Events from the year 1919 in art.
Events
Works
Births
January to June
- January 5 â Frederick Hammersley, American painter (d. 2009)
- January 9 â Henrietta Berk, American painter (d. 1990)
- January 19 â Joan Brossa, Catalan poet, playwright, graphic designer and plastic artist (d. 1998)
- January 22 â John Russell, British American art critic (d. 2008)
- January 24 â William Copley, American artist (d. 1996)
- March 23 â Salvatore Scarpitta, American sculptor (d. 2007)
- April 9 â Gordon Lambert, Irish art collector (d. 2005)
- April 24 â César Manrique, Spanish artist and architect (d. 1992)
- May 3 â John Cullen Murphy, American comics artist (d. 2004)
- May 9 â Anne Yeats, Irish painter and stage designer (d. 2001)
- May 27 â Emvin Cremona, Maltese artist (d. 1987)
- June 2 â Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (d. 2005)
- June 7 â Mira Schendel, born Myrrha Dub, Swiss-Brazilian modernist artist and poet (d. 1988)
- June 18 â Gordon A. Smith, Canadian artist and teacher (d. 2020)
- June 21 â Jean Joyet, French artist (d. 1994)
July to December
- July 6 â Oswaldo GuayasamÃÂn, Ecuadorian painter and sculptor (d. 1999)
- July 17 â Jean Leymarie, French art historian (d. 2006)
- July 18 â Daniel du Janerand, French painter (d. 1990)
- July 31 â Maurice Boitel, French painter (d. 2007)
- September 8 â Maria Lassnig, Austrian painter (d. 2014)
- September 29 â VladimÃÂr VaÃ
¡ÃÂÃÂek, Czech painter (d. 2003)
- November 3 â Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic books author and artist (d. 1995)
- December 12 â Cliff Holden, English painter, designer and silk-screen printer (d. 2020)
- December 24 â Pierre Soulages, French "painter of black" (d. 2022)
Full date unknown
Deaths
- January 22 â Carl Larsson, Swedish painter (b. 1853)
- February 18 â Antonin Carlès, French sculptor (b. 1851)
- February 27 â Robert Harris, Canadian painter (b. 1848)
- March 24 â Franz Metzner, German sculptor (b. 1870)
- March 25 â Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German sculptor (b. 1881) (suicide)
- May 2 â Evelyn De Morgan, English painter (born 1855)
- May 13 â Helen Hyde, American etcher and engraver (b. 1868)
- August 9 â Ralph Albert Blakelock, American painter (b. 1847)
- November 18 â John Dibblee Crace, British interior decorator (b. 1838)
- December 2 â Henry Clay Frick, American founder of the Frick Collection (b. 1849)
- December 3 â Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French Impressionist painter (b. 1841)
- December 18 â James Coutts Michie, Scottish painter b. 1859)
- Full date unknown â Edmund Elisha Case, American painter (b 1844)
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