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Overview of the events of 1921 in art
Overview of the events of 1921 in art
Events from the year 1921 in art.
Events
Awards
Works
Births
January to June
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January 1 –
César Baldaccini,
French
sculptor (d.
1998)
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January 3 –
Bill Gold, American graphic designer (d.
2018)
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January 14 –
Norris Embry,
American
neo-expressionist
painter (d.
1981)
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January 24 –
Sybil Connolly,
Welsh-
Irish
fashion designer (d.
1998)
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January 27 –
Georges Mathieu, French abstract painter (d.
2012)
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February 2 –
Pietro Cascella,
Italian painter and sculptor (d.
2008)
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February 5 –
Ken Adam,
German-born
British film set designer (d.
2016)
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February 13 –
Louis Féraud, French
fashion designer and
artist (d.
1999)
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February 20 –
Michael Ayrton,
English sculptor, graphic artist and writer (d.
1975)
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February 22 –
Cecil King,
Irish abstract-
minimalist painter (d.
1986)
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February 23 –
John Latham,
Zambian
conceptual artist (d.
2006)
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March 2 –
Ernst Haas,
Austrian photographer (d.
1986)
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March 13 –
Al Jaffee, American cartoonist (d.
2023)
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March 28 –
Norman Bluhm, American painter (d.
1999)
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April 21 –
Dimitrije Bašičević,
Serbian painter and sculptor (d.
1987)
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April 23 –
William Brice, American painter and teacher (d.
2008)
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April 25 –
Karel Appel,
Dutch painter, sculptor and
poet (d.
2006)
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May 18 –
Joan Eardley,
British painter (d.
1963)
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May 29 –
Enzo Plazzotta,
Italian-born British sculptor (d.
1981)
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June 20 –
Fiore de Henriquez, Italian-born British sculptor (d.
2004)
July to December
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July 16
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July 16 –
Boscoe Holder, Trinidadian painter (d.
2007)
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July 17 –
Richard Jeranian, Armenian painter, draftsman and lithographer (d.
2019)
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August 4 –
Jean Pierre Capron, French painter (d.
1997)
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August 18 –
Zdzisław Żygulski, Jr., Polish art historian (d.
2015)
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August 28 –
Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, French
photographer (d.
2004)
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September 22 –
Will Elder,
American
illustrator and
comic book artist (d.
2008)
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September 25 –
Jacques Martin, French comics creator (d.
2010)
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September 27 –
Jean-Pierre Sudre, French photographer (d.
1997)
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October 26 –
Raymond Nasher, American
art collector (d.
2007)
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November 12 –
Gerson Leiber, American painter, lithographer and sculptor (d.
2018)
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November 17 –
Albert Bertelsen, Danish artist (d.
2019)
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November 26 –
Françoise Gilot, French watercolorist and ceramicist (d.
2023)
Deaths
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January 18 –
Adolf von Hildebrand, sculptor (born
1847)
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January 30 –
John Francis Murphy, landscape painter (born
1853)
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February 2 –
Antonio Jacobsen, Danish-American maritime artist (born
1850)
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February 3 –
William Strang, painter and engraver (born
1859)
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February 4 –
Eugène Burnand, Swiss painter (born
1850)
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February 11 –
William Blake Richmond, English painter and designer (born
1842)
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February 21 –
George Dunlop Leslie, English genre painter (born
1835)
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March 2 –
Johann Friedrich Engel, German painter (born
1844)
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March 23 –
Jean-Paul Laurens, painter and sculptor (born
1838)
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March 24 –
Marcus Stone, painter and illustrator (born
1840)
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March 30 –
Franz Benque, photographer (born
1841)
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April 6 –
Vardges Sureniants, Armenian painter (born
1860)
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April 30 –
Mabel Esplin, English stained-glass artist (born
1874)
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May 5 –
William Friese-Greene, photographer and cinematographer (born
1855)
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May 29 –
Abbott Handerson Thayer, painter (born
1849)
- June –
Frank Enders, painter and etcher (born
1860)
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October 7 –
John Thomson, photographer (born
1837)
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November 1 –
Francisco Pradilla Ortiz, painter (born
1848)
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November 12 –
Fernand Khnopff, Symbolist painter (born
1858)
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November 13 –
William Robert Colton, sculptor (born
1867)
References