1927 in art

Events

May – Stanley Spencer moves to Burghclere (England) to work on the Sandham Memorial Chapel.
May 16 – A pair of oval rooms built at the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris as a permanent home for eight of Monet's water lily paintings is opened by the Government of France.^[1]
June 28 – Unveiling of "The Building of Britain" series of historical paintings by various artists in St Stephen's Hall of the Palace of Westminster in London. Charles Sims' King John confronted by his Barons assembled in force at Runnymede gives unwilling consent to Magna Carta, the foundation of justice and individual freedom in England, 1215 attracts criticism from the press, Members of Parliament and other artists for its idiosyncrasy.^[2]
July 24 – Unveiling of Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing at Ypres, Belgium, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.
September 29 – Unveiling of 107th Infantry Memorial in Central Park, New York City, designed by Karl Illava, a former sergeant in the regiment.
October 4 – Gutzon Borglum begins work on Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the United States.
November – Ferens Art Gallery in Kingston upon Hull, England, opens.^[3]
Clarice Cliff introduces her 'Bizarre' pottery decoration.
Aristide Colotte opens his studio in Nancy, France, where he produces glasswork and carved crystal statues.

February – Stanley Spencer has his first solo exhibition, at the Goupil Gallery in London.
April–May – Ben and Winifred Nicholson and Christopher Wood exhibit at the Beaux Arts Gallery in London.^[4]
Alice Prin ("Kiki de Montparnasse") has an exhibition of her own paintings at the Galerie au Sacre du Printemps in Paris.

Ansel Adams – Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras (photographic portfolio)
Ernst Barlach – Der schwebende Engel ("The Floating Angel", sculpture (original cast destroyed))
Edwin Blashfield – Spring Scattering Stars
Pompeo Coppini – George Washington (bronze, Portland, Oregon)
Salvador Dalí – Apparatus and Hand
Max Ernst
- Forest and Dove
- The Wood
George Grosz – Self-Portrait, Warning
Edward Hopper – Automat
Karl Illava (sculptor) and Rogers and Haneman (architects) – 107th Infantry Memorial, New York City
Gaston Lachaise – Floating Figure
Fernand Léger – Nude on a Red Background
Will Longstaff – Menin Gate at Midnight
L. S. Lowry
- Coming Out of School
- Oldfield Road Dwellings, Salford
- Peel Park, Salford
- A View from the Bridge
René Magritte
- The Enchanted Pose
- The Menaced Assassin
- The Tiredness of Life
Henri Matisse – Reclining Nude, Back
Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen – Equestrian Statue of King Christian IX of Denmark (Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen)
Lasar Segall – Portrait of Mário de Andrade
Charles Sheeler – Criss-Crossed Conveyors, River Rouge Plant, Ford Motor Company (photograph)
Stanley Spencer – The Resurrection, Cookham
Lajos Tihanyi – Portrait of Tristan Tzara (Hungarian National Gallery)
Alexander Weygers – Mourning (sculpture)
Rex Whistler – The Expedition in Pursuit of Rare Meats (mural, Tate Gallery restaurant, London)

July 14 – Mike Esposito, comic book artist
July 24 – Robert Rosenblum, American Art Historian (d.2006).
August 23 – Allan Kaprow, American painter, assemblagist and art theorist (d.2006)
September 22 – Norbert Lynton, British art historian and Professor of the History of Art (d.2007)
October 3 – Kenojuak Ashevak, Inuit artist
October 4 – Wolf Kahn, painter
October 29
- Pierre Alechinsky, painter, engraver and calligrapher
- Alfred Leslie, American painter and filmmaker
November 2 – Steve Ditko, comic book artist
November 23 – Guy Davenport, American writer, translator, illustrator, painter and teacher (d.2005)
December 24 – John Glashan, Scottish cartoonist, illustrator and playwright (d.1999)

January 1 – Isabelle de Steiger, painter, theosophist, occultist and writer (b. 1836)
January 15 – Harald Giersing, painter (b. 1881)
February 28 – Sir Luke Fildes, painter and illustrator (b. 1843)
March 23 – Paul César Helleu, portrait painter (b. 1859)
May 10 – Andrea Gram, painter (b. 1853)
May 11 – Juan Gris, painter (b. 1887)
May 28 – Boris Kustodiev, painter and stage designer (b. 1878)
June 26 – Armand Guillaumin, impressionist painter and lithographer (b. 1841)
June 28 – Otto Bache, painter of historical subjects (b. 1839)
July 10 – Louise Abbéma, Impressionist painter (b. 1853)
August 4 – Eugène Atget, photographer (b. 1857)
August 18 – Sascha Schneider, painter and sculptor (b. 1870)
September 19 – Michael Ancher, painter (b. 1849)
October 7 – Paul Sérusier, abstract painter (b. 1864)
November 21 – Laurits Tuxen, painter (b. 1853)
November 25 – József Rippl-Rónai, painter (b. 1861)
date unknown
- Adolphe Demange, portrait painter (b. 1857)
- Frederick Morgan, painter (b. c.1850)
- Caroline Reboux, milliner (b. 1837)

↑ "Monet, Claude." Grove Art Online.
↑ Seel, Graham E. (July 2015). "The Artist and the King". History Today. 65 (7): 39–44.
↑ "New Gallery at Hull". The Times. London. 30 November 1927.
↑ "Christopher Wood". Tate. April 1996. Retrieved 2012-06-17.

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