1915 in art

Births

• January 3 – Jack Levine, American Social Realist painter and printmaker (d. 2010)
• January 15 – Leo Mol, Ukrainian-born Canadian artist, sculptor (d. 2009)
• January 24 – Robert Motherwell, American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker (d. 1991).
• February 4 – Virginia Admiral, American painter and poet (d. 2000)
• February 11 – Mervyn Levy, Welsh artist and critic (d. 1996).
• March 10 – Harry Bertoia, Italian-born American artist and furniture designer (d. 1978).
• March 19 – Maria Austria (née Marie Karoline Oeststreicher) Austro-Dutch photographer and photojournalist) (d. 1979).
• April 4 – Louis Archambault, Canadian sculptor (d. 2003).
• April 6 – Tadeusz Kantor, Polish painter, Assemblage artist, set designer and theatre director (d. 1990)
• April 10 – Wynona Mulcaster, Canadian painter and teacher (d. 2016)
• April 15 – Elizabeth Catlett, African-American graphic artist and sculptor (d. 2012)
• April 17 – William Pachner, Czech painter (d. 2017)
• May 3 – Richard Lippold, American sculptor (d. 2002)
• May 20 – Sam Golden, American paint maker (d. 1997)
• May 31 – Carmen Herrera, Cuban-American abstract minimalist visual artist (d. 2022).
• June 7 – Graham Ingels, American illustrator (d. 1991)
• June 11 – José Caballero, Spanish artist (d. 1991)
• June 17 – Gunther Gerzso, Mexican abstract painter (d. 2000)
• June 23 – Frances Gabe, American artist and inventor (d. 2016)
• July 8 – 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 – Åke Hellman, Finnish still life and portrait painter (d. 2017)
• July 28 – Dick Sprang, American comic book artist (d. 2000)
• August 14 – 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 – M. F. Husain, Indian artist (d. 2011)
• September 19 – 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 – Bob Kane, American comic book artist and writer (d. 1998)
• November 9 – André François, French cartoonist (d. 2005)
• November 26 – Inge King, German-born Australian sculptor (d. 2016)
• November 28 – Evald Okas, Estonian painter (d. 2011)

Deaths

• January 15 – Luigi Crosio, Italian painter (b. 1835)
• January 23 – Anne Whitney, American sculptor, poet (b. 1821)
• February 25 – Flaxman Charles John Spurrell, English archaeologist and photographer (b. 1842)
• April 3 – Nadežda Petrović, Serbian Fauvist painter (b. 1873)
• April 9 – Karl Bitter, Austrian American sculptor (b. 1867)
• May 7 – Sir Hugh Lane, Irish-born art dealer, collector and benefactor (b. 1875; killed in sinking of the RMS Lusitania)
• June 5 – Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, French artist and sculptor (killed in action) (b. 1891)
• June 7 – Hilda Sjölin, Swedish photographer (b. 1835)
• July 10 – Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Dutch marine painter (b. 1831)
• July 11 – Albert Schickedanz, Austro-Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style (b. 1846)
• September 11 – Jens Birkholm, Danish genre and landscape painter (b. 1869)
• September 14 – Alfred Agache, French academic painter (b. 1843)
• October 24 – Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist and pioneer photographer (b. 1828)
• November 28 – Kobayashi Kiyochika, Japanese ukiyo-e painter and printmaker (b. 1847)
• December 22 – 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)

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