Opened in 1931, the Joslyn Art Museum has significant art collections.

In 1931 Harrison established an 11 acre ( 45, 000 m² ) summer retreat in West Hills, New York, which was a very early example and workshop for the International Style in the United States, and a social and intellectual center of architecture, art, and politics.

In 1931, Pierre Matisse opened an art gallery in New York City.

He started working as a clown full-time in 1931, and it was only after years of attempting to persuade the management that he was able to switch from a white face clown to the hobo clown that he had sketched ten years earlier while working at an art firm.

The year before Lorca had begun to write his Poema del cante jondo (" Poem of the deep song ", not published until 1931 ), so he naturally composed an essay on the art of flamenco, and began to speak publicly in support of the Concurso.

File: Male submissive art. jpg | Dresseuses d ' hommes ( 1931 ) by Florence Fulbert

The Banzai Institute exteriors were shot in Rustic Canyon with the interiors filmed in an Art Deco house designed in 1931 by MGM art director Cedric Gibbons for his wife, Dolores del Río.

In 1931, the architect Amyas Connell completed the Grade II listed art deco house, " High and Over " in Amersham.

In 1931, after a series of negotiations, 21 works of art from the Hermitage were acquired by Andrew W. Mellon, who later donated them to form a nucleus of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C. ( See also Soviet sale of Hermitage paintings ).

Bridget Louise Riley CH CBE ( born 24 April 1931 in Norwood, London ) is an English painter who is one of the foremost proponents of Op art.

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel ( born November 26, 1931 ) is an Argentine pacifist, art painter and sculptor.

Van Doesburg stayed active in art groups such as Cercle et Carré, Art Concret and Abstraction-Création, which he founded in 1931.

In 2011 the art critic Brian Sewell published his memoirs, in which he revealed that he was Heseltine's illegitimate son, born in July 1931 seven month's after the composer's death.

* Lillie P. Bliss ( 1864 – 1931 ), American art collector and patron, founder of Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney ( January 9, 1875 – April 18, 1942 ) was an American sculptor, art patron and collector, and founder in 1931 of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.

* Michael Podro ( 1931 – 2008 ), art historian

* Roulin, Eugène Augustin ( 1931 ) Vestments and Vesture: a manual of liturgical art ; translated by Dom Justin McCann.

It moved in 1931 to 120 Fleet Street, a specially commissioned art deco building.

It was about then that Themerson met-or met again-Franciszka Weinles, an art student, whom he married in 1931.

William Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington ( 12 April 1856 at Rochester, England – 19 April 1937 at London ), known as Sir Martin Conway between 1895 and 1931, was an English art critic, politician, cartographer and mountaineer.

Nashville's temporary Parthenon was reconstructed in permanent materials in a project lasting from 1920 to 1931 and still stands today as an art gallery on the original exposition grounds, which became Centennial Park.

Claire Parker ( 1910 – 1981 ), a well-to-do American art student and graduate of MIT came to France in 1931 to study art.

Hegedušić was impressed with Generalić's work and organized Generalić's first public art exhibition, held in 1931 in the Zagreb Art pavilion.

The son of a Jewish scrap yard dealer, Richler was born in 1931 and raised on St. Urbain Street in the Mile End area of Montreal.

McKennitt was born in Morden, Manitoba of Irish and Scottish descent to parents Jack ( died 1992 ; a livestock dealer ) and Irene McKennitt ( 1931 – 2011 ; a nurse ).

Fernand Legros ( 26 January 1931 – 7 April 1983 ) was an art dealer who, together with his lover Real Lessard, sold the art forgeries of Elmyr de Hory.

Marabini Moevs argued in an article for Bollettino d ’ Arte that the Warren Cup is not in fact a Roman product of the early Imperial period, but rather was executed around 1900 by a gifted silversmith trained in the contemporary Liberty style, perhaps commissioned by the amateur archaeologist and dealer Fausto Benedetti ( 1874 – 1931 ), to meet what he knew to be the taste of his foreign client and friend Edward Perry Warren.

* James Morris ( Quebec politician ) ( 1857 – 1931 ), farmer, marble and granite dealer and political figure in Quebec

After his suicide at the age of twenty-five, his family took the surviving paintings out of Gerstl's studio and stored them in a warehouse until his brother Alois showed them to the art dealer Otto Kallir in 1930 or 1931.

During his first solo exhibition, at the art dealer Léopold Zborowski in 1931, two sculptures were acquired by the Musée national d ' art moderne in Paris ( now in the Centre Pompidou ) and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.

He was born on 29 November 1931 in Nquthu, northern Natal to Jaconia Mdlalose, a general dealer and Tabitha Mthembu, a tutor.

* 1931 – Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, 5th Baronet, Scottish fencer, landowner and survivor of RMS Titanic ( b. 1862 )

* Sir Herbert Samuel 1931 – 1935

All the governors-general until 1965 were British, except Sir Issac Isaacs ( 1931 – 36 ) and Sir William McKell ( 1947 – 53 ).

Isaac Isaacs | Sir Isaac Isaacs, the first Australian-born Governor-General, 1931 – 1936

# 1931 – 1952 Sir Patrick Ashley Cooper

* 1862 – Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, 5th Baronet, Scottish fencer and landowner, survivor of RMS Titanic ( d. 1931 )

* 1931 – Sir Terence Conran, English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer

Credit for invention of the steam turbine is given both to the British engineer Sir Charles Parsons ( 1854 – 1931 ), for invention of the reaction turbine and to Swedish engineer Gustaf de Laval ( 1845 – 1913 ), for invention of the impulse turbine.

* April 14 – Sir Murray Bisset, South African cricketer and Governor of Southern Rhodesia ( d. 1931

By 1931, much of Mohenjo-Daro had been excavated, but excavations continued, such as that led by Sir Mortimer Wheeler, director of the Archaeological Survey of India in 1944.

The concept that insulin resistance may be the underlying cause of diabetes mellitus type 2 was first advanced by Prof. Wilhelm Falta and published in Vienna in 1931, and confirmed as contributary by Sir Harold Percival Himsworth of the University College Hospital Medical Centre in London in 1936.

In 1931 Williams-Ellis bought from his uncle, Sir Osmund Williams, Bt, the Victorian crenellated mansion Castell Deudraeth with the intention of incorporating it into the Portmeirion hotel complex, but the intervention of the war and other problems prevented this.

Actor Sir Ian Holm was born at Goodmayes Hospital on 12 September, 1931, to Scottish parents, Jean Wilson Holm and James Harvey Cuthbert.

This park was acquired by Ealing Borough Council as a recreation ground in 1931 from Sir

Tea magnate Sir Thomas Lipton came to Southgate from Muswell Hill in 1892, and lived in a house called Osidge until his death in 1931.

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General Sir John Monash GCMG, KCB, VD ( 27 June 1865 – 8 October 1931 ) was a civil engineer who became the Australian military commander in the First World War.

Sir John Monash died in Melbourne on 8 October 1931 and was given a state funeral.

* Sir Ernest MacMillan ( 1931 – 1956 )

In 1931, Sir Thomas Beecham was approached by the rising young conductor Malcolm Sargent with a proposal to set up a permanent, salaried orchestra with a subsidy guaranteed by Sargent's patrons, the Courtauld family.

* Sir Ian Holm ( born 1931 ), film, stage and television actor

Sir Ian Holm, CBE ( born 12 September 1931 ) is an English actor known for his stage work and many film roles.

In 1931 the governor, Sir John Burdon, rejected proposals to legalise trade unions and to introduce a minimum wage and sickness insurance.