1901 in art

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Events

• 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.
• May 11 – The Kraków Society of Friends of Fine Arts inaugurates its Palace of Art.
• Julien-Auguste Hervé exhibits his paintings in Paris under the title Expressionismes.^[1]
• Swedish-born painter Carl Oscar Borg enters the United States as a stowaway.

Works

Pellizza – The Fourth Estate

• 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
• 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

Klimt – Judith and the Head of Holofernes

• Gustav Klimt
  • Buchenwald (Birkenwald)
  • Judith and the Head of Holofernes
  • Music (lithograph)
• Edmund Leighton – The Accolade
• 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
  • Blue Roofs
  • The Wait (Margot)
• Camille Pissarro
  • Hay Harvest at Éragny
  • Morning, Winter Sunshine, Frost, the Pont-Neuf, the Seine, the Louvre (approximate date)
• Henrietta Rae – portrait of Lord Dufferin
• Ilya Repin – Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy Barefoot
• Walter Sickert – The Rialto
• Anders Zorn
  • Freya
  • Stickande kulla, Kål-Margit ("Girl from Dalecarlia Knitting")

Births

January to June

• 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 – James Richmond Barthé, 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).
• 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, Hungcvx arian photographer (d. 1999).
• October 2 – Alice Prin ("Kiki de Montparnasse"), French artists' model and painter (d. 1953).
• October 10 – Alberto Giacometti, sculptor.
• November 7 – Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator (d. 1980)
• November 11 – Richard Lindner, painter (d. 1978)
• December 1 – Charles Tunnicliffe, British wildlife painter (d. 1979)
• December 5 – Walter Disney, cartoonist, animator and filmmaker (d. 1966)
• December 27 – Stanley Hayter, English-born printmaker (d. 1988)
• December 30 – Beauford Delaney, painter (d. 1979)

Full date unknown

• Roland Ansieau, French graphic artist (d. 1987)
• Michael Cardew, English studio potter (d. 1983)
• Dorothy Dehner, sculptor (d.1994)
• Philip Evergood, painter, printmaker and sculptor (d. 1973)
• Albert Swinden, English-born American painter (d. 1961)

Deaths

• January 17 – Paul Hankar, sculptor, designer and architect (b. 1859)
• February 21 – Henry Peach Robinson, photographer (b. 1830)
• March 17 – Jean Charles Cazin, 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, painter (b. 1864)
• October 24 – James McDougal Hart, painter (b. 1828)
• November 6 – Kate Greenaway, illustrator (b. 1846)
• December 23 – Edward Onslow Ford, sculptor (b. 1852)

References

1. 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.