1908 in art
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List of years in Art

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)