1922 | Art
Art
Painting: Twittering Machine by Paul Klee; Before the Bell by Max Beckmann; Ecce Homo (drawing collection) by George Grosz; The Farm by Joan Miró; Still Life with Guitar, Harlequin, and Mother and Child by Pablo Picasso; Nude by Suzanne Valadon; Sunset and Maine Islands by John Marin. Art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel dies at his native Paris February 5 at age 90, having championed the Barbizon school and the impressionists in the 19th century.
The term graphic design is coined by William Addison Dwiggins.
Sculpture: The Avenger by German expressionist sculptor (and playwright) Ernst Barlach, now 52; The Sacrifice (war monument) by Malvina Hoffman.
The Barnes Foundation chartered December 4 manages the art collection of Argyrol co-inventor Albert C. Barnes, now 50, who bought out his partner in 1907 and has made a fortune (see medicine, 1901). Barnes will die in 1951 and his collection, housed in the Merion, Pennsylvania, mansion that he built in 1905, will open to the public in 1961.