Chicago, opens “Modern School of Fine Arts and Practical Design,” address: 500 North Dearborn Street.

Opens art school in Bearsville.

February: Solo show, Katherine Kuh Gallery, Chicago

May: Solo show, Katherine Kuh Gallery, Chicago

Creates Moses, a seven-foot high sculpture, to benefit artists exiled by the Facist regimes in Europe.

Solo show University of Omaha, exhibition travels to Springfield Museum of Art in 1940.

Address for Archipenko Art School in New York City: 624 Madison Ave

Participates at group show, “We like Modern Art”, Museum of Modern Art, New York.

January: Takes part in group exhibition at Katherine Kuh Gallery, with Jawlensky, Lurçat, Mauny, Mérida, Moholy-Nagy, Wolff, and Kepes.

April: Solo show, Katherine Kuh Gallery, Chicago

April: Solo show, Katherine Kuh Gallery, Chicago

Teaches summer art school in Bearsville.


Teaches at Dalton School, New York.

January 18 - February 5: New York, solo show at Nierendorf Gallery, New York

March 18-April 16: Participates in traveling group exhibition, “Pictures of Peace, A Retrospective Exhibition organized from the Armory Show of 1913.”

August 8 - 22: Solo show, La Plata, Argentina

April 4 – May 6: “Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture,” Yale University. Represented with three sculptures, on loan from the Katherine Dreier collection.

Teaches summer art school in Bearsville.



Returns to Chicago, teaches at the Institute of Design (formerly Bauhaus).

“In teaching I make my students realize the necessity of applying the psychological process for the discovery of creative reactions within themselves before they make the form which should contain creative power. This is a fundamental knowledge that vitalizes the work of art.” –Alexander Archipenko