1901_in_art
1901 in art
Overview of the events of 1901 in art
Events from the year 1901 in art.
- March 12 – Whitechapel Gallery, designed by Charles Harrison Townsend, opens in London as one of the first publicly funded galleries for temporary exhibitions in the city.
- March 17 – Paris: Van Gogh's paintings shown at Bernheim Gallery.[1]
- May 11 – The Kraków Society of Friends of Fine Arts inaugurates its Palace of Art.
- June 24 – The first exhibit by Pablo Picasso in Paris (19 years old) – The Blue Period.[2]
- Julien-Auguste Hervé exhibits his paintings in Paris under the title Expressionismes.[3]
- The "Red Rose Girls" rent the Red Rose Inn in Villanova, Pennsylvania in the Philadelphia Main Line.
- Swedish-born painter Carl Oscar Borg enters the United States as a stowaway.
See also: Category:1901 sculptures
- Sigvald Asbjørnsen – Statue of Leif Erikson (Chicago)
- John Collier – In the Venusberg Tannhauser
- Frank Cadogan Cowper – An Aristocrat answering the Summons to Execution, Paris 1791
- Thomas Eakins – Portrait of Leslie W. Miller
- Albert Edelfelt – Portrait of the opera singer Aino Ackté
- Joseph Farquharson – Beneath the Snow Encumbered Branches
- Stanhope Forbes – The 22nd January 1901: Reading the News of Queen Victoria’s Death in a Cornish Cottage
- Paul Gauguin – Still Life with Hope
- J. W. Godward
- At The Garden Door
- Chloris
- Winslow Homer – Searchlight on Harbor Entrance, Santiago de Cuba
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- Hamo Thornycroft – Statue of Alfred the Great
- Gustav Klimt
- Buchenwald (Birkenwald)
- Judith and the Head of Holofernes
- Music (lithograph)
- Edmund Leighton – The Accolade
- Max Liebermann – Two Riders on the Beach (two versions)
- Maximilien Luce – The Quai Saint-Michel and Notre-Dame
- Adolfo Müller-Ury – portrait of Lulu Pfizer
- Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo – The Fourth Estate (Il quarto stato, originally entitled The path of workers)
- Pablo Picasso - too many to list - see List of Picasso artworks 1901–1910
- Blue Roofs
- Portrait of Gustave Coquiot
- The Wait (Margot)
- Camille Pissarro
- Maurice Prendergast - The Terrace bridge, Central Park[4]
- Henrietta Rae – portrait of Lord Dufferin
- Ilya Repin – Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy Barefoot
- Walter Sickert – The Rialto
- Douglas Tilden – Mechanics Monument (San Francisco, California)
- Anders Zorn
- Freya
- Stickande kulla, Kål-Margit ("Girl from Dalecarlia Knitting")
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January to June
- 7 January – Fahrelnissa Zeid, Turkish abstract artist (d. 1991).
- 9 January – Chic Young, American cartoonist (d. 1973).
- 24 January – Cassandre, born Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron, Ukrainian-born French graphic designer (d. 1968).
- 28 January – Richmond Barthé, African-American sculptor (d. 1989).
- 22 March – Greta Kempton, Austrian-American artist (d. 1991).
- 24 March – Ub Iwerks, American animator, cartoonist and special effects technician (d. 1971).
- 27 March – Carl Barks, American illustrator and comic book creator (d. 2000).
- 7 April – Christopher Wood, English painter (suicide 1930).
- 9 June – John Skeaping, English sculptor and equine painter (d. 1980).
July to December
- July 5 – Len Lye, New Zealand-born kinetic sculptor and filmmaker (d. 1980).
- July 15 – Pyke Koch, Dutch painter (d. 1991).
- July 31 – Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor (d. 1985).
- August 29 – Anna Zinkeisen, Scottish-born artist (died 1976)
- September 14 – Lucien Aigner, Hungarian photographer (d. 1999).
- October 2 – Alice Prin ("Kiki de Montparnasse"), French artists' model and painter (d. 1953).
- October 10 – Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (d. 1966)
- November 7 – Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator (d. 1980)
- November 11 – Richard Lindner, German-American painter (d. 1978)
- December 1 – Charles Tunnicliffe, British wildlife painter (d. 1979)
- December 5 – Walt Disney, American cartoonist, animator and filmmaker (d. 1966)
- December 27 – Stanley Hayter, English-born printmaker (d. 1988)
- December 30 – Beauford Delaney, American modernist painter (d. 1979)
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- Roland Ansieau, French graphic artist (d. 1987)
- Michael Cardew, English studio potter (d. 1983)
- Dorothy Dehner, American sculptor (d. 1994)
- Philip Evergood, American painter, printmaker and sculptor (d. 1973)
- Albert Swinden, English-born American painter (d. 1961)
- January 9 – Edward Mitchell Bannister, African American Tonalist painter (b. 1828)
- January 17 – Paul Hankar, Belgian sculptor, designer and architect (b. 1859)
- February 21 – Henry Peach Robinson, English photographer (b. 1830)
- March 6 – John Jabez Edwin Mayall, English photographer (b. 1813)
- March 17 – Jean-Charles Cazin, French landscape painter and ceramicist (b. 1840)
- May 2 – Blaise Alexandre Desgoffe, French still-life painter (b. 1830)
- June 5 – Dagny Juel, Norwegian-born artists' model (b. 1867) (shot)
- June 8 – Edward Moran, English-born American marine painter (b. 1829)
- September 9 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b. 1864)
- October 24 – James McDougal Hart, Scottish-born American painter (b. 1828)
- November 6 – Kate Greenaway, English illustrator (b. 1846)
- December 23 – Edward Onslow Ford, English sculptor (b. 1852)
- Legrand, Jacques (1987). Chronicle of the 20th Century. Ecam Publication. p. 25. ISBN 0-942191-01-3.
- Warncke, Carsten-Peter and Walther F. Ingo (1997). Pablo Picasso: 1881-1973. Taschen. p. 31. ISBN 978-3-8228-8273-3.
- Willett, John (1970). Expressionism. New York: World University Library. p. 25; Sheppard, Richard (1976). "German Expressionism", in Modernism: 1890–1930, ed. Bradbury & McFarlane, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 274.