Events

Works

January 12 – Bill Reid, Canadian artist (d. 1998).
January 17 – Georges Pichard, French comics artist (d. 2003).
January 30 – Patrick Heron, English painter, writer and designer (d. 1999).
February 22 – Rocco Borella, Italian painter (d. 1994).
March 3 – Ronald Searle, English cartoonist (d. 2011).
March 14 – Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d. 2001).
March 19 – Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian poet and artist (d. 2002)^[8]
March 27 – Robin Jacques, English illustrator (d. 1995).
April 8 – Hans Coper, German-born studio potter (d. 1981).
April 24 – Paul Wonner, American painter (d. 2008).
April 26 – Maynard Reece, American painter (d. 2020)
May – Hans Josephsohn, German-born sculptor (d. 2012).
May 8
- Saul Bass, American graphic designer and filmmaker (d. 1996).
- Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (d. 1991).^[9]
May 10 - Erna Viitol, Estonian sculptor (d. 2001).
June 4 – Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter, muralist, sculptor and engraver (d. 1992).
June 24
- John Coplans, British-born painter and photographer (d. 2003)
- Jimmy Ernst, German-born American painter (d. 1984).
June 29 – Ray Harryhausen, American-born stop-motion animator, sculptor (d. 2013).

July 20 – Arthur Boyd, Australian painter and sculptor (d. 1999).
July 21 – Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter, one of the innovators of Unitary Urbanism (d. 2005).^[10]
August 1 – Ken Bald, American comic book artist and illustrator (d. 2019)
August 5 – George Tooker, American figurative painter (d. 2011).
August 9 – Gerda Schmidt-Panknin, German painter (d. 2021)
August 15 – Judy Cassab, born Judit Kaszab, Austrian-born Australian portrait painter (d. 2015).
August 22 – Gene Davis, American painter (d. 1985).
August 26
- Mauri Favén, Finnish painter (d. 2006).
- Brant Parker, American cartoonist (d. 2007).
August 30 – Leonid Shvartsman, Soviet and Russian animator and artist (d. 2022).
October 13 – Elaine Hamilton, American painter (d. 2010).
October 31 – Helmut Newton, German-born photographer (d. 2004).
November 23 – Wayne Thiebaud, American painter (d. 2021)
November 30 – Walter Chandoha, American cat photographer (d. 2019).
December 14 – Claire Fejes, American artist
December 18 – Enrique Grau, Colombian painter and sculptor (d. 2004).
December 21 – Bob Bindig, American illustrator (d. 2007)

January 24 – Amedeo Modigliani, Italian-born painter and sculptor (b. 1884)^[11]
January 26 – Jeanne Hébuterne, French artist, Modigliani's mistress and model (suicide) (b. 1898)^[11]
March 3 – Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (b. 1840)
March 13 – Mary Devens, American pictorial photographer (b. 1857)
March 15 – Edith Holden, English nature artist and art teacher (b. 1871)
March 26 – Samuel Colman, American painter and designer (b. 1832)
April 20 – Briton Rivière, British painter (b. 1840)
April 27 – Jacob Ungerer, German sculptor (b. 1840)
May 7 – Hugh Thomson, British illustrator (b. 1860)
May 12 – Georges Petit, French art dealer (b. 1856)
July 5 – Max Klinger, German painter and sculptor (b. 1857)^[12]
July 14 – Albert von Keller, German painter (b. 1844)^[13]
July 17 – Sir Edmund Elton, 8th Baronet, English studio potter (b. 1846)
August 4 – C. G. Finch-Davies, British bird painter (b. 1875)
August 6 – Edward Francis Searles, American interior designer (b. 1841)
August 12 – Walter W. Winans, American sculptor, painter, marksman and horse-breeder (b. 1852)
August 22 – Anders Zorn, Swedish portrait painter (b. 1860)^[14]
September 24 – Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian-born jeweller (b. 1846)
November 13 – Luc-Olivier Merson, French painter (b. 1846)
date unknown – Edith Corbet, Australian-born British landscape painter (b. 1846)