1918 in art

Events from the year 1918 in art.

Events

• February – British War Memorials Committee formed to commission artworks to create a memorial to the World War I, including a (never-built) Hall of Remembrance.
• February 16 – Joan Miró's first solo exhibition opens at the Galeries Dalmau; his work is ridiculed and defaced.
• March – C. R. W. Nevinson has an exhibition at the Leicester Galleries in London. His war painting Paths of Glory, condemned by the British Army censor for its depiction of dead soldiers, is displayed by the artist with a brown paper strip across the bodies bearing the word "Censored" and subsequently replaced in the exhibition by a .
• May – Stanley Spencer, a serving British Army soldier, is appointed as an official war artist. A similar appointment is made this year for Australian soldier Frank R. Crozier.
• May 3 – William Orpen's exhibition War opens in London; the paintings are donated to the British government. He is knighted in June.
• May 11 – Paul Nash's exhibition The Void of War opens at the Leicester Galleries in London.
• June 18 – Pablo Picasso marries Olga Khoklova.
• June – Alfred Stieglitz begins nude photography of Georgia O'Keeffe.
• October 15 – Kunsthalle Bern opens.
• November 3 – The Robespierre Monument (Moscow), designed by Beatrice Yuryevna Sandomierz, is unveiled; it collapses four days later.
• November 7–December 14 – British painter Colin Gill, having previously served as a soldier on the Western Front, returns to France to work for the British War Memorials Committee.
• December 3 – The November Group (Novembergruppe) of expressionist artists is formed in Germany, and shortly afterwards merges with the Arbeitsrat für Kunst.
• Frans Masereel's wordless novel 25 Images of a Man's Passion is published.

Works

• Anna Airy
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• The 'L' Press: Forging the Jacket of an 18-inch Gun, Armstrong-Whitworth Works, Openshaw
• A Shell Forge at a National Projectile Factory, Hackney Marshes, London
• Shop for Machining 15-inch Shells: Singer Manufacturing Company, Clydebank, Glasgow
• Women Working in a Gas Retort House: South Metropolitan Gas Company, London
• George Bellows
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• Victor David Brenner – Mary Schenley Memorial Fountain (Pittsburgh)
• Charles Buchel – '
• George Clausen – In the Gun Factory at Woolwich Arsenal
• Charles Demuth – '
• Theo van Doesburg – Composition IX
• Katherine Sophie Dreier – Abstract Portrait of Marcel Duchamp
• Eric Enstrom – Grace (photograph)
• Charles Buckles Falls – ' (poster)
• Roger Fry
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• Self-portrait
• Georges Gardet – Eternal Youth (gilded sculpture on Manitoba Legislative Building)
• Mark Gertler – The Pool at Garsington
• J. W. Godward
• A Fond Farewell
• Sweet Sounds
• Duncan Grant – The White Jug (finished version)
• George Grosz – The Funeral
• Eric Kennington – Gassed and Wounded
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
• Alpine Kitchen
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• Paul Klee
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• Boris Kustodiev
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• Fernand Léger
• Bargeman
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• Wyndham Lewis – '
• Flora Lion – '
• John Hodgson Lobley
• Outside Charing Cross Station, July 1916. Casualties from the Battle of the Somme arriving in London
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• José Malhoa – Autumn
• Ivan MeÅ¡trović – Dr. Elsie Inglis (bronze bust)
• Jean Metzinger – Fruit and a Jug on a Table
• Joan Miró –
• Alfred Munnings
• Draft Horses, Lumber Mill in the Forest of Dreux
• Warrior
• Kaita Murayama – '
• John Nash
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• Over The Top
• Paul Nash
• The Mule Track
• Sunrise, Inverness Copse
• We are Making a New World
• Void
• Georgia O'Keeffe – The Flag
• William Orpen
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• Dead Germans in a Trench
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• Marshal Foch
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• Willard Dryden Paddock – Sundial, Boy With Spider (bronze)
• Glyn Philpot
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• Pablo Picasso
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• Pierre-Auguste Renoir
• Portrait of Adele Besson
• The Bathers
• William Roberts
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• Solomon Joseph Solomon – '
• William Strang – '
• Henry Tonks – '
• Viktor Vasnetsov – '
• Edward Wolfe – Still Life with Omega Cat
• Francis Derwent Wood – Canada's Golgotha (bronze)
• William Lionel Wyllie – '