1923 in art

Awards

• Archibald Prize: W B McInnes – Portrait of a Lady

Works

Births

• January 16 – Keith Shackleton, English painter and television host (d. 2015)
• February 10 – Shirley Jaffe, American-born abstract painter and sculptor (d. 2016)
• March 9 – André Courrèges, French fashion designer (d. 2016)
• April 8 – George Fisher, American political cartoonist (d. 2003)
• April 24 – Cordelia Oliver, Scottish journalist, painter and art critic (d. 2009)
• May 3 – Norman Thelwell, English cartoonist (d. 2004)
• May 15 – Richard Avedon, American photographer (d. 2004)
• May 22 – Max Velthuijs, Dutch painter, illustrator and author (d. 2005)
• May 27 – Inge Morath, Austrian photographer (d. 2002)
• May 31 – Ellsworth Kelly, American artist (d. 2015)
• June 3 – June Newton, Australian-born photographer (d. 2021)
• June 24 – Marc Riboud, French photographer (d. 2016)
• June 25 – Sam Francis, American painter and printmaker (d. 1994)
• July 12 – Paul Jenkins, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 2012)
• July 28 – Patrick George, English painter (d. 2016)
• September 13 – Edouard Boubat, French photographer (d. 1999)
• September 23 – Osuitok Ipeelee, Canadian Inuk sculptor (d. 2005)
• October 7 – Jean-Paul Riopelle, Canadian painter and sculptor (d. 2002)
• October 27 – Roy Lichtenstein, American pop artist (d. 1997)
• October 28 – David Aronson, Lithuanian American painter (d. 2015)
• November 15 – Miriam Schapiro, Canadian American feminist artist (d. 2015)
• December 1 – Morris, Belgian cartoonist (d. 2001)
• December 13 – Antoni Tàpies, Spanish painter (d. 2012)
• date unknown – François Ozenda, French painter (d. 1976)

Deaths

• January 12 – Marc Ferrez, Brazilian photographer (b. 1843)
• January 31 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish modernist painter, art critic and assassin (b. 1869)
• March 22 – Benjamin Williams Leader, English landscape painter (b. 1831)
• April 15 – Aleksander Sochaczewski, Polish painter (b. 1843)
• April 17 – Jan Kotěra, Czech artist, architect and designer (b. 1871)
• May 29 – Adolf Oberländer, German caricaturist (b. 1845)
• June 15 – Joseph B. Davol, American marine painter (b. 1864)
• June 21 – Edward Clark Potter, American sculptor (b. 1857)
• July 23 – Willy Gretor, Danish-born painter and art dealer (b. 1868)
• August 2/3 – Jacoba van Heemskerck, Dutch painter and graphic artist (b. 1876)
• August 5 – Candace Wheeler, American designer (b. 1827)
• October 2 – John Wilson Bengough, Canadian cartoonist (b. 1851)
• October 19 – Eleanor Norcross, American painter (b. 1854)
• November 2 – Stevan Aleksić, Serbian painter (b. 1876)
• November 27 – Penleigh Boyd, Australian landscape painter (b. 1890)
• December 13 – Théophile Steinlen, Swiss/French painter (b. 1859)
• date unknown – Edwin Romanzo Elmer, American painter (b. 1850)

See also

• 1923 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References