1931 in art

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List of years in Art

Events

• The Whitney Museum of American Art is founded by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.
• October 4 - Debut appearance of the Dick Tracy comic strip, created by cartoonist Chester Gould.

Works

See also: Category:1931 paintings

• Max Beckmann - Paris Society
• Salvador Dalí, The Persistence of Memory
• Frida Kahlo - Frida and Diego Rivera
• Tamara de Lempicka - Adam and Eve
• Georgia O'Keeffe - Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
• Pablo Picasso - Figures by the Sea
• Grant Wood - The Birthplace of Herbert Hoover

Awards

• Archibald Prize: John Longstaff - Sir John Sulman

Births

• January 21 - Paul Deliège, comic strip artist and writer
• February 9 - Robert Morris, sculptor
• February 18 - Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (d. 2007)
• February 23 - Tom Wesselmann, American pop artist (d. 2004)
• February 26 - Jacques Rouxel, French animator (d. 2004)
• March 13 - Michael Podro, English art historian (d. 2008)
• March 25 - Jack Chambers, Canadian artist and filmmaker (d. 1978)
• April 24 - Bridget Riley, painter.
• April 29 - Frank Auerbach, painter
• August 20 - Bernd Becher, German photographer (d. 2007)
• August 24 - Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos, Portuguese artist and professor (d. 2008)
• date unknown - Serge Danot, French animator (d. 1990)

Deaths

• March 7
  • Theo van Doesburg, painter and architect, leader of De Stijl (b. 1883)
  • Akseli Gallen-Kallela, painter (b. 1865)
• March 14 - Alfred Grenander, architect (b. 1863)
• March 24 - Derwent Lees, Australian landscape painter (b. 1885)
• July 11 - Jean-Louis Forain, Impressionist painter (b. 1852)
• September 14 - Tom Roberts, painter (b. 1856)
• September 20 - Max Littmann, architect (b. 1862)
• September 29 - William Orpen, portrait painter (b. 1878)
• October 10 - Sir Bertram Mackennal, Australian-born sculptor (b. 1863)
• November 17 - Edward Simmons, Impressionist painter (b. 1852)
• date unknown
  • Bela Čikoš Sesija, painter (b. 1864)
  • Lancelot Speed, illustrator (b. 1860)