1881 in art

List of years in Art

Events

Works

*Marie Bashkirtseff - "The Studio"
*Edgar Degas - "Trotting Horse" (California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco)
*Jean-Jacques Henner - "Saint Jerome"
*Luc-Olivier Merson - "Nôtre-Dame de Paris"
*Giovanni Muzzioli - "In the Temple of Bacchus"
*Pierre Puvis de Chavannes - "The Poor Fisherman" (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

Births

*4 January - Wilhelm Lehmbruck, sculptor (d.1919).
*4 February - Fernand Léger, painter (d.1955).
*25 October - Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor (d.1973).
*8 December - Albert Gleizes, painter (d.1953).
*31 December - Max Pechstein, painter (d.1955).

Full date unknown

*William Conor, Irish painter (d.1968).
*Pablo Gargallo, painter and sculptor (d.1934).

Deaths

* January 3 - Anna McNeill Whistler, "Whistler's Mother" (b. 1804)
* January 24 - James Collinson, Pre-Raphaelite painter (b. 1825)
* May 24 - Samuel Palmer, painter, etcher and lithographer (b. 1805)
* John Quidor, painter (b. 1801)