1909 in art

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Events from the year 1909 in art.

Events

• Futurist Manifesto is first published, in the French newspaper Le Figaro
  .
• May–June – Claude Monet's Water Lilies series of paintings are first exhibited, at Paul Durand-Ruel's gallery in Paris.
• Irish American painter Hazel Martyn
  .
• Guillaume Apollinaire's first book of poetry is illustrated with woodcuts by André Derain.
• Léon Bakst begins painting scenery for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, beginning with Cleopatra.
• Robert Delaunay begins painting his Saint-Sévrin, City and Eiffel Tower series.
• Lithuanian Jewish sculptor Jacques Lipchitz
  moves to Paris to study and work.
• analytical cubism
  .
• Sonderbund westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler established in Düsseldorf.
• Kunsthalle Mannheim established as a permanent art gallery.
• Reformation Wall created in Geneva by Swiss architects Charles Dubois, Alphonse Laverrière, Eugène Monod and Jean Taillens with figures by French sculptors Paul Landowski and Henri Bouchard.

• Nicholas II of Russia to begin a record in color photography
  of his empire.
• Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in Paris
  .
• Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin, believing it to be by Leonardo da Vinci. It is subsequently shown to be early 19th century English, probably by Richard Cockle Lucas.^[1]

• Lawrence Alma-Tadema – A Favourite Custom (Tate Britain)
• Giacomo Balla – Street Light
• George Bellows
  • Blue Morning
  • The Lone Tenement
  • Summer Night, Riverside Drive
• Gutzon Borglum – Rabboni (sculpture, Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.)
• Antoine Bourdelle – Hercules the Archer (bronze)
• Milly Childers – The Terrace (Palace of Westminster)
• Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
  • Angels (Paradise)
  • Fairy Tale Castle
  • Kings' Fairy Tale
  • Lightning
  • Rural Cemetery
• Charles Fouqueray – La Reconquista de Buenos Aires
• J. W. Godward
  • At The Thermae
  • A Classical Beauty
  • Tympanistria
• Winslow Homer – Right and Left
• John Haberle – Night (New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut)
• Erich Heckel – Bathers in the Reeds
• Robert Henri – Salome
• Wassily Kandinsky – The Blue Mountain
• Gustav Klimt
  • Lady with Hat and Feather Boa
  • The Tree of Life (Stoclet Frieze)
  • Judith II (Salomé)
• Boris Kustodiev
  • Promenade Along the Volga
  • Promenade Along the Volga II
• Frances MacDonald – Sleeping Princess
• Ambrose McEvoy – Euphemia
• Jacek Malczewski – At the Source
• Edward Middleton Manigault – The Rocket
• Henri Matisse – Dance (I)
• Edvard Munch – Self-portrait at the Clinic
• Gabriele Münter – Marianne von Werefkin
• Pablo Picasso
  • Fruit Dish (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
  • Woman with a Fan (Pushkin Museum, Moscow)
• Howard Pyle – Marooned
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Claude Renoir in Clown Costume
• Zinaida Serebriakova – At the Dressing-Table: Self-portrait
• Konstantin Somov – Mikhail Kuzmin
• Vardges Sureniants
  • Knight-Woman
  • Mkrtich Khrimian
  • Return of Queen Zabel of Armenia
• Lorado Taft – bronzes
  • Eternal Silence (Graceland Cemetery, Chicago)
  • Statue of George Washington (University of Washington, Seattle)
• Albert Chevallier Tayler – Elizabeth Barrett Browning - The Anniversary: "I love thee to the level of everyday's most quiet need"
• J. W. Waterhouse – Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May

Births

January to June

• January 16 – Clement Greenberg, American art critic (d.1994).
• January 25 – Joseph Solman, American painter (d. 2008).
• February 7 – Wilhelm Freddie, Danish painter and sculptor (d. 1995).
• February 12 – Zoran Mušič, Slovenian- born painter (d. 2005).
• February 17 – Gertrude Abercrombie, American painter (d. 1977).
• Surrealist painter and sculptor (d. 2008
  ).
• art collector (d. 1987
  ).
• March 8 – H. J. Ward, American illustrator (d. 1945).
• March 13 – Reynolds Stone, English wood engraver (d. 1979).
• March 22 – Milt Kahl, American animator (d. 1987).
• April 3 – Graham Stuart Thomas, English horticultural artist, author and garden designer (d. 2003).
• April 30 – F. E. McWilliam, Irish sculptor (d. 1992).
• art historian and politician (d. 1992
  ).
• lithographer (d. 1982
  ).
• German-American animator (d. 1985
  ).

• July 13 – Marie-Thérèse Walter, mistress of Pablo Picasso (d. 1977).
• ornithologist, conservationist, painter (d. 1989
  ).
• September 23 – Marianne Straub, Swiss-born British textile designer (d. 1994).
• September 28 – Al Capp, cartoonist (d. 1979).
• October 13 – Herblock, political cartoonist (d. 2001).
• October 19 – Marguerite Perey, French physicist and academic (d. 1975)^[2]
• Francis Bacon, Irish-born British figurative painter (d. 1992
  ).
• Serbian painter and poet (d. 1945
  ).
• November 6 – Herman Rose (Herman Rappaport), American painter (d. 2007).
• December 25 – Philip Zec, British political cartoonist (d. 1983).

Full date unknown

• Gabriel Hayes, Irish sculptor and coin designer (d. 1978).

Deaths

• January 9 – Paul Gachet, French physician to artists, Impressionist art collector and amateur painter (b. 1828)
• February 11 – Russell Sturgis, American architect and art critic (b. 1836)
• February 20 – Paul Ranson, French painter and writer (b. 1864)
• February 26 – Caran d'Ache, French political cartoonist (b. 1858)
• April 20 – Hélène Bertaux, French sculptor and women's rights activist (b. 1825)^[3]
• June 22 – Edward John Gregory, English painter (b. 1850)
• . July 17 - Pinckney Marcius-Simons, American painter (b. 1867)
• August 23 – Adolf von Becker, Finnish painter (b. 1831)^[4]
• November 9 – William Powell Frith, English genre painter (b. 1819)
• November 21 – Peder Severin Krøyer, Norwegian painter (b. 1851)
• November 23 – Otto Sinding, Norwegian painter (b. 1842)
• November 25 – Cyprian Godebski, Polish sculptor and teacher (b. 1835)^[5]

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