Events from the year 1915 in art.
Events
Works
Births
- January 3 â Jack Levine, American Social Realist painter and printmaker (d. 2010)
- January 15 â Leo Mol, Ukrainian-born Canadian artist, sculptor (d. 2009)
- January 24 â Robert Motherwell, American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker (d. 1991).
- February 4 â Virginia Admiral, American painter and poet (d. 2000)
- February 11 â Mervyn Levy, Welsh artist and critic (d. 1996).
- March 10 â Harry Bertoia, Italian-born American artist and furniture designer (d. 1978).
- March 19 â Maria Austria (née Marie Karoline Oeststreicher) Austro-Dutch photographer and photojournalist) (d. 1979).
- April 4 â Louis Archambault, Canadian sculptor (d. 2003).
- April 6 â Tadeusz Kantor, Polish painter, Assemblage artist, set designer and theatre director (d. 1990)
- April 10 â Wynona Mulcaster, Canadian painter and teacher (d. 2016)
- April 15 â Elizabeth Catlett, African-American graphic artist and sculptor (d. 2012)
- April 17 â William Pachner, Czech painter (d. 2017)
- May 3 â Richard Lippold, American sculptor (d. 2002)
- May 20 â Sam Golden, American paint maker (d. 1997)
- May 31 â Carmen Herrera, Cuban-American abstract minimalist visual artist (d. 2022).
- June 7 â Graham Ingels, American illustrator (d. 1991)
- June 11 â José Caballero, Spanish artist (d. 1991)
- June 17 â Gunther Gerzso, Mexican abstract painter (d. 2000)
- June 23 â Frances Gabe, American artist and inventor (d. 2016)
- July 8 â Malvina Cheek, British artist (d. 2016)
- July 15
- Edith Pfau, American painter, sculptor and art educator (d. 2001)
- Judith Révész, Hungarian-Dutch potter and sculptor (d. 2018)
- July 19 â ÃÂ
ke Hellman, Finnish still life and portrait painter (d. 2017)
- July 28 â Dick Sprang, American comic book artist (d. 2000)
- August 14 â Mary Fedden, English painter (d. 2012)
- August 28
- Patrick Hennessy, Irish painter (d. 1980)
- Tasha Tudor, American illustrator and author of children's books (d. 2008)
- September 17 â M. F. Husain, Indian artist (d. 2011)
- September 19 â Duffy Ayers, born Betty FitzGerald, English portrait painter (d. 2017)
- October 13
- Terry Frost, English Abstract artist (d. 2003)
- Ricco, Swiss painter (d. 1972)
- October 24 â Bob Kane, American comic book artist and writer (d. 1998)
- November 9 â André François, French cartoonist (d. 2005)
- November 26 â Inge King, German-born Australian sculptor (d. 2016)
- November 28 â Evald Okas, Estonian painter (d. 2011)
Deaths
- January 15 â Luigi Crosio, Italian painter (b. 1835)
- January 23 â Anne Whitney, American sculptor, poet (b. 1821)
- February 25 â Flaxman Charles John Spurrell, English archaeologist and photographer (b. 1842)
- April 3 â NadeÃ
¾da PetroviÃÂ, Serbian Fauvist painter (b. 1873)
- April 9 â Karl Bitter, Austrian American sculptor (b. 1867)
- May 7 â Sir Hugh Lane, Irish-born art dealer, collector and benefactor (b. 1875; killed in sinking of the RMS Lusitania)
- June 5 â Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, French artist and sculptor (killed in action) (b. 1891)
- June 7 â Hilda Sjölin, Swedish photographer (b. 1835)
- July 10 â Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Dutch marine painter (b. 1831)
- July 11 â Albert Schickedanz, Austro-Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style (b. 1846)
- September 11 â Jens Birkholm, Danish genre and landscape painter (b. 1869)
- September 14 â Alfred Agache, French academic painter (b. 1843)
- October 24 â Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist and pioneer photographer (b. 1828)
- November 28 â Kobayashi Kiyochika, Japanese ukiyo-e painter and printmaker (b. 1847)
- December 22 â Arthur Hughes, English painter and illustrator (b. 1832)
- date unknown
- Kikuchi Shingaku, Japanese photographer (b. 1832)
- Krikor Torosian, Armenian illustrator (b. 1884; killed in Armenian genocide)
References