1901 In Art

Events from the year 1901 in art.

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.
* March 17 – Paris: Van Gogh's paintings shown at Bernheim Gallery.
* 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.
* Julien-Auguste Hervé exhibits his paintings in Paris under the title ''Expressionismes''.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.
* 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.

Works

* 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
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* Paul Gauguin – ''Still Life with Hope''
* J. W. Godward
** ''At The Garden Door''
** ''Chloris''
* Winslow Homer – ''Searchlight on Harbor Entrance, Santiago de Cuba''

* 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
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* 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
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* Douglas Tilden – Mechanics Monument (San Francisco, California)
* Anders Zorn
** ''Freya''
** '' Stickande kulla, Kål-Margit'' ("Girl from Dalecarlia Knitting")

Births

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)

Full date unknown

* 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)

Deaths

* 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)

References

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Years of the 20th century in art
1900s in art