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 – The first large-scale showing of Van Gogh's paintings in Paris as 71 are shown at the Bernheim-Jeune gallery, 11 years after his death.^[1]
May 11 – The Kraków Society of Friends of Fine Arts inaugurates its Palace of Art.
June 24 – The first showing of Picasso's paintings in Paris as the 19-year-old Spanish artist exhibits his work at Ambroise Vollard's gallery. Preparing for the show (from May) he has worked in the Paris studio of his friend Carles Casagemas who had committed suicide on February 17. Later this year, Picasso's Blue Period begins.^[2]
Julien-Auguste Hervé exhibits his paintings in Paris under the title Expressionismes.^[3]
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.

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Births

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 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)

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