1926 in art
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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 â Silk and Lace
Works
- Max Beckmann â Quappi in Blue
- H. Chalton Bradshaw with bronzes by Gilbert Ledward â Guards Memorial, London
- Alexander Calder â Cirque Calder (wire sculpture)
- Alexander Stirling Calder â Shakespeare Memorial, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Salvador Dalà â The Basket of Bread
- Charles T. Diamond with relief by John Paulding â Astoria Victory Monument, Astoria, Oregon
- Edwin Dickinson â 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 â Spoon Woman
- Dora Gordine â Chinese Head (Chia-Chu Chang: The Chinese Philosopher) (bronze)[1]
- Hannah Höch â Love
- Frida Kahlo â Self-portrait in a Velvet Dress
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner â The Bridge near Wiesen
- René Magritte
- The Difficult Crossing (first version)
- The Musings of a Solitary Walker
- Georges Malkine â Nuit d'Amour
- John Marin - Related to Downtown New York, Movement No. 2 (The Black Sun)[2]
- Henri Matisse â Yellow Odalisque (first version)
- Joan Miró â Dog Barking at the Moon
- Haig Patigian â Statue of Abraham Lincoln (bronze, San Francisco)
- Dod Procter â Morning
- John Bulloch Souter â The Breakdown
Births
- 3 January â Felicitas Kuhn, Austrian illustrator (d. 2022)
- 13 January â Craigie Aitchison, Scottish painter (d. 2009)
- 17 January â Robert Filliou, French Fluxus artist (d. 1987)
- 18 January â Roy Kiyooka, Canadian photographer, artist and poet (d. 1994)
- 24 January â Ruth Asawa, American sculptor (d. 2013)[3]
- 1 February â Vivian Maier, American street photographer (d. 2009)[4]
- 6 April â Gil Kane, Latvian-born cartoonist (d. 2000)[5]
- 10 April â Gustav Metzger, German-Jewish born British creator of auto-destructive art and activist (d. 2017)
- 26 April â Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (d. 2003)
- 25 May â David Wynne, English figure sculpture (d. 2014)
- 6 May â Edward Clark, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 2019)
- 13 June
- Satoru Abe, American sculptor and painter (d. 2025)
- George Booth, American cartoonist (d. 2022)
- 3 August â David Johnson, American photographer (d. 2024)
- 8 August
- Arturo GarcÃa Bustos, Mexican painter (d. 2017)
- William Foley, American illustrator (d. 2020)
- 14 August â René Goscinny, French comic book author, editor and humorist (d. 1977)
- 10 September â Beryl Cook, English naïve painter (d. 2008)
- 25 September â Sonia Gechtoff, American painter (d. 2018)
- 6 October â Petar OmÄikus, Serbian artist (d. 2019)
- 25 October â Ismail Gulgee, Pakistani painter (d. 2007)
- 3 November â Paul Rebeyrolle, French painter (d. 2005)
- 5 November â John Berger, English art critic, novelist and painter (d. 2017)
- 9 November â Raymond Hains, French artist and photographer (d. 2005)
- 10 December â Leon Kossoff, English painter (d. 2019)
Deaths
- January 15 â Eugeniusz Zak, Polish painter (b. 1884)
- February 4 â Adolphe Willette, French illustrator (b. 1857)
- April 1 â Charles Angrand, French neo-Impressionist painter (b. 1854)
- June 14 â Mary Cassatt, American painter (b. 1844)
- July 17 â Maximilian Liebenwein, Austro-German painter and illustrator (b. 1869)
- July 24 â T. C. Steele, American Impressionist painter (b. 1847)
- August 25 â Thomas Moran, American painter of the Hudson River School (b. 1837)
- September 28 â Helen Allingham, English watercolour painter and illustrator (b. 1848)
- October 5 â Dorothy Tennant, English painter (b. 1855)
- October 16 â Ignacy Korwin-Milewski, Polish art collector (b. 1846)
- October 24 â Charles Marion Russell, American "cowboy artist" (b. 1864)
- December 5 â Claude Monet, French Impressionist painter (b. 1840)[6]