1913 in art

List of years in Art

Events

* February 17 - The Armory Show opens in New York City. It displays works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century

Works

Paintings

*Marc Chagall - "Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers"
*Giorgio De Chirico – "The Anxious Journey" (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
*Pavel Filonov - "The Banquet of Kings"
*Fernand Léger – "Contrasting Forms"
*Henri Matisse – "Open Window, Tangier"
*Pablo Picasso –"Guitar" (Musée Picasso, Paris)

culptures

*Karl Bitter - Carl Schurz Monument, New York City
*Pietro Porcelli - The Explorers' Monument, Fremantle, Western Australia

Births

*12 March - Max Leognany, French artist (d.1994).
*23 March - Abidin Dino, Turkish artist (d.1993).
*27 May - Wols, painter and draughtsman (d.1951).
*12 July - Roger Testu, French cartoonist (d.2008).
*27 July - Philip Guston, Canadian painter and printmaker (d.1980).
*1 September - Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and graphic artist (d.1979).
*28 September - Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss artist and illustrator (d.2007).
*22 October - Robert Capa, war photographer (d.1954).
*13 December - Vladimir Tretchikoff, Russian artist (d.2006).
*24 December - Ad Reinhardt, painter and writer (d.1967).

Full date unknown

*Russell Brockbank, Canadian-born cartoonist (d.1979).
*Tony O'Malley, Irish painter (d.2003).
*Robert C. Turner, American potter (d.2005).

Deaths

* September 28 - Sir Alfred East, painter
* October 5 - Hans von Bartels, German painter (b. 1856)
* George Hitchcock, painter (b. 1850)