1908 in art

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List of years in Art

Events

• Hugh Lane founds the Dublin City Gallery.
• Paul Ranson founds the Académie Ranson in Paris.
• Allied Artists' Association holds its first exhibition, at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
• The Ashcan School ("the Eight") give their first and only exhibition at the Macbeth Gallery.
• Australian painter Sir Arthur Streeton marries violinist Nora Clench.

Works

See also: Category:1908 paintings

• László Beszédes - Joseph (slave) (sculpture)
• Pierre Bonnard - Woman in a Blue Hat
• Laura Knight - The Beach
• Amedeo Modigliani - The Jewess
• Piet Mondrian - Avond
• Walter Sickert - The Camden Town Murder (group of paintings)

Births

January to June

• January 18 - Humberto Rosa, painter (d. 1982)
• February 12 - Jean Effel, French painter, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist (d. 1948)
• February 26 - Tex Avery, American animator, cartoonist, and director (d.1980).
• February 28 - William Coldstream, English realist painter (d.1987).
• February 29 - Balthus, French modern artist (d.2001)
• March 13
  • Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (d.1970)
  • Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Portuguese-French abstract painter (d.1992)
• March 19 - George Rodger, English photographer (d.1995)
• May 16 - Anne Bonnet, Belgian painter (d. 1960)

July to December

• July 9 - Minor White, photographer (d.1976).
• July 22 - Claire Falkenstein, American sculptor and painter (d.1997).
• August 22 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d.2004).
• August 28 - Roger Tory Peterson, American naturalist, ornithologist, artist and educator (d.1996).
• August 30 - Leonor Fini, Argentine surrealist painter (d.1996).
• September 6 - Korczak Ziolkowski, Polish-American sculptor (d.1982).
• October 1 - Nicholas Marsicano, painter (d.1991).
• October 21 - Jorge Oteiza, Spanish sculptor, painter, designer and writer (d.2003).
• October 27 - Lee Krasner, American abstract expressionist painter (d.1984).
• December 3 - Victor Pasmore, English artist and architect (d.1998).
• December 23 - Yousuf Karsh, Armenian-Canadian photographer (d.2002).

Full date unknown

• Helen Lundeberg, painter (d.1999).
• Umaña, Colombian artist (d.1994).

Deaths

• January 13 - Hashimoto Gahō, Japanese painter of the Kanō school (b. 1835)
• April 13 - Aasta Hansteen, Norwegian painter, writer, and early feminist (b. 1824)
• August 30 - Giovanni Fattori, Italian painter and printmaker (b. 1825)
• November 4 - Richard Gerstl, Austrian painter and draughtsman (b. 1883)
• November 24 - Charles Henry Turner, American watercolourist and oil painter (b. 1848)
• December 5 - Ernest Hébert, painter (b. 1817)
• December 27 - František Bohumír Zvěřina, Czech painter (b. 1835)
• date unknown
  • Leopoldo Costoli, sculptor (b. 1850)
  • George Earl, painter of sporting animals (b. 1824)
  • Joseph Henderson, Scottish landscape painter (b. 1832)