1920 in art

Publications

• Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler – Der Weg zum Kubismus ("The Rise of Cubism").

Births

January to June

• January 12 – Bill Reid, Canadian artist (d. 1998).
• January 17 – Georges Pichard, French comics artist (d. 2003).
• January 30 – Patrick Heron, English painter, writer and designer (d. 1999).
• February 22 – Rocco Borella, Italian painter (d. 1994).
• March 3 – Ronald Searle, English cartoonist (d. 2011).
• March 14 – Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d. 2001).
• March 19 – Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian poet and artist (d. 2002)
• March 27 – Robin Jacques, English illustrator (d. 1995).
• April 8 – Hans Coper, German-born studio potter (d. 1981).
• April 24 – Paul Wonner, American painter (d. 2008).
• April 26 – Maynard Reece, American painter (d. 2020)
• May – Hans Josephsohn, German-born sculptor (d. 2012).
• May 8
• Saul Bass, American graphic designer and filmmaker (d. 1996).
• Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (d. 1991).
• May 10 - Erna Viitol, Estonian sculptor (d. 2001).
• June 4 – Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter, muralist, sculptor and engraver (d. 1992).
• June 24
• John Coplans, British-born painter and photographer (d. 2003)
• Jimmy Ernst, German-born American painter (d. 1984).
• June 29 – Ray Harryhausen, American-born stop-motion animator, sculptor (d. 2013).

July to December

• July 20 – Arthur Boyd, Australian painter and sculptor (d. 1999).
• July 21 – Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter, one of the innovators of Unitary Urbanism (d. 2005).
• August 1 – Ken Bald, American comic book artist and illustrator (d. 2019)
• August 5 – George Tooker, American figurative painter (d. 2011).
• August 9 – Gerda Schmidt-Panknin, German painter (d. 2021)
• August 15 – Judy Cassab, born Judit Kaszab, Austrian-born Australian portrait painter (d. 2015).
• August 22 – Gene Davis, American painter (d. 1985).
• August 26
• Mauri Favén, Finnish painter (d. 2006).
• Brant Parker, American cartoonist (d. 2007).
• August 30 – Leonid Shvartsman, Soviet and Russian animator and artist (d. 2022).
• October 13 – Elaine Hamilton, American painter (d. 2010).
• October 31 – Helmut Newton, German-born photographer (d. 2004).
• November 23 – Wayne Thiebaud, American painter (d. 2021)
• November 30 – Walter Chandoha, American cat photographer (d. 2019).
• December 14 – Claire Fejes, American artist (d. 1998).
• December 18 – Enrique Grau, Colombian painter and sculptor (d. 2004).
• December 21 – Bob Bindig, American illustrator (d. 2007)

Full date unknown

• Adrian Heath, Burmese-born English painter (d. 1992).
• Raymond Moore, English landscape photographer (d. 1987).
• Daniel O'Neill, Irish painter (d. 1974).

Deaths

• January 24 – Amedeo Modigliani, Italian-born painter and sculptor (b. 1884)
• January 26 – Jeanne Hébuterne, French artist, Modigliani's mistress and model (suicide) (b. 1898)
• March 3 – Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (b. 1840)
• March 13 – Mary Devens, American pictorial photographer (b. 1857)
• March 15 – Edith Holden, English nature artist and art teacher (b. 1871)
• March 26 – Samuel Colman, American painter and designer (b. 1832)
• April 20 – Briton Rivière, British painter (b. 1840)
• April 27 – Jacob Ungerer, German sculptor (b. 1840)
• May 7 – Hugh Thomson, British illustrator (b. 1860)
• May 12 – Georges Petit, French art dealer (b. 1856)
• July 5 – Max Klinger, German painter and sculptor (b. 1857)
• July 14 – Albert von Keller, German painter (b. 1844)
• July 17 – Sir Edmund Elton, 8th Baronet, English studio potter (b. 1846)
• August 4 – C. G. Finch-Davies, British bird painter (b. 1875)
• August 6 – Edward Francis Searles, American interior designer (b. 1841)
• August 12 – Walter W. Winans, American sculptor, painter, marksman and horse-breeder (b. 1852)
• August 22 – Anders Zorn, Swedish portrait painter (b. 1860)
• September 24 – Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian-born jeweller (b. 1846)
• November 13 – Luc-Olivier Merson, French painter (b. 1846)
• date unknown – Edith Corbet, Australian-born British landscape painter (b. 1846)

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