1928 in art
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[edit] Awards
- Archibald Prize: John Longstaff - Portrait of Dr Alexander Leeper
- Carnegie Prize - André Derain
[edit] Events
- Ben Nicholson visits St. Ives, Cornwall, and meets the fisherman and painter Alfred Wallis.
[edit] Exhibitions
- Alexander Calder's first solo exhibition at the Weyhe Gallery, New York City.
[edit] Works
- Wäinö Aaltonen - bust of Jean Sibelius
- Tarsila do Amaral - Abaporu
- Pierre Bonnard - Flowers on a Red Carpet
- John Steuart Curry - Bathers and Baptism in Kansas
- Charles Demuth - I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
- John French Sloan - Sixth Avenue Elevated at Third Street
- René Magritte - The Treachery of Images
[edit] Births
- January 31 - Dušan Džamonja, sculptor
- Norman Carlberg, sculptor
- April 24 - Cy Twombly, abstract artist
- April 28 - Yves Klein, abstract artist
- May 14 - Władysław Hasior, sculptor, painter and stage designer
- August 6 - Andy Warhol, painter, printmaker, filmmaker
- October 30 - Michael Andrews, painter
- December 12 - Helen Frankenthaler, abstract expressionist painter
- December 13 - Wolfgang Hutter, painter, lithographer, designer
[edit] Deaths
- June 22 - A. B. Frost, illustrator
- December 10 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, architect and designer
