Events from the year 1924 in art.
Events
February – El Lissitzky enters a Swiss sanatorium, suffering from tuberculosis. March – Exhibition Alfred Stieglitz Presents Fifty-One Recent Pictures: Oils, Water-colors, Pastels, Drawings, by Georgia O'Keeffe (together with a display of his photographs) opens at the Anderson Galleries in New York City. May 15 – Juan Gris delivers his lecture Des possibilités de la peinture at the University of Paris. July 9 – American painters Edward Hopper and Josephine Nivison marry at the French evangelical church in New York City; Guy Pène du Bois attends. August – English artist and designer Eric Gill moves with some of his artistic community from Ditchling in East Sussex to the disused Llanthony Abbey at Capel-y-ffin in Wales. September 24 – Première of the Dadaist post-Cubist Futurist experimental art film Ballet Mécanique conceived, written and co-directed by the painter Fernand Léger in collaboration with Dudley Murphy and Man Ray at the Internationale Ausstellung neuer Theatertechnik (International Exposition for New Theater Technique) in Vienna presented by Frederick Kiesler. It features Alice Prin ("Kiki de Montparnasse") and has a musical score by American composer George Antheil but is presented in a silent version on this occasion. December – The Bucharest International Modern Art Exhibit, an avant-garde event hosted by Contimporanul, displaying works by Constantin Brâncuși, Hans Arp, Paul Klee, János Mattis-Teutsch, Kurt Schwitters, Michel Seuphor, Miliţa Pătraşcu, Marcel Janco, Victor Brauner and M. H. Maxy. December 11 – Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe marry. The Surrealist Manifesto is conceived. Sir Frank Brangwyn is commissioned to paint the British Empire Panels, intended for the Royal Gallery in the House of Lords in the Palace of Westminster, but eventually inaugurated in the Brangwyn Hall at the Guildhall, Swansea, in 1934. Vilmos Aba Novák's works are on display for the first time. Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant open a common studio. Ben Nicholson begins to paint abstracts.
Awards
Archibald Prize: William Beckwith McInnes – Portrait of Miss Collins
Art competitions at the 1924 Summer Olympics – painting: Jean Jacoby
Tagea Brandt Rejselegat: Anna Ancher
Works
Paintings
Tarsila do Amaral – Estação de Ferro Central do Brasil
George Bellows – Dempsey and Firpo
Romaine Brooks – Una, Lady Troubridge
Carlo Carrà – San Giacomo di Varallo
Lovis Corinth – Big self-portrait on the Walchensee
Otto Dix – Portrait of the Art Dealer Johanna Ey
Edwin Holgate – Portrait of Albert Henry Stewart Gillson
Edward Hopper – New York Pavements
A. Y. Jackson – In Jasper Park
David Jones – The Garden Enclosed
Wassily Kandinsky – Contrasting Sounds
Paul Klee – Asiatic God, Carnival in the Mountains, Flower Garden
Fernand Léger – Elément Mécanique
Joan Miró – Le Piège, Le Carnaval d'Arlequin, Head of a Catalan Peasant (sequence commenced) Emil Nolde – Madonna with Begonia William Orpen – Self Portrait, Multiple Mirrors Pascin – Portrait of Pierre Mac Orlan Samuel John Peploe – Roses in a White Vase with Fruit Diego Rivera – Day of the Dead and other frescos at the Ministry of Education building (Mexico City) Philippe Robert – Frescos at Biel/Bienne railway station Charles Sheeler – MacDougal Alley Mario Sironi – L'allieva Nicolae Tonitza – The Forester's Daughter Raymond Wintz – The Blue Door (Un coin du port a Doelan)
Photographs
Man Ray – Le Violon d'Ingres
Sculptures
Amory's Tribute to the Heroes of 1861–1865
Joaquín Bilbao – Ferdinand III of Castile (equestrian, Seville) Constantin Brâncuși Bird in Space (early version) The Cock Charles Keck – Liberty Monument (Ticonderoga, New York) Eric Kennington – 24th East Surrey Division War Memorial (Battersea Park, London) Augustus Lukeman – Francis Asbury (equestrian, Washington, D.C.) Paul Manship – Statue of Diana (Hudson River Museum, Yonkers) Andrew O'Connor – Lafayette Monument (Baltimore, Maryland) Albin Polasek – Theodore Thomas Memorial (Chicago) Alexander Phimister Proctor – Indian Maiden and Fawn (Eugene, Oregon) Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney – Buffalo Bill – The Scout