January 5 (Old Style December 23, 1911) – Moscow Art Theatre production of Hamlet, designed by Edward Gordon Craig, opens.
May – The Blue Rider Almanac published in Munich, containing reproductions of more than 140 multi-ethnic artworks, articles on the visual arts and music and Vasilly Kandinsky's experimental theater composition The Yellow Sound.
June 26 – Austrian writer Frida Strindberg opens The Cave of the Golden Calf, a London nightclub decorated by Spencer Gore, Wyndham Lewis, Charles Ginner and Jacob Epstein with its motif by Eric Gill; it becomes a haunt of Futurists.
July – At the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, American marksman, horse breeder and artist Walter W. Winans wins a silver medal for shooting and a gold in the sculpture category of the art competitions for his bronze statuette An American Trotter.
December 24 – William Zorach marries Marguerite Thompson.
In Paris, Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger publish the first major treatise on Cubism, Du "Cubisme", followed by André Salmon's La jeune peinture française including Histoire anecdotique du cubisme.
Ludwig Meidner begins producing his "Apocalyptic Landscapes".
March – Exhibition of Italian Futurism transfers from Paris to the Sackville Gallery in London, organised by Robert René Meyer-Sée.
May 25–September 30 – Third International Art Exhibition organized by Sonderbund westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, in Cologne (Ausstellungshalle der Stadt Cöln am Aachener Tor), featuring works by Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso, Henri-Edmond Cross, Paul Signac and Edvard Munch.
Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition organized by Roger Fry in London.
René Lalique and Maurice Marinot independently stage the first exhibitions of their glasswares.
Giacomo Balla – Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash
Vanessa Bell – Three portraits of her sister Virginia Woolf
George Bellows – Men of the Docks
David Bomberg – Vision of Ezekiel
Pierre Bonnard – St Tropez, Pier
Richard E. Brooks – John Harte McGraw (bronze sculpture, Seattle)
Paul Émile Chabas – September Morn (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Robert Delaunay – Simultaneous Windows on the City
Marcel Duchamp – Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2
Lydia Field Emmet – Self Portrait
Jacob Epstein – Tomb of Oscar Wilde (Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris)
E. Phillips Fox – Nasturtiums
Roger Fry
Portrait of Edith Sitwell
River with Poplars (approximate date)
Laura Gilpin – Basket of Peaches (color photograph)
Albert Gleizes
Les Baigneuses (The Bathers)
Le Dépiquage des Moissons (Harvest Threshing)
L'Homme au balcon (Man on a Balcony)
Passy, Bridges of Paris
J. W. Godward
Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder
By The Wayside
An Offering To Venus
The Peacock Fan
Juan Gris – Verre et Bouteilles
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Nollendorfplatz
Das Urteil des Paris ("The Judgment of Paris")
Vier Holzplastiken ("Four Wooden Sculptures" - painting of nude figures, Dallas Museum of Art)
Boris Kustodiev
Easter Greetings
Self-portrait
Jacques Henri Lartigue – Grand Prix de l'A.C.F. (photograph)
Fernand Léger
Grade Crossing
La Fumée (Smoke)
Woman in Blue
Wyndham Lewis – Smiling Woman Ascending a Stair
J. B. Manson – Approximate date
Self-portrait
Still Life: Tulips in a Blue Jug
Franz Marc
Atonement (woodcut)
Deer in the Woods II
The Dream
Horses Resting (colored woodcut, 1911–12)
In the Rain
Legend of the Animals (woodcut)
The Little Monkey
Red Bull (gouache)
Sleeping Shepherdess (woodcut)
Tiger
Henri Matisse
The Conversation
Le Rifain assis
Zorah on the Terrace
Jean Metzinger
Danseuse au café (Dancer in a café)
La Femme au Cheval (Woman with a horse)
Femme à l'Éventail (Woman with a Fan)
Au Vélodrome
L'Oiseau bleu (The Blue Bird)
La Plume Jaune (The Yellow Feather)
Amedeo Modigliani – Tête (sculpture)
Piet Mondrian – Gray Tree
Mikhail Nesterov – Crucifixion
Emil Nolde – The Prophet (woodcut)
William Orpen – Portrait of Gardenia St. George With Riding Crop
Pablo Picasso
Still Life with Chair Caning
Violon et raisins
Violon, verre, pipe et encrier
Charles A. Platt – Josephine Shaw Lowell Memorial Fountain (New York City)
Franz Roubaud – Battle of Borodino Panorama
Egon Schiele
Portrait of Wally
Self-portrait with Chinese lantern fruits
Kathleen Scott – Charles Stewart Rolls (bronze sculpture, Dover)
T. F. Simon – Second Hand Booksellers, Spring
Max Slevogt – The Singer Francisco D'Andrade as Don Giovanni in Mozart's Opera ("The Red d'Andrade")
Stanley Spencer – The Nativity
James Wehn – Chief Seattle (copper sculpture, Seattle)
January 7 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d.1988)
January 28 – Jackson Pollock, American painter (d.1956)
February 7 – Russell Drysdale, Australian artist (d.1981)
March 4 – Afro Basaldella, Italian painter (d.1976)
March 22 – Agnes Martin, Canadian-US painter (d.2004)
April 14 – Robert Doisneau, French photographer (d.1994)
April 21 – Eve Arnold, née Cohen, American photographer (d.2012)
May 8 – John Deakin, English photographer (d.1972)
June 4 – Robert Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and painter (d.1993)
June 8 – Harry Holtzman, American artist (died 1987)
June 11 – William Baziotes, American painter (d.1963)
August 1 – Rachel Baes, Belgian painter (d.1983)
August 23 – Keith Vaughan, English painter (d.1977)
August 29 – Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austrian-born documentary photographer and cinematographer (d.2016)
September 4
Syd Hoff, US children's book author and cartoonist (d.2004)
Alexander Liberman, Russian-born painter and sculptor (d.1999)
September 5
Kristina Söderbaum, Swedish-German film actress, producer and photographer (d.2001)
Frank Thomas, US animator (d.2004)
September 23 – Tony Smith, US sculptor, visual artist and theorist on art (d.1980)
October 31 – Ollie Johnston, US animator (d.2008)
November 3 – Ida Kohlmeyer, US painter and sculptor (d.1997)
November 28 – Morris Louis, US painter (d.1962)
December 27 – Conroy Maddox, English surrealist painter, collagist, writer and lecturer (d.2005)
February 14 – Mathurin Moreau, French sculptor (born 1822)
March 16 – Elizabeth Forbes, Canadian painter of the Newlyn School (born 1859; cancer)
March 29 – John Gerrard Keulemans, bird illustrator (born 1842)
March 31 – Robert Loftin Newman, American painter and stained-glass designer (born 1827)
April 15 – Francis Davis Millet, painter, sculptor and writer (born 1846) (died on board the Titanic)
May 2 – Homer Davenport, cartoonist (born 1867)
May 20 – Louis Hasselriis, Danish sculptor known for public monuments (born 1844)
June 25 – Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch painter (born 1836)
June 30 – John Ford Paterson, Scottish –Australian artist, president of the Victorian Artists Society (born 1851)
July 16 – Thomas Fitzpatrick, cartoonist (born 1860)
August 20 – Walter Goodman, British painter, illustrator and author (born 1838)
September 15 – John Leighton, book illustrator (born 1822)
November 1 – John Emms, painter (born 1844)
November 22 – Otto Lessing, sculptor (born 1846)
December 1 - John Moyr Smith, ceramic artist (born 1839)
December 8 – Tony Robert-Fleury, painter (born 1865)
December 23 – Édouard Detaille, painter
date unknown
Henry Allan, painter
Joan Brull, Catalan Symbolist painter (born 1863)
Nils Hansteen, Norwegian painter (born 1855)
Tadeusz Żukotyński, Polish count, professor, and painter (born 1855)
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