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Overview of the events of 1926 in art
Overview of the events of 1926 in art
Events from the year 1926 in art.
Events
Awards
Works
Births
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3 January –
Felicitas Kuhn, Austrian illustrator (d.
2022)
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13 January –
Craigie Aitchison, Scottish painter (d.
2009)
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17 January –
Robert Filliou,
French
Fluxus artist (d.
1987)
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18 January –
Roy Kiyooka,
Canadian photographer, artist and poet (d.
1994)
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24 January –
Ruth Asawa,
American sculptor (d.
2013)
[3]
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1 February –
Vivian Maier, American street photographer (d.
2009)
[4]
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6 April –
Gil Kane, Latvian-born cartoonist (d.
2000)
[5]
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10 April –
Gustav Metzger, German-Jewish born British creator of
auto-destructive art and activist (d.
2017)
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26 April –
Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (d.
2003)
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25 May –
David Wynne,
English figure sculpture (d.
2014)
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6 May –
Edward Clark, American abstract expressionist painter (d.
2019)
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13 June
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3 August –
David Johnson, American photographer (d.
2024)
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8 August
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14 August –
René Goscinny,
French comic book author, editor and humorist (d.
1977)
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10 September –
Beryl Cook, English naïve painter (d.
2008)
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25 September –
Sonia Gechtoff, American painter (d.
2018)
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6 October –
Petar Omčikus,
Serbian artist (d.
2019)
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25 October –
Ismail Gulgee,
Pakistani painter (d.
2007)
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3 November –
Paul Rebeyrolle, French painter (d.
2005)
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5 November –
John Berger, English art critic, novelist and painter (d.
2017)
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9 November –
Raymond Hains, French artist and photographer (d.
2005)
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10 December –
Leon Kossoff, English painter (d.
2019)
Deaths
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January 15 –
Eugeniusz Zak, Polish painter (b.
1884)
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February 4 –
Adolphe Willette, French illustrator (b.
1857)
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April 1 –
Charles Angrand, French neo-Impressionist painter (b.
1854)
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June 14 –
Mary Cassatt, American painter (b.
1844)
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July 17 –
Maximilian Liebenwein, Austro-German painter and illustrator (b.
1869)
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July 24 –
T. C. Steele, American Impressionist painter (b.
1847)
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August 25 –
Thomas Moran, American painter of the
Hudson River School (b.
1837)
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September 28 –
Helen Allingham, English watercolour painter and illustrator (b.
1848)
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October 5 –
Dorothy Tennant, English painter (b.
1855)
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October 16 –
Ignacy Korwin-Milewski, Polish art collector (b.
1846)
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October 24 –
Charles Marion Russell, American "cowboy artist" (b.
1864)
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December 5 –
Claude Monet, French Impressionist painter (b.
1840)
[6]
See also
References