1926 in art

Overview of the events of 1926 in art

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Overview of the events of 1926 in art

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Events from the year 1926 in art.

## Events[edit]

* 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[edit]

* Archibald Prize: W B McInnes – Silk and Lace

## Works[edit]

See also: Category:1926 sculptures

* 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)[1]
* Hannah Höch – Love
* Frida Kahlo – Self-portrait in a Velvet Dress
* Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – Brücke bei 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)[2]
* Henri Matisse – Yellow Odalisque (first version)
* Haig Patigian – Statue of Abraham Lincoln (bronze, San Francisco)
* Dod Procter – Morning
* John Bulloch Souter – The Breakdown

## Births[edit]

* 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)[3]
* 1 February – Vivian Maier, American street photographer (d. 2009)[4]
* 6 April – Gil Kane, Latvian-born cartoonist (d. 2000)[5]
* 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
* George Booth, American cartoonist (d. 2022)
* 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[edit]

* 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)[6]

## See also[edit]

* 1926 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

## References[edit]

1. ^ Fisher, Fiona (2021-02-16). "The Great British Art Tour: A Chinese student in the bronze age". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
2. ^ "Related to Downtown New York, Movement No. 2 (The Black Sun)". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved August 30, 2022.
3. ^ "Ruth Asawa - American sculptor". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
4. ^ "Vivian Maier - American photographer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
5. ^ Martin, Douglas (February 3, 2000). "Gil Kane, Comic-Book Artist, Is Dead at 73". The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 13, 2009.
6. ^ "Historic Figures: Claude Monet (1840-1926)". History. BBC. Retrieved 2018-05-28.