1901 in art

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The year 1901 in art involved some significant events and new works.

Events

March 12 – Whitechapel Gallery, designed by Charles Harrison Townsend, opens in London as one of the first publicly funded galleries for temporary exhibitions in the city.
May 11 – The Kraków Society of Friends of Fine Arts inaugurates its Palace of Art.
Julien-Auguste Hervé exhibits his paintings in Paris under the title Expressionismes.^[1]
The "Red Rose Girls" rent the Red Rose Inn in Villanova, Pennsylvania in the Philadelphia Main Line.
Swedish-born painter Carl Oscar Borg enters the United States as a stowaway.

7 January – Fahrelnissa Zeid, Turkish abstract artist (d. 1991).
9 January – Chic Young, American cartoonist (d. 1973).
24 January – Cassandre, born Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron, Ukrainian-born French graphic designer (d. 1968).
28 January – Richmond Barthé, African-American sculptor (d. 1989).
22 March – Greta Kempton, Austrian-American artist (d. 1991).
24 March – Ub Iwerks, American animator, cartoonist and special effects technician (d. 1971).
27 March – Carl Barks, American illustrator and comic book creator (d. 2000).
7 April – Christopher Wood, English painter (suicide 1930).
9 June – John Skeaping, English sculptor and equine painter (d. 1980).

July 5 – Len Lye, New Zealand-born kinetic sculptor and filmmaker (d. 1980).
July 15 – Pyke Koch, Dutch painter (d. 1991).
July 31 – Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor (d. 1985).
August 29 – Anna Zinkeisen, Scottish-born artist (died 1976)
September 14 – Lucien Aigner, Hungarian photographer (d. 1999).
October 2 – Alice Prin ("Kiki de Montparnasse"), French artists' model and painter (d. 1953).
October 10 – Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (d. 1966)
November 7 – Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator (d. 1980)
November 11 – Richard Lindner, German-American painter (d. 1978)
December 1 – Charles Tunnicliffe, British wildlife painter (d. 1979)
December 5 – Walt Disney, American cartoonist, animator and filmmaker (d. 1966)
December 27 – Stanley Hayter, English-born printmaker (d. 1988)
December 30 – Beauford Delaney, American modernist painter (d. 1979)

January 17 – Paul Hankar, Belgian sculptor, designer and architect (b. 1859)
February 21 – Henry Peach Robinson, English photographer (b. 1830)
March 17 – Jean-Charles Cazin, French landscape painter and ceramicist (b. 1840)
May 2 – Blaise Alexandre Desgoffe, French still-life painter (b. 1830)
June 5 – Dagny Juel, Norwegian-born artists' model (b. 1867) (shot)
June 8 – Edward Moran, English-born American marine painter (b. 1829)
September 9 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b. 1864)
October 24 – James McDougal Hart, Scottish-born American painter (b. 1828)
November 6 – Kate Greenaway, English illustrator (b. 1846)
December 23 – Edward Onslow Ford, English sculptor (b. 1852)

^ Willett, John (1970). Expressionism. New York: World University Library. p. 25; Sheppard, Richard (1976). "German Expressionism", in Modernism: 1890–1930, ed. Bradbury & McFarlane, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 274.