington Welcoming the Provision Trains and First Battle of the Puritans, were exhibited in 1876 at the National Academy of Design in New York City. [5]
Artist of the Year, 1967, San Antonio Art League Martha Mood (June 21, 1908 – July 15, 1972) was an American artist who is known for her stitchery and textile works and for being one of the first artists to raise the craft to the status of fine art in the United States.
Theodore Major (19 February 1908 – 17 January 1999) was an English artist who was considered a great individualist of British Art. Biography
Henrietta Catherine Angus (12 March 1908 – 25 January 1970), known as Rita Cook early in her career, was a New Zealand painter who, alongside Colin McCahon and Toss Woollaston, is regarded as one of the leading figures in twentieth-century New Zealand art.
Georges Braque was born on 13 May 1882 in Argenteuil, Val-d'Oise. [2] He grew up in Le Havre and trained to be a house painter and decorator like his father and grandfather. . However, he also studied artistic painting during evenings at the École supérieure d'art et design Le Havre-Rouen, previously known as the École supérieure des Arts in Le Havre, from about 1897 to 1
1909 in art – Death of Pinckney Marcius-Simons, Birth of Francis Bacon, Clement Greenberg, Henri Matisse completes The Dance, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque jointly collaborate in the invention of Analytic Cubism; 1908 in art – Death of Giovanni Fattori, Richard Gerstl, Birth of Lee Krasner, Balthus, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ashcan School ...
Other than a few evening art classes, he was self-taught in sculpture, and later became a professor himself. He started working with wood during his military service in Verona in 1928; later, after a short stay in Paris , he moved to Milan , where architect Giovanni Muzio commissioned him the decoration of the chapel of Università Cattolica ...