1906 in art

List of years in Art

Events

*Gwen John begins modelling for Auguste Rodin.
*Amedeo Modigliani arrives in Paris.

Works

*Paul Cézanne - "The Gardener Vallier"
*André Derain - "Charing Cross Bridge, London"
*Henri Matisse
**"Self-Portrait in a Striped T-Shirt"
**"The Young Sailor II"
*Pablo Picasso
**"Portrait of Gertrude Stein"
**"Self-Portrait with Palette"

Births

January to June

*8 March - Victor Hasselblad, Swedish inventor and photographer (d.1978).
*9 March - David Smith, sculptor (d.1965).
*26 March - Henri Cadiou, French realist painter and lithographer (d.1989).
*16 May - Alfred Pellan, Canadian artist.
*11 April - Dale Messick, first woman syndicated comic strip artist in the United States (d.2005).

July to December

*8 July - Philip Johnson, architect, art collector, curator (d. 2005).
*12 August - Tedd Pierce, American animated cartoon writer, animator and artist (d.1972).
*14 August - Horst P. Horst, German American photographer (d.1999).
*20 August - Heinz Henghes, German sculptor (d.1975).
*21 August - Friz Freleng, American animator, cartoonist, director and producer (d.1995).
*5 September - Ralston Crawford, painter, lithographer and photographer (d.1978).
*18 October - James Brooks, painter and muralist (d.1992).
*24 October - Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Austrian painter (d.1996).
*27 October - Peter Blume, painter (d.1992).
*10 December - Padraig Marrinan, Irish painter (d.1975).
*14 December - Maxwell Bates, Canadian architect and expressionist painter (d.1980).
*27 December - Andreas Feininger, French-born American photographer (d.1999).

Full date unknown

*Burgoyne Diller, painter (d.1965).
*Óscar Domínguez, painter (d.1957).
*Bernard Lefebvre, French photographer (d.1992).
*Leon Polk Smith, painter (d.1996).

Deaths

* March 29 - Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (b. 1877)
* October 22 - Paul Cézanne, French painter (b. 1839)
* Thomas Dalziel, engraver (b. 1823)
* Alfred Stevens, painter (b. 1828)