1912 in art

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List of years in Art

Events

• Jean Metzinger and Albert Gleizes publish the first major treatise on Cubism, entitled Du Cubisme.
• William Zorach marries Marguerite Thompson.
• René Lalique stages his first exhibit of his glasswares — as does Maurice Marinot.
• Vasilly Kandinsky's experimental theater composition The Yellow Sound is published in The Blue Rider Almanac.

Works

See also: Category:1912 paintings

• David Bomberg - Vision of Ezekiel
• Pierre Bonnard - St Tropez, Pier
• Paul Émile Chabas - September Morn (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
• Marcel Duchamp - Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2
• Lydia Field Emmet - Self Portrait
• Fernand Léger - La Fumée (Smoke)
• Pablo Picasso - Violon, verre, pipe et encrier
• T. F. Simon - Second Hand Booksellers, Spring

Births

January to June

• January 7 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d.1988)
• January 28 - Jackson Pollock, American painter (d.1956)
• February 7 - Russell Drysdale, Australian artist (d.1981)
• March 4 - Afro Basaldella, Italian painter (d.1976)
• March 22 - Agnes Martin, Canadian-American painter (d.2004)
• April 14 - Robert Doisneau, French photographer (d.1994)
• May 8 - John Deakin, English photographer (d.1972)
• June 4 - Robert Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and painter (d.1993)
• June 11 - William Baziotes, painter (d.1963)

July to December

• August 1 - Rachel Baes, Belgian painter (d.1983)
• September 4
  • Syd Hoff, American children’s book author and cartoonist (d.2004)
  • Alexander Liberman, painter and sculptor (d.1999)
• September 5
  • Kristina Söderbaum, Swedish-German film actress, producer and photographer (d.2001)
  • Frank Thomas, American animator (d.2004)
• September 23 - Tony Smith, American sculptor, visual artist and theorist on art (d.1980)
• October 31 - Ollie Johnston, American animator (d.2008)
• November 3 -Ida Kohlmeyer, painter and sculptor (d.1997)
• November 28 - Morris Louis, American painter (d.1962)
• December 27 - Conroy Maddox, English surrealist painter, collagist, writer and lecturer (d.2005)

Full date unknown

• Harry Holtzman, American artist (d.1987)

Deaths

• March 29 - John Gerrard Keulemans, bird illustrator
• May 2 - Homer Davenport, cartoonist
• June 25 - Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch painter (b. 1836)
• July 16 - Thomas Fitzpatrick, cartoonist (b. 1860)
• November 1 - John Emms, painter
• December 8 - Tony Robert-Fleury, painter (b.1865)
• December 23 - Édouard Detaille, painter
• date unknown - Henry Allan, painter