1928 in art

Events

• January 7 – The Tate Gallery, London, is flooded by the River Thames.
• March 26 – The China Academy of Art is founded in Hangzhou.
• August – Ben Nicholson and Kit Wood visit St. Ives, Cornwall, and meet the ex-fisherman painter Alfred Wallis.
• October – English artist and designer Eric Gill moves with some of his artistic community from Capel-y-ffin in Wales to 'Pigotts' at Speen, Buckinghamshire, near High Wycombe.
• November 18 – Film debut of Mickey Mouse, designed by Ub Iwerks.
• Clarice Cliff introduces her Crocus pottery decoration.
• Pierre Chareau and colleagues begin construction of the Maison de Verre on the rue Saint-Guillaume in Paris for client Jean Dalsace.
• Charles Haslewood Shannon suffers a fall while hanging a picture which ends his career as an artist.

  Awards

• Archibald Prize: John Longstaff – Portrait of Dr Alexander Leeper
• Carnegie Prize – André Derain
• Art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics
• * Painting: Isaac Israëls – Cavalier Rouge
• * Drawing: Jean Jacoby – Rugby
• * Graphic work: William Nicholson – An Almanac of Twelve Sports

  Exhibitions

• Alexander Calder's first solo exhibition at the Weyhe Gallery, New York City.
• L'Exposition surréaliste at the Galerie du Sacre du Printemps, Paris.
• December – East London Group exhibits at Whitechapel Gallery.

  Works

• Wäinö Aaltonen – bust of Jean Sibelius
• Tarsila do Amaral – Abaporu
• Pierre Bonnard – Flowers on a Red Carpet
• John Steuart Curry
• * Baptism in Kansas
• * Bathers
• Charles Demuth – '
• Edwin Dickinson – The Fossil Hunters
• Otto Dix – Metropolis
• M. C. Escher – Tower of Babel
• Meredith Frampton – '
• George Grosz – Hinterground
• Edward Hopper – '
• Prudence Heward – '
• Frida Kahlo – Dama de Blanco
• André Kertész – :File:Kertesz The Fork.jpg|The Fork
• Sir John Lavery – '
• Tamara de Lempicka – Portrait of Dr. Boucard
• L. S. Lowry
• * A Street Scene
• * Going to the Match
• Eugenie McEvoy – :File:McEvoy "Taxi! Taxi!,".jpg|Taxi! Taxi!
• René Magritte – The Empty Mask
• Henri Matisse – Odalisque au fauteuil turc
• Ivan Meštrović – The Bowman and The Spearman
• Georgia O'Keeffe
• * '
• * '
• Mahmoud Mokhtar – :File:Nahdet Misr.jpg|Egypt's Renaissance
• Frank O. Salisbury – :File:Clarence Winthrop Bowen, 1928.jpg|Clarence Winthrop Bowen
• Christian Schad – Two Girlfriends
• Charles Sheeler – '
• Zinaida Serebriakova – :File:Serebryakova Lit By The Sun.jpg|Lit By The Sun
• Charles Sims – :File:Charles Sims03.jpg|I Am the Abyss and I Am Light
• John French Sloan – Sixth Avenue Elevated at Third Street
• Joseph Southall – The Botanists
• Alexej von Jawlensky – Abstract Head
• George Fite Waters – Statue of Abraham Lincoln

  Births

January to June

• 20 January – Malang, Filipino artist
• 31 January – Dušan Džamonja, Macedonian sculptor
• 1 March – Jacques Rivette, French filmmaker
• 3 March – Jean Rustin, French painter
• 25 March – Hans Steinbrenner, German sculptor
• 24 April – Cy Twombly, American abstract artist
• 28 April – Yves Klein, French abstract artist
• 14 May – Władysław Hasior, Polish sculptor, painter and set designer
• 30 May – Pro Hart, Australian painter
• 3 June – Donald Judd, American sculptor
• June 25
• * Peyo, Belgian comics artist
• * Alex Toth, American comic book artist and cartoonist

  July to December

• July 10 – Bernard Buffet, French painter
• July 14 – Anwar Shemza, Pakistan-born British artist and writer
• August 6 – Andy Warhol, American artist, director and writer
• August 12 – Charles Blackman, Australian painter and illustrator
• August 15 – Alan Collins, English figurative religious sculptor
• August 22 – Roberto Aizenberg, Argentine painter and sculptor
• August 31 – Jeremy Maas, English art dealer and historian of Victorian painting
• September 9 – Sol LeWitt, American conceptual and minimalist artist
• September 12 – Robert Irwin, American installation artist
• September 13 – Robert Indiana, born Clark, American pop artist
• October 7 – Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter
• October 12 – Al Held, American Abstract expressionist painter
• October 30 – Michael Andrews, English painter
• November 3 – Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist, animator and film producer
• November 6 – Norman Carlberg, American sculptor
• November 17 – Arman, French-born American artist
• November 27 – Josh Kirby, English commercial artist
• December 2 – Guy Bourdin, French photographer
• December 12 – Helen Frankenthaler, American abstract expressionist painter
• December 13 – Wolfgang Hutter, Austrian painter, lithographer and designer
• December 15 – Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian painter, architect and sculptor
• December 31 – Siné, French cartoonist

  Date unknown

• Wally Hedrick, American artist
• Brian O'Doherty aka Patrick Ireland, Irish-born art critic and installation artist

  Deaths

• January 4 – Hamilton Hamilton, American painter
• January 6 – Adolfo de Carolis, Italian painter, xylographer, illustrator and photographer
• January 8 – Gyula Basch, Hungarian painter
• January 13 – Frederick Arthur Bridgman, American painter
• January 26 – Henrietta Rae, English painter
• March 31 – Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor
• April 3 – Raffaello Romanelli, Italian sculptor
• April 5 – Viktor Oliva, Czech painter and illustrator
• April 13 – Charles Sims, English painter
• May 16 – Frederick Arthur Verner, Canadian landscape painter
• June 22 – A. B. Frost, American illustrator
• July 10 – John Chambers, English landscape and portrait painter
• July 25 – Jane Sutherland, Australian landscape painter
• August 30 – Franz Stuck, German symbolist /Art Nouveau painter, sculptor, engraver and architect
• September 20 – Ivan Tišov, Croatian painter
• October 30 – Percy Anderson, English stage designer and painter
• November 15 – Godfred Christensen, Danish painter
• December 1 – Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth, German painter
• December 2 – Robert Reid, American Impressionist painter
• December 10 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect and designer
• December 15 – Louis Mathieu Verdilhan, French painter
• December 18 – Nils Bergslien, Norwegian illustrator, painter and sculptor