1926 in art

List of years in Art

Events

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Awards

*Archibald Prize: W B McInnes - "Silk and Lace"

Works

*Alexander Stirling Calder - "Shakespeare Memorial", Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
*Alberto Giacometti - "Spoon Woman"
*Hannah Höch - "Love"
*Henri Matisse - "Yellow Odalisque"

Births

*17 January - Robert Filliou, French Fluxus artist (d.1987).
*18 January - Roy Kiyooka, photographer, artist and poet.
*14 August - René Goscinny, French comic book author, editor and humorist (d.1977).
*10 September - Beryl Cook, English painter (d.2008).
*25 October - Ismail Gulgee, Pakistani painter (d.2007).
*3 November - Paul Rebeyrolle, French painter (d.2005).

Full date unknown

*Raymond Hains, French artist and photographer (d.2005).

Deaths

*January 15 - Eugeniusz Żak, painter (b. 1884)
*June 14 - Mary Cassatt, painter (b. 1844)
*July 24 - T. C. Steele, painter (b. 1847)
*August 25 - Thomas Moran, painter of the Hudson River School (b. 1837)
*September 28 - Helen Allingham, watercolour painter and illustrator (b. 1848)
*December 5 - Claude Monet, painter (b. 1840)
* Charles Angrand, neo-Impressionist painter (b. 1854)
* Adolphe Willette, illustrator (b. 1857)