1935 in art

Events

January – First issue of Axis, a quarterly review of abstract art edited by Myfanwy Piper in England, is published.^[1]
February 15–March 2 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People stages an exhibition Art Commentary on Lynching in New York City.
May 7 – Artists' Unit group of British modernists announced, superseding Unit One.^[1]
December – Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler undergoes forced sterilization in accordance with Nazi eugenics policies and never paints again.
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, designed by Hendrik Petrus Berlage, completed in the Netherlands.
William Coldstream edits the GPO Film Unit documentary Coal Face.^[1]
Picasso's poetry takes precedence over his graphic work this year.

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Births

2 January – David McKee, English author and illustrator (d. 2022)^[2]
12 January – Teresa del Conde, Mexican art critic and historian (d. 2017)
26 January – Paula Rego, Portuguese-born painter (d. 2022)
10 February
- John Alcorn, American illustrator (d. 1992)
- Konrad Klapheck, German painter (d. 2023)
1 June – Vladislav Lalicki, Serbian painter (d. 2008)
13 June – Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Bulgarian & Moroccan-born American installation artists (d. 2020 & 2009 respectively)^[3]
22 June – Floyd Norman, American animator, writer and comic book artist^[4]
19 August – Victor Ambrus, Hungarian-born British illustrator (d. 2021)
23 August – Roy Strong, English art historian and curator
8 September – William Vance, Belgian comics artist (d. 2018)
16 September – Carl Andre, American minimalist artist (d. 2024)^[5]
26 September – Juan Zanotto, Italian-born Argentine comic book artist (d. 2005)
30 September – James McKendry, Northern Irish sculptor and painter
1 October – Walter De Maria, American minimalist, conceptual artist and land artist (d. 2013)
3 October – Sinikka Kurkinen, Finnish painter
9 October – Don McCullin, English war photographer
Full date unknown
- Nina Alovert, Russian-born American ballet photographer
- Rasheed Araeen, Pakistan-born British conceptual artist
- Félix Aráuz, Ecuadorean painter (d. 2024)
- John Barry, English film set designer (d. 1979)

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February 8 – Max Liebermann, German-Jewish impressionist painter (b. 1847)^[6]
February 16 – Carolina Benedicks-Bruce, Swedish sculptor (b. 1856)
March 25 – William de Leftwich Dodge, American muralist (b. 1867)
April 15 – Anna Ancher, Danish member of the Skagen Painters group (b. 1859)^[7]
April 22 – Frederick Farrell, Scottish watercolourist, war artist, pneumonia (b. 1882)
May 3 – Jessie Willcox Smith, American illustrator (b. 1863)
May 15 – Kazimir Malevich, Polish-Russian painter, art theoretician (b. 1879)^[8]
May 24 – Granville Redmond, American landscape painter (b. 1871)
July 17 – George William Russell ('Æ'), Irish critic, poet and painter (b. 1867)
August 15 – Paul Signac, French neo-impressionist painter (b. 1863)^[9]
August 27 – Childe Hassam, American impressionist painter (b. 1859)^[10]
October 2 – Georg Jensen, Danish silversmith (b. 1866)
October 4 – Jean Béraud, French painter (b. 1849)
October 9 – Archibald Thorburn, Scottish-born wildlife painter (b. 1860)
October 11 – Samuel Peploe, Scottish painter (b. 1871)
October 18 – Gaston Lachaise, French-American sculptor (b. 1882)^[11]
October 23 – Charles Demuth, American painter (b. 1883)^[12]
November 28 – Joaquín Clausell, Mexican impressionist landscape painter, lawyer and political activist (b. 1866)
Undated
- Harry Fidler, English painter (b. 1856)
- Eva Watson-Schütze, American portrait photographer and curator (b. 1867)

Events