1929 in art

Events

• Diego Rivera marries Frida Kahlo.
• The Barcelona chair is designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
• Musashino Art University
• The Museum of Modern Art opens in New York City.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: John Longstaff - W A Holman, KC

Works

• Prudence Heward - Girl on a Hill
• Edward Hopper - Chop Suey
• Tamara de Lempicka - The Musician
• Francis Picabia - Hera
• Pablo Picasso - Nude in an Armchair (Musée Picasso, Paris)

Births

January to June

• 2 January - Anton Lehmden, co-founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism.
• 26 January - Jules Feiffer, cartoonist.
• 28 January - Claes Oldenburg, sculptor.
• 24 February - Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish painter, photographer, and fantasy artist (d.2005).
• 31 March - Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born American fashion designer and entrepreneur (d.2007).
• 31 March - Jay DeFeo, American visual artist (d.1989).
• 5 April - Hugo Claus, Belgian novelist, poet, playwright, painter and film director (d.2008).
• 23 May - Vladimír Preclík, Czech writer and sculptor (d.2008).
• 31 May - Nicholas Krushenick, American pop art painter (d.1999).

July to December

• 13 July - René Laloux, French animator and film director (d.2004).
• 29 July - Jean Baudrillard, French cultural theorist, sociologist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer (d.2007).
• 8 August - Josef Mikl, Austrian abstract painter (d.2008).
• 4 September - Anne Dunn, painter.
• 21 September - Edgar Valter, Estonian writer and illustrator of children's books (d.2006).

Full date unknown

• Poul Kjærholm, designer (d.1980).

Deaths

• March 1 - Vincenzo Gemito, sculptor (b. 1852)
• April 22 - Henry Lerolle, painter and arts patron (b. 1848)
• May 5 - Charles Grafly, sculptor (b. 1862)
• June 13 - Margaret Forrest, art collector and co-founder of the Wilgie Club and West Australian Society of Arts (b. 1844)
• October 1 - Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor (b. 1861)
• Heinrich Zille, photographer and illustrator (b. 1858)
• Robert Henri, painter, leader of the Ash Can School (b. 1865)
• Arthur Diehl, landscape painter (b. 1870)
• Adelaide Alsop Robineau, American painter and potter (b. 1865)