1930 in art

Events

• June–July – Christopher Wood paints in Brittany.
• 29 November – Première of the Surrealist film L'Age d'Or by Luis Buñuel at Studio 28 in Paris.
• Theo van Doesburg produces a "Manifesto of Concrete art".
• Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant complete the decoration of the dining room for Dorothy Wellesley at Penns-in-the-Rocks, Withyham, England.
• Malvina Hoffman begins sculpting life-size figures for the Field Museum's Hall of Man.
• Great Bardfield Artists community established in England.
• Bernard Berenson publishes The Italian Painters of the Renaissance.
• Milt Gross publishes his wordless novel He Done Her Wrong in the United States.
• Soviet sale of Hermitage paintings begins.
• Spanish postage stamps depict Goya's La maja desnuda.
• Approximate date – Gertrud Arndt begins a series of photographic self-portraits at the Bauhaus.

  Awards

• Archibald Prize: W B McInnes – Drum-Major Harry McClelland

  Exhibitions

• April – Cercle et Carré exhibition opens at Galerie 23 in the Rue La Boétie, Paris.

  Works

• Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious – Mural in refectory of Morley College, London
• Pierre Bonnard – Pots
• Patrick Henry Bruce – Peinture
• Edward Burra – '
• John Steuart Curry – '
• Theo van Doesburg – Arithmetic Composition
• M. C. Escher
• * The Bridge
• * Castrovalva
• * Palizzi, Calabria
• * Pentedattilo, Calabria
• * Street in Scanno, Abruzzi
• Thomas Cooper Gotch – :File:Thomas Cooper Gotch - The Exile 1930.jpg|The Exile: Heavy Is The Price I Paid For Love
• James Guthrie – Statesmen of World War I
• Edward Hopper – Early Sunday Morning
• Augustus John – Portrait of Tallulah Bankhead
• Rozsa Klein – Bonnard's Palette
• Helmut Kolle
• * :File:Helmut Kolle - Self Portrait in Hunting Attire.jpg|Self-Portrait in Hunting Attire
• * Young Man with a Colored Scarf
• Abel Lafleur – Victory
• Fernand Léger – Mona Lisa with Keys
• L. S. Lowry – '
• Jeanne Mammen – Free Room
• Henri Matisse – The Back Series
• Alice Neel – '
• José Clemente Orozco – Prometheus
• Charles Sheeler – '
• T. F. Šimon – :File:T F Simon View In Old Prague.jpg|View in Old Prague
• Grace Cossington Smith – The Bridge in Curve
• Herbert Tyson Smith – bronze reliefs for Liverpool Cenotaph
• Christopher Wood
• * Anemones in a Cornish Window
• * '
• Grant Wood
• * American Gothic
• * Stone City, Iowa
• W. L. Wyllie –
• Xu Beihong – :File:A Portrait-of Sun Duoci by Xu Beihong.jpg|A Portrait of Sun Duoci
• Statler Fountain

  Births

January to June

• 26 January – Napoleon Abueva, Filipino sculptor
• 3 February – Gillian Ayres, English abstract painter
• 13 February – Ernst Fuchs, Austrian artist
• 18 February – Gahan Wilson, American cartoonist
• 21 February – Enrique Tábara, Ecuadorian painter
• 24 February – Anita Steckel, American feminist artist
• 25 February – Wendy Beckett, English contemplative nun and art historian
• 7 March – Antony Armstrong-Jones, English photographer
• 8 March – Hector Lombana, Colombian sculptor, painter and architect
• 11 March – David Gentleman, English graphic designer
• 1 April – John Houston, Scottish painter
• 12 April – Manuel Neri, American sculptor, painter and printmaker
• 14 May – James Beck, American art historian
• 15 May – Jasper Johns, American painter, sculptor and printmaker
• 22 May – Marisol Escobar, French-born sculptor and printmaker
• 23 May
• * Aslan, French-born pin-up artist
• * Richard Anuszkiewicz, American painter, sculptor and printmaker
• 24 May – Unity Spencer, English artist
• 30 May – Robert Ryman, American monochrome painter
• 5 June – Vladimir Popov, Soviet animator, animation and art director
• 16 June – Allan D'Arcangelo, American painter and graphic artist
• 19 June – Bryan Kneale, Manx sculptor and academic
• 20 June – Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish sculptor
• 24 June – Pierre Restany, French art critic and cultural philosopher

  July to December

• 4 July – Mohamed Demagh, Algerian sculptor
• 28 September – Nikolai Pozdneev, Russian painter.
• 3 October – Robyn Denny, British abstract artist
• 7 October – Kurt Dornis, German painter, graphic artist and draughtsman
• 8 October – Faith Ringgold, African American painter and fabric artist
• 18 October – Trevor Bell, English painter
• 29 October – Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor, painter and film maker
• 7 November – Robert Natkin, American painter
• 13 November – Benny Andrews, American painter and academic
• 14 November – Elisabeth Frink, English sculptor
• 31 December – Luis Marsans, Catalan painter
• date unknown – Susan Weil, American painter

  Deaths

• January 7 – Max Schmalzl, German religious painter and illustrator
• March 3 – W. W. Quatremain, English landscape painter
• March 19 – Andreas Walser, Swiss painter
• April 17 – Aleksandr Golovin, Russian stage designer
• April 30 – John Russell, Australian Impressionist painter
• May 10 – Julio Romero de Torres, Spanish painter
• May 28 – George Washington Lambert, Australian portrait painter and war artist
• June 3 – Alexander Bogomazov, Ukrainian painter and modern art theoretician of Russian avant-garde
• June 5 – Jules Pascin, Bulgarian-born painter and draftsman
• July 22 – Wacław Szymanowski, Polish sculptor and painter
• August 21 – Christopher Wood, English painter
• August 28 – Stanisław Bergman, Polish painter
• September 6 – Sir James Guthrie, Scottish painter
• September 24 – Otto Mueller, German Expressionist painter
• September 25 – Abram Arkhipov, Russian painter.
• September 29 – Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter
• December 9 – Laura Muntz Lyall, Canadian Impressionist painter
• December 17 – Nikolay Kasatkin, Russian painter
• December 28 – Antonio Mancini, Italian painter
• date unknown – Peter Moog, outsider artist