1914 in art

Events

• January 31 – The Art Gallery of Hamilton is founded.
• March – The London Group hold their first exhibition, at the Goupil Gallery.
• March–June – Rebel Art Centre run in London by Wyndham Lewis and others.
• March 10 – Suffragette Mary Richardson damages the Velázquez painting Rokeby Venus in the National Gallery, London, with a meat cleaver.
• April
• * Umberto Boccioni publishes Manifesto tecnico della scultura futurista ; later this year he also publishes the book Pittura e scultura futuriste .
• * August Macke, Louis Moilliet and Paul Klee travel in Tunisia.
• April 20 – English artist Dorothy Shakespear marries American poet Ezra Pound at St Mary Abbots church, Kensington, London.
• May 4 – Suffragette Mary Wood attacks John Singer Sargent's portrait of Henry James at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London with a meat cleaver. At the same exhibition on May 12, Gertrude Mary Ansell attacks the recently-deceased Hubert von Herkomer's portrait of the Duke of Wellington, and on May 26 'Mary Spencer' attacks George Clausen's painting Primavera.
• June – First issue published of the Vorticist literary magazine BLAST edited by Wyndham Lewis.
• July 17 – Suffragette Annie Hunt damages Sir John Millais' portrait of Thomas Carlyle in the National Portrait Gallery, London, with a meat cleaver.
• August – Fernand Léger is mobilised for service in the French Army; he serves in the Forest of Argonne.
• September 5 – The cover of magazine London Opinion first carries the iconic drawing by Alfred Leete of Lord Kitchener with the recruiting slogan Your Country Needs You.
• October 11 – English painter John Currie dies having shot himself and his mistress and model, Dorothy Eileen Henry, in Chelsea, London.
• November 16 – The Baltimore Museum of Art is founded at Johns Hopkins University.
• The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum is established in Bilbao.
• Futurist exhibition at the Doré Gallery in London.
• Clive Bell publishes his formalist study Art.
• Publication of Vincent van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo.
• Nina Hamnett and Amedeo Modigliani meet for the first time in Montparnasse.
• Daniel Chester French was commissioned by the Lincoln Memorial committee to create a statue of Abraham Lincoln unveiled in 1922.

  Works

Paintings

• Umberto Boccioni
• * Il bevitore
• * I selciatori
• * Dinamismo plastico: cavallo + caseggiato
• Pierre Bodard – Lili Boulanger
• David Bomberg – The Mud Bath
• Antoine Bourdelle – Dying Centaur
• John Collier – :File:Collier-Angela McInnes.jpg|Angela McInnes
• Eugene de Blaas – In the Water
• Giorgio de Chirico
• * Gare Montparnasse
• * The Mystery and Melancholy of a Street
• * La Nostalgie du poete
• * The Song of Love
• Stanisława de Karłowska – '
• André Derain - :File:Derain - Portrait of a Man with a Newspaper.jpg|Portrait of a Man with a Newspaper
• Carl Eytel - :File:Desert near Palm Springs Oil painting by Carl Eytel.jpg|Desert near Palm Springs
• Pavel Filonov – Holy Family
• Mark Gertler – The Creation of Eve
• Albert Gleizes – Woman with animals
• J. W. Godward
• * The Necklace
• * The New Perfume
• * Tranquility
• Marsden Hartley – Portrait of a German Officer
• Alexandre Jacovleff – :File:Alexander Evgenyevich Yakovlev Pierrot Arlecine.jpg|Self-portrait as Harlequin and Pierrot
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – :File:Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Potsdamer Platz.jpg|Potsdamer Platz
• Paul Klee – '
• Oskar Kokoschka – The Bride of the Wind
• Fernand Léger – :File:Fernand Léger, 1914, Nature morte.jpg|Nature morte
• August Macke
• * :File:August Macke 001.jpg|Farewell
• * :File:August Macke 023.jpg|Kairouan
• * :File:August Macke 004.jpg|View into a Lane
• Franz Marc
• * :File:Franz Marc 1914 Animals in a Landscape.jpg|Animals in a Landscape
• * :File:Fighting Forms.jpg|Fighting Form
• * :File:Marc - Landschaft mit Haus, Hund und Rind.jpeg|Landscape with house, dog and cattle
• * :File:Franz Marc 020.jpg|Rehe im Walde
• Henri Matisse – Woman on a High Stool
• Alfred Munnings – :File:Munnings, Setting Off - Huntsman and Hounds.jpg|Setting off: Huntsman and Hounds
• William Nicholson – Le retour de la Joconde
• Walter Sickert
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• Xul Solar –
• Stanley Spencer – :File:Self-portrait by Stanley Spencer.jpg|Self-portrait

  Sculptures

• Ernst Barlach – Der Rächer
• John H. Beaver – Fountain for Company H
• Edward Berge – Armistead Monument
• Marcel Duchamp – Bottle Rack
• Jacob Epstein – The Rock Drill
• Daniel Chester French – The Spirit of Life
• Henri Gaudier-Brzeska – Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound
• Evelyn Beatrice Longman – Spirit of Communication

  Interior design

• Omega Workshops – Cadena Café, 59 Westbourne Grove, London

  Births

January to June

• January 5 – Nicolas de Staël, Russian-born painter
• January 7 – Edwin La Dell, British artist
• January 10 – John Petts, English-born Welsh engraver
• January 26 – Walter Stuempfig, American painter
• February 3 – Felix Kelly, New Zealand-born artist
• February 11 - Mervyn Levy, British art critic
• March 3 – Asger Jorn, Danish artist and essayist
• March 4 – Ward Kimball, American Academy Award-winning animator
• March 9 – Piet Esser, Dutch sculptor.
• April 13 – John Russell Harper, Canadian art historian
• May 18 – Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer
• May 21 – Oton Gliha, Croatian painter
• May 29 – Charles Mozley, British artist
• June 15 – Saul Steinberg, Romanian-born American cartoonist and illustrator

  July to December

• July 5 – Jean Tabaud, French artist
• July 27 – Emerson Woelffer, American painter
• July 29 – Abram Games, English poster artist
• August 15 – Paul Rand, American graphic designer
• August 20 – Yann Goulet, French sculptor, Breton nationalist and war-time collaborationist with Nazi Germany
• September 6 – Bogdan Šuput, Serbian painter
• September 18 – Jack Cardiff, English photographer and cinematographer
• September 23 – Annely Juda, born Anneliese Brauer, German-born art dealer
• September 30 – Tom Eckersley, English poster artist
• October 17 – Jerry Siegel, American comic book artist
• November 5 – Alton Tobey, American painter, historical artist, muralist, portraitist, illustrator, and teacher
• December 12 – Frank Roper, English metal sculptor and stained glass artist
• December 16
• * Norman Blamey, British painter
• * O. Winston Link, American photographer
• December 21 – Ivan Generalić, Croatian naïve art painter
• date unknown – Duilio Barnabè, Italian painter

  Deaths

• January 12 – Vinnie Ream, sculptor
• January 26 – Jane Burden, artists' model closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelites
• February 9 – Bart van Hove, Dutch sculptor
• February 25 – Sir John Tenniel, illustrator associated with Lewis Carroll
• March 25 – Spencer Gore, painter
• April 6 – Józef Marian Chełmoński, Polish painter
• May 5 – Johannes Pfuhl, German sculptor
• May 18 – Charles Sprague Pearce, painter
• June 1 – Árpád Feszty, Hungarian painter
• July 22 – Charles Maurin, French painter and engraver
• August 22 – James Dickson Innes, landscape painter
• September 26 – August Macke, German painter
• September 27 – Carlos María Herrera, Uruguayan portrait painter
• October 29 – Félix Bracquemond, painter and etcher
• date unknown – Franz Alt, Austrian landscape painter
• probable – Faustin Betbeder, caricaturist