1901 in art

Events

Works

Pellizza - The Fourth Estate

• 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
• Joseph Farquharson - Beneath the Snow Encumbered Branches
• Paul Gauguin - Still Life with Hope
• Gustav Klimt
  • Buchenwald (Birkenwald)
  • Judith and the Head of Holofernes
  • Music (lithograph)
• Edmund Leighton - The Accolade
• Adolfo Müller-Ury - portrait of Lulu Pfizer
• Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo - The Fourth Estate (Il quarto stato, originally entitled The path of workers)

Klimt - Judith and the Head of Holofernes

• Pablo Picasso
  • Blue Roofs
  • The Wait (Margot)
• Camille Pissarro
  • Hay Harvest at Éragny
  • Morning, Winter Sunshine, Frost, the Pont-Neuf, the Seine, the Louvre (approximate date)
• Henrietta Rae - portrait of Lord Dufferin
• Walter Sickert - The Rialto
• Anders Zorn
  • Freya
  • Stickande kulla, Kål-Margit ("Girl from Dalecarlia knitting")

Births

January to June

• 9 January - Chic Young, American cartoonist (d.1973).
• 28 January - James Richmond Barthé, 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).
• 9 June - John Skeaping, English sculptor and equine painter (d.1980).

July to December

• July 15 - Pyke Koch, Dutch painter (d.1991).
• July 31 - Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor (d.1985).
• 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, sculptor.
• November 7 - Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator (d.1980)
• November 11 - Richard Lindner, painter (d.1978)
• December 1 - Charles Tunnicliffe, wildlife painter
• December 5 - Walter Disney, cartoonist, animator and filmmaker (d.1966)
• December 30 - Beauford Delaney, painter (d.1979)

Full date unknown

• Roland Ansieau, French graphic artist (d.1987).
• Dorothy Dehner, sculptor (d.1994)
• Philip Evergood, painter, printmaker and sculptor (d.1973).

Deaths

• January 17 - Paul Hankar, sculptor, designer and architect (b. 1859)
• February 21 - Henry Peach Robinson, photographer (b. 1830)
• March 17 - Jean Charles Cazin, landscape painter and ceramicist (b. 1840)
• June 8 - Edward Moran, marine painter (b. 1829)
• September 9 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, painter (b. 1864)
• October 24 - James McDougal Hart, painter (b. 1828)
• November 6 - Kate Greenaway, illustrator (b. 1846)
• December 23 - Edward Onslow Ford, sculptor (b. 1852)