1916 in art

List of years in Art

Events

* February 9 - 6.00 p.m. - Tristan Tzara "founds" Dadaism (according to Hans Arp)
* May 20 - "Boy with Baby Carriage" is Norman Rockwell's first cover for "The Saturday Evening Post"

Works

*Amedeo Modigliani - portraits of Beatrice Hastings and Max Jacob
*Sir Matthew Smith - "Fitzroy Street Nude No. 1"
*Tom Thomson - "The Jack Pine" (National Gallery of Canada)

Births

*26 April - Eyvind Earle, illustrator and Disney artist.
*25 July - Fred Lasswell, American cartoonist (d.2001).
*29 September - Carl Giles, English cartoonist (d.1995).
*3 November - Harry Lampert, American cartoonist, advertising artist and author (d.2004).
*10 November - Louis le Brocquy, Irish painter.

Full date unknown

*Jean-Yves Couliou, French painter (d.1995).
*Gerald Dillon, Irish painter (d.1971).
*Irv Novick, American comic book artist (d.2004).

Deaths

*February 13 - Vilhelm Hammershøi, Danish painter (b. 1864)
*March 4 - Franz Marc, Expressionist painter (b. 1880)
*June 25 - Thomas Eakins, painter, sculptor and teacher (b. 1844)
*June 29 - Georges Lacombe, French artist (b. 1868)
*July 6 - Odilon Redon, Symbolist painter and graphic artist (b. 1840)
*August 16 - Umberto Boccioni, Futurist painter and sculptor
*August 28 - Henri Harpignies, landscape painter of the Barbizon school
*October 25 - William Merritt Chase, American Impressionist painter
* Antonin Mercié, sculptor and painter (b. 1845)
* Wu Shixian, Chinese landscape painter during the Qing Dynasty (b. "unknown')