1911 in art

List of years in Art

Events

*February 2 - First issue of Franz Pfemfert's "Die Aktion"
*Creation of the Puteaux Group

Exhibitions

*One-man show by Eugeniusz Żak at Galerie Druet

Works

*Carlo Carrà - "The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli"
*Marc Chagall - "I and the Village"
*Giorgio de Chirico - "The Nostalgia of the Infinite"
*Lydia Field Emmet - "Olivia"
*Jacob Epstein - Oscar Wilde Memorial
*Alfons Karpiński - "The Parisian Street"
*Piet Mondrian - "Gray Tree"
*Emil Nolde - "Maskenstilleben" ("Masks Still Life")

Births

*14 May - Carl Abrahams, Jamaican painter (d.2005).
*10 August - Bruce Ariss, American artist (d.1994).
*2 September - Romare Bearden, American painter, printmaker (d.1988).
*9 October - Joe Rosenthal, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer (d.2006).
*11 November - Roberto Matta, Chilean painter (d.2002).
*25 November - Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter (d.1984).
*6 December - Olle Bærtling, Swedish painter and sculptor (d.1981).
*25 December - Louise Bourgeois, French painter and sculptor.

Full date unknown

*Will Barnet, American painter, printmaker.
*David Park, American painter (d. 1960).

Deaths

*January 19 - Valentin Serov, Russian painter (b. 1865)
*February 22 - Carl Fredrik Hill, Swedish painter (b. 1849)
*May 8 - Alphonse Legros, painter and etcher (b. 1837)
*July 4 - Edmonia Lewis, sculptor (b. 1845)
*August 1 – Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter and illustrator (b. 1852)
*August 12 - Jozef Israëls, painter (b. 1824)
*November 10 – Félix Ziem, France painter (b. 1821)