1915 in art

List of years in Art

Events

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Works

*Frank Weston Benson - "Red and Gold"
*Giorgio de Chirico - "The Double Dream of Spring"
*Isaac Rosenberg - "Self-portrait"
*Anders Zorn - "Self-portrait in Red"
*Marcel Duchamp - begins making readymades

Births

January to June

*24 January - Robert Motherwell, American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker (d.1991).
*11 February - Mervyn Levy, Welsh artist and critic (d.1996).
*10 March - Harry Bertoia, Italian-born American artist and designer (d.1978).
*4 April - Louis Archambault, Canadian sculptor (d.2003).
*6 April - Tadeusz Kantor, Polish painter, assemblage artist, set designer and theatre director (d.1990).
*3 May - Richard Lippold, American sculptor (d.2002).
*20 May - Sam Golden, paint maker (d.1997).
*17 June - Gunther Gerzso, abstract painter.

July to December

*28 August - Tasha Tudor, American illustrator and author of children's books (d.2008).
*13 October - Terry Frost, English artist noted for his abstracts (d.2003).
*24 October - Bob Kane, American comic book artist and writer (d.1998).
*9 November - André François, French cartoonist (d.2005).

Full date unknown

*Al Hubbard, comic book artist.
*José Caballero, Spanish artist.

Deaths

*April 9 - Karl Bitter, sculptor
*May 7 - Sir Hugh Lane, art collector (b. 1875)
*July 11 - Albert Schickedanz, Austro-Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style (b. 1846)
* Arthur Hughes, (b. 1832)
* Flaxman Charles John Spurrell, photographer (b. 1842)