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Overview of the events of 1920 in art
Overview of the events of 1920 in art
The year 1920 in art involved some significant events and new works.
Events
Works
Births
January to June
- January 12 – Bill Reid, Canadian artist (d. 1998).
- January 17 – Georges Pichard, French comics artist (d. 2003).
- January 30 – Patrick Heron, English painter, writer and designer (d. 1999).
- February 22 – Rocco Borella, Italian painter (d. 1994).
- March 3 – Ronald Searle, English cartoonist (d. 2011).
- March 14 – Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d. 2001).
- March 27 – Robin Jacques, English illustrator (d. 1995).
- April 8 – Hans Coper, German-born studio potter (d. 1981).
- April 24 – Paul Wonner, American painter (d. 2008).
- May – Hans Josephsohn, German-born sculptor (d. 2012).
- May 8
- May 10 - Erna Viitol, Estonian sculptor (d. 2001).
- June 4 – Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter, muralist, sculptor and engraver (d. 1992).
- June 24
- June 29 – Ray Harryhausen, American-born stop-motion animator, sculptor (d. 2013).
July to December
- July 20 – Arthur Boyd, Australian painter and sculptor (d. 1999).
- July 21 – Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter, one of the innovators of Unitary Urbanism (d. 2005).
- August 5 – George Tooker, American figurative painter (d. 2011).
- August 15 – Judy Cassab, born Judit Kaszab, Austrian-born Australian portrait painter (d. 2015).
- August 22 – Gene Davis, American painter (d. 1985).
- August 26
- October 13 – Elaine Hamilton, American painter (d. 2010).
- October 31 – Helmut Newton, German-born photographer (d. 2004).
- November 23 – Wayne Thiebaud, American painter.
- November 30 – Walter Chandoha, American cat photographer (d. 2019).
- December 14 – Claire Fejes, American artist
- December 18 – Enrique Grau, Colombian painter and sculptor (d. 2004).
- December 21 – Bob Bindig, American illustrator (d. 2007)
Full date unknown
Deaths
- January 24 – Amedeo Modigliani, Italian-born painter and sculptor (b. 1884)
- January 26 – Jeanne Hébuterne, French artist, Modigliani's mistress and model (suicide) (b. 1898)
- March 13 – Mary Devens, American pictorial photographer (b. 1857)
- March 15 – Edith Holden, English nature artist and art teacher (b. 1871)
- March 26 – Samuel Colman, American painter and designer (b. 1832)
- April 20 – Briton Rivière, British painter (b. 1840)
- April 27 – Jacob Ungerer, German sculptor (b. 1840)
- May 7 – Hugh Thomson, British illustrator (b. 1860)
- May 12 – Georges Petit, French art dealer (b. 1856)
- July 17 – Sir Edmund Elton, 8th Baronet, English studio potter (b. 1846)
- August 4 – C. G. Finch-Davies, British bird painter (b. 1875)
- August 6 – Edward Francis Searles, American interior designer (b. 1841)
- August 12 – Walter W. Winans, American sculptor, painter, marksman and horse-breeder (b. 1852)
- August 22 – Anders Zorn, Swedish portrait painter (b. 1860)
- September 24 – Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian-born jeweller (b. 1846)
- November 13 – Luc-Olivier Merson, French painter (b. 1846)
- date unknown – Edith Corbet, Australian-born British landscape painter (b. 1846)