Events from the year 1936 in art.
Events
February 15 – Exhibition Abstract and Concrete, curated by Nicolete Gray, opens at 41 St Giles', Oxford, prior to touring England. It is the first showing of abstract art, and of the work of Mondrian, in the country. May 27 – begins her maiden Atlantic crossing. Interior design, under the direction of E. C. Leach, is by Arthur Joseph Davis and J. C. Whipp of Mewès & Davis (UK) and Benjamin Wistar Morris (USA) with much craftsmanship undertaken by the Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts. Graphic artists commissioned to supply work include Edward Wadsworth and Anna and Doris Zinkeisen. June 11–July 4 – London International Surrealist Exhibition, opened by André Breton. November – Exhibition Cubism and Abstract Art, curated by Alfred H. Barr, Jr., opens at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Summer – Spanish Civil War breaks out. Photographers Endre Friedmann and Gerda Taro, who have jointly devised the name Robert Capa, journey from Paris to cover it. The Second Spanish Republic appoints Pablo Picasso as "director of the Prado, albeit in absentia" and he arranges for evacuation of its principal paintings. November 23 – Margaret Bourke-White's photographs of the construction of the Fort Peck Dam are featured in the first issue of Life magazine. December 1 – Members of the Artists Union occupy the New York City offices of the Federal Art Project; police arrest 219 of them, the largest-ever arrest in the city at this date. Naum Gabo settles in London.
Works
Walter Seymour Allward – Canadian National Vimy Memorial
Balthus – André Derain (Museum of Modern Art, New York City) Robert Capa – The Falling Soldier (Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death, Cerro Muriano, September 5, 1936; photograph) Salvador Dalí Autumnal Cannibalism Couple with Their Heads Full of Clouds (first version) Lobster Telephone Morphological Echo (two versions) Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) Herndon Davis – The Face on the Barroom Floor (Teller House, Central City, Colorado) Paul Delvaux – Procession in Lace M. C. Escher – first Regular Division of the Plane drawings Walker Evans – Allie Mae Burroughs, Wife of a Cotton Sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama (photograph) Charles Hartwell – St Mary-le-bone War Memorial with sculpture of St George and the Dragon, London (bronze) Bernhard Hoetger – Lichtbringer (relief over entrance to Böttcherstraße, Bremen) Sylvia Shaw Judson – Bird Girl (bronze) Harry Kernoff – In Davy's Parlour Snug: Self portrait with Davy Byrne and Martin Murphy Dorothea Lange – Migrant Mother (photograph of Florence Owens Thompson) Carl Milles – Indian God of Peace (onyx) Joan Miró – series Metamorphosis Paintings on masonite Ronald Moody – Johanaan (elm wood carving) Méret Oppenheim – Objet: Le Déjeuner en fourrure Pablo Picasso - Minotaur with a dead mare in front of a cave Joseph Pollia – General Philip Henry Sheridan (bronze statue, New York City) Georges Rouault - "The Old King" Diego Rivera – Indian Spinning David Alfaro Siqueiros - Collective Suicide Charles Sheeler – City Interior James Walker Tucker – Hikers Edward Weston – Nude (Charis, Santa Monica) (photograph)