Art History - On This Day
Publish date: 2024-10-02
Historical Events
- 1667-04-09 1st public art exhibition at the Palais-Royale in Paris
Darwin Takes Cambridge Exam
1831-01-22 Charles Darwin takes his Bachelors of Art exam at Christ's College, Cambridge, coming tenth out of 171 candidates
- 1870-04-13 Metropolitan Museum of Art forms in NYC, opening in the Dodworth Building at 681 Fifth Avenue
- 1871-03-28 San Francisco Art Association holds open reception at 430 Pine
- 1872-02-20 New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art opens
Event of Interest
1886-02-13 Painter Thomas Eakins resigns from Philadelphia Academy of Art after controversial over use of male nudes in a coed art class
- 1900-11-12 Exposition Universelle (World's Fair) in Paris closes after 50 million visitors - Art Nouveau style dominates
MOMA Opens
1929-11-07 Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) opens in the Hecksher Building in New York - its first exhibition features Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat and van Gogh
- 1932-11-15 Walt Disney Art School created
- 1935-12-28 W P A Federal Art Project Gallery opens in NYC
- 1937-03-24 National Gallery of Art established by Congress
- 1937-07-19 Entartete Art Fair opens in Munich
- 1938-06-03 German law on "Entartete Art" legalizes art robbery
- 1941-03-16 National Gallery of Art opens in Washington, D.C.
- 1947-10-29 Trial of art forger Han van Meegeren begins in Amsterdam
- 1951-05-21 The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition - a gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively know as the New York School.
- 1958-01-26 Jack Smith takes over from Art Baker as TV host of "You Asked for It"
Event of Interest
1961-10-18 NY's Museum of Modern Art displays Henri Matisse's picture "Le Bateau" upside down, takes 47 days and 116,000 people before someone notices [1]
- 1961-12-04 NY's Museum of Modern Art hangs Henri Matisse's picture "Le Bateau" the right side up, after stock-broker Genevieve Habert notices it is displayed upside down, the first of 116,000 people in 47 days to notice [1]
- 1962-09-25 "New Painting of Common Objects" exhibition at Pasadena Art Museum opens - 1st show on American Pop Art
Model, Brown Rift Boils Over
1963-01-07 The rift between Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell and head coach Paul Brown reaches a boiling point, and Brown is fired
- 1966-04-01 1st world festival of black art (Dakar Senegal)
- 1966-11-04 Flooding of Arno River (Florence, Italy) destroys countless art works, kills 113
- 1967-10-11 "Yoko Plus Me" art exhibition by Yoko Ono opens in London (the "Me" is John Lennon)
Music History
1968-07-01 John Lennon's 1st full art exhibition (You Are Here) opens at Robert Fraser Gallery in London
- 1972-09-04 Thieves steal 18 paintings from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in what was at the time the largest art theft in North America
- 1979-11-15 In Parliament Sir Anthony Blunt, art advisor to the Queen, exposed as 4th man in Soviet spy ring. He was then stripped of his knighthood and fellowship of Trinity College, Cambridge
- 1984-10-25 King Boudouin opens Museum for Modern Art in Brussels
- 1990-03-18 In the largest art heist in US history, 13 works of art worth over $500 million are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston
- 1990-10-05 Cincinnati jury acquits art gallery of obsentity (Mappelthorpe photos)
- 1992-10-12 Wash Redskin Art Monk sets NFL record with 820th reception
- 1993-01-23 Indian Airlines B737 crashes at Aurangabad, killing 61
Cleveland To Lose Browns Name
1996-02-08 NFL & Cleveland allows Art Modell to move his NFL franchise to Baltimore but he had to leave the Browns' name behind
- 2001-05-04 The Milwaukee Art Museum addition, the first Santiago Calatrava-designed structure in the United States, opens to the public
Uma Thurman Honored
2006-02-07 Uma Thurman is named a knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France for outstanding achievement in the field of art and literature
- 2012-04-18 The Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Naples begins burning artworks after cultural institution budget cuts
- 2012-05-09 Mark Rothko's "Orange, Red, Yellow" becomes the most expensive contemporary art piece to be sold at auction for $86.9 million dollars
- 2014-11-25 Switzerland's Bern Art Museum agrees to accept artworks looted from their Jewish owners by the Nazis
Event of Interest
2015-05-11 Record price for a work of art at auction: Picasso's The Women of Algiers (Version ‘O’) sells for US$179.3 million at Christies in New York
- 2015-08-13 US Government formally returns to France Picasso's painting La Coiffeuse, stolen from Paris' National Museum of Modern Art in 2001
Famous Birthdays
- 1519-06-12 Cosimo I de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and art patron of Florence, born in Florence (d. 1574)
- 1729-03-28 Pieter Fouquet, Dutch art merchant (Atlas of Fouquet), born in Amsterdam (d. 1800)
- 1824-01-14 Vladimir Stasov, Russian art and music critic, born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1906)
- 1832-12-27 Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and patron of art, born in Moscow (d. 1897)
- 1841-03-07 William Rockhill Nelson, founder of The Kansas City Star and patron of Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (d. 1915)
- 1843-10-20 Victor de Stuers, Dutch art historian (saved Johannes Vermeer's "Girl with a Pear Earring"), born in Maastricht, Netherlands (d. 1916)
- 1862-07-14 Gustav Klimt, Austrian Symbolist painter (The Kiss), born in Baumgarten, Austria-Hungary (d. 1918)
- 1862-11-15 Adolf Bartels, German journalist and poet, born in Wesselburen, Holstein, Germany (d. 1945)
- 1869-10-14 Joseph Duveen, British art connoisseur (Elgin marbles), born in Hull, Yorkshire, England (d. 1939)
- 1872-01-16 Edward Gordon Craig, British modernist actor, director and theorist (On the art of theatre), born in Stevenage Hertfordshire, England (d. 1966)
- 1878-02-23 Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian painter and art theorist (d. 1935)
- 1882-07-10 Ima Hogg, American society leader, Texas arts patron. and founder of Houston Symphony, born in Mineola, Texas (d. 1975) [1]
- 1884-06-25 Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German-French art dealer and publisher, born in Mannheim, German Empire (d. 1979)
- 1889-10-19 Uncle Art Satherley, British-American record producer (Academy of Country Music Award, 1968), born in Bristol, England (d. 1986)
- 1898-08-26 Peggy Guggenheim, American art patron & collector, born in New York City (d. 1979)
- 1908-06-10 Brinsley Ford, British art historian and CEO (National Art Collections Fund), born in Petworth, Sussex, England (d. 1999)
- 1911-05-31 Edward Adamson, British artist, 'father of art therapy' and collector, born in Sale, England (d. 1996)
- 1912-06-24 Selwyn Powell, British magazine editor (The Geographical Magazine; Night & Day), born in England (d. 1994)
- 1923-10-27 Roy Lichtenstein, Pop art painter (painted comic book panels), born in New York City (d. 1997)
- 1926-03-12 Ronald Alley, British art museum manager (Keeper of the Modern Collection of the Tate Gallery, 1965-86), born in Bristol, England (d. 1999)
- 1926-09-19 Pierre Janssen, Dutch art museum director, born in Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands (d. 2007)
- 1935-07-24 Pat Oliphant, Australian-American cartoonist (7 Pres: The Art of Oliphant), born in Adelaide, South Australia
- 1936-05-16 Philippe de Montebello, French-American museum director (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977-2008; Acquavella Galleries, 2017-), born in Paris, France
- 1936-08-21 Radish Tordia, Georgian painter of Figurative Art, born in Abasha, Georgia
- 1939-08-13 Saul Steinberg, American businessman, founder of Leasco and CEO of Reliance Insurance Company, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2012)
- 1947-01-04 Chris Cutler, English musician, percussionist, and composer (Henry Cow, Art Bears), born in Washington D.C.
- 1950-06-04 Dagmar Krause, German singer (Slapp Happy; Henry Cow; Art Bears), born in Hamburg, Germany
- 1950-10-31 Jozef Stolorz, polish painter
- 1956-05-13 Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Indian spiritual leader and founder of the Art of Living Foundation, born in Papanasam, India
- 1970-06-01 Joshua Compston, English art impresario, born in London, England (d. 1996)
Famous Deaths
- 1800-04-18 Pieter Fouquet, Dutch art merchant (Atlas of Fouquet), dies at 71
- 1916-03-21 Victor de Stuers, Dutch art historian (saved Johannes Vermeer's "Girl with a Pear Earring"), dies at 72
- 1961-03-31 Seerp Anema, Dutch poet and writer (From Holland's Coasts; Modern Art and Degeneration), dies at 85
- 1966-07-30 Edward Gordon Craig, British modernist actor, director and theorist (On the art of theatre), dies at 94
- 1994-07-28 Selwyn Powell, British magazine editor (The Geographical Magazine; Night & Day), dies at 82
- 1996-02-03 Edward Adamson, English artist, 'father of art therapy' and collector, dies at 84
- 1996-03-05 Joshua Compston, English art impresario, dies at 26
- 2003-03-20 Sailor Art Thomas, American professional wrestler (b. 1924)
- 2006-11-28 Robert Volpe, Artist, Art Theft Detective (b.1942)
- 2007-12-18 Jack Linkletter, American TV host (Haggis Baggis, Hootenanny), dies at 70
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