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1926 art
Events from the year 1926 in art.
Events
Marcel Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even is accidentally broken.
Marjorie Watson-Williams moves to Paris and adopts the name Paule Vézelay.
Awards
Archibald Prize: W B McInnes – Silk and Lace
Works
Category:1926 sculptures Category:1926 paintings
Max Beckmann – Quappi in Blue
H. Chalton Bradshaw with bronzes by Gilbert Ledward – Guards Memorial, London
Alexander Calder – Cirque Calder (wire sculpture)
Alexander Stirling Calder – Shakespeare Memorial, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Salvador Dalí – The Basket of Bread
Charles T. Diamond with relief by John Paulding – Astoria Victory Monument, Astoria, Oregon
Edwin Dickinson – The Cello Player
Max Ernst
The Blessed Virgin Chastises the Infant Jesus before Three Witnesses: A.B., P.E. and the Artist
The Dove was Right
Alberto Giacometti – Spoon Woman
Dora Gordine – Chinese Head (Chia-Chu Chang: The Chinese Philosopher) (bronze)Fiona Fisher The Great British Art Tour: A Chinese student in the bronze age https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/feb/16/the-great-british-art-tour-dora-gordine-dorich-house-museum-kingston The Guardian London 2021-02-16 2021-02-16
Hannah Höch – Love
Frida Kahlo – Self-portrait in a Velvet Dress
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – The Bridge near Wiesen
René Magritte
The Difficult Crossing (first version)
The Musings of a Solitary Walker
Georges Malkine – Nuit d'Amour
John Marin - Related to Downtown New York, Movement No. 2 (The Black Sun)https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/488359 Related to Downtown New York, Movement No. 2 (The Black Sun) The Metropolitan Museum of Art August 30, 2022
Henri Matisse – Yellow Odalisque (first version)
Joan Miró – Dog Barking at the Moon
Haig Patigian – Statue of Abraham Lincoln (bronze, San Francisco)
Dod Procter – Morning
John Bulloch Souter – The Breakdown
Births
3 January – Felicitas Kuhn, Austrian illustrator (d. 2022)
13 January – Craigie Aitchison, Scottish painter (d. 2009)
17 January – Robert Filliou, French Fluxus artist (d. 1987)
18 January – Roy Kiyooka, Canadian photographer, artist and poet (d. 1994)
24 January – Ruth Asawa, American sculptor (d. 2013)Ruth Asawa - American sculptor https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ruth-Aiko-Asawa Encyclopedia Britannica 28 May 2018 en
1 February – Vivian Maier, American street photographer (d. 2009)Vivian Maier - American photographer https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vivian-Maier Encyclopedia Britannica 28 May 2018 en
6 April – Gil Kane, Latvian-born cartoonist (d. 2000)https://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/03/arts/gil-kane-comic-book-artist-is-dead-at-73.html?pagewanted=all Martin Douglas Gil Kane, Comic-Book Artist, Is Dead at 73 The New York Times February 3, 2000 https://web.archive.org/web/20090213102334/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0DE7D9123FF930A35751C0A9669C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all February 13, 2009 live mdy-all
10 April – Gustav Metzger, German-Jewish born British creator of auto-destructive art and activist (d. 2017)
26 April – Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (d. 2003)
25 May – David Wynne, English figure sculpture (d. 2014)
6 May – Edward Clark, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 2019)
13 June
Satoru Abe, American sculptor and painter (d. 2025)
George Booth, American cartoonist (d. 2022)
9 July - Jaroslav Bejček, Czech painter, graphic artist, sculptor. and illustrator (d. 1986)
3 August – David Johnson, American photographer (d. 2024)
8 August
Arturo García Bustos, Mexican painter (d. 2017)
William Foley, American illustrator (d. 2020)
14 August – René Goscinny, French comic book author, editor and humorist (d. 1977)
10 September – Beryl Cook, English naïve painter (d. 2008)
25 September – Sonia Gechtoff, American painter (d. 2018)
6 October – Petar Omčikus, Serbian artist (d. 2019)
25 October – Ismail Gulgee, Pakistani painter (d. 2007)
3 November – Paul Rebeyrolle, French painter (d. 2005)
5 November – John Berger, English art critic, novelist and painter (d. 2017)
9 November – Raymond Hains, French artist and photographer (d. 2005)
10 December – Leon Kossoff, English painter (d. 2019)
Deaths
January 15 – Eugeniusz Zak, Polish painter (b. 1884)
February 4 – Adolphe Willette, French illustrator (b. 1857)
April 1 – Charles Angrand, French neo-Impressionist painter (b. 1854)
June 14 – Mary Cassatt, American painter (b. 1844)
July 17 – Maximilian Liebenwein, Austro-German painter and illustrator (b. 1869)
July 24 – T. C. Steele, American Impressionist painter (b. 1847)
August 25 – Thomas Moran, American painter of the Hudson River School (b. 1837)
September 28 – Helen Allingham, English watercolour painter and illustrator (b. 1848)
October 5 – Dorothy Tennant, English painter (b. 1855)
October 16 – Ignacy Korwin-Milewski, Polish art collector (b. 1846)
October 24 – Charles Marion Russell, American "cowboy artist" (b. 1864)
December 5 – Claude Monet, French Impressionist painter (b. 1840)Historic Figures: Claude Monet (1840-1926) https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/monet_claude.shtml BBC History 2018-05-28
See also
1926 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
References
Category:Years of the 20th century in art
Category:1920s in art