1931 in art

List of years in Art

Events

• The Whitney Museum of American Art is founded by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.
• October 4 - Debut appearance of the Dick Tracy comic strip, created by cartoonist Chester Gould.

Works

• Salvador Dalí, The Persistence of Memory
• Georgia O'Keeffe - Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Awards

• Archibald Prize: John Longstaff - Sir John Sulman

Births

• 21 January - Paul Deliège, comic strip artist and writer.
• 9 February - Robert Morris, sculptor.
• 18 February - Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (d.2007).
• 23 February - Tom Wesselmann, American pop artist (d.2004).
• 26 February - Jacques Rouxel, French animator (d.2004).
• 13 March - Michael Podro, English art historian (d.2008).
• 25 March - Jack Chambers, Canadian artist and filmmaker (d.1978).
• 24 April - Bridget Riley, painter.
• 29 April - Frank Auerbach, painter.
• 24 August - Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos, Portuguese artist and professor (d.2008).
• date unknown
  • Bernd Becher, German photographer (d.2007).
  • Serge Danot, French animator (d.1990).

Deaths

• March 7
  • Theo van Doesburg, painter and architect, leader of De Stijl (b. 1883)
  • Akseli Gallen-Kallela, painter (b. 1865)
• March 14 - Alfred Grenander, architect (b. 1863)
• July 11 - Jean-Louis Forain, Impressionist painter (b. 1852)
• September 20 - Max Littmann, architect (b. 1862)
• September 29 - William Orpen, portrait painter (b. 1878)
• November 17 - Edward Simmons, Impressionist painter (b. 1852)
• date unknown
  • Derwent Lees, Australian landscape painter (b. 1885)
  • Bela Čikoš Sesija, painter (b. 1864)
  • Lancelot Speed, illustrator (b. 1860)