1910 in art

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List of years in Art

Events

• Robert Delaunay marries Sonia Terk.
• Bronze sculptor Robert Kionsek joins the Berlin workshop of Ferdinand Preiss to form the PK firm; the two men combine their specialties to produce sculptures in bronze and ivory.

Exhibitions

• First exhibition of Post-Impressionism in London, organised by Roger Fry.

Works

• Pierre Bonnard - Girl with Parrot
• Georges Braque - Violin and Candlestick
• Henri-Edmond Cross - Cypresses at Cagnes
• Salvador Dalí - Landscape Near Figueras
• Lyonel Feininger - Straße im Dämmern
• Goscombe John - The Boy Scout
• Wassily Kandinsky - Improvisation 7
• William Orpen - Self Portrait
• Pablo Picasso - Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler

Births

January to June

• January 6 - Wright Morris, American novelist, photographer, and essayist (d.1998).
• January 29 - Colin Middleton, Irish artist (d.1983).
• March 10 - David Rose, American animator (d.2006).
• March 18 - Leonard Bocour, paint-maker, painter (d. 1993)
• April 24 - Fuller Potter, American Abstract expressionist artist (d.1990)
• April 29 - Edward Wesson, English watercolour artist (d.1983)
• May 23
  • Hugh Casson, British architect, interior designer, artist, writer and broadcaster (d.1999).
    • Franz Kline, painter (d.1962).
• June 6 - Hélène de Beauvoir, French painter (d.2001).
• June 8
  • C. C. Beck, American cartoonist and comic book artist (d.1989).
  • Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (d.2003)
• June 17 - Raymond Poïvet, French cartoonist (d.1999)

July to December

• 14 July - William Hanna, cartoonist (d.2001).
• 30 July - Edgar de Evia, Mexican-born American photographer (d.2003).
• 1 August - James Henry Govier, English painter (d.1974).
• 19 August - Quentin Bell, English art historian and author (d.1996).
• 25 August - Dorothea Tanning, painter.
• 28 August - Morris Graves, painter and printmaker (d.2001).
• 3 September - Kitty Carlisle Hart, American singer, actress and New York State Council on the Arts member (d.2007).
• 7 October - Henry Plumer McIlhenny, American, art collector, philanthropist and chairman of Philadelphia Art Museum (d.1986).
• 29 October - Aurélie Nemours, French painter (d.2005).
• 28 November - Garrett Eckbo, landscape architect (d.2000).
• 2 December - Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer and author (d.1991).

Deaths

• February 14 - John Macallan Swan, painter and sculptor (b. 1847)
• March 21 - Nadar, photographer and caricaturist (b. 1820)
• April 13 - William Quiller Orchardson, portrait painter (b. 1835)
• May 1 - John Quincy Adams Ward, sculptor (b. 1830)
• May 16 - Henri-Edmond Cross, pointillist painter(b. 1856)
• September 2 - Henri Rousseau, French painter (b. 1844)
• September 7 - William Holman Hunt, pre-Raphaelite painter (b. 1827)
• September 10 - Emmanuel Frémiet, sculptor (b. 1824)
• September 29 - Winslow Homer, painter (b. 1836)
• November 14 - John LaFarge, painter and stained glass artist (b. 1835)