1926 in art
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[edit] Events
- Marjorie Watson-Williams moves to Paris and adopts the name Paule Vézelay.
[edit] Awards
- Archibald Prize: W B McInnes - Silk and Lace
[edit] Works
See also: Category:1926 sculptures
- Alexander Calder - Cirque Calder (wire sculpture)
- Alexander Stirling Calder - Shakespeare Memorial, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Salvador Dalí - The Basket of Bread
- Edwin Dickinson - The Cello Player
- Alberto Giacometti - Spoon Woman
- Hannah Höch - Love
- René Magritte
- The Difficult Crossing (first version)
- The Musings of a Solitary Walker
- Georges Malkine - Nuit d'Amour
- Henri Matisse - Yellow Odalisque (first version)
[edit] Births
- 17 January - Robert Filliou, French Fluxus artist (d.1987).
- 18 January - Roy Kiyooka, photographer, artist and poet.
- 14 August - René Goscinny, French comic book author, editor and humorist (d.1977).
- 10 September - Beryl Cook, English painter (d.2008).
- 25 October - Ismail Gulgee, Pakistani painter (d.2007).
- 3 November - Paul Rebeyrolle, French painter (d.2005).
- date unknown - Raymond Hains, French artist and photographer (d.2005).
[edit] Deaths
- January 15 - Eugeniusz Żak, painter (b. 1884)
- February 4 - Adolphe Willette, illustrator (b. 1857)
- April 1 - Charles Angrand, neo-Impressionist painter (b. 1854)
- June 14 - Mary Cassatt, painter (b. 1844)
- July 24 - T. C. Steele, painter (b. 1847)
- August 25 - Thomas Moran, painter of the Hudson River School (b. 1837)
- September 28 - Helen Allingham, watercolour painter and illustrator (b. 1848)
- December 5 - Claude Monet, painter (b. 1840)
