Events from the year 1901 in art.
Events
Works
Births
January to June
- 7 January â Fahrelnissa Zeid, Turkish abstract artist (d. 1991).
- 9 January â Chic Young, American cartoonist (d. 1973).
- 24 January â Cassandre, born Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron, Ukrainian-born French graphic designer (d. 1968).
- 28 January â Richmond Barthé, African-American sculptor (d. 1989).
- 22 March â Greta Kempton, Austrian-American artist (d. 1991).
- 24 March â Ub Iwerks, American animator, cartoonist and special effects technician (d. 1971).
- 27 March â Carl Barks, American illustrator and comic book creator (d. 2000).
- 7 April â Christopher Wood, English painter (suicide 1930).
- 9 June â John Skeaping, English sculptor and equine painter (d. 1980).
July to December
- July 5 â Len Lye, New Zealand-born kinetic sculptor and filmmaker (d. 1980).
- July 15 â Pyke Koch, Dutch painter (d. 1991).
- July 31 â Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor (d. 1985).
- August 29 â Anna Zinkeisen, Scottish-born artist (died 1976)
- September 14 â Lucien Aigner, Hungarian photographer (d. 1999).
- October 2 â Alice Prin ("Kiki de Montparnasse"), French artists' model and painter (d. 1953).
- October 10 â Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (d. 1966)
- November 7 â Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator (d. 1980)
- November 11 â Richard Lindner, German-American painter (d. 1978)
- December 1 â Charles Tunnicliffe, British wildlife painter (d. 1979)
- December 5 â Walt Disney, American cartoonist, animator and filmmaker (d. 1966)
- December 27 â Stanley Hayter, English-born printmaker (d. 1988)
- December 30 â Beauford Delaney, American modernist painter (d. 1979)
Full date unknown
Deaths
- January 9 â Edward Mitchell Bannister, African American Tonalist painter (b. 1828)
- January 17 â Paul Hankar, Belgian sculptor, designer and architect (b. 1859)
- February 21 â Henry Peach Robinson, English photographer (b. 1830)
- March 6 â John Jabez Edwin Mayall, English photographer (b. 1813)
- March 17 â Jean-Charles Cazin, French landscape painter and ceramicist (b. 1840)
- May 2 â Blaise Alexandre Desgoffe, French still-life painter (b. 1830)
- June 5 â Dagny Juel, Norwegian-born artists' model (b. 1867) (shot)
- June 8 â Edward Moran, English-born American marine painter (b. 1829)
- September 9 â Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b. 1864)
- October 24 â James McDougal Hart, Scottish-born American painter (b. 1828)
- November 6 â Kate Greenaway, English illustrator (b. 1846)
- December 23 â Edward Onslow Ford, English sculptor (b. 1852)
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