1908 in art

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List of years in Art

Contents

1 Events
2 Works
3 Births
4 Deaths

Events

Hugh Lane founds the Dublin City Gallery.
Paul Ranson founds the Académie Ranson in Paris.
The Ashcan School ("the Eight") give their first and only exhibition at the Macbeth Gallery.

Works

See also: Category:1908 paintings

László Beszédes - Joseph (slave) (sculpture)
Pierre Bonnard - Woman in a Blue Hat
Amedeo Modigliani - The Jewess
Piet Mondrian - Avond

Births

January to June

12 February - Jean Effel, French painter, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist (d.1982).
26 February - Tex Avery, American animator, cartoonist, and director (d.1980).
28 February - William Coldstream, English realist painter (d.1987).
29 February - Balthus, French modern artist (d.2001).
12 March - Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (d.1970).
13 June - Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Portuguese-French abstract painter (d.1992).

July to September

9 July - Minor White, photographer (d.1976).
22 August - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d.2004).
28 August - Roger Tory Peterson, American naturalist, ornithologist, artist and educator (d.1996).
30 August - Leonor Fini, Argentine surrealist painter (d.1996).
6 September - Korczak Ziolkowski, Polish-American sculptor (d.1982).

October to December

1 October - Nicholas Marsicano, painter (d.1991).
21 October - Jorge Oteiza, Spanish sculptor, painter, designer and writer (d.2003).
27 October - Lee Krasner, American abstract expressionist painter (d.1984).
3 December - Victor Pasmore, English artist and architect (d.1998).
23 December - Yousuf Karsh, Armenian-Canadian photographer (d.2002).

Full date unknown

Helen Lundeberg, painter (d.1999).
George Rodger, English photographer (d.1995).
Umaña, Colombian artist (d.1994).

Deaths

April 13 - Aasta Hansteen, Norwegian painter, writer, and early feminist (b. 1824)
August 30 - Giovanni Fattori, Italian painter and printmaker (b. 1825)
December 5 - Ernest Hébert, painter (b. 1917)

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