1926 in 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 == 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) 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) 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) 1 February – Vivian Maier, American street photographer (d. 2009) 6 April – Gil Kane, Latvian-born cartoonist (d. 2000) 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) == See also == 1926 in fine arts of the Soviet Union == References ==