1902 in art

List of years in Art

Events

*Georges Braque begins his studies at the Academie Humbert, where he meets Marie Laurencin and Francis Picabia.

Works

*Helen Allingham - "View of Blackdown"
*Frank Weston Benson - "Eleanor Holding a Shell"
*Pierre Bonnard - "The Terrasse Children with Black Dog"
*Vilhelm Hammershøi - "Five Portraits"
*Gwen John - "Self-Portrait" (Tate Gallery, London)
*Max Liebermann - "Terrace at the Restaurant Jacob in Niestedten on the Elbe"

Births

January to June

*30 January - Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born British art historian (d.1983).
*20 February - Ansel Adams, American photographer (d.1984).
*26 February - Jean Bruller, French writer and illustrator (d.1991).
*27 February - Ľudovít Fulla, Slovak painter, graphic artist, illustrator, stage designer and art teacher (d.1980).
*3 March - Isabel Bishop, American painter and graphic artist (b.1988).
*2 April - Jan Tschichold, German typographer, book designer, teacher and writer (b.1974).
*24 May - Sylvia Daoust, Canadian sculptor (d.2004).

July to December

*18 September - Pietro Pezzati, American painter (d.1993).
*4 November - Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger, French photographer and ethnographer (d.1996).
*11 November - Ernő Goldfinger, Hungarian-born architect and furniture designer (d.1987).
*November - Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer, artist and historian (d.1973).
*8 December - Wifredo Lam, Cuban artist (d.1982).

Full date unknown

*Lee Gatch, painter and muralist (d.1968).
*Kenzo Okada, painter (d.1982).)
*I. Rice Pereira, painter (d.1971).
*Dick Ket, painter (d.1940).

Deaths

*February 18 - Albert Bierstadt, painter (b. 1830)
*April 15 - Jules Dalou, sculptor (b. 1838)
*August 8 - John Henry Twachtman, American impressionist painter and member of the Cos Cob Art Colony
*December 7 - Thomas Nast, cartoonist (b. 1840)
* Ernest Gambart, art dealer (b. 1814)
* James Tissot, painter (b. 1836)