1909 in art

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List of years in Art

Events

• Guillaume Apollinaire's first book of poetry is illustrated with woodcuts by André Derain.
• Pablo Picasso and George Braque create the first works of analytical cubism.

Works

See also: Category:1909 paintings

• Lawrence Alma-Tadema - A Favourite Custom (Tate Britain)
• George Bellows - The Lone Tenement
• John Haberle - Night (New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut)
• Henri Matisse - Dance (first version)
• Pablo Picasso
  • Fruit Dish (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
  • Woman with a Fan (Pushkin Museum, Moscow)

Births

January to June

• January 16 - Clement Greenberg, American art critic (d.1994).
• January 25 - Joseph Solman, American painter (d. 2008).
• February 12 - Zoran Mušič, Slovenian- born painter (d. 2005).
• February 17 - Gertrude Abercrombie, American painter (d. 1977)
• February 19 - Enrico Donati, Italian- born American Surrealist painter and sculptor (d. 2008)
• February 26 - Michel Tapié, French artist, critic, curator, and art collector (d. 1987)
• March 22 - Milt Kahl, American animator (d. 1987).
• April 3 - Graham Stuart Thomas, English horticultural artist, author and garden designer (d. 2003).
• April 30 - F. E. McWilliam, Irish sculptor (d. 1992)
• May 17 - Giulio Carlo Argan, Italian art historian and politician (d. 1992)
• June 14 - Ettore DeGrazia, American impressionist, painter, sculptor and lithographer (d. 1982).
• June 26 - Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American animator (d. 1985).

July to December

• July 13 - Marie-Thérèse Walter, mistress of Pablo Picasso (d. 1977).
• September 14 - Peter Scott, English ornithologist, conservationist, painter (d. 1989).
• September 28 - Al Capp, cartoonist (d. 1979).
• October 13 - Herblock, political cartoonist (d. 2001).
• October 28 - Francis Bacon, Irish-born British figurative painter (d. 1992).
• November 6 - Herman Rose painter (d.2007).

Full date unknown

• Gabriel Hayes, Irish sculptor and coin designer (d. 1978).

Deaths

• February 11 - Russell Sturgis, architect and art critic
• February 20 - Paul Ranson, French painter and writer (b. 1864)
• February 26 - Caran d'Ache, political cartoonist (b. 1858)
• June 22 - Edward John Gregory, painter (b. 1850)
• November 9 - William Powell Frith, painter
• November 21 - Peder Severin Krøyer, Norwegian painter (b.1851)
• November 23 – Otto Sinding, Norwegian painter (b.1842)
• date unknown - Adolf von Becker - Finnish painter (b. 1831)