1903 in art

Births

January to June

• January – Guan Zilan, Chinese avant-garde painter (d. 1986)
• January 10 – Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor and artist (d. 1975)
• January 19 – Sir Alfred Beit, 2nd Baronet, British politician, art collector and philanthropist and honorary Irish citizen (d. 1994)
• March 7 – Maud Lewis, Canadian folk artist (d. 1970)
• March 10 – Edward Bawden, English artist and illustrator (d. 1989)
• March 14
• Richard Eurich, English sea- and landscape painter (d. 1992)
• Adolph Gottlieb, American abstract expressionist painter and sculptor (d. 1974)
• April 3 – Lola Álvarez Bravo, Mexican photographer (d. 1993)
• April 16 – Thomas Hennell, English painter (k. 1945)
• May 7 – Paul Ninas, American painter (d. 1964)
• June 6 – Ceri Richards, Welsh painter (d. 1971)
• June 15 – Victor Brauner, Romanian painter (d. 1966)
• June 21 – Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (d. 2003)

July to December

• July 13 – Kenneth Clark, English author, museum director, broadcaster and art historian (d.1983)
• July 16 – Tore Asplund, Swedish-born American painter (d.1977)
• July 21 – Roy Neuberger, American art collector and patron (d.2010)
• July 22 – Eric Ravilious, English artist (d.1942)
• August 14 – Lodewijk Bruckman, Dutch magic realist painter (d.1995)
• August 24 – Graham Sutherland, English artist (d.1980)
• September 16 – Karl Zerbe, German-born painter (d.1972)
• September 20 – Gertrud Arndt, German photographer (d.2000)
• September 25 – Mark Rothko, Latvian-born American painter and printmaker (d.1970)
• September 29 – Walter Inglis Anderson, American painter (d.1965)
• October 15 – Otto Bettmann, German-born image archivist (d.1998)
• October 22 – Zlatyu Boyadzhiev, Bulgarian painter (d.1976)
• October 24 – Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (d.1999)
• October 25 – Harry Shoulberg, American expressionist painter] (d.1995)
• November 3 – Walker Evans, American photographer (d.1975)
• December 13 – John Piper, English painter (d.1992)
• December 24 – Joseph Cornell, American artist and sculptor (d.1972)
• December 30 – Candido Portinari, Brazilian painter (d.1962)
• date unknown – Bernard Lamotte, French illustrator, painter and muralist (d.1983)

Deaths

• January 5 – Eleuterio Pagliano, Italian painter (b. 1826)
• January 24 – Charles Wynne Nicholls, genre painter (b. 1831)
• March 10 – Sophie Gengembre Anderson, genre painter (b. 1843)
• April 24 – Walter Osborne, Irish impressionist painter (b.1859)
• May 9 – Paul Gauguin, painter (b. 1848)
• June 8 – Robert Frederick Blum, American illustrator and lithographer (b. 1857)
• July 14 – James McNeill Whistler, American painter and etcher (b. 1834)
• August 17 – Hans Gude, painter (b. 1825)
• September 13 – Carl Schuch, painter (b. 1846)
• October 18 – John Callcott Horsley, painter (b. 1817)
• October 26 – János Fadrusz, Hungarian sculptor (b. 1858)
• November 12 or 13 – Camille Pissarro, Impressionist painter (b. 1830)

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