# 1926 in art

Events from the year 1926 in art.

## Events

* Marcel Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even is accidentally broken.
* Marjorie Watson-Williams moves to Paris and adopts the name Paule Vézelay.

## Awards

* Archibald Prize: W B McInnes – Silk and Lace

## Works

* Max Beckmann – Quappi in Blue
* H. Chalton Bradshaw with bronzes by Gilbert Ledward – Guards Memorial, London
* Alexander Calder – Cirque Calder (wire sculpture)
* Alexander Stirling Calder – Shakespeare Memorial, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
* Salvador Dalí – The Basket of Bread
* Charles T. Diamond with relief by John Paulding – Astoria Victory Monument, Astoria, Oregon
* Edwin Dickinson – The Cello Player
* Max Ernst
** The Blessed Virgin Chastises the Infant Jesus before Three Witnesses: A.B., P.E. and the Artist
** The Dove was Right
* Alberto Giacometti – Spoon Woman
* Dora Gordine – Chinese Head (Chia-Chu Chang: The Chinese Philosopher) (bronze)
* Hannah Höch – Love
* Frida Kahlo – Self-portrait in a Velvet Dress
* Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – Brücke bei Wiesen
* René Magritte
** The Difficult Crossing (first version)
** The Musings of a Solitary Walker
* Georges Malkine – Nuit d'Amour
* John Marin - Related to Downtown New York, Movement No. 2 (The Black Sun)
* Henri Matisse – Yellow Odalisque (first version)
* Haig Patigian – Statue of Abraham Lincoln (bronze, San Francisco)
* Dod Procter – Morning
* John Bulloch Souter – The Breakdown

## Births

* 3 January – Felicitas Kuhn, Austrian illustrator (d. 2022)
* 13 January – Craigie Aitchison, Scottish painter (d. 2009)
* 17 January – Robert Filliou, French Fluxus artist (d. 1987)
* 18 January – Roy Kiyooka, Canadian photographer, artist and poet (d. 1994)
* 24 January – Ruth Asawa, American sculptor (d. 2013)
* 1 February – Vivian Maier, American street photographer (d. 2009)
* 6 April – Gil Kane, Latvian-born cartoonist (d. 2000)
* 10 April – Gustav Metzger, German-Jewish born British creator of auto-destructive art and activist (d. 2017)
* 26 April – Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (d. 2003)
* 25 May – David Wynne, English figure sculpture (d. 2014)
* 6 May – Edward Clark, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 2019)
* 13 June
** Satoru Abe, American sculptor and painter (d. 2025)
** George Booth, American cartoonist (d. 2022)
* 3 August – David Johnson, American photographer (d. 2024)
* 8 August
** Arturo García Bustos, Mexican painter (d. 2017)
** William Foley, American illustrator (d. 2020)
* 14 August – René Goscinny, French comic book author, editor and humorist (d. 1977)
* 10 September – Beryl Cook, English naïve painter (d. 2008)
* 25 September – Sonia Gechtoff, American painter (d. 2018)
* 6 October – Petar Omčikus, Serbian artist (d. 2019)
* 25 October – Ismail Gulgee, Pakistani painter (d. 2007)
* 3 November – Paul Rebeyrolle, French painter (d. 2005)
* 5 November – John Berger, English art critic, novelist and painter (d. 2017)
* 9 November – Raymond Hains, French artist and photographer (d. 2005)
* 10 December – Leon Kossoff, English painter (d. 2019)

## Deaths

* January 15 – Eugeniusz Zak, Polish painter (b. 1884)
* February 4 – Adolphe Willette, French illustrator (b. 1857)
* April 1 – Charles Angrand, French neo-Impressionist painter (b. 1854)
* June 14 – Mary Cassatt, American painter (b. 1844)
* July 17 – Maximilian Liebenwein, Austro-German painter and illustrator (b. 1869)
* July 24 – T. C. Steele, American Impressionist painter (b. 1847)
* August 25 – Thomas Moran, American painter of the Hudson River School (b. 1837)
* September 28 – Helen Allingham, English watercolour painter and illustrator (b. 1848)
* October 5 – Dorothy Tennant, English painter (b. 1855)
* October 16 – Ignacy Korwin-Milewski, Polish art collector (b. 1846)
* October 24 – Charles Marion Russell, American "cowboy artist" (b. 1864)
* December 5 – Claude Monet, French Impressionist painter (b. 1840)