1926 in art explained

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)^[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

• 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

• 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

• 1926 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

Notes and References

1. News: Fiona. Fisher. The Great British Art Tour: A Chinese student in the bronze age. The Guardian. London. 2021-02-16. 2021-02-16.
2. Web site: Related to Downtown New York, Movement No. 2 (The Black Sun) . The Metropolitan Museum of Art . August 30, 2022.
3. Web site: Ruth Asawa - American sculptor. Encyclopedia Britannica. 28 May 2018. en.
4. Web site: Vivian Maier - American photographer. Encyclopedia Britannica. 28 May 2018. en.
5. News: Gil Kane, Comic-Book Artist, Is Dead at 73 . Martin . Douglas . The New York Times. February 3, 2000 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090213102334/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0DE7D9123FF930A35751C0A9669C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all . February 13, 2009 . live. mdy-all.
6. Web site: Historic Figures: Claude Monet (1840-1926). BBC. History. 2018-05-28.