1931 in art

See also: 1930 in art, other events of 1931, 1932 in art, list of years in art

Events

• The Whitney Museum of American Art is founded by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.
• October 4 - Debut appearance of the Dick Tracy comic strip, created by cartoonist Chester Gould.

Works

• Salvador Dalí, The Persistence of Memory
• Georgia O'Keeffe - Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Awards

Births

• January 21 - Paul Deliège, comic strip artist and writer
• March 25 - Jack Chambers, artist and filmmaker
• April 29 - Frank Auerbach, painter

Deaths

• March 7 - Theo van Doesburg, painter and architect, leader of De Stijl
• March 14 - Alfred Grenander, architect
• July 11 - Jean-Louis Forain, Impressionist painter
• September 20 - Max Littmann, architect
• September 29 - William Orpen, portrait painter
• November 17 - Edward Simmons, Impressionist painter
• date unknown - Bela Čikoš Sesija, painter
• date unknown - Lancelot Speed, illustrator

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