1926 in art

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Events

• Marjorie Watson-Williams moves to Paris and adopts the name Paule Vézelay.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: W B McInnes - Silk and Lace

Works

• Alexander Calder - Cirque Calder (wire sculpture)
• Alexander Stirling Calder - Shakespeare Memorial, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Salvador Dalí - The Basket of Bread
• Edwin Dickinson - The Cello Player
• Alberto Giacometti - Spoon Woman
• Hannah Höch - Love
• René Magritte
  • The Difficult Crossing (first version)
  • The Musings of a Solitary Walker
• Georges Malkine - Nuit d'Amour
• Henri Matisse - Yellow Odalisque (first version)

Births

• 17 January - Robert Filliou, French Fluxus artist (d.1987).
• 18 January - Roy Kiyooka, photographer, artist and poet.
• 14 August - René Goscinny, French comic book author, editor and humorist (d.1977).
• 10 September - Beryl Cook, English painter (d.2008).
• 25 October - Ismail Gulgee, Pakistani painter (d.2007).
• 3 November - Paul Rebeyrolle, French painter (d.2005).
• date unknown - Raymond Hains, French artist and photographer (d.2005).

Deaths

• January 15 - Eugeniusz Żak, painter (b. 1884)
• February 4 - Adolphe Willette, illustrator (b. 1857)
• April 1 - Charles Angrand, neo-Impressionist painter (b. 1854)
• June 14 - Mary Cassatt, painter (b. 1844)
• July 24 - T. C. Steele, painter (b. 1847)
• August 25 - Thomas Moran, painter of the Hudson River School (b. 1837)
• September 28 - Helen Allingham, watercolour painter and illustrator (b. 1848)
• December 5 - Claude Monet, painter (b. 1840)

See also

• 1926 in fine arts of the Soviet Union