1917 in art

Events

• January – A drunken Amedeo Modigliani is ejected from a party for Georges Braque, by the hostess, Marie Vassilieff.
• January 29 – Rodin marries his mistress, Rose Beuret; she dies two weeks later.
• Eric Kennington, William Orpen, C. R. W. Nevinson, Paul Nash and William Rothenstein are sent as war artists to the Western Front from England.
• De Stijl artistic movement is established by Theo van Doesburg.
• The Allen Memorial Art Museum is established at Oberlin College in Ohio.
• The Marc Chagall illustrated version of The Magician by I. L. Peretz is published in Vilnius.

  Works

• Max Beckmann – Deposition
• Lovis Corinth – Portrait of Julius Meier-Graefe
• Heinrich Maria Davringhausen – The Poet Däubler
• Marcel Duchamp – Fountain
• Jacob Epstein – An American Soldier
• Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven – God
• J. W. Godward
• * The Fruit Vendor
• * A Lily Pond
• * Under The Blossom That Hangs On The Bough
• George Grosz
• * The City
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• * Metropolis
• Rudolf Alfred Höger – :File:HGM Höger Nach dem Vorstoß.jpg|Nach dem Vorstoß, Russische Kriegsgefangene
• Paul Klee – Ab ovo
• Gustav Klimt – Portrait of a Lady
• Isidore Konti – Nymph and Fawn
• Boris Kustodiev – :File:Boris Kustodiev Portrait of Countess Grabowska 1917.jpg|Portrait of Countess Grabowska
• Hans Larwin – :File:Hans Larwin - Soldat und Tod - 1917.jpg|Soldat und Tod
• Fernand Léger – The Card Game
• L. S. Lowry – Coming from the Mill
• Maximilien Luce – :File:Maximilien Luce-La Gare de l'Est sous la neige-1917.jpg|La Gare de l'Est in snow
• George Luks – :File:George_Luks_-_Houston_Street.jpg|Houston Street
• Henri Matisse
• * The Music Lesson
• * The Painter and His Model
• Joan Miró
• * Portrait of Vincent Nubiola
• * The Village
• Amedeo Modigliani
• * Anna Zborowska
• * Nu couché
• * Nude Sitting on a Divan
• C. R. W. Nevinson
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• * Britain's Efforts and Ideals series of lithographs
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• * Paths of Glory
• * :File:Nevinson, C R W – The Road from Arras to Bapaume – Google Art Project.jpg|The Road from Arras to Bapaume
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• Hilda Rix Nicholas – Desolation
• Georgia O'Keeffe – Light Coming on the Plains
• William Orpen
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• * :File:Blown Up Art.IWMART2376.jpg|Blown Up, Mad
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• * :File:William Orpen-Ready to Start-1917.jpg|Ready to Start: Self Portrait
• * :File:Schwaben Redoubt by William Orpen IWM Art.IWM ART 3000.jpg|Schwaben Redoubt
• * :File:William Orpen-Self-Portrait-1917.jpg|Self-portrait
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• * :File:The Thinker on the Butte de Warlencourt.jpg|The Thinker on the Butte de Warlencourt
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• Glyn Philpot
• * :File:Siegfried Sassoon by Glyn Warren Philpot 1917.jpeg|Siegfried Sassoon
• * :File:Glyn Warren Philpot - A Young Breton 1917.jpg|A Young Breton
• Pablo Picasso – Olga Picasso in an Armchair
• Auguste Rodin – The Gates of Hell
• Egon Schiele – The Embrace
• Zinaida Serebriakova – Bleaching Cloth
• Charles Sheeler – '
• John French Sloan –
• Alfred Stieglitz – The Last Days of 291
• Tom Thomson
• * :File:Tom Thomson,1917, April in Algonquin Park,21 x 26,5 cm, Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery.jpg|April in Algonquin Park
• * The Jack Pine
• * The West Wind
• Félix Vallotton
• * The Church of Souain in Silhouette
• * :File:Vallotton-Soldats sénégalais au camp de Mailly.jpg|Senegalese Soldiers at the camp of Mailly
• J. W. Waterhouse – :File:John william waterhouse fair rosamund.jpg|Fair Rosamund
• Christopher Williams – :File:The Red Dress.jpg|The Red Dress
• The Enchanted Pose

  Births

• 9 January – Virginia Surtees, English art historian and biographer
• 5 February – Lucienne Day, née Conradi, British textile designer
• 20 February – Manny Farber, American painter and film critic
• 20 February – Louisa Matthíasdóttir, Icelandic-American painter
• 1 March – Tom Keating, English art restorer and art faker
• 12 March – Milton Resnick, American painter
• 24 March – Constantine Andreou, Greek painter and sculptor
• 6 April – Leonora Carrington, English-born surrealist painter working in Mexico
• 21 May – Frank Bellamy, English comics artist
• 12 July – Andrew Wyeth, American painter
• 14 July – Ben Enwonwu, Nigerian painter and sculptor
• 11 August – Dik Browne, American cartoonist
• 28 August – Jack Kirby, American comic book artist, writer and editor
• 3 September – Anthony Robert Klitz, English artist
• 7 September – Jacob Lawrence, African American painter
• 11 September – Daniel Wildenstein, French international art dealer and scholar
• 25 December – John Minton, English painter

  Deaths

• January 15 – William De Morgan, English ceramic artist
• January 21 – Francesca Alexander, American illustrator
• February 10 – John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist
• February 17 – Carolus-Duran, French painter
• March 27 – Moses Jacob Ezekiel, American sculptor working in Italy
• March 28 – Albert Pinkham Ryder, American painter
• April 23 – Robert Koehler, German American painter
• June 30 – Antonio de La Gandara, French painter
• July 8 – Tom Thomson, Canadian painter
• September 27 – Edgar Degas, French painter and sculptor
• October 14 – Nathaniel Hone the Younger, Irish painter
• October 23 – Eugène Grasset, Swiss artist
• November 17
• * Sir Charles Holroyd, English etcher
• * Auguste Rodin, French sculptor
• December 21 – Wilhelm Trübner, German painter
• – Raffaele Belliazzi, Italian sculptor