1933 in art

See also: 1932 in art, other events of 1933, 1934 in art, list of years in art, List of art events.

Events

• Closure of the Bauhaus.
• The mural, Man at the Crossroads, by Diego Rivera, is removed from the Rockefeller Center in New York City because it contained a portrait of Lenin.
• Ben Nicholson marries Barbara Hepworth.

Works

• Horse by John Skeaping - a sculpture carved from mahogany and pynkado, originally in Whipsnade Zoo and now in the Tate Gallery.

Awards

Births

• February 18 - Yoko Ono, artist and musician
• April 1 - Dan Flavin, minimalist sculptor
• November 29 - James Rosenquist, painter
• December 14 - Bapu, cartoonist and painter

Deaths

• February 28 - Lilla Cabot Perry, Impressionist painter
• October 29 - George Benjamin Luks, portrait painter