January – A drunken Amedeo Modigliani is ejected from a party for Georges Braque, by the hostess, Marie Vassilieff.
January 29 – Rodin marries his mistress, Rose Beuret; she dies two weeks later.
Eric Kennington, William Orpen, C. R. W. Nevinson, Paul Nash and William Rothenstein are sent as war artists to the Western Front from England.
De Stijl artistic movement is established by Theo van Doesburg.
The Allen Memorial Art Museum is established at Oberlin College in Ohio.
The Marc Chagall illustrated version of The Magician (דער קונצענמאכער, Der Kuntsenmakher) by I. L. Peretz (d. 1915) is published in Vilnius.
Max Beckmann – Deposition (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Lovis Corinth – Portrait of Julius Meier-Graefe
Marcel Duchamp – Fountain (readymade)
Jacob Epstein – An American Soldier (bust)
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven – God (readymade sculpture)
J. W. Godward
The Fruit Vendor
A Lily Pond
Under The Blossom That Hangs On The Bough
George Grosz
The City
Explosion
Metropolis
Rudolf Alfred Höger – Nach dem Vorstoß, Russische Kriegsgefangene (After the Foray: Russian Prisoners of War)
Paul Klee – Ab ovo
Isidore Konti – Nymph and Fawn (bronze fountain)
Boris Kustodiev – Portrait of Countess Grabowska
Fernand Léger – The Card Game
L. S. Lowry – Coming from the Mill
George Luks – Houston Street
Henri Matisse
The Music Lesson
The Painter and His Model
Joan Miró
Portrait of Vincent Nubiola
The Village
Amedeo Modigliani
Anna Zborowska
Nu couché ("Reclining Nude")
Nude Sitting on a Divan
C. R. W. Nevinson
After a Push
Britain's Efforts and Ideals series of lithographs
A Group of Soldiers
A Howitzer Gun in Elevation
Over the Lines
Paths of Glory
The Road from Arras to Bapaume
Swooping Down on a Hostile Plane
A Tank
Hilda Rix Nicholas – Desolation (approximate date; destroyed)
Georgia O'Keeffe – Light Coming on the Plains series
William Orpen
An Airman – Lieutenant R.T.C. Hoidge MC
Blown Up, Mad
Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig
German 'Planes Visiting Cassel
A Highlander Passing a Grave
Ready to Start: Self Portrait
Schwaben Redoubt
Self-portrait
Theipval
The Thinker on the Butte de Warlencourt (original pencil & watercolour version)
View from the Old British Trenches, Looking towards La Boisselle, Courcelette on the Left, Martinpuich on the Right
Pablo Picasso – Olga Picasso in an Armchair
Auguste Rodin – The Gates of Hell (sculpture unfinished at his death)
Egon Schiele – The Embrace
Zinaida Serebriakova – Bleaching Cloth
Charles Sheeler – Doylestown House – Stairs from Below (photograph)
John French Sloan – Passing through Gloucester
Alfred Stieglitz – The Last Days of 291 (photograph)
Tom Thomson
April in Algonquin Park
The Jack Pine (National Gallery of Canada)
The West Wind
Félix Vallotton
The Church of Souain in Silhouette
Senegalese Soldiers at the camp of Mailly
J. W. Waterhouse – Fair Rosamund
Christopher Williams – The Red Dress
The Enchanted Pose
20 February – Manny Farber, American painter and film critic (d. 2008)
20 February – Louisa Matthíasdóttir, Icelandic-American painter (d. 2000)
1 March – Tom Keating, English art restorer and art faker (d. 1984)
12 March – Milton Resnick, American painter (d. 2004)
24 March – Constantine Andreou, Greek painter and sculptor (d. 2007)
6 April – Leonora Carrington, English-born surrealist painter working in Mexico (d. 2011)
12 July – Andrew Wyeth, American painter (d. 2009)
11 August – Dik Browne, American cartoonist (d. 1989)
28 August – Jack Kirby, American comic book artist, writer and editor (d. 1994)
3 September – Anthony Robert Klitz, English artist (d. 2000)
7 September – Jacob Lawrence, American painter (d. 2000)
11 September – Daniel Wildenstein, French international art dealer and scholar (d. 2001)
25 December – John Minton, English painter (d. 1957)
January 15 – William De Morgan, English ceramic artist (b. 1839)
January 21 – Francesca Alexander, American illustrator (b. 1837)
February 10 – John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist (b. 1849)
February 17 – Carolus-Duran, French painter (b. 1837)
March 27 – Moses Jacob Ezekiel, American sculptor working in Italy (b. 1844)
March 28 – Albert Pinkham Ryder, American painter (b. 1847)
April 23 – Robert Koehler, German American painter (b. 1850)
June 30 – Antonio de La Gandara, French painter (b. 1861)
July 8 – Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877) (drowned during a canoeing trip on Canoe Lake in Algonquin Park)
September 27 – Edgar Degas, French painter and sculptor (b. 1834)
October 14 – Nathaniel Hone the Younger, Irish painter (b. 1831)
October 23 – Eugène Grasset, Swiss artist (b. 1845)
November 17
Sir Charles Holroyd, English etcher (b. 1861)
Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b. 1840)
December 21 – Wilhelm Trübner, German painter (b. 1851)
(date unknown) – Raffaele Belliazzi, Italian sculptor (b. 1835)
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