- 1912 in art
List of years in Art Events
*The
Omega Workshops are founded by members of theBloomsbury group .
*Jean Metzinger andAlbert Gleizes publish the first major treatise onCubism , entitled "Du Cubisme".
*William Zorach marries Marguerite Thompson.Works
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Pierre Bonnard - "St Tropez, Pier"
*Paul Émile Chabas - "September Morn " (Metropolitan Museum of Art )
*Marcel Duchamp - "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 "
*Lydia Field Emmet - "Self Portrait"
*Fernand Léger - "La Fumée (Smoke)"
*Pablo Picasso - "Violon, verre, pipe et encrier"
*T. F. Simon - "Second Hand Booksellers, Spring"Births
January to June
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7 January -Charles Addams , Americancartoonist (d.1988).
*28 January -Jackson Pollock , American painter (d.1956).
*7 February -Russell Drysdale ,Australia nartist (d.1981).
*4 March -Afro Basaldella , Italian painter (d.1976).
*22 March -Agnes Martin , Canadian-American painter (d.2004).
*14 April -Robert Doisneau , Frenchphotographer (d.1994).
*4 June -Robert Jacobsen , Danish sculptor and painter (d.1993).July to December
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4 September -Syd Hoff , American children’s book author andcartoonist (d.2004).
*5 September -Kristina Söderbaum , Swedish-German film actress, producer and photographer (d.2001).
*5 September - Frank Thomas, Americananimator (d.2004).
*23 September - Tony Smith, Americansculptor ,visual artist and theorist on art (d.1980).
*31 October -Ollie Johnston , American animator (d.2008).
*28 November -Morris Louis , American painter (d.1962).
*27 December -Conroy Maddox , Englishsurrealist painter, collagist, writer and lecturer (d.2005).Full date unknown
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William Baziotes , painter (d.1963).
*John Deakin , British photographer (d.1972).
*Harry Holtzman , American artist (d.1987).
*Ida Kohlmeyer , painter and sculptor (d.1997).
*Alexander Liberman , painter and sculptor (d.1999).
*Albert Malet, French painter (d.1986).Deaths
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March 29 -John Gerrard Keulemans , bird illustrator
*May 2 -Homer Davenport , cartoonist
*June 25 -Lawrence Alma-Tadema , Dutch painter (b. 1836)
*November 1 - John Emms, painter
*December 23 -Édouard Detaille , painter
*"date unknown" -Tony Robert-Fleury , painter
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