1901 in art
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- John CollierJohn Collier (artist)The Honourable John Maler Collier OBE RP ROI , called 'Jack' by his family and friends, was a leading English artist, and an author. He painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style, and was one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation. Both his marriages were to daughters of Thomas Henry...
- In the Venusberg Tannhauser - Camille PissarroCamille PissarroCamille Pissarro was a French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas . His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, as he was the only artist to exhibit in both forms...
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January to June
- 9 January - Chic YoungChic YoungMurat Bernard Young , better known as Chic Young, was an American cartoonist who created the popular, long-running comic strip Blondie. His 1919 William McKinley High School Yearbook cites his nickname as Chicken, source of his familiar pen name and signature...
, American cartoonCartoonA cartoon is a form of two-dimensional illustrated visual art. While the specific definition has changed over time, modern usage refers to a typically non-realistic or semi-realistic drawing or painting intended for satire, caricature, or humor, or to the artistic style of such works...
ist (d.19731973 in art-Events:*Alexander Calder is hired by Braniff International Airways to paint a full-size DC-8-62 as a "flying canvas."-Exhibitions:*Christopher Williams - centenary exhibition in Cardiff, Maesteg and Swansea.-Works:...
). - 28 January - James Richmond BarthéRichmond BarthéJames Richmond Barthé was an African American sculptor known for his many public works, including the Toussaint L’Ouverture Monument in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and a sculpture of Rose McClendon for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater House.Barthe once said that “all my life I have be interested in...
, sculptor (d.19891989 in art-Events:*12 June – Corcoran Gallery of Art removes Robert Mapplethorpe's photography exhibition.*The Keith Haring Foundation is established.-Exhibitions:*Jim Dine Drawings 1973–1987 at Minneapolis Institute of Art...
). - 22 March - Greta KemptonGreta KemptonGreta Kempton born Martha Greta Kempton in Vienna, Austria. American artist. She served as the White House artist during the Truman administration....
, Austrian-American artist (d.19911991 in art-Events:*14 April – In the Netherlands, thieves steal 20 paintings worth $500 million from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Less than an hour later they are found in an abandoned car near the museum.*Opening of the Irish Museum of Modern Art....
). - 24 March - Ub IwerksUb IwerksUb Iwerks, A.S.C. was a two-time Academy Award winning American animator, cartoonist, character designer, inventor, creator of Mickey Mouse, and special effects technician, who was famous for his work for Walt Disney....
, American animatorAnimatorAn animator is an artist who creates multiple images that give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence; the images are called frames and key frames. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, video games, and the internet. Usually, an...
, cartoonist and special effects technician (d.19711971 in art-Works:*Hans Haacke - Real Time Social System*David Hockney - Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy*Fritz Koenig - Great Spherical Caryatid , designed for the World Trade Center, now in Battery Park, NYC...
). - 27 March - Carl BarksCarl BarksCarl Barks was an American Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck , Gladstone Gander , the Beagle Boys , The Junior Woodchucks , Gyro Gearloose , Cornelius Coot , Flintheart Glomgold , John D...
, American illustrator and comic bookComic bookA comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
creator (d.20002000 in art-Events:*February – Opening of the New Art Gallery Walsall in the West Midlands of England.*13 February – The final original Peanuts comic strip is published, following the death of its creator, Charles Schulz....
). - 9 June - John SkeapingJohn SkeapingJohn Rattenbury Skeaping, RA was an English sculptor and equine painter.Born in South Woodford, Essex, Skeaping studied at Goldsmith's College, London, and later at the Royal Academy. He was the first husband of the sculptor Barbara Hepworth, with whom he exhibited during the 1920s...
, English sculptorSculptureSculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...
and equine painter (d.19801980 in art-Events:* May–September - Pablo Picasso Retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the largest and most complete Picasso exhibition ever held in the United States....
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July to December
- July 15 - Pyke KochPyke KochPyke Koch was a Dutch artist who painted in a magic realist style.He was born in Beek. He exhibited in the 25th Venice Biennale in 1950. His work was shown in a retrospective exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum, Arnhem in 1966, and in a solo exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam in 1972. He...
, Dutch painter (d.19911991 in art-Events:*14 April – In the Netherlands, thieves steal 20 paintings worth $500 million from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Less than an hour later they are found in an abandoned car near the museum.*Opening of the Irish Museum of Modern Art....
). - July 31 - Jean DubuffetJean DubuffetJean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet was a French painter and sculptor. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making.-Life and work:Dubuffet was...
, French painter and sculptor (d.19851985 in art-Events:*Charles Saatchi's collection opens to the public, arousing interest in Neo-expressionism-Awards:*Archibald Prize: Guy Warren – Flugelman with Wingman*Turner Prize – Howard Hodgkin-Works:*Wayne Thiebaud – Sunset Streets...
). - September 14 - Lucien AignerLucien AignerLucien Aigner was a Hungarian photographer and pioneering photojournalist. He was born in Érsekújvár, Austria-Hungary and died inWaltham, Massachusetts....
, Hungarian photographer (d.19991999 in art-Events:*28 May – After 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" is placed back on display in Milan, Italy.*The Stuckism movement is founded by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson.-Works:*Louise Bourgeois – Maman...
). - October 10 - Alberto GiacomettiAlberto GiacomettiAlberto Giacometti was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.Alberto Giacometti was born in the canton Graubünden's southerly alpine valley Val Bregaglia and came from an artistic background; his father, Giovanni, was a well-known post-Impressionist painter...
, sculptor. - November 7 - Norah McGuinnessNorah McGuinnessNorah McGuinness was an Irish painter and illustrator.Norah McGuinness trained at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art and at Chelsea Polytechnic in London before spending the 1920s working in Dublin as a book illustrator and stage designer...
, Irish painter and illustrator (d.19801980 in art-Events:* May–September - Pablo Picasso Retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the largest and most complete Picasso exhibition ever held in the United States....
) - November 11 - Richard LindnerRichard Lindner (painter)Richard Lindner was a German-American painter.- Biography :Richard Lindner was born in Hamburg. His mother Mina Lindner was American and born in New York as daughter of German parents...
, painter (d.19781978 in art-Works:* Dan Flavin - untitled * Helen Frankenthaler - Cleveland Symphony Orchestra* Jack Goldstein - The Jump* Liz Leyh - Concrete Cows, Milton Keynes* Dennis Oppenheim - Cobalt Vectors - An Invasion...
) - December 1 - Charles TunnicliffeCharles TunnicliffeCharles Frederick Tunnicliffe was an internationally renowned naturalistic painter of British birds and other wildlife. He spent most of his working life on the Isle of Anglesey.-Life:...
, wildlife painter - December 5 - Walter Disney, cartoonist, animator and filmmaker (d.19661966 in art-Events:*The Hairy Who, a group of surrealist iconoclasts later called the Chicago Imagists, first exhibit at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago. They will be the most important art movement to come out of Chicago in the 1960s....
) - December 30 - Beauford DelaneyBeauford DelaneyBeauford Delaney was an American modernist painter.-Early life:Beauford Delaney was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, in 1901. Delaney’s parents were prominent and respected members of Knoxville's black community. His father Samuel was both a barber and a Methodist minister...
, painter (d.19791979 in art-Full date unknown:*Aideen Barry, Irish multimedia and performance artist.*Eric Bourdon, French painter and writer.*Elise Fouin, French designer.-Deaths:*11 January - Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German-born French Art dealer ....
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- Roland AnsieauRoland AnsieauRoland Ansieau was an early 20th century French art deco graphic artist, best known for his 1935 "Berger 45" wine advertisement which is widely reproduced as poster prints. Ansieau also created colorful illustrations for a 1931 seasonal guide to Deauville "the flowered beach". Little else is...
, FrenchFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
graphic artist (d.19871987 in art-Awards:*Archibald Prize – William Robinson, Equestrian self-portrait*Turner Prize – Richard Deacon-January to June:*18 February – William Coldstream, English realist painter ....
). - Dorothy DehnerDorothy Dehner-Biography:She grew up in Cleveland.In 1918, she took classes at the Pasadena Playhouse, and studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.In 1922, she moved to New York City, and studied at the Art Students League....
, sculptor (d.19941994 in art-Events:*12 February – Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream" is stolen in Oslo .*8 April – Michelangelo's Universal Judgement is reopened to public after 10 years of restorations.-Awards:...
) - Philip EvergoodPhilip EvergoodPhilip Howard Francis Dixon Evergood was an American painter, etcher, lithographer, sculptor, illustrator and writer. He was particularly active during the Depression and World War II era.-Life:...
, painter, printmaker and sculptor (d.19731973 in art-Events:*Alexander Calder is hired by Braniff International Airways to paint a full-size DC-8-62 as a "flying canvas."-Exhibitions:*Christopher Williams - centenary exhibition in Cardiff, Maesteg and Swansea.-Works:...
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Deaths
- January 17 - Paul HankarPaul HankarPaul Hankar was a Belgian architect and designer who, along with Victor Horta and Henry Van de Velde, is considered one of the principal architects to work in the Art Nouveau style in Brussels at the turn of the twentieth century.-Formative Studies: Hankar was born at Frameries. He began his...
, sculptor, designer and architect (b. 18591859 in art-Events:* April 26 - William Morris marries his model, Jane Burden.* Frederic E. Church's The Heart of the Andes is exhibited in New York and draws 12,000 paying visitors....
) - February 21 - Henry Peach RobinsonHenry Peach RobinsonHenry Peach Robinson was an English pictorialist photographer best known for his pioneering combination printing - joining multiple negatives to form a single image, the precursor to photomontage...
, photographer (b. 18301830 in art-Events:*Clarkson Stanfield's panorama The Military Pass of the Simplon is featured in a Christmas pantomime in London.*Approximate beginning of the Barbizon school of painters.-Works:*George Catlin – General William Clark...
) - March 17 - Jean Charles CazinJean Charles CazinJean Charles Cazin , French landscape painter and ceramicist, son of a well-known doctor, FJ Cazin , was born at Samer, Pas-de-Calais....
, landscape painter and ceramicist (b. 18401840 in art-Works:*Francis Danby – The Deluge*Eugène Delacroix – Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople *Edwin Landseer – Laying Down The Law, or Trial by Jury...
) - June 8 - Edward MoranEdward MoranEdward Moran was an American artist.He emigrated with his family to America at the age of 15, and subsequently settled in Philadelphia, where after having followed his fathers trade of weaver, he became a pupil of James Hamilton and Paul Weber...
, marine painter (b. 18291829 in art-Events:*Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin and his brother Jean Paul Flandrin set out to walk to Paris from Lyons, in order to become pupils of Louis Hersent.-Paintings:*Karl Blechen – Tivoli*Eugène Delacroix – Sardanapalus...
) - September 9 - Henri de Toulouse-LautrecHenri de Toulouse-LautrecHenri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa or simply Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of fin de siècle Paris yielded an œuvre of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the modern...
, painter (b. 18641864 in art-Works:*Richard Dadd - The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke*Henri Fantin-Latour - Homage to Delacroix*Édouard Manet**Les Anges au tombeau du Christ, Le Christ mort aux anges...
) - October 24 - James McDougal HartJames McDougal HartJames McDougal Hart , was a Scottish-born American landscape and cattle painter of the Hudson River School. His older brother, William Hart, was also a Hudson River School artist, and the two painted similar subjects....
, painter (b. 18281828 in art-Births:*May 10 – James McDougal Hart, painter *May 11 – Alfred Stevens, painter *May 12 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Pre-Raphaelite painter *June 13 – Elie Delaunay, painter...
) - November 6 - Kate GreenawayKate GreenawayCatherine Greenaway , known as Kate Greenaway, was an English children's book illustrator and writer, who spent much of her childhood at Rolleston, Nottinghamshire. She studied at what is now the Royal College of Art in London, which at that time had a separate section for women, and was headed by...
, illustrator (b. 18461846 in art-Works:*Thomas Cole – Catskill Landscape*Louis Hersent – Portrait of Delphine Gay*Edward Hicks – Noah's Ark*Jean-François Millet – Prometheus Unbound*George Frederic Watts – Paolo and Francesca-Births:...
) - December 23 - Edward Onslow FordEdward Onslow FordEdward Onslow Ford , English sculptor, was born in London. He received some education as a painter in Antwerp and as a sculptor in Munich under Professor Wagmuller, but was mainly self-taught....
, sculptor (b. 18521852 in art-Works:*Gustave Courbet - Village Damsels and A Girl Spinning*William Holman Hunt - The Light of the World*Sir John Everett Millais - Ophelia-Births:*April 1 - Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter and illustrator...
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