March – Puhl & Wagner are contracted to decorate the interior of the Golden Hall (Stockholm City Hall) with neo-Byzantine mosaics designed by Einar Forseth.
September–October – 5x5=25 abstract art exhibition held in Moscow.
Paul Sérusier publishes his ABC of Painting.
André Delatte opens his glasswares studio in Nancy.
Archibald Prize: W B McInnes – Desbrowe Annear
Carlo Carrà – The Engineer's Lover
Charles Demuth – Incense of a New Church
Marcel Duchamp – Why Not Sneeze, Rose Sélavy? (assisted readymade)
Max Ernst – The Elephant Celebes
Lady Feodora Gleichen – 37th (British) Division memorial (Monchy-le-Preux, France)
J. W. Godward – Megilla
Duncan Grant – Bathers by the Pond
Auguste Herbin – Le Cateau-Cambrésis
Edward Hopper – Girl at Sewing Machine
Seán Keating – Men of the South
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Two Brothers
View of Basel and the Rhine
Fernand Léger – Still Life with a Beer Mug
Wyndham Lewis – Mr Wyndham Lewis as a Tyro
Sir Bertram Mackennal – Bronze equestrian statue of King Edward VII (Waterloo Place, London)
Piet Mondrian
Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue
Tableau I
Alfred Munnings – The Red Prince Mare
Francis Picabia
The Cacodylic Eye
Cannibale
Pablo Picasso
Reading the Letter
Three Musicians (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Man Ray (with Erik Satie) – The Gift (readymade sculpture)
Stanley Spencer
Christ's Entry into Jerusalem
Crucifixion
Han van Meegeren – Hertje ("The fawn")
January 1 – César Baldaccini, French sculptor (d. 1998)
January 14 – Norris Embry, American neo-expressionist painter (d. 1981)
January 24 – Sybil Connolly, Welsh-Irish fashion designer (d. 1998)
January 27 – Georges Mathieu, French abstract painter (d. 2012)
February 2 – Pietro Cascella, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 2008)
February 5 – Ken Adam, German-born British film set designer (d. 2016)
February 13 – Louis Féraud, French fashion designer and artist (d. 1999)
February 20 – Michael Ayrton, English sculptor, graphic artist and writer (d. 1975)
February 22 – Cecil King, Irish abstract-minimalist painter (d. 1986)
February 23 – John Latham, Zambian conceptual artist (d. 2006)
March 2 – Ernst Haas, Austrian photographer (d. 1986)
March 13 – Al Jaffee, American cartoonist
March 28 – Norman Bluhm, American painter (d. 1999)
April 21 – Dimitrije Bašičević, Serbian painter and sculptor (d. 1987)
April 23 – William Brice, American painter and teacher (d. 2008)
April 25 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter, sculptor and poet (d. 2006)
May 18 – Joan Eardley, British painter (d. 1963)
May 29 – Enzo Plazzotta, Italian-born British sculptor (d. 1981)
July 16
Ernst Beyeler, Swiss art dealer and collector (d. 2010)
Guy Laroche, French fashion designer (d. 1989)
August 4 – Jean Pierre Capron, French painter (d. 1997)
August 28 – Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, French photographer (d. 2004)
September 22 – Will Elder, American illustrator and comic book artist (d. 2008)
September 25 – Jacques Martin, French comics creator
September 27 – Jean-Pierre Sudre, French photographer (d. 1997)
October 26 – Raymond Nasher, American art collector (d. 2007)
January 18 – Adolf von Hildebrand, sculptor (born 1847)
January 30 – John Francis Murphy, landscape painter (born 1853)
February 3 – William Strang, painter and engraver (born 1859)
February 4 – Eugène Burnand, Swiss painter (born 1850)
February 11 – William Blake Richmond, English painter and designer (born 1842)
February 21 – George Dunlop Leslie, English genre painter (born 1835)
March 23 – Jean-Paul Laurens, painter and sculptor (born 1838)
March 24 – Marcus Stone, painter and illustrator (born 1840)
March 30 – Franz Benque, photographer (born 1841)
April 6 – Vardges Sureniants, Armenian painter (born 1860)
May 5 – William Friese-Greene, photographer and cinematographer (born 1855)
May 29 – Abbott Handerson Thayer, painter (born 1849)
June – Frank Enders, painter and etcher (born 1860)
October 7 – John Thomson, photographer (born 1837)
November 1 – Francisco Pradilla Ortiz, painter (born 1848)
November 12 – Fernand Khnopff, Symbolist painter (born 1858)
November 13 – William Robert Colton, sculptor (born 1867)
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