1926 in art

Events

• Marcel Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even is accidentally broken.
• Marjorie Watson-Williams moves to Paris and adopts the name Paule Vézelay.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: W B McInnes – ''Silk and Lace''

Works

• Max Beckmann – Quappi in Blue
• H. Chalton Bradshaw with bronzes by Gilbert Ledward – Guards Memorial, London
• Alexander Calder – Cirque Calder
• Alexander Stirling Calder – Shakespeare Memorial, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Salvador Dalí – The Basket of Bread
• Charles T. Diamond with relief by John Paulding – Astoria Victory Monument, Astoria, Oregon
• Edwin Dickinson – The Cello Player
• Max Ernst
• * The Blessed Virgin Chastises the Infant Jesus before Three Witnesses: A.B., P.E. and the Artist
• * The Dove was Right
• Alberto Giacometti – Spoon Woman
• Dora Gordine – Chinese Head
• Hannah Höch – Love
• Frida Kahlo – Self-portrait in a Velvet Dress
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – The Bridge near Wiesen
• René Magritte
• * The Difficult Crossing
• * The Musings of a Solitary Walker
• Georges Malkine – Nuit d'Amour
• John Marin - Related to Downtown New York, Movement No. 2
• Henri Matisse – Yellow Odalisque
• Joan Miró – Dog Barking at the Moon
• Haig Patigian – Statue of Abraham Lincoln
• Dod Procter – Morning
• John Bulloch Souter – ''The Breakdown''

Births

• 3 January – Felicitas Kuhn, Austrian illustrator
• 13 January – Craigie Aitchison, Scottish painter
• 17 January – Robert Filliou, French Fluxus artist
• 18 January – Roy Kiyooka, Canadian photographer, artist and poet
• 24 January – Ruth Asawa, American sculptor
• 1 February – Vivian Maier, American street photographer
• 6 April – Gil Kane, Latvian-born cartoonist
• 10 April – Gustav Metzger, German-Jewish born British creator of auto-destructive art and activist
• 26 April – Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator
• 25 May – David Wynne, English figure sculpture
• 6 May – Edward Clark, American abstract expressionist painter
• 13 June
• * Satoru Abe, American sculptor and painter
• * George Booth, American cartoonist
• 3 August – David Johnson, American photographer
• 8 August
• * Arturo García Bustos, Mexican painter
• * William Foley, American illustrator
• 14 August – René Goscinny, French comic book author, editor and humorist
• 10 September – Beryl Cook, English naïve painter
• 25 September – Sonia Gechtoff, American painter
• 6 October – Petar Omčikus, Serbian artist
• 25 October – Ismail Gulgee, Pakistani painter
• 3 November – Paul Rebeyrolle, French painter
• 5 November – John Berger, English art critic, novelist and painter
• 9 November – Raymond Hains, French artist and photographer
• 10 December – Leon Kossoff, English painter

Deaths

• January 15 – Eugeniusz Zak, Polish painter
• February 4 – Adolphe Willette, French illustrator
• April 1 – Charles Angrand, French neo-Impressionist painter
• June 14 – Mary Cassatt, American painter
• July 17 – Maximilian Liebenwein, Austro-German painter and illustrator
• July 24 – T. C. Steele, American Impressionist painter
• August 25 – Thomas Moran, American painter of the Hudson River School
• September 28 – Helen Allingham, English watercolour painter and illustrator
• October 5 – Dorothy Tennant, English painter
• October 16 – Ignacy Korwin-Milewski, Polish art collector
• October 24 – Charles Marion Russell, American "cowboy artist"
• December 5 – Claude Monet, French Impressionist painter