1901 in art

Events

• March 12 – Whitechapel Gallery, designed by Charles Harrison Townsend, opens in London as one of the first publicly funded galleries for temporary exhibitions in the city.
• May 11 – The Kraków Society of Friends of Fine Arts inaugurates its Palace of Art.
• Julien-Auguste Hervé exhibits his paintings in Paris under the title Expressionismes.
• The "Red Rose Girls" rent the Red Rose Inn in Villanova, Pennsylvania in the Philadelphia Main Line.
• Swedish-born painter Carl Oscar Borg enters the United States as a stowaway.

  Works

• John Collier – In the Venusberg Tannhauser
• Frank Cadogan Cowper – An Aristocrat answering the Summons to Execution, Paris 1791
• Thomas Eakins – Portrait of Leslie W. Miller
• Joseph Farquharson – Beneath the Snow Encumbered Branches
• Stanhope Forbes – '
• Paul Gauguin – Still Life with Hope
• J. W. Godward
• * At The Garden Door
• * Chloris
• Winslow Homer – Searchlight on Harbor Entrance, Santiago de Cuba
• Gustav Klimt
• * :Image:Gustav Klimt 006.jpg|Buchenwald
• * Judith and the Head of Holofernes
• * Music
• Edmund Leighton – The Accolade
• Max Liebermann – Two Riders on the Beach
• Maximilien Luce – The Quai Saint-Michel and Notre-Dame
• Adolfo Müller-Ury – portrait of Lulu Pfizer
• Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo – The Fourth Estate
• Pablo Picasso
• * Blue Roofs
• * '
• * '
• Camille Pissarro
• * Hay Harvest at Éragny
• * :File:Camille Pissarro - 'Morning, Winter Sunshine, Frost, the Pont-Neuf, the Seine, the Louvre, Soleil D'hiver Gella Blanc', ca. 1901.jpg|Morning, Winter Sunshine, Frost, the Pont-Neuf, the Seine, the Louvre '
• Henrietta Rae – portrait of Lord Dufferin
• Ilya Repin – :File:Tolstoy by Repin 1901.jpg|Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy Barefoot
• Walter Sickert –
• Douglas Tilden – Mechanics Monument
• Anders Zorn
• * :File:Freya by Anders Zorn.jpg|Freya
• * :File:Stickande kulla av Anders Zorn 1901.jpg|Stickande kulla, Kål-Margit

  Births

January to June

• 7 January – Fahrelnissa Zeid, Turkish abstract artist.
• 9 January – Chic Young, American cartoonist.
• 24 January – Cassandre, born Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron, Ukrainian-born French graphic designer.
• 28 January – Richmond Barthé, African-American sculptor.
• 22 March – Greta Kempton, Austrian-American artist.
• 24 March – Ub Iwerks, American animator, cartoonist and special effects technician.
• 27 March – Carl Barks, American illustrator and comic book creator.
• 7 April – Christopher Wood, English painter.
• 9 June – John Skeaping, English sculptor and equine painter.

  July to December

• July 5 – Len Lye, New Zealand-born kinetic sculptor and filmmaker.
• July 15 – Pyke Koch, Dutch painter.
• July 31 – Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor.
• August 29 – Anna Zinkeisen, Scottish-born artist
• September 14 – Lucien Aigner, Hungarian photographer.
• October 2 – Alice Prin, French artists' model and painter.
• October 10 – Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor
• November 7 – Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator
• November 11 – Richard Lindner, German-American painter
• December 1 – Charles Tunnicliffe, British wildlife painter
• December 5 – Walt Disney, American cartoonist, animator and filmmaker
• December 27 – Stanley Hayter, English-born printmaker
• December 30 – Beauford Delaney, American modernist painter

  Full date unknown

• Roland Ansieau, French graphic artist
• Michael Cardew, English studio potter
• Dorothy Dehner, American sculptor
• Philip Evergood, American painter, printmaker and sculptor
• Albert Swinden, English-born American painter

  Deaths

• January 17 – Paul Hankar, Belgian sculptor, designer and architect
• February 21 – Henry Peach Robinson, English photographer
• March 17 – Jean-Charles Cazin, French landscape painter and ceramicist
• May 2 – Blaise Alexandre Desgoffe, French still-life painter
• June 5 – Dagny Juel, Norwegian-born artists' model
• June 8 – Edward Moran, English-born American marine painter
• September 9 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter
• October 24 – James McDougal Hart, Scottish-born American painter
• November 6 – Kate Greenaway, English illustrator
• December 23 – Edward Onslow Ford, English sculptor