1909 in art
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Events

  • Guillaume Apollinaire
    Guillaume Apollinaire
    Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki, known as Guillaume Apollinaire was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic born in Italy to a Polish mother....

    's first book of poetry is illustrated with woodcut
    Woodcut
    Woodcut—occasionally known as xylography—is a relief printing artistic technique in printmaking in which an image is carved into the surface of a block of wood, with the printing parts remaining level with the surface while the non-printing parts are removed, typically with gouges...

    s by André Derain
    André Derain
    André Derain was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse.-Early years:...

    .
  • Pablo Picasso
    Pablo Picasso
    Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...

     and George Braque create the first works of analytical cubism.

Works

  • Lawrence Alma-Tadema
    Lawrence Alma-Tadema
    Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA was a Dutch painter.Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there...

     - A Favourite Custom (Tate Britain
    Tate Britain
    Tate Britain is an art gallery situated on Millbank in London, and part of the Tate gallery network in Britain, with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It is the oldest gallery in the network, opening in 1897. It houses a substantial collection of the works of J. M. W. Turner.-History:It...

    )
  • George Bellows
    George Bellows
    George Wesley Bellows was an American realist painter, known for his bold depictions of urban life in New York City, becoming, according to the Columbus Museum of Art, "the most acclaimed American artist of his generation".-Youth:Bellows was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio...

     - The Lone Tenement
  • John Haberle
    John Haberle
    John Haberle was a 19th-century American painter in the trompe l'oeil style. His still lifes of ordinary objects are painted in such a way that the painting can be mistaken for the objects themselves. He is considered one of the three major figures—together with William Harnett and John F...

     - Night (New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut
    New Britain, Connecticut
    New Britain is a city in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. It is located approximately 9 miles southwest of Hartford. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 71,254....

    )
  • Henri Matisse
    Henri Matisse
    Henri Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter...

     - Dance (first version)
    The Dance (painting)
    The Dance are two related paintings made by Henri Matisse between 1909 and 1910. The first, preliminary version is Matisse's study for the second version...

  • Pablo Picasso
    Pablo Picasso
    Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...

    • Fruit Dish (Museum of Modern Art
      Museum of Modern Art
      The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...

      , New York
      New York City
      New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

      )
    • Woman with a Fan (Pushkin Museum
      Pushkin Museum
      The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts is the largest museum of European art in Moscow, located in Volkhonka street, just opposite the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour....

      , Moscow)

January to June

  • January 16 - Clement Greenberg
    Clement Greenberg
    Clement Greenberg was an American essayist known mainly as an influential visual art critic closely associated with American Modern art of the mid-20th century...

    , American art critic
    Art critic
    An art critic is a person who specializes in evaluating art. Their written critiques, or reviews, are published in newspapers, magazines, books and on web sites...

     (d.1994
    1994 in art
    -Events:*12 February – Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream" is stolen in Oslo .*8 April – Michelangelo's Universal Judgement is reopened to public after 10 years of restorations.-Awards:...

    ).
  • January 25 - Joseph Solman
    Joseph Solman
    Joseph Solman was a Jewish American painter, a founder of The Ten, a group of New York City Expressionist painters in the 1930s...

    , American painter (d. 2008
    2008 in art
    -Awards:* Caldecott Medal – Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret* Hugo Boss Prize – Emily Jacir* Doug Moran National Portrait Prize – Fiona Lowry* Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts – Mona Hatoum...

    ).
  • February 12 - Zoran Mušič
    Zoran Mušic
    Zoran Mušič was a Slovenian painter. He spent half of his life living and working in Italy.-Life:Zoran Mušič was born in a Slovene-speaking family in Bukovica, a village in the Vipava Valley near Gorizia, in what was then the Austrian County of Gorizia and Gradisca...

    , Slovenia
    Slovenia
    Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

    n- born painter (d. 2005).
  • February 17 - Gertrude Abercrombie
    Gertrude Abercrombie
    Gertrude Abercrombie was an American painter based in Chicago. Called "the queen of the bohemian artists," Abercrombie was involved in the Chicago jazz scene and friends with musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Sarah Vaughan, whose music inspired her own creative work.-Personal...

    , American painter (d. 1977
    1977 in art
    -Events:*Starr Kempf constructs the first of his "wind sculptures".*documenta 6 takes place.*Douglas Crimp curates "Pictures," featuring Jack Goldstein, Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine and others, at Artists Space in New York.-Exhibitions:...

    )
  • February 19 - Enrico Donati
    Enrico Donati
    Enrico Donati was an American Surrealist painter and sculptor of Italian birth.-Life and work:Enrico Donati studied economics at the Università degli Studi, Pavia, and in 1934 moved to the USA, where he attended the New School for Social Research and the Art Students League of New York...

    , Italian- born American Surrealist painter and sculptor (d. 2008
    2008 in art
    -Awards:* Caldecott Medal – Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret* Hugo Boss Prize – Emily Jacir* Doug Moran National Portrait Prize – Fiona Lowry* Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts – Mona Hatoum...

    )
  • February 26 - Michel Tapié
    Michel Tapié
    Michel Tapié was an internationally active French critic, curator, and collector of art. He was an early and influential theorist and practitioner of "tachisme", which is generally regarded as the European equivalent of abstract expressionism...

    , French artist, critic, curator
    Curator
    A curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...

    , and art collector (d. 1987
    1987 in art
    -Awards:*Archibald Prize – William Robinson, Equestrian self-portrait*Turner Prize – Richard Deacon-January to June:*18 February – William Coldstream, English realist painter ....

    )
  • March 22 - Milt Kahl
    Milt Kahl
    Milton Erwin Kahl was an animator for the Disney studio, and one of Disney's Nine Old Men....

    , American animator (d. 1987
    1987 in art
    -Awards:*Archibald Prize – William Robinson, Equestrian self-portrait*Turner Prize – Richard Deacon-January to June:*18 February – William Coldstream, English realist painter ....

    ).
  • April 3 - Graham Stuart Thomas
    Graham Stuart Thomas
    Graham Stuart Thomas OBE , was an English horticulturalist, artist, author, poet and garden designer.He was born in Cambridge and studied in the University Botanic Garden at Cambridge University...

    , English horticultural artist, author and garden designer (d. 2003
    2003 in art
    -Events:*January 21 – The Spire of Dublin is completed.*May 11 – Benvenuto Cellini's Saliera is stolen from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.*November – Gustav Klimt's Landhaus am Attersee sells for $29,128,000.-Full date unknown:...

    ).
  • April 30 - F. E. McWilliam
    F. E. McWilliam
    F.E. McWilliam , was a British surrealist sculptor, born in Banbridge, County Down. He worked in stone, wood and bronze chiefly.-Biography:...

    , Irish sculptor (d. 1992
    1992 in art
    -Awards:*Archibald Prize: – Bryan Westwood – The Prime Minister *Turner Prize: – Grenville Davey-Works:*Banksy – First graffiti art *Grenville Davey – Hal*Anya Gallaccio – Red on Green...

    )
  • May 17 - Giulio Carlo Argan
    Giulio Carlo Argan
    Giulio Carlo Argan was an Italian art historian and politician.-Biography:Argan was born in Turin and studied in the University of Turin, graduating in 1931. In 1928 he entered the National Fascist Party...

    , Italian art historian and politician (d. 1992
    1992 in art
    -Awards:*Archibald Prize: – Bryan Westwood – The Prime Minister *Turner Prize: – Grenville Davey-Works:*Banksy – First graffiti art *Grenville Davey – Hal*Anya Gallaccio – Red on Green...

    )
  • June 14 - Ettore DeGrazia
    Ettore DeGrazia
    Ettore "Ted" DeGrazia was an American impressionist, western-pop painter, sculptor, and lithographer. Self-described as "the world's most reproduced artist", DeGrazia is known for his pastel images of Native American children of the American Southwest and other Western scenes.Born to an Italian...

    , American impressionist, painter, sculptor and lithographer (d. 1982
    1982 in art
    -Events:*Andy Warhol "falls in love" with Duran Duran at a Blondie concert.*Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe's animations play a major part in the success of the film version of Pink Floyd's The Wall....

    ).
  • June 26 - Wolfgang Reitherman
    Wolfgang Reitherman
    Wolfgang Reitherman , also known and sometimes credited as Woolie Reitherman, was a famed Disney animator and one of Disney's Nine Old Men.-Personal life:...

    , German-American animator (d. 1985
    1985 in art
    -Events:*Charles Saatchi's collection opens to the public, arousing interest in Neo-expressionism-Awards:*Archibald Prize: Guy Warren – Flugelman with Wingman*Turner Prize – Howard Hodgkin-Works:*Wayne Thiebaud – Sunset Streets...

    ).

July to December

  • July 13 - Marie-Thérèse Walter
    Marie-Thérèse Walter
    Marie-Thérèse Walter was the French mistress and model of Pablo Picasso from 1927 to about 1935, and the mother of his daughter, Maya Widmaier-Picasso. Their relationship began when she was seventeen years old; he was 45 and still living with his first wife, Olga Khokhlova...

    , mistress of Pablo Picasso
    Pablo Picasso
    Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...

     (d. 1977
    1977 in art
    -Events:*Starr Kempf constructs the first of his "wind sculptures".*documenta 6 takes place.*Douglas Crimp curates "Pictures," featuring Jack Goldstein, Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine and others, at Artists Space in New York.-Exhibitions:...

    ).
  • September 14 - Peter Scott
    Peter Scott
    Sir Peter Markham Scott, CH, CBE, DSC and Bar, MID, FRS, FZS, was a British ornithologist, conservationist, painter, naval officer and sportsman....

    , English ornithologist, conservationist
    Conservationist
    Conservationists are proponents or advocates of conservation. They advocate for the protection of all the species in an ecosystem with a strong focus on the natural environment...

    , painter (d. 1989
    1989 in art
    -Events:*12 June – Corcoran Gallery of Art removes Robert Mapplethorpe's photography exhibition.*The Keith Haring Foundation is established.-Exhibitions:*Jim Dine Drawings 1973–1987 at Minneapolis Institute of Art...

    ).
  • September 28 - Al Capp
    Al Capp
    Alfred Gerald Caplin , better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li'l Abner. He also wrote the comic strips Abbie an' Slats and Long Sam...

    , cartoonist (d. 1979
    1979 in art
    -Full date unknown:*Aideen Barry, Irish multimedia and performance artist.*Eric Bourdon, French painter and writer.*Elise Fouin, French designer.-Deaths:*11 January - Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German-born French Art dealer ....

    ).
  • October 13 - Herblock
    Herblock
    Herbert Lawrence Block, commonly known as Herblock , was an American editorial cartoonist and author best known for his commentary on national domestic and foreign policy from a liberal perspective.-Career:...

    , political cartoonist (d. 2001
    2001 in art
    -Events:*1 January – A black monolith measuring approximately 9 feet tall appears in Seattle, Washington's Magnuson Park, placed by an anonymous artist in reference to the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey....

    ).
  • October 28 - Francis Bacon
    Francis Bacon (painter)
    Francis Bacon , was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his bold, austere, graphic and emotionally raw imagery. Bacon's painterly but abstract figures typically appear isolated in glass or steel geometrical cages set against flat, nondescript backgrounds...

    , Irish-born British figurative
    Figurative art
    Figurative art, sometimes written as figurativism, describes artwork—particularly paintings and sculptures—which are clearly derived from real object sources, and are therefore by definition representational.-Definition:...

     painter (d. 1992
    1992 in art
    -Awards:*Archibald Prize: – Bryan Westwood – The Prime Minister *Turner Prize: – Grenville Davey-Works:*Banksy – First graffiti art *Grenville Davey – Hal*Anya Gallaccio – Red on Green...

    ).
  • November 6 - Herman Rose
    Herman Rose
    Herman Rose was the professional pseudonym of Herman Rappaport , an American painter and artist. He was best known for his depictions of cityscapes, including his painting “74th Street Rooftops From Studio."...

     painter (d.2007
    2007 in art
    -Events:*18 October – In New York City one of the worlds leading art galleries, the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, is forced into closure on the evening of the opening of a major Caravaggio exhibition, amidst scandal and lawsuits....

    ).

Full date unknown

  • Gabriel Hayes
    Gabriel Hayes
    Gabriel Hayes was an Irish artist born in Monasterevin, County Kildare. She was a sculptor who studied in Dublin, France, and Italy. Hayes was also an accomplished artist with one of her works "The Cork Bowler" selling at Christies in London in May 2000 for 23,500 stg....

    , Irish sculptor and coin designer (d. 1978
    1978 in art
    -Works:* Dan Flavin - untitled * Helen Frankenthaler - Cleveland Symphony Orchestra* Jack Goldstein - The Jump* Liz Leyh - Concrete Cows, Milton Keynes* Dennis Oppenheim - Cobalt Vectors - An Invasion...

    ).

Deaths

  • February 11 - Russell Sturgis
    Russell Sturgis
    Russell Sturgis was an American architect and art criticof the 19th and early 20th centuries. He was one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1870.-Early life and marriage:...

    , architect and art critic
  • February 20 - Paul Ranson
    Paul Ranson
    Paul Ranson was a French painter and writer.Paul-Elie Ranson was born in Limoges and studied at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs there before moving to Paris and transferring to the Académie Julian in 1886. There he met Paul Sérusier in 1888. Subsequently from 1890 he became a member and a creative...

    , French painter and writer (b. 1864
    1864 in art
    -Works:*Richard Dadd - The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke*Henri Fantin-Latour - Homage to Delacroix*Édouard Manet**Les Anges au tombeau du Christ, Le Christ mort aux anges...

    )
  • February 26 - Caran d'Ache
    Caran d'Ache
    Caran d'Ache was the pseudonym of the 19th century French satirist and political cartoonist Emmanuel Poiré. "Caran d'Ache" comes from the Russian word karandash , meaning pencil...

    , political cartoonist (b. 1858
    1858 in art
    -Works:*Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres - Self-Portrait at the Age of 78 *William Henry Fisk - The Secret*William Powell Frith - The Derby Day*Édouard Manet - The Boy with Cherries...

    )
  • June 22 - Edward John Gregory
    Edward John Gregory
    Edward John Gregory , British painter, born at Southampton, began work at the age of fifteen in the engineers drawing office of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company....

    , painter (b. 1850
    1850 in art
    -Events:*Francisco Goya's engravings, Proverbios, are posthumously published.*Edouard Pingret relocates to Mexico City.-Awards:* Grand Prix de Rome, painting: William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Paul Baudry.* Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:...

    )
  • November 9 - William Powell Frith
    William Powell Frith
    William Powell Frith , was an English painter specialising in genre subjects and panoramic narrative works of life in the Victorian era. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1852...

    , painter
  • November 21 - Peder Severin Krøyer
    Peder Severin Krøyer
    Peder Severin Krøyer , known as P.S. Krøyer, was a Norwegian-Danish painter. He is one of the best known and beloved, and undeniably the most colorful of the Skagen Painters, a community of Danish and Nordic artists who lived, gathered or worked in Skagen, Denmark, especially during the final...

    , Norwegian painter (b.1851
    1851 in art
    -Events:*May 1 - The Great Exhibition opens at Crystal Palace, London. Works of art on display include the Tara Brooch, handicrafts and ornaments by the Khudabadi Sindhi Swarankar, and a demonstration by makers of Bristol blue glass.-Works:...

    )
  • November 23 – Otto Sinding
    Otto Sinding
    Otto Ludvig Sinding was a Norwegian painter, illustrator, poet and dramatist. Sinding drew on motives from Norwegian nature, folk life and history.-Personal life:...

    , Norwegian painter (b.1842
    1842 in art
    -Events:*Richard Dadd becomes mentally ill during a tour of the Middle East and is thought to be suffering from sunstroke.*Construction work resumes on Cologne Cathedral, after a gap of nearly three centuries....

    )
  • date unknown - Adolf von Becker
    Adolf von Becker
    Adolf von Becker was a Finnish painter.Adolf von Becker was a realist painter and one of the first Finnish artists to receive training in France. In Paris he was a pupil of the realist innovator Gustave Courbet...

     - Finnish painter (b. 1831
    1831 in art
    -Events:*Clarkson Stanfield's spectacular panorama Venice and Its Adjacent Islands is staged in London as part of the annual Christmas pantomime.-Births:*October 26 – Nathaniel Hone the Younger, Irish painter *date unknown...

    )
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