1909 in art explained
Events from the year 1909 in art.
Events
Works
Births
January to June
- January 16 – Clement Greenberg, American art critic (d.1994).
- January 25 – Joseph Solman, American painter (d. 2008).
- February 7 – Wilhelm Freddie, Danish painter and sculptor (d. 1995).
- February 12 – Zoran Mušič, Slovenian- born painter (d. 2005).
- February 17 – Gertrude Abercrombie, American painter (d. 1977).
- February 19 – Enrico Donati, Italian- born American Surrealist painter and sculptor (d. 2008).
- February 26 – Michel Tapié, French artist, critic, curator, and art collector (d. 1987).
- March 8 – H. J. Ward, American illustrator (d. 1945).
- March 13 – Reynolds Stone, English wood engraver (d. 1979).
- March 22 – Milt Kahl, American animator (d. 1987).
- April 3 – Graham Stuart Thomas, English horticultural artist, author and garden designer (d. 2003).
- April 30 – F. E. McWilliam, Irish sculptor (d. 1992).
- May 17 – Giulio Carlo Argan, Italian art historian and politician (d. 1992).
- June 14 – Ettore DeGrazia, American impressionist, painter, sculptor and lithographer (d. 1982).
- June 26 – Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American animator (d. 1985).
July to December
- July 13 – Marie-Thérèse Walter, mistress of Pablo Picasso (d. 1977).
- September 14 – Peter Scott, English ornithologist, conservationist, painter (d. 1989).
- September 23 – Marianne Straub, Swiss-born British textile designer (d. 1994).
- September 28 – Al Capp, cartoonist (d. 1979).
- October 13 – Herblock, political cartoonist (d. 2001).
- October 19 – Marguerite Perey, French physicist and academic (d. 1975)[2]
- October 28 – Francis Bacon, Irish-born British figurative painter (d. 1992).
- November 5 – Milena Pavlović-Barili, Serbian painter and poet (d. 1945).
- November 6 – Herman Rose (Herman Rappaport), American painter (d. 2007).
- December 25 – Philip Zec, British political cartoonist (d. 1983).
Full date unknown
Deaths
- January 9 – Paul Gachet, French physician to artists, Impressionist art collector and amateur painter (b. 1828)
- February 11 – Russell Sturgis, American architect and art critic (b. 1836)
- February 20 – Paul Ranson, French painter and writer (b. 1864)
- February 26 – Caran d'Ache, French political cartoonist (b. 1858)
- April 20 – Hélène Bertaux, French sculptor and women's rights activist (b. 1825)[3]
- June 22 – Edward John Gregory, English painter (b. 1850)
- . July 17 - Pinckney Marcius-Simons, American painter (b. 1867)
- August 23 – Adolf von Becker, Finnish painter (b. 1831)[4]
- November 9 – William Powell Frith, English genre painter (b. 1819)
- November 21 – Peder Severin Krøyer, Norwegian painter (b. 1851)
- November 23 – Otto Sinding, Norwegian painter (b. 1842)
- November 25 – Cyprian Godebski, Polish sculptor and teacher (b. 1835)[5]
Notes and References
- Book: Craddock, Paul. Scientific investigation of copies, fakes and forgeries. 2009. Butterworth Heinemann. 978-0-7506-4205-7. 432–434.
- Book: Bailey Ogilvie . Marilyn . Harvey. Joy . The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z . London . Routledge. 2000 . 978-0-41592-040-7 . 1006.
- Édouard Lepage - Une conquête féministe - Mme Léon Bertaux, Imprimerie française, Paris 1911 (reissued in 2009 :)
- Penttilä Tiina (ed.) Adolf von Becker - Pariisin tien viitoittaja -vägen till Paris (Paving the Road to Paris). Museovirasto 2002.
- Piotr Szubert, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, "Cyprian Godebski biography" Instytut Adama Mickiewicza (Adam Mickiewicz Institute), February 2002.
