1909 in art

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List of years in Art

Events

• Guillaume Apollinaire's first book of poetry is illustrated with woodcuts by André Derain.
• Pablo Picasso and George Braque create the first works of analytical cubism.

Works

• George Bellows - The Lone Tenement
• John Haberle - Night (New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut)
• Henri Matisse - Dance (first version)
• Pablo Picasso
  • Fruit Dish (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
  • Woman with a Fan (Pushkin Museum, Moscow)

Births

January to June

• 16 January - Clement Greenberg, American art critic (d.1994).
• 25 January - Joseph Solman, American painter (d.2008).
• 12 February - Zoran Music, Slovenian- born painter (d.2005).
• 19 February - Enrico Donati, Italian- born American Surrealist painter and sculptor (d.2008).
• 22 March - Milt Kahl, American animator (d.1987).
• 3 April - Graham Stuart Thomas, English horticultural artist, author and garden designer (d.2003).
• 30 April - F. E. McWilliam, Irish sculptor (d.1992)
• May 17 - Giulio Carlo Argan, Italian art historian and politician (d.1992)
• 14 June - Ettore DeGrazia, American impressionist, painter, sculptor and lithographer (d.1982).
• 26 June - Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American animator (d.1985).

July to December

• 13 July - Marie-Thérèse Walter, mistress of Pablo Picasso (d.1977).
• 14 September - Peter Scott, English ornithologist, conservationist, painter (d.1989).
• 28 September - Al Capp, cartoonist (d.1979).
• 13 October - Herblock, political cartoonist (d.2001).
• 28 October - Francis Bacon, Irish-born British figurative painter (d.1992).

Full date unknown

• Gabriel Hayes, Irish sculptor and coin designer (d.1978).
• Michel Tapié, French artist, critic, curator, and art collector (d.1987).

Deaths

• February 11 - Russell Sturgis, architect and art critic
• February 20 - Paul Ranson, French painter and writer (b. 1864)
• February 26 - Caran d'Ache, political cartoonist (b. 1858)
• June 22 - Edward John Gregory, painter (b. 1850)
• November 9 - William Powell Frith, painter
• November 21 - Peder Severin Krøyer, Norwegian painter (b.1851)
• November 23 – Otto Sinding, Norwegian painter (b.1842)
• date unknown - Adolf von Becker - Finnish painter (b. 1831)