August 2 – The Saint Petersburg Union of Artists is established (as the "Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists").
Alvar Aalto designs a new form of laminated bent-plywood furniture.
Courtauld Institute of Art is founded in London.
The Wedgwood pottery firm commissions its first designs from Keith Murray.
First Abstraction-Création Cahier, Abstraction-création: Art non-figuratif, is produced.
Frank Brangwyn – British Empire Panels
Edward Hopper
Room in Brooklyn
Room in New York
Lois Mailou Jones – The Ascent of Ethiopia
Frieda Kahlo
Henry Ford Hospital
My Birth
Self Portrait on the Border Line Between Mexico and the United States
Harold Knight
Girl Reading
Girl Writing
René Magritte – The Universe Unmasked
Rolf Nesch – Elbe Bridge I
Pablo Picasso
Girl Before a Mirror (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
La Lecture
Nude in a Black Armchair
Nude, Green Leaves and Bust
Le Rêve
Charles Sheeler
River Rouge Plant
Interior with Stove (conté crayon)
Amrita Sher-Gil – Young Girls
Walter Sickert – Miss Earhart's Arrival (Tate Gallery, London)
Xul Solar – Palacio Almi
Stanley Spencer completes his series of paintings at Sandham Memorial Chapel, Burghclere
Henri Cartier-Bresson – Derrière la gare de Saint-Lazare
Charles Clyde Ebbets – Lunch atop a Skyscraper
John Heartfield – photomontages
Adolf, the Superman
The Meaning of Geneva, Where Capital Lives, There Can Be No Peace
Alberto Giacometti – Woman with her Throat Cut
Käthe Kollwitz – The Grieving Parents
Gaston Lachaise – Standing Woman
Leo Lentelli – The James Cardinal Gibbons Memorial Statue
Alonzo Victor Lewis – American Doughboy Bringing Home Victory (Seattle)
Paul Manship
Abraham Lincoln: The Hoosier Youth
Group of Bears
Henry Moore – Half-figure
Felix Nylund – Three Smiths Statue (Helsinki)
Rodgers and Poor – Kill Devil Hill Monument
Archibald Prize: Ernest Buckmaster – Sir William Irvine
February 9 – Gerhard Richter, German painter
March 14 – Norval Morrisseau, Aboriginal Canadian artist (d. 2007)
April 10 – James Lee Byars, American artist (d. 1997)
April 19 – Fernando Botero, Colombian painter and sculptor
May 3 – Walter Hopps, American museum director and curator (d. 2005)
May 4 – Ivor Wood, English stop-motion animator (d. 2004)
May 14 – Yuri Khukhrov, Russian painter (d. 2003)
June 5 – Christy Brown, Irish author, painter and poet (d. 1981)
June 25 – Peter Blake, English pop artist
July 20 – Nam June Paik, South Korean-born American video artist (d. 2006)
August 6 – Howard Hodgkin, English painter
August 19 – Jacques Lob, French comic book creator (d. 1990)
August 23 – Valentina Monakhova, Russian painter and graphic artist
October 4 – Terence Conran, English designer
October 14 – Wolf Vostell, German artist
October 22 – Afewerk Tekle, Ethiopian painter and stained glass artist (d. 2012)
October 29 – R. B. Kitaj, American-born English artist (d. 2007)
December 7 – Paul Caponigro, American photographer
December 16 – Quentin Blake, English illustrator
date unknown – Basil Blackshaw, Northern Irish painter
January 15 – John Henry Dearle, English textile designer (b. 1859)
February 6 – Hermann Ottomar Herzog, German American landscape painter (b. 1832)
February 11 – Robert Gibb, Scottish painter (b. 1845)
March – Elizabeth Taylor, American traveller and artist (b. 1856)
March 5 – Johan Thorn Prikker, Dutch art nouveau painter and stained-glass artist (b. 1868)
March 11 – Dora Carrington, English Bloomsbury Group painter and designer (b. 1893)
March 21 – Georg Dehio, Baltic German art historian (b. 1850)
March 23 – Boris Schatz, Lithuanian Jewish sculptor (b. 1866)
April 2 – Ella Gaunt Smith, American doll-maker (b. 1868)
June 6 – Alois Dryák, Czech architect and designer (b. 1872)
July 14 – Dimitrie Paciurea, Romanian sculptor (b. 1873 or 1875)
July 19 – Louis Maurer, German American lithographer (b. 1832)
July 21 – Samuel P. Dinsmoor, American sculptor (b. 1843)
August 4 – Alfred Henry Maurer, American modernist painter, son of Louis (suicide; b. 1868)
September 20 – Max Slevogt, German artist (b. 1868)
September 23 – Jules Chéret, French painter and lithographer (b. 1836)
September 28 – Emil Orlík, Austro-Hungarian etcher and lithographer (b. 1870)
October 1 – W. G. Collingwood, English painter and author (b. 1854)
October 2 – Carl Seffner, German portrait sculptor (b. 1861)
October 17 – Lucy Bacon, American Impressionist painter (b. 1857)
October 23 – Daniel Hernández Morillo, Peruvian painter (b. 1856)
November 30 – Gari Melchers, American naturalist painter (b. 1860)
December 8 – Gertrude Jekyll, English garden designer (b. 1843)
December 9 – Karl Blossfeldt, German photographer and sculptor (b. 1865)
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