1906 in art

Events from the year 1906 in art.

Events

 * September–October – First group exhibition by Die Brücke, in Dresden.
 * Gwen John begins modelling for Auguste Rodin.
 * Hilma af Klint begins painting abstract art, including the first of her Primordial Chaos series.
 * Paula Modersohn-Becker begins a series of nude portraits of herself and of other women and children in Paris.
 * Juan Gris, Amedeo Modigliani and Gino Severini all arrive in Paris.
 * Walter Sickert paints music hall scenes in London and Paris.
 * Ferdinand Preiss opens his workshop in Berlin.
 * Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest) completed.
 * Dritte Deutsche Kunstgewerbeausstellung Dresden (third German arts and crafts exhibition) took place in Dresden from May 12 to October 31

Works

 * Umberto Boccioni – Self-portrait
 * Antoine Bourdelle – The Fruit (sculpture)
 * Olga Boznańska – Portrait of a Lady in a White Hat
 * Paul Cézanne – The Gardener Vallier
 * Robert Delaunay – L'homme à la tulipe (Portrait de Jean Metzinger)
 * André Derain
 * Charing Cross Bridge, London
 * The Pool of London
 * Daniel Chester French and Edward Clark Potter
 * Equestrian statue of Charles Devens
 * Progress of the State (quadriga)
 * J. W. Godward
 * Drusilla
 * Nerissa
 * The Tambourine Girl (two versions)
 * Wilhelm Hammershoi – Interior
 * William Le Baron Jenney and Charles Mulligan – Illinois Memorial
 * Robert Henri - El Matador (Felix Asiego)
 * Ishibashi Kazunori – Lady Reading Poetry
 * Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson – The Hiker (statue)
 * Peder Severin Krøyer – Midsummer Eve Bonfire on Skagen Beach
 * Albert Marquet
 * The Beach at Fécamp
 * Fécamp (The Beach at Sainte-Adresse)
 * Henri Matisse
 * Le bonheur de vivre
 * Self-Portrait in a Striped T-shirt
 * The Young Sailor I
 * The Young Sailor II
 * Willard Metcalf – May Night
 * Jean Metzinger
 * Coucher de soleil no. 1
 * Femme au Chapeau
 * La danse (Bacchante)
 * Portrait de Robert Delaunay
 * Paula Modersohn-Becker – Self-portrait
 * Claude Monet – Water Lilies
 * Edvard Munch
 * Portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche
 * Self-portrait with a bottle
 * Mikhail Nesterov
 * Portrait of E. P. Nesterov
 * Portrait of Olga Nesterova (Woman in a Riding Habit)
 * Maxfield Parrish – Old King Cole and his Fiddlers Three (mural at St. Regis Hotel, New York City)
 * Pablo Picasso
 * Boy Leading a Horse
 * Portrait of Gertrude Stein
 * Self-Portrait with Palette
 * Niko Pirosmani – Feast with Organ-Grinder Datiko Zemel
 * Medardo Rosso – Ecce Puer (sculpted bust)
 * John Singer Sargent – Self-portrait
 * Zinaida Serebriakova – Country Girl
 * Walter Sickert – La Hollandaise
 * Franz von Stuck – Salome
 * Albert Chevallier Tayler – Kent vs Lancashire at Canterbury
 * Douglas Tilden – California Volunteers (sculpture, San Francisco)
 * Ville Vallgren – Havis Amanda (bronze)

January to June

 * January 2 – Hans Mertens, German painter (died 1944)
 * January 3 – Óscar Domínguez, Spanish surrealist painter (died 1957)
 * January 9 – Janko Brašić, Serbian painter (died 1994)
 * January 13 – Burgoyne Diller, American abstract painter (died 1965)
 * February 28 – Percy Shakespeare, English painter (died 1943)
 * March 2 – Jessie Oonark, Canadian Inuit artist (died 1985)
 * March 8 – Victor Hasselblad, Swedish inventor and photographer (died 1978)
 * March 9 – David Smith, American abstract expressionist sculptor (died 1965)
 * March 26 – Henri Cadiou, French realist painter and lithographer (died 1989)
 * March 27 – Bernard Lefebvre, French photographer (died 1992)
 * April 11 – Dale Messick, first woman syndicated comic strip artist in the United States (died 2005)
 * April 14 – Elmyr de Hory, Hungarian-born painter and art forger (d. 1976)
 * April 21 – Lillian Browse, English art dealer and historian (died 2005)
 * May 16 – Alfred Pellan, Canadian artist (died 1988)
 * May 2 – Philippe Halsman, Latvian-born American portrait photographer (died 1979)
 * May 20 – Leon Polk Smith, American painter (died 1996)
 * June 9 – James Boswell, New Zealand painter and draughtsman (died 1971)

July to December

 * July 8 – Philip Johnson, American architect, art collector, curator (died 2005)
 * August 12 – Tedd Pierce, American animated cartoon writer, animator and artist (died 1972)
 * August 14 – Horst P. Horst, German American photographer (died 1999)
 * August 20 – Heinz Henghes, German sculptor (died 1975)
 * August 21 – Friz Freleng, American animator, cartoonist, director and producer (died 1995)
 * September 5 – Ralston Crawford, American painter, lithographer and photographer (died 1978)
 * October 18 – James Brooks, American painter and muralist (died 1992)
 * October 24 – Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Austrian painter (died 1996)
 * October 27 – Peter Blume, American painter (died 1992)
 * November 26 – Krystyna Dąbrowska, Polish sculptor and painter (died 1944)
 * December 10 – Padraig Marrinan, Irish painter (died 1975)
 * December 14 – Maxwell Bates, Canadian architect and expressionist painter (died 1980)
 * December 27 – Andreas Feininger, French-born American photographer (died 1999)

Deaths

 * January 20 – Philippe Solari, French sculptor (born 1840)
 * February – Charles-Auguste Lebourg, French sculptor (born 1829)
 * February 14 – Carl Eneas Sjöstrand, Swedish sculptor (born 1828)
 * March 5 – Hugh Ramsay, Australian painter (born 1877)
 * March 17 – Thomas Dalziel, English engraver (born 1823)
 * March 27 – Eugène Carrière, French Symbolist painter (born 1849)
 * March 19 – Étienne Carjat, French portraitist (born 1828)
 * March 29 – Slava Raskaj, Croatian watercolour painter (born 1877)
 * April 5 – Wyke Bayliss, English painter (born 1835)
 * April 14 – Walter Williams, English landscape painter (born 1834)
 * April 19 – Daniel Huntington, American painter (born 1816)
 * May – John Mulvany, Irish-born American painter (b. circa 1839)
 * June 20 – John Clayton Adams, English landscape artist (born 1840)
 * August 21 – Eugen Felix, Austrian painter (born 1836)
 * August 29 – Alfred Stevens, Belgian painter (born 1828)
 * October 2 – Raja Ravi Varma, Indian painter (born 1848)
 * October 22 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (born 1839)
 * October 28 – Jean Benner, French artist (born 1836)
 * November 5 – Frits Thaulow, Norwegian Impressionist painter (born 1847)
 * December 11 – Axel Lindahl, Swedish landscape photographer (born 1841)
 * November 20 – Charles Eastlake, English architect and furniture designer (born 1836)
 * December 31 – Julia Goodman, English portrait painter (born 1812)
 * date unknown
 * Antonio Beato, Italian-born photographer (born c.1825)
 * Charles Edwin Fripp, English-born war artist (born 1854)
 * Maeda Genzō, Japanese photographer (born 1831)
 * William Linnell, British painter (born 1826)