1921 in art

List of years in Art

Events

*Paul Sérusier publishes his "ABC of Painting".

Awards

*Archibald Prize: W B McInnes - "Desbrowe Annear"

Works

*Charles Demuth - "Incense of a New Church"
*Auguste Herbin - "Le Cateau-Cambrésis"
*Fernand Léger - "Still Life with a Beer Mug"
*Piet Mondrian - "Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue"
*Francis Picabia - "Cannibale"
*Pablo Picasso - "Three Musicians" (Museum of Modern Art, New York)

Births

January to June

*1 January - César Baldaccini, sculptor (d.1998).
*24 January - Sybil Connolly, Welsh-Irish fashion designer (d.1998).
*27 January - Georges Mathieu, painter.
*2 February - Pietro Cascella, Italian painter and sculptor (d.2008).
*5 February - Ken Adam, set designer.
*13 February - Louis Féraud, French fashion designer and artist (d.1999).
*23 February - John Latham, Zambian conceptual artist (d.2006).
*2 March - Ernst Haas, Austrian photographer (d.1986).
*23 April - William Brice, American painter and teacher (d.2008).
*25 April - Karel Appel, Dutch painter, sculptor and poet (d.2006).

July to December

*16 July - Guy Laroche, French fashion designer (d.1989).
*4 August - Jean Pierre Capron, French painter (d.1997).
*22 September - Will Elder, American illustrator and comic book artist (d.2008).
*25 September - Jacques Martin, comics creator.
*25 September - Åke Rangnar Wide, Swedish artist (d.(1998).
*27 September - Jean-Pierre Sudre, French photographer (d.1997).
*26 October - Raymond Nasher, American art collector (d.2007).

Full date unknown

*Norman Bluhm, painter (d.1999).
*Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, French photographer (d.2004).
*Norris Embry, painter.
*Al Jaffee, cartoonist.
*Cecil King, Irish abstract-minimalist painter (d.1986).
*Enzo Plazzotta, Italian-born British sculptor (d.1981).

Deaths

*January 30 - John Francis Murphy, landscape painter
*February 3 - William Strang, painter and engraver
*May 29 - Abbott Handerson Thayer, painter
*October 7 - John Thomson, photographer
*November 1 - Francisco Pradilla Ortiz, painter
*November 12 - Fernand Khnopff, surrealist painter (b. 1858)
* Jean-Paul Laurens, painter and sculptor
* Marcus Stone, painter
* William Blake Richmond, painter and interior decorator (b. 1842)
* Adolf von Hildebrand, sculptor (b. 1847)
* William Friese-Greene, photographer and cinematographer (b. 1855)