1926 in art

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Events

• Marcel Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even is accidentally broken.
• Marjorie Watson-Williams moves to Paris and adopts the name Paule Vézelay.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: W B McInnes – Silk and Lace

Works

• Max Beckmann – Quappi in Blue
• H. Chalton Bradshaw with bronzes by Gilbert Ledward – Guards Memorial, London
• Alexander Calder – Cirque Calder (wire sculpture)
• Alexander Stirling Calder – Shakespeare Memorial, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Salvador Dalí – The Basket of Bread
• Charles T. Diamond with relief by John Paulding – Astoria Victory Monument, Astoria, Oregon
• Edwin Dickinson – The Cello Player
• Alberto Giacometti – Spoon Woman
• Hannah Höch – Love
• Frieda Kahlo – Self-portrait in a Velvet Dress
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – Brücke bei Wiesen
• René Magritte
  • The Difficult Crossing (first version)
  • The Musings of a Solitary Walker
• Georges Malkine – Nuit d'Amour
• Henri Matisse – Yellow Odalisque (first version)
• Haig Patigian – Abraham Lincoln (bronze, San Francisco)
• Dod Procter – Morning

Births

• 17 January – Robert Filliou, French Fluxus artist (d. 1987).
• 18 January – Roy Kiyooka, Canadian photographer, artist and poet (d. 1994)
• 24 January – Ruth Asawa, American sculptor (d. 2013)
• 1 February – Vivian Maier, American street photographer (d. 2009).
• 25 May – David Wynne, English figure sculpture (d. 2014).
• 14 August – René Goscinny, French comic book author, editor and humorist (d. 1977).
• 10 September – Beryl Cook, English naïve painter (d. 2008).
• 6 October – Petar Omčikus, Serbian artist.
• 25 October – Ismail Gulgee, Pakistani painter (d. 2007).
• 3 November – Paul Rebeyrolle, French painter (d. 2005).
• 5 November – John Berger, English art critic, novelist and painter.
• 9 November – Raymond Hains, French artist and photographer (d. 2005).
• date unknown - William Foley, American illustrator.

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 17 – Maximilian Liebenwein, painter and illustrator (b. 1869)
• 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