1931 in art

List of years in Art

Events

*The Whitney Museum of American Art is founded by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.
* October 4 - Debut appearance of the Dick Tracy comic strip, created by cartoonist Chester Gould.
*Nashville Children's Theatre is founded by The Junior League of Nashville.

Works

*Salvador Dalí, "The Persistence of Memory"
*Georgia O'Keeffe - "" (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Awards

*Archibald Prize: John Longstaff - "Sir John Sulman"

Births

*21 January - Paul Deliège, comic strip artist and writer.
*9 February - Robert Morris, sculptor.
*18 February - Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (d.2007).
*23 February - Tom Wesselmann, American pop artist (d.2004).
*26 February - Jacques Rouxel, French animator (d.2004).
*13 March - Michael Podro, English art historian (d.2008).
*25 March - Jack Chambers, Canadian artist and filmmaker (d.1978).
*24 April - Bridget Riley, painter.
*29 April - Frank Auerbach, painter.
*24 August - Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos, Portuguese artist and professor (d.2008).

Full date unknown

*Bernd Becher, German photographer (d.2007).
*Serge Danot, French animator (d.1990).

Deaths

*March 7 - Theo van Doesburg, painter and architect, leader of De Stijl (b. 1883)
*March 14 - Alfred Grenander, architect (b. 1863)
*July 11 - Jean-Louis Forain, Impressionist painter (b. 1852)
*September 20 - Max Littmann, architect (b. 1862)
*September 29 - William Orpen, portrait painter (b. 1878)
*November 17 - Edward Simmons, Impressionist painter (b. 1852)
* Bela Čikoš Sesija, painter (b. 1864)
* Lancelot Speed, illustrator (b. 1860)
* Akseli Gallen-Kallela, painter (b. 1865)