1935 - Art

Art

Painting: Minotauromachy by Pablo Picasso; Large Dining Room Overlooking the Garden by Pierre Bonnard; The Dream (La Rève) by Henri Matisse; Portrait by René Magritte; Chorus Captain by Walt Kuhn; Rumble Seat by Norman Rockwell (cover for Saturday Evening Post, July 13). Max Liebermann dies at Berlin February 8 at age 87; Kazimir Malevich at Leningrad May 15 at age 57; Paul Signac of kidney disease at his native Paris August 15 at age 71; Childe Hassam at East Hampton, N.Y., August 27 at age 75; Charles Demuth of diabetes at his native Lancaster, Pa., October 23 at age 51.

The Frick Collection opens to the public at 1 East 71st Street in the 21-year-old Fifth Avenue mansion of the late steel magnate Henry Clay Frick following the death of his widow, Adelaide. Architect John Russell Pope has remodeled the house, which attracts 5,000 people in its first week to view its collections of bronzes, Chinese and French porcelains, Limoges enamels, and Renaissance and 18th-century French furniture, but more to see important paintings by such masters as Giovanni Bellini, Constable, Fragonard, Gainsborough, El Greco, Hals, Hogarth, the younger Holbein, Ingres, Piero della Francesca, Rembrandt, Renoir, Titian, Turner, Jan van Eyck, Vermeer, and Whistler (see 1977).

The WPA makes jobs for artists in a program to decorate post offices and other federal buildings.

Brooklyn-born graphic designer Paul Rand (originally Peretz Rosenbaum), 20, opens a tiny design study in East 38th Street, Manhattan. The son of an Orthodox Jewish grocer in East New York, Rand persuaded his father to put up a $25 entrance fee for night-school classes at Pratt Institute while he attended Harren High School in Manhattan, he has worked for an advertising agency designing packages and lettering for Squibb and other clients, and beginning next year will design pages for Apparel Arts magazine before being hired by its parent company Esquire-Coronet, where he will develop his own vision and graphic style.