1918 in art

Events

• February – British War Memorials Committee formed to commission artworks to create a memorial to the World War I, including a Hall of Remembrance.
• February 16 – Joan Miró's first solo exhibition opens at the Galeries Dalmau; his work is ridiculed and defaced.
• March – C. R. W. Nevinson has an exhibition at the Leicester Galleries in London. His war painting Paths of Glory, condemned by the British Army censor for its depiction of dead soldiers, is displayed by the artist with a brown paper strip across the bodies bearing the word "Censored" and subsequently replaced in the exhibition by a :File:The painting replaced 'Paths of Glory' which was removed from display at the Leicester Galleries exhibition in 1918. Art.IWMART5275.jpg|painting of a tank.
• May – Stanley Spencer, a serving British Army soldier, is appointed as an official war artist. A similar appointment is made this year for Australian soldier Frank R. Crozier.
• May 3 – William Orpen's exhibition War opens in London; the paintings are donated to the British government. He is knighted in June.
• May 11 – Paul Nash's exhibition The Void of War opens at the Leicester Galleries in London.
• June 18 – Pablo Picasso marries Olga Khoklova.
• June – Alfred Stieglitz begins nude photography of Georgia O'Keeffe.
• October 15 – Kunsthalle Bern opened.
• November 3 – The Robespierre Monument, designed by Beatrice Yuryevna Sandomierz, is unveiled; it collapses four days later.
• November 7–December 14 – British painter Colin Gill, having previously served as a soldier on the Western Front, returns to France to work for the British War Memorials Committee.
• December 3 – The November Group of expressionist artists is formed in Germany, and shortly afterwards merges with the Arbeitsrat für Kunst.
• Denver Art Museum opens its first galleries.
• Frans Masereel's wordless novel 25 Images of a Man's Passion is published.

  Works

• Anna Airy
• * :File:An Aircraft Assembly Shop, Hendon Art.IWMART1931.jpg|An Aircraft Assembly Shop, Hendon
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• George Bellows
• * :File:The Barricade by George Wesley Bellows – BMA.jpg|The Barricade
• * :File:Bellows George Edith Cavell 1918.jpg|Edith Cavell
• Victor David Brenner – Mary Schenley Memorial Fountain
• Charles Buchel – :File:Charles Buchel - Radclyffe Hall.jpg|Radclyffe Hall
• George Clausen – '
• Charles Demuth – :File:Demuth Charles Turkish Bath with Self Portrait 1918.jpg|Turkish Bath with self-portrait
• Katherine Sophie Dreier – Abstract Portrait of Marcel Duchamp
• Eric Enstrom – Grace
• Charles Buckles Falls – :File:Books Wanted logo from Harper's Magazine December 1898 issue.jpg|Books Wanted
• Roger Fry
• * :File:Nina Hamnett.jpg|Nina Hamnett
• * Self-portrait
• Georges Gardet – Eternal Youth
• Mark Gertler – '
• J. W. Godward
• * A Fond Farewell
• * Sweet Sounds
• Duncan Grant – '
• George Grosz – The Funeral
• Eric Kennington – '
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – :File:Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Selbstbildnis als Kranker 1918-1.jpg|Self-portrait as a Patient
• Paul Klee
• * Flower Myth
• * Warning of the Ships
• Boris Kustodiev
• * :File:Kustodiev Merchants Wife.jpg|The Merchant's Wife
• * :File:Kustodiev razin.jpg|Sten'ka Razin
• Fernand Léger
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• * :File:Fernand Leger, 1918, Dans L'Usine, oil on canvas, 56 x 38 cm.jpg|In the Factory
• Wyndham Lewis – A Canadian Gun-Pit
• Flora Lion – :File:Flora Lion was a portrait painter who was given access to paint factory scenes in Leeds and Bradford during World War One. The interior of the canteen is filled with women workers who sit, chat and queue for f Art.IWMART4434.jpg|Women's Canteen at Phoenix Works, Bradford
• John Hodgson Lobley
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• * :File:Lobley, J Hodgson - The Queen's Hospital for Facial Injuries, Frognal, Sidcup- The toy-makers' shop - Google Art Project.jpg|The Queen's Hospital for Facial Injuries, Frognal, Sidcup: The Toy-Makers' Shop
• José Malhoa – Autumn
• Ivan Meštrović – Dr. Elsie Inglis
• Amedeo Modigliani – Portrait of Blaise Cendrars
• Alfred Munnings
• * Draft Horses, Lumber Mill in the Forest of Dreux
• * Warrior
• Kaita Murayama – :File:Murayama Kaita self-portrait.jpg|Self-portrait
• John Nash
• * The Cornfield
• * :File:Nash, John - Oppy Wood, 1917. Evening - Google Art Project.jpg|Oppy Wood, 1917, Evening
• * Over The Top
• Paul Nash
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• * Sunrise, Inverness Copse
• * We are Making a New World
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• William Orpen
• * Armistice Night, Amiens
• * Dead Germans in a Trench
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• * :File:William Orpen - Zonnebeke - Google Art Project.jpg|Zonnebeke
• Willard Dryden Paddock – Sundial, Boy With Spider
• Glyn Philpot
• * :File:Philpot, Glyn Warren; Italian Soldier No.2; The Courtauld Gallery.jpg|Italian Soldier
• * :File:Philpot, Glyn Warren; Sir James Murray, DL, Chairman of Aberdeen Art Gallery Committee ; Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums.jpg|Sir James Murray
• * :File:Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Jellicoe, Gcm, Om, Gcvo, 1918 Art.IWMART1322.jpg|Admiral Viscount Jellicoe
• * :File:Vice-admiral Sir Roger Keyes, Kcb, Cmg, Cvo, Dso - 1918 Art.IWMART1324.jpg|Vice-Admiral Sir Roger Keyes
• * :File:Admiral Sir F C D Sturdee, Bart, Kcb, Kcmg, Cvo, 1918 Art.IWMART1325.jpg|Admiral Sir F. C. D. Sturdee
• * :File:Rear-admiral Sir Reginald Y Tyrwhitt, Kcb, Dso, 1918 Art.IWMART1323.jpg|Rear-Admiral Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir
• * Portrait of Adele Besson
• * The Bathers
• William Roberts
• * :File:Roberts, The First German Gas Attack at Ypres.jpg|The First German Gas Attack at Ypres
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• Solomon Joseph Solomon – :File:Nina Salaman Portrait by Solomon J. Solomon, 1918.jpg|Nina Salaman
• William Strang – :File:Vita sackville-west.jpg|Lady with a Red Hat
• Henry Tonks – :File:Tonks, Henry - An Advanced Dressing Station in France, 1918 - Google Art Project.jpg|An Advanced Dressing Station in France
• Viktor Vasnetsov – :File:Vasnetsov Frog Princess.jpg|Frog Princess
• Edward Wolfe –
• Francis Derwent Wood – Canada's Golgotha
• William Lionel Wyllie – :File:Cfbattlepainting.jpg|Battle of the Falkland Islands, 1914

  Births

• 6 February – Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author, painter and art collector.
• 7 February – Markey Robinson, Irish painter.
• 12 March – Elaine de Kooning, American abstract expressionist painter.
• 22 March – Harry Devlin, American painter and illustrator.
• 10 April – Cornell Capa, Hungarian-American photographer and photo curator.
• 9 May – Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter.
• 10 May – Desmond MacNamara, Irish painter, sculptor and author.
• 2 July – Fumiko Hori, Japanese Nihonga painter.
• 11 July – Roy Krenkel, American illustrator.
• 21 July – David Piper, English curator and novelist.
• 25 July – Jane Frank, American painter, sculptor, mixed media and textile artist.
• 8 August – Brian Stonehouse, English painter, Special Operations Executive agent during World War II.
• 22 September – Cleve Gray, American abstract expressionist painter.
• 7 October – Mimmo Rotella, Italian décollage artist and poet.
• 8 November – Hermann Zapf, German typeface designer.
• 20 November – Corita Kent, American nun and silkscreen printer.
• 14 December – Jack Cole, American comic book artist.
• 18 December – Kali, born Hanna Gordziałkowska, Polish-born portrait painter, Resistance agent during World War II.

  Deaths

• January 7 – Rista Vukanović, Serbian Impressionist painter and husband of painter Beta Vukanović
• February 6 – Gustav Klimt, Austrian Symbolist painter
• April 9 – Niko Pirosmani, Georgian painter
• April 1 – Isaac Rosenberg, English painter and poet
• April 23 – Paul Sébillot, Breton painter and author
• May 19 – Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter
• June 28 – Albert Henry Munsell, American inventor of the Munsell color system
• October 9 – Raymond Duchamp-Villon, French sculptor
• October 30 – Egon Schiele, Austrian painter
• November 20 – John Bauer, Swedish illustrator
• December 22 – Charles Edward Perugini, English painter
• December 23 – Thérèse Schwartze, Dutch portrait painter