Events from the year 1921 in art.
January to June
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- January 1 – César Baldaccini, French sculptor (d. 1998)
- January 3 – Bill Gold, American graphic designer (d. 2018)
- January 14 – Norris Embry, American neo-expressionist painter (d. 1981)
- January 24 – Sybil Connolly, Welsh-Irish fashion designer (d. 1998)
- January 27 – Georges Mathieu, French abstract painter (d. 2012)
- February 2 – Pietro Cascella, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 2008)
- February 5 – Ken Adam, German-born British film set designer (d. 2016)
- February 13 – Louis Féraud, French fashion designer and artist (d. 1999)
- February 20 – Michael Ayrton, English sculptor, graphic artist and writer (d. 1975)
- February 22 – Cecil King, Irish abstract-minimalist painter (d. 1986)
- February 23 – John Latham, Zambian conceptual artist (d. 2006)
- March 2 – Ernst Haas, Austrian photographer (d. 1986)
- March 13 – Al Jaffee, American cartoonist (d. 2023)
- March 28 – Norman Bluhm, American painter (d. 1999)
- April 21 – Dimitrije Bašičević, Serbian painter and sculptor (d. 1987)
- April 23 – William Brice, American painter and teacher (d. 2008)
- April 25 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter, sculptor and poet (d. 2006)
- May 18 – Joan Eardley, British painter (d. 1963)
- May 29 – Enzo Plazzotta, Italian-born British sculptor (d. 1981)
- June 20 – Fiore de Henriquez, Italian-born British sculptor (d. 2004)
July to December
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- July 16
- July 16 – Boscoe Holder, Trinidadian painter (d. 2007)
- July 17 – Richard Jeranian, Armenian painter, draftsman and lithographer (d. 2019)
- August 4 – Jean Pierre Capron, French painter (d. 1997)
- August 18 – Zdzisław Żygulski, Jr., Polish art historian (d. 2015)
- August 28 – Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, French photographer (d. 2004)
- September 22 – Will Elder, American illustrator and comic book artist (d. 2008)
- September 25 – Jacques Martin, French comics creator (d. 2010)
- September 27 – Jean-Pierre Sudre, French photographer (d. 1997)
- October 26 – Raymond Nasher, American art collector (d. 2007)
- November 12 – Gerson Leiber, American painter, lithographer and sculptor (d. 2018)
- November 17 – Albert Bertelsen, Danish artist (d. 2019)
- November 26 – Françoise Gilot, French watercolorist and ceramicist (d. 2023)
- January 18 – Adolf von Hildebrand, sculptor (born 1847)
- January 30 – John Francis Murphy, landscape painter (born 1853)
- February 2 – Antonio Jacobsen, Danish-American maritime artist (born 1850)
- February 3 – William Strang, painter and engraver (born 1859)
- February 4 – Eugène Burnand, Swiss painter (born 1850)
- February 11 – William Blake Richmond, English painter and designer (born 1842)
- February 21 – George Dunlop Leslie, English genre painter (born 1835)
- March 2 – Johann Friedrich Engel, German painter (born 1844)
- March 23 – Jean-Paul Laurens, painter and sculptor (born 1838)
- March 24 – Marcus Stone, painter and illustrator (born 1840)
- March 30 – Franz Benque, photographer (born 1841)
- April 6 – Vardges Sureniants, Armenian painter (born 1860)
- April 30 – Mabel Esplin, English stained-glass artist (born 1874)
- May 5 – William Friese-Greene, photographer and cinematographer (born 1855)
- May 29 – Abbott Handerson Thayer, painter (born 1849)
- June – Frank Enders, painter and etcher (born 1860)
- October 7 – John Thomson, photographer (born 1837)
- November 1 – Francisco Pradilla Ortiz, painter (born 1848)
- November 12 – Fernand Khnopff, Symbolist painter (born 1858)
- November 13 – William Robert Colton, sculptor (born 1867)
References
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