1925 | Art
Art
Painting: The Three Dancers and The Statuary by Pablo Picasso, whose neoclassical work depicts his second wife, Olga, posing formally beside a modeling stand on which a bust of an elderly man is resting; The Apprentice by Georges Rouault; Still Life with Vase of Anemones, Lemons and Pineapple and Jetée de Fleurs Dans un Intérieur by Henri Matisse; After the Meal by Pierre Bonnard; The Drinking Green Pig by Marc Chagall; Swinging by Wassily Kandinsky; Disquieting Muses and The Greek Philoophers by Giorgio de Chirico; Café by George Grosz, who has allied himself with the Neue Sachlichkeit movement, whose views reflect the current cynicism and resignation in Germany; Tower by Lyonel Feininger. George Bellows dies of a ruptured appendix at New York January 8 at age 42; John Singer Sargent in England April 15 at age 69; Roger de La Fresnaye of tuberculosis at Grasse November 27 at age 40.
Woodcut series: Proletariat by Käthe Kollwitz.
Sculptor Gutzon Borglum visits South Dakota at the invitation of the state's tourism director, who suggests that a large statue in the Black Hills of Lewis and Clark, Chief Red Cloud, or something of the like would attract tourists and give a boost to the local economy. Now 58, Borglum has quit his Stone Mountain project in Georgia (see 1915) and brings a party of Rapid City businessmen out to Mount Rushmore October 1, showing them plans for a monument that will include huge heads of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, and his own late friend Theodore Roosevelt. The site occupies land held sacred by the Lakota Sioux, the businessmen are not much impressed, and Borglum is able to raise only $5,000 for work on the monument (see 1941).