1915 in art

Events

• May – Ambrose Heal and others found the Design and Industries Association in London.
• c. May – Publication of the first modern book illustrated with wood engravings, Frances Cornford's Spring Morning with engravings by the poet's cousin Gwen Raverat.
• June 10 – The only contemporary Vorticist exhibition staged opens at the Doré Gallery in London.
• October 24 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's frescos, Translation of the House of Loreto, in the Church of the Scalzi are destroyed by an Austrian bombardment.
• December 19 – Kasimir Malevich stages the 0.10 Exhibition and originates Suprematism.
• Pierre Bodard serves with the French Army on Martinique.
• Harper's Bazaar hires Erté to design its covers.
• Edward McKnight Kauffer is given his first commission to design a poster for the Underground Electric Railways Company of London.
• Shōzaburō Watanabe originates shin-hanga collaborative woodblock printing in Japan.
• The first of the 'Etruscan terracotta warriors', forged by sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti with the Riccardi family, is purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
• 14-year-old Alice Prin is posing for sculptors in Paris.

  Works

• George Bellows – :File:George Wesley Bellows - Riverfront No. 1.jpg|Riverfront No. 1
• Frank Weston Benson – Red and Gold
• Umberto Boccioni
• * :File:Umberto Boccioni - Charge of the Lancers.jpg|Charge of the Lancers
• * :File:Horizontal Volumes by Umberto Boccioni, 1912.jpg|Horizontal Volumes
• Marc Chagall – The Poet Reclining
• William Merritt Chase – :File:Self Portrait William Merritt Chase.jpeg|Self-portrait
• Giorgio de Chirico – The Double Dream of Spring
• Marcel Duchamp – begins producing readymades
• Jacob Epstein – bust of Admiral Lord Fisher
• J. W. Godward – In The Prime Of The Summer Time
• Alexandre Jacovleff – :File:Yakovlev Violinitst.jpg|The Violinist
• Eric Kennington - The Kensingtons at Laventie
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
• * :File:Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Brandenburger Tor.jpg|Brandenburger Tor
• * :File:Kirchner - Selbstbildnis als Soldat.jpg|Self-portrait as a Soldier
• Carl Larsson – Midvinterblot
• Wyndham Lewis – The Crowd
• Kazimir Malevich – Black Square
• Henri Matisse – Le rideau jaune
• Jean Metzinger – Soldier at a Game of Chess
• Piet Mondrian – :File:Mondrian Compositie 10.jpg|Composition No. 10 Pier and Ocean
• C. R. W. Nevinson
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• * La Mitrailleuse
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• Diego Rivera – cubist portrait of Ramón Gómez de la Serna
• Isaac Rosenberg – :File:Isaac Rosenberg by Isaac Rosenberg.jpg|Self-portrait
• Ladislav Šaloun – Jan Hus Memorial
• Helene Schjerfbeck – :File:Heleneself.jpg|Self-portrait with black background
• Kathleen Scott – statue of her late husband Robert Falcon Scott
• Zinaida Serebriakova
• * :File:Serebryakova Harvest 1915.jpg|Harvest
• * Peasants
• Fred Spear – Enlist
• Paul Strand – :File:Wall Street by Paul Strand, 1915.jpg|Wall Street
• W. L. Wyllie – :File:Track of Lusitania.jpg|The track of Lusitania: view of casualties and survivors in the water and in lifeboats
• Konstantin Yuon – March Sun
• Anders Zorn – Self-portrait in Red

  Births

• January 3 – Jack Levine, American Social Realist painter and printmaker
• January 24 – Robert Motherwell, American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker.
• February 11 – Mervyn Levy, Welsh artist and critic.
• March 10 – Harry Bertoia, Italian-born American artist and furniture designer.
• April 4 – Louis Archambault, Canadian sculptor.
• April 6 – Tadeusz Kantor, Polish painter, Assemblage artist, set designer and theatre director
• April 15 – Elizabeth Catlett, African-American graphic artist and sculptor
• May 3 – Richard Lippold, American sculptor
• May 20 – Sam Golden, American paint maker
• June 7 – Graham Ingels, American illustrator
• June 11 – José Caballero, Spanish artist
• June 17 – Gunther Gerzso, Mexican abstract painter
• July 19 – Åke Hellman, Finnish still life and portrait painter
• August 14 – Mary Fedden, English painter
• August 28
• * Patrick Hennessy, Irish painter
• * Tasha Tudor, American illustrator and author of children's books
• September 19 – Duffy Ayers, born Betty FitzGerald, English portrait painter
• October 13
• * Terry Frost, English Abstract artist
• * Ricco Wassmer, Swiss painter
• October 24 – Bob Kane, American comic book artist and writer
• November 9 – André François, French cartoonist
• November 26 – Inge King, German-born Australian sculptor

  Deaths

• February 25 – Flaxman Charles John Spurrell, English archaeologist and photographer
• April 3 – Nadežda Petrović, Serbian Fauvist painter
• April 9 – Karl Bitter, Austrian American sculptor
• May 7 – Sir Hugh Lane, Irish-born art dealer, collector and benefactor
• July 10 – Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Dutch marine painter
• July 11 – Albert Schickedanz, Austro-Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style
• September 14 – Alfred Agache, French academic painter
• October 24 – Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist and pioneer photographer
• November 28 – Kobayashi Kiyochika, Japanese ukiyo-e painter and printmaker
• December 22 – Arthur Hughes, English painter and illustrator
• date unknown
• * Luigi Crosio, Italian painter
• * Kikuchi Shingaku, Japanese photographer
• * Hilda Sjölin, Swedish photographer
• * Krikor Torosian, Armenian illustrator