1930 - Art

Art

Painting: American Gothic by Grant Wood portrays his sister and his dentist as rural farm folk and helps launch the American native regionalist style; Early Sunday Morning by Edward Hopper; American Landscape by Charles Sheeler, whose almost photographic picture of Ford Motor Company's Rouge plant is an industrial scene with only the sky and a dead canal to suggest nature; Out Back of Marie's II by Georgia O'Keeffe; Hogs Killing Rattlesnake by John Steuart Curry; Self-Portrait by New York painter Lee Krasner (Lena Krassner), 22; God Created Man in His Own Image and Into the World Came a Soul Called Ida by Illinois-born painter Ivan (Le Lorraine) Albright, 33, whose ultra-realistic work portrays an aging prostitute looking into a mirror; Fall of Cuernevaca and Cortez and his Mercenaries by Diego Rivera for Mexico City's Palacio de Cortez; Cold Buffet by George Grosz; Self-Portrait with Saxophone by Max Beckmann; Crucifixion and Seated Bather by Pablo Picasso; Spectre du Soir by Salvador Dalí.

Sculpture: Tiare by Henri Matisse.

Kansas City's Nelson Gallery is founded with a $13 million trust fund set up by the late Kansas City Star editor-publisher Col. William Rockhill Nelson, who died in 1915 at age 74 (see 1880). The art gallery will be housed in the Nelson mansion surrounded by 20 acres of lawn and be noted for its Oriental collection, but the benefactor's will stipulates that no work may be purchased until the artist has been dead for at least 30 years.