1918 in art

Events

*June 18 - Pablo Picasso marries Olga Khoklova.
*December 3 - Founding of the November Group of expressionist artists.

Works

*Katherine Sophie Dreier - "Abstract Portrait of Marcel Duchamp"
*José Malhoa - "Autumn"
*Amedeo Modigliani - "Portrait of Blaise Cendrars"

Births

January to June

*6 February - Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author, painter, and art collector (d.2007).
*7 February - Markey Robinson, Irish painter (d.1999).
*12 March - Elaine de Kooning, American abstract expressionist painter (d.1989).
*10 April - Cornell Capa, Hungarian-American photographer and photo curator (d.2008).
*9 May - Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (d.2006).

July to December

*11 July - Roy Krenkel, American illustrator (d.1983).
*25 July - Jane Frank, American painter, sculptor, mixed media artist and textile artist (d.1986).
*8 August - Brian Stonehouse, English painter and Special Operations Executive agent during World War II (d.1998).
*22 September - Cleve Gray, American Abstract expressionist painter (d.2004).
*7 October - Mimmo Rotella, Italian artist and poet (d.2006).
*8 November - Hermann Zapf, typeface designer.
*14 December - Jack Cole, comic book artist.

Full date unknown

*Henry Hill, psychedelic artist.

Deaths

*February 6 - Gustav Klimt, Symbolist painter (b. 1862)
*April 1 - Isaac Rosenberg, painter and poet (b. 1890)
*May 19 - Ferdinand Hodler, painter (b. 1853)
*October 9 - Raymond Duchamp-Villon, sculptor
*October 30 - Egon Schiele, painter (b. 1890)
* Albert Henry Munsell, inventor of the Munsell color system (b. 1858)
* Niko Pirosmanashvili, painter
* Paul Sébillot, painter and author (b. 1842)