1929 - Art

Art

Painting: Woman in Armchair by Pablo Picasso; Fool in a Trance by Paul Klee; Love Idyll by Marc Chagall; Black Square by Kazimir Malevich; Composition with Yellow and Blue by Piet Mondrian; Sailing Boats by Lyonel Feininger; Still Life with Fallen Candles by Max Beckmann; The Accommodations of Desires by surrealist Salvador Dalí; Chop Suey by Edward Hopper; Black Flower, Blue Larkspur, Black Hollyhock with Blue Larkspur, and New York Night by Georgia O'Keeffe; Cotton Pickers (Georgia) by Thomas Hart Benton; John B. Turner—Pioneer and Woman with Plants (a portrait of his mother) by Iowa genre painter Grant (Develson) Wood, 37; Upper Deck by Charles Sheeler; Fog Horns, Sun on the Water, Silver Sun, and Alfie's Delight by Arthur Dove. Robert Henri dies at New York July 12 at age 64.

New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) opens November 8 in six rooms on the 12th floor of the Hecksher Building at 730 Fifth Avenue with an exhibition of works by the late French impressionists Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, and Vincent Van Gogh. Its three founders are rich patrons for whom the collapse of the stock market has meant very little; director of the museum is Detroit-born expert Alfred (Hamilton) Barr Jr., 27, who has been recommended by Harvard fine-arts scholar Paul Sachs, 51, and will be MoMA's guiding spirit for some 38 years; its first president is lumber baron Anson Conger Goodyear, 42, of Buffalo, who served briefly as president of that city's Albright Gallery until he antagonized his fellow trustees by paying $5,000 for a "pink period" Picasso and whose own collection includes works by Maillol, Renoir, Seurat, and Van Gogh (see 1939).