1934 in art

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Events from the year 1934 in art.

Events

April – David Low's cartoon character Colonel Blimp first appears in the London Evening Standard.[1]
April 10 – The Just Judges, a panel of the Ghent Altarpiece painted by Jan van Eyck or his brother Hubert between 1430–32, is stolen from St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium. In November, on his deathbed, Arsène Goedertier admits to the theft but most of the panel is never recovered.
August 31 – John Smiukse destroys the mural Nightmare of 1934 in Tarrytown, New York.
Publication in the United States of Irving Stone's biographical novel of Vincent van Gogh, Lust for Life.

April - The Unit One group holds its only exhibition, in Cork Street (London), accompanied by a book, Unit 1: the Modern Movement in English Architecture, Painting and Sculpture, edited by Herbert Read.[2]

January 18 – Raymond Briggs, English illustrator (d. 2022)
February 11 – Mary Quant, English fashion designer (d. 2023)
February 26
- Frank Bowling, Guyanese-born painter
- José Luis Cuevas, Mexican artist (d. 2017)
February 27 – Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (d. 1992)
March 1 – Jean-Michel Folon, Belgian sculptor (d. 2005)
March 7 – Gray Morrow, American comic book artist and book illustrator (d. 2001)
March 20 – Eric Hebborn, English art forger (d. 1996)
April 16 – Vicar, Chilean comic book artist
May 29 – Jef Geys, Belgian artist (d. 2018)
June 15 – Aron Tager, American-Canadian actor, voice actor and artist (d. 2019)
June 18 – Dimitris Mytaras, Greek painter (d. 2017)
June 20 – Rius, Mexican cartoonist (d. 2017)
July 11 – Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer
July 18 – Jean-Michel Sanejouand, French painter and sculptor (d. 2021)
July 24 – Lee Friedlander, American photographer
August 14 – Lucien Clergue, French photographer (d. 2014)
September 14 – Kate Millett, American sculptor and feminist activist (d. 2017)
October 14 – Rose Wylie, English painter
December 28 – Alasdair Gray, Scottish fiction writer and artist (d. 2019)
date unknown
- Sheila Hicks, American-born textile artist
- Neil Williams, American painter (d. 1988)

March 23 – Wenzel Hablik, German painter, graphic artist and designer (b. 1881)
March 28 – Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor (b. 1891)
April 11 – John Collier, English Pre-Raphaelite painter (b. 1850)
June 29 – Adolf Kašpar, Czech painter and illustrator (b. 1877)
July 1 – Jules Monge, French painter (b. 1855)
August 17 – Aleksandr Borisov, Russian Arctic landscape painter (b. 1866)
September 1 – Yumeji Takehisa, Japanese poet and painter (b. 1884)
October 11 – M. O. Hammond, Canadian photographer (b. 1876)
October 12 – Gertrude Käsebier, American portrait photographer (b. 1852)
October 17 – Adolf Hölzel, German painter of an Impressionism to expressive modernism style (b. 1853)
November 4 – Sir Alfred Gilbert, English sculptor (b. 1854)
December 4 – Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter (b. 1849)
December 28 – Pablo Gargallo, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1881)
date unknown – Alfred Boucher, French sculptor (b. 1850)

"David Low". British Cartoon Archive. Retrieved 2012-06-29.
"Twentieth Century Artists in the Graves Gallery". My Learning. 2009. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2011-03-11.

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