Events from the year 1926 in art.
Events
Awards
Works
Births
- 3 January â Felicitas Kuhn, Austrian illustrator (d. 2022)
- 13 January â Craigie Aitchison, Scottish painter (d. 2009)
- 17 January â Robert Filliou, French Fluxus artist (d. 1987)
- 18 January â Roy Kiyooka, Canadian photographer, artist and poet (d. 1994)
- 24 January â Ruth Asawa, American sculptor (d. 2013)
- 1 February â Vivian Maier, American street photographer (d. 2009)
- 6 April â Gil Kane, Latvian-born cartoonist (d. 2000)
- 10 April â Gustav Metzger, German-Jewish born British creator of auto-destructive art and activist (d. 2017)
- 26 April â Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (d. 2003)
- 25 May â David Wynne, English figure sculpture (d. 2014)
- 6 May â Edward Clark, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 2019)
- 13 June
- Satoru Abe, American sculptor and painter (d. 2025)
- George Booth, American cartoonist (d. 2022)
- 3 August â David Johnson, American photographer (d. 2024)
- 8 August
- Arturo GarcÃÂa Bustos, Mexican painter (d. 2017)
- William Foley, American illustrator (d. 2020)
- 14 August â René Goscinny, French comic book author, editor and humorist (d. 1977)
- 10 September â Beryl Cook, English naïve painter (d. 2008)
- 25 September â Sonia Gechtoff, American painter (d. 2018)
- 6 October â Petar OmÃÂikus, Serbian artist (d. 2019)
- 25 October â Ismail Gulgee, Pakistani painter (d. 2007)
- 3 November â Paul Rebeyrolle, French painter (d. 2005)
- 5 November â John Berger, English art critic, novelist and painter (d. 2017)
- 9 November â Raymond Hains, French artist and photographer (d. 2005)
- 10 December â Leon Kossoff, English painter (d. 2019)
Deaths
- January 15 â Eugeniusz Zak, Polish painter (b. 1884)
- February 4 â Adolphe Willette, French illustrator (b. 1857)
- April 1 â Charles Angrand, French neo-Impressionist painter (b. 1854)
- June 14 â Mary Cassatt, American painter (b. 1844)
- July 17 â Maximilian Liebenwein, Austro-German painter and illustrator (b. 1869)
- July 24 â T. C. Steele, American Impressionist painter (b. 1847)
- August 25 â Thomas Moran, American painter of the Hudson River School (b. 1837)
- September 28 â Helen Allingham, English watercolour painter and illustrator (b. 1848)
- October 5 â Dorothy Tennant, English painter (b. 1855)
- October 16 â Ignacy Korwin-Milewski, Polish art collector (b. 1846)
- October 24 â Charles Marion Russell, American "cowboy artist" (b. 1864)
- December 5 â Claude Monet, French Impressionist painter (b. 1840)
See also
References