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
 * 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)