1901 in art

List of years in Art

Events

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Works

*John Collier - "In the Venusberg Tannhauser"
*Camille Pissarro - "Hay Harvest at Éragny"

Births

January to June

*9 January - Chic Young, American cartoonist (d.1973).
*28 January - James Richmond Barthé, sculptor (d.1989).
*22 March - Greta Kempton, Austrian-American artist (d.1991).
*24 March - Ub Iwerks, American animator, cartoonist and special effects technician (d.1971).
*27 March - Carl Barks, American illustrator and comic book creator (d.2000).
*9 June - John Skeaping, English sculptor and equine painter (d.1980).

July to December

*31 July - Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor (d.1985).
*14 September - Lucien Aigner, Hungarian photographer (d.1999).
*10 October - Alberto Giacometti, sculptor.
*7 November - Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator (d.1980).

Full date unknown

*Roland Ansieau, French graphic artist (d.1987).
*Dorothy Dehner, sculptor (d.1994).
*Beauford Delaney, painter (d.1979).
*Walt Disney, cartoonist, animator and filmmaker (d.1966).
*Philip Evergood, painter, printmaker and sculptor (d.1973).
*Richard Lindner, painter (d.1978).
*Charles Tunnicliffe, wildlife painter.

Deaths

*September 9 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, painter (b. 1864)
*November 6 - Kate Greenaway, illustrator (b. 1846)
*December 23 - Edward Onslow Ford, sculptor (b. 1852)
* James McDougal Hart, painter (b. 1828)
* Edward Moran, marine painter (b. 1829)
* Henry Peach Robinson, photographer (b. 1830)