Events
Exhibitions
Awards
Works
Ansel Adams – Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras (photographic portfolio)
Contents
Ernst Barlach – Der schwebende Engel ("The Floating Angel", sculpture (original cast destroyed))
Edwin Blashfield – Spring Scattering Stars
Pompeo Coppini – Statue of George Washington (bronze, Portland, Oregon)
Salvador Dalí – Apparatus and Hand
Max Ernst
Forest and Dove
The Wood
George Grosz – Self-Portrait, Warning
Edward Hopper – Automat
Karl Illava (sculptor) and Rogers and Haneman (architects) – 107th Infantry Memorial, New York City
Gaston Lachaise – Floating Figure
Fernand Léger – Nude on a Red Background
Tamara de Lempicka – La tunique rose
Will Longstaff – Menin Gate at Midnight
L. S. Lowry
Coming Out of School
Oldfield Road Dwellings, Salford
Peel Park, Salford
A View from the Bridge
René Magritte
The Enchanted Pose
Le Jouer Secret (The Secret Player)
The Menaced Assassin
The Tiredness of Life
Henri Matisse – Reclining Nude, Back
Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen – Equestrian Statue of King Christian IX of Denmark (Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen)
Georgia O'Keeffe –
Black Abstraction
Radiator Building - Night, New York
Frederick Roth – Equestrian statue of George Washington (bronze, Washington's Headquarters, Morristown, New Jersey)
Antonio Sciortino – Great Siege Monument
Lasar Segall – Portrait of Mário de Andrade
Charles Sheeler – Criss-Crossed Conveyors, River Rouge Plant, Ford Motor Company (photograph)
Stanley Spencer – The Resurrection, Cookham
Lajos Tihanyi – Portrait of Tristan Tzara (Hungarian National Gallery)
Henry Scott Tuke – The Critics
Alexander Weygers – Mourning (sculpture)
Rex Whistler – The Expedition in Pursuit of Rare Meats (mural, Tate Gallery restaurant, London)
Births
January to June
January 1 – Jean-Paul Mousseau, Canadian artist (d.1991)
January 15 – Olle Zetterquist, Swedish artist
January 20 – Olivier Strebelle, Belgian sculptor (d.2017)
January 23 – Fred Williams, Australian painter and printmaker (d. 1982)
February 3 – Sarah Jiménez, Mexican artist (d. 2017)
February 14 – Myles Murphy, English painter (d.2016)
March 5 – Jan Snoeck, Dutch sculptor and ceramist (d. 2018)
March 13 – Robert Denning, American interior designer (d.2005)
March 19 – Gisèle Lestrange, French graphic artist (d.1991)
March 31 – David Budd, American abstract painter (d.1991)
April 6 – Joash Woodrow, English artist (d.2006)
April 7 – Wolfgang Mattheuer, German painter (d.2004)
April 15 – David Carritt, English art historian, dealer and critic (d.1982)
April 16 – John Chamberlain, American sculptor (d. 2011)
April 25 – Albert Uderzo, French comic book artist and scriptwriter (d. 2020)
May 5 – Eva Fuka, Czech-born photographer
June 5 — Ladjane Bandeira, Brazilian artist and journalist (d. 1999)
June 25 – Patricia Martin Bates, Canadian artist
June 29
Dick Martin, American illustrator (d. 1990)
Kenneth Snelson, American contemporary sculptor and photographer (d. 2016)
July to December
July 14 – Mike Esposito, American comic book artist (d. 2010)
July 24
Alex Katz, American figurative artist
Robert Rosenblum, American art historian (d. 2006).
August 8 – Bruno Caruso, Sicilian painter, illustrator, writer, graphic designer and political activist (d. 2018)
August 23
Dick Bruna, Dutch illustrator (d. 2017)
Allan Kaprow, American painter, assemblagist and art theorist (d. 2006)
August 26 – Ma Jir Bo, Chinese Realist oil painter (d. 1985
September 22 – Norbert Lynton, British art historian and Professor of the History of Art (d.2007)
October 3 – Kenojuak Ashevak, Canadian Inuit artist (d. 2013)
October 4 – Wolf Kahn, German-born painter (d. 2020)
October 29
Pierre Alechinsky, Belgian painter, engraver and calligrapher
Alfred Leslie, American painter and filmmaker
November 2 – Steve Ditko, American comic book artist (d.2018)
November 23 – Guy Davenport, American writer, translator, illustrator, painter and teacher (d. 2005)
December 24 – John Glashan, Scottish cartoonist, illustrator and playwright (d. 1999)
December 30 – Jan Kubíček, Czech constructivist painter, sculptor (d. 2013)
Deaths
January 1 – Isabelle de Steiger, painter, theosophist, occultist and writer (b. 1836)
January 15 – Harald Giersing, painter (b. 1881)
February 28 – Sir Luke Fildes, painter and illustrator (b. 1843)
March 23 – Paul César Helleu, portrait painter (b. 1859)
April 3 – Frederick Morgan, painter (b. c.1850)
May 10 – Andrea Gram, painter (b. 1853)
May 11 – Juan Gris, painter (b. 1887)
May 28 – Boris Kustodiev, painter and stage designer (b. 1878)
June 26 – Armand Guillaumin, impressionist painter and lithographer (b. 1841)
June 28 – Otto Bache, painter of historical subjects (b. 1839)
July 10 – Louise Abbéma, Impressionist painter (b. 1853)
July 27 – Solomon Joseph Solomon, portrait painter (b. 1860)
August 4 – Eugène Atget, photographer (b. 1857)
August 18 – Sascha Schneider, painter and sculptor (b. 1870)
September 19 – Michael Ancher, painter (b. 1849)
October 7 – Paul Sérusier, abstract painter (b. 1864)
October 9 – João Marques de Oliveira, Portuguese painter (b. 1853)
November 21 – Laurits Tuxen, painter (b. 1853)
November 25 – József Rippl-Rónai, painter (b. 1861)
December 13 – Maria Oakey Dewing, American painter (b. 1845)
date unknown
Adolphe Demange, portrait painter (b. 1857)
Caroline Reboux, fashion designer (b. 1837)
Madame Virot, fashion designer (b. 1826)