1909 in art

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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.
• Sonderbund westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler established in Düsseldorf.
• Kunsthalle Mannheim established as a permanent art gallery.
• Reformation Wall created in Geneva by Swiss architects Charles Dubois, Alphonse Laverrière, Eugène Monod and Jean Taillens with figures by French sculptors Paul Landowski and Henri Bouchard.

At the centre of the Reformation Wall are statues of William Farel, John Calvin, Theodore Beza and John Knox

• Henri Gaudier meets Sophie Brzeska at the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in Paris.

Works

See also: Category:1909 sculptures

• Lawrence Alma-Tadema - A Favourite Custom (Tate Britain)
• George Bellows - The Lone Tenement
• Gutzon Borglum - Rabboni (sculpture, Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.)
• Antoine Bourdelle - Hercules the Archer (bronze)
• Cyrus Edwin Dallin - Appeal to the Great Spirit (bronze)
• Charles Fouqueray - La Reconquista de Buenos Aires
• Winslow Homer - Right and Left
• John Haberle - Night (New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut)
• Wassily Kandinsky - The Blue Mountain
• Henri Matisse - Dance (I)
• Pablo Picasso
  • Fruit Dish (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
  • Woman with a Fan (Pushkin Museum, Moscow)
• Lorado Taft - Eternal Silence (bronze, Graceland Cemetery, Chicago)
• J. W. Waterhouse - Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May

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).
• December 25 - Philip Zec, British political cartoonist (d. 1983).

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)