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List of years in Art

Events

• Walter Gropius founds the Bauhaus

Works

• Evelyn De Morgan - The Gilded Cage
• Aleksandra Ekster - City at Night
• Max Ernst - Aquis Submersus
• Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven - Portrait of Marcel Duchamp
• Henri Matisse - Les plumes blanches ("White Plumes")

Births

January to June

• 22 January - John Russell, British American art critic (d.2008)
• 24 January - William Copley, American artist (d.1996)
• 23 March - Salvatore Scarpitta, American sculptor (d.2007).
• 9 April - Gordon Lambert, Irish art collector (d.2005).
• 24 April - César Manrique, Spanish artist and architect (d.1992).
• 3 May - John Cullen Murphy, American comics artist (d.2004).
• 9 May - Anne Yeats, Irish painter and stage designer (d.2001).
• 21 June - Jean Joyet, French artist (d.1994).

July to December

• 6 July - Oswaldo Guayasamín, Ecuadorian painter and sculptor (d.1999).
• 17 July - Jean Leymarie, French art historian (d.2006).
• 18 July - Daniel du Janerand, French painter (d.1990).
• 31 July - Maurice Boitel, French painter (d.2007).
• 29 September - Vladimír Vašíček, Czech painter (d.2003).
• 3 November - Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic books author and artist (d.1995).
• 11 November - Jef Friboulet, French painter and sculptor (d.2003).
• 24 December - Pierre Soulages, "painter of black".

Full date unknown

• Avni Arbaş, Turkish artist (d.2003).

Deaths

• 22 January - Carl Larsson, Swedish painter (b. 1853)
• 18 February - Antonin Carlès, sculptor (b. 1851)
• 27 February - Robert Harris, painter (b. 1848)
• 24 March - Franz Metzner, sculptor (b. 1870)
• 25 March - Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German sculptor (b. 1881)
• 13 May - Helen Hyde. etcher and engraver (b. 1868)
• 9 August - Ralph Albert Blakelock, American painter (b. 1847)
• 18 November - John Dibblee Crace, interior decorator (b. 1838)
• 2 December - Henry Clay Frick, founder of the Frick Collection (b. 1849)
• 3 December - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French Impressionist painter (b. 1841)