1901 in art

Events from the year 1901 in art.

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.
 * March 17 – Paris: Van Gogh's paintings shown at Bernheim Gallery.
 * May 11 – The Kraków Society of Friends of Fine Arts inaugurates its Palace of Art.
 * June 24 – The first exhibit by Pablo Picasso in Paris (19 years old) – The Blue Period.
 * Julien-Auguste Hervé exhibits his paintings in Paris under the title Expressionismes.
 * 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.

Works



 * Sigvald Asbjørnsen – Statue of Leif Erikson (Chicago)
 * John Collier – In the Venusberg Tannhauser
 * Frank Cadogan Cowper – An Aristocrat answering the Summons to Execution, Paris 1791
 * Thomas Eakins – Portrait of Leslie W. Miller
 * Albert Edelfelt – Portrait of the opera singer Aino Ackté
 * Joseph Farquharson – Beneath the Snow Encumbered Branches
 * Stanhope Forbes – The 22nd January 1901: Reading the News of Queen Victoria’s Death in a Cornish Cottage
 * Paul Gauguin – Still Life with Hope
 * J. W. Godward
 * At The Garden Door
 * Chloris
 * Winslow Homer – Searchlight on Harbor Entrance, Santiago de Cuba
 * Hamo Thornycroft – Statue of Alfred the Great
 * Gustav Klimt
 * Buchenwald (Birkenwald)
 * Judith and the Head of Holofernes
 * Music (lithograph)
 * Edmund Leighton – The Accolade
 * Max Liebermann – Two Riders on the Beach (two versions)
 * Maximilien Luce – The Quai Saint-Michel and Notre-Dame
 * Adolfo Müller-Ury – portrait of Lulu Pfizer
 * Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo – The Fourth Estate (Il quarto stato, originally entitled The path of workers)
 * Pablo Picasso - too many to list - see List of Picasso artworks 1901–1910
 * Blue Roofs
 * Portrait of Gustave Coquiot
 * The Wait (Margot)
 * Camille Pissarro
 * Hay Harvest at Éragny
 * Morning, Winter Sunshine, Frost, the Pont-Neuf, the Seine, the Louvre (approximate date)
 * Maurice Prendergast - The Terrace bridge, Central Park
 * Henrietta Rae – portrait of Lord Dufferin
 * Ilya Repin – Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy Barefoot
 * Walter Sickert – The Rialto
 * Douglas Tilden – Mechanics Monument (San Francisco, California)
 * Anders Zorn
 * Freya
 * Stickande kulla, Kål-Margit ("Girl from Dalecarlia Knitting")

January to June

 * 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 to December

 * 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)

Full date unknown

 * Roland Ansieau, French graphic artist (d. 1987)
 * Michael Cardew, English studio potter (d. 1983)
 * Dorothy Dehner, American sculptor (d. 1994)
 * Philip Evergood, American painter, printmaker and sculptor (d. 1973)
 * Albert Swinden, English-born American painter (d. 1961)

Deaths

 * January 9 – Edward Mitchell Bannister, African American Tonalist painter (b. 1828)
 * January 17 – Paul Hankar, Belgian sculptor, designer and architect (b. 1859)
 * February 21 – Henry Peach Robinson, English photographer (b. 1830)
 * March 6 – John Jabez Edwin Mayall, English photographer (b. 1813)
 * 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)