1908 in art

List of years in Art

Events

*Hugh Lane founds the Dublin City Gallery.
*Paul Ranson founds the Académie Ranson in Paris.
*The Ashcan School ("the Eight") give their first and only exhibition at the Macbeth Gallery.

Works

*László Beszédes - "Joseph (slave)" (sculpture)
*Pierre Bonnard - "Woman in a Blue Hat"
*Amedeo Modigliani - "The Jewess"
*Piet Mondrian - "Avond"

Births

January to June

*12 February - Jean Effel, French painter, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist (d.1982).
*26 February - Tex Avery, American animator, cartoonist, and director (d.1980).
*28 February - William Coldstream, English realist painter (d.1987).
*29 February - Balthus, French modern artist (d.2001).
*12 March - Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (d.1970).
*13 June - Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Portuguese-French abstract painter (d.1992).

July to September

*9 July - Minor White, photographer (d.1976).
*22 August - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d.2004).
*28 August - Roger Tory Peterson, American naturalist, ornithologist, artist and educator (d.1996).
*30 August - Leonor Fini, Argentine surrealist painter (d.1996).
*6 September - Korczak Ziolkowski, Polish-American sculptor (d.1982).

October to December

*1 October - Nicholas Marsicano, painter (d.1991).
*21 October - Jorge Oteiza, Spanish sculptor, painter, designer and writer (d.2003).
*27 October - Lee Krasner, American abstract expressionist painter (d.1984).
*3 December - Victor Pasmore, English artist and architect (d.1998).
*23 December - Yousuf Karsh, Armenian-Canadian photographer (d.2002).

Full date unknown

*Helen Lundeberg, painter (d.1999).
*George Rodger, English photographer (d.1995).
*Umaña, Colombian artist (d.1994).

Deaths

*April 13 - Aasta Hansteen, Norwegian painter, writer, and early feminist (b. 1824)
*August 30 - Giovanni Fattori, Italian painter and printmaker (b. 1825)
*December 5 - Ernest Hébert, painter (b. 1917)