1927 in art

Births

January to June

• January 1 – Jean-Paul Mousseau, Canadian artist (d.1991)
• January 15 – Olle Zetterquist, Swedish artist
• January 20 – Olivier Strebelle, Belgian sculptor (d.2017)
• January 23 – Fred Williams, Australian painter and printmaker (d. 1982)
• February 3 – Sarah Jiménez, Mexican artist (d. 2017)
• February 14 – Myles Murphy, English painter (d.2016)
• March 5 – Jan Snoeck, Dutch sculptor and ceramist (d. 2018)
• March 13 – Robert Denning, American interior designer (d.2005)
• March 19 – Gisèle Lestrange, French graphic artist (d.1991)
• March 31 – David Budd, American abstract painter (d.1991)
• April 6 – Joash Woodrow, English artist (d.2006)
• April 7 – Wolfgang Mattheuer, German painter (d.2004)
• April 15 – David Carritt, English art historian, dealer and critic (d.1982)
• April 16 – John Chamberlain, American sculptor (d. 2011)
• April 25 – Albert Uderzo, French comic book artist and scriptwriter (d. 2020)
• May 5 – Eva Fuka, Czech-born photographer
• June 5 — Ladjane Bandeira, Brazilian artist and journalist (d. 1999)
• June 25 – Patricia Martin Bates, Canadian artist
• June 29
• Dick Martin, American illustrator (d. 1990)
• Kenneth Snelson, American contemporary sculptor and photographer (d. 2016)

July to December

• July 14 – Mike Esposito, American comic book artist (d. 2010)
• July 24
• Alex Katz, American figurative artist
• Robert Rosenblum, American art historian (d. 2006).
• August 8 – Bruno Caruso, Sicilian painter, illustrator, writer, graphic designer and political activist (d. 2018)
• August 23
• Dick Bruna, Dutch illustrator (d. 2017)
• Allan Kaprow, American painter, assemblagist and art theorist (d. 2006)
• August 26 – Ma Jir Bo, Chinese Realist oil painter (d. 1985
• September 22 – Norbert Lynton, British art historian and Professor of the History of Art (d.2007)
• October 3 – Kenojuak Ashevak, Canadian Inuk artist (d. 2013)
• October 4 – Wolf Kahn, German-born painter (d. 2020)
• October 29
• Pierre Alechinsky, Belgian painter, engraver and calligrapher
• Alfred Leslie, American painter and filmmaker
• November 2 – Steve Ditko, American comic book artist (d.2018)
• November 23 – Guy Davenport, American writer, translator, illustrator, painter and teacher (d. 2005)
• December 24 – John Glashan, Scottish cartoonist, illustrator and playwright (d. 1999)
• December 30 – Jan Kubíček, Czech constructivist painter, sculptor (d. 2013)

Deaths

• January 1 – Isabelle de Steiger, painter, theosophist, occultist and writer (b. 1836)
• January 15 – Harald Giersing, painter (b. 1881)
• February 28 – Sir Luke Fildes, painter and illustrator (b. 1843)
• March 23 – Paul César Helleu, portrait painter (b. 1859)
• April 3 – Frederick Morgan, painter (b. c.1850)
• May 10 – Andrea Gram, painter (b. 1853)
• May 11 – Juan Gris, painter (b. 1887)
• May 24, 1927 – Frederick Melville DuMond (b. 1887)
• May 28 – Boris Kustodiev, painter and stage designer (b. 1878)
• June 26 – Armand Guillaumin, impressionist painter and lithographer (b. 1841)
• June 28 – Otto Bache, painter of historical subjects (b. 1839)
• July 10 – Louise Abbéma, Impressionist painter (b. 1853)
• July 27 – Solomon Joseph Solomon, portrait painter (b. 1860)
• August 4 – Eugène Atget, photographer (b. 1857)
• August 18 – Sascha Schneider, painter and sculptor (b. 1870)
• September 19 – Michael Ancher, painter (b. 1849)
• October 7 – Paul Sérusier, abstract painter (b. 1864)
• October 9 – João Marques de Oliveira, Portuguese painter (b. 1853)
• November 21 – Laurits Tuxen, painter (b. 1853)
• November 25 – József Rippl-Rónai, painter (b. 1861)
• December 13 – Maria Oakey Dewing, American painter (b. 1845)
• date unknown
• Adolphe Demange, portrait painter (b. 1857)
• Caroline Reboux, fashion designer (b. 1837)
• Madame Virot, fashion designer (b. 1826)

See also

• 1927 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References