Events from the year 1906 in art.
January to June
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- January 2 – Hans Mertens, German painter (died 1944)
- January 3 – Óscar Domínguez, Spanish surrealist painter (died 1957)
- January 9 – Janko Brašić, Serbian painter (died 1994)
- January 13 – Burgoyne Diller, American abstract painter (died 1965)
- February 28 – Percy Shakespeare, English painter (died 1943)
- March 2 – Jessie Oonark, Canadian Inuit artist (died 1985)
- March 8 – Victor Hasselblad, Swedish inventor and photographer (died 1978)
- March 9 – David Smith, American abstract expressionist sculptor (died 1965)
- March 26 – Henri Cadiou, French realist painter and lithographer (died 1989)
- March 27 – Bernard Lefebvre, French photographer (died 1992)
- April 11 – Dale Messick, first woman syndicated comic strip artist in the United States (died 2005)
- April 14 – Elmyr de Hory, Hungarian-born painter and art forger (d. 1976)
- April 21 – Lillian Browse, English art dealer and historian (died 2005)
- May 16 – Alfred Pellan, Canadian artist (died 1988)
- May 2 – Philippe Halsman, Latvian-born American portrait photographer (died 1979)
- May 20 – Leon Polk Smith, American painter (died 1996)
- June 9 – James Boswell, New Zealand painter and draughtsman (died 1971)
July to December
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- July 8 – Philip Johnson, American architect, art collector, curator (died 2005)
- August 12 – Tedd Pierce, American animated cartoon writer, animator and artist (died 1972)
- August 14 – Horst P. Horst, German American photographer (died 1999)
- August 20 – Heinz Henghes, German sculptor (died 1975)
- August 21 – Friz Freleng, American animator, cartoonist, director and producer (died 1995)
- September 5 – Ralston Crawford, American painter, lithographer and photographer (died 1978)
- October 18 – James Brooks, American painter and muralist (died 1992)
- October 24 – Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Austrian painter (died 1996)
- October 27 – Peter Blume, American painter (died 1992)
- November 26 – Krystyna Dąbrowska, Polish sculptor and painter (died 1944)
- December 10 – Padraig Marrinan, Irish painter (died 1975)
- December 14 – Maxwell Bates, Canadian architect and expressionist painter (died 1980)
- December 27 – Andreas Feininger, French-born American photographer (died 1999)
- January 20 – Philippe Solari, French sculptor (born 1840)
- February – Charles-Auguste Lebourg, French sculptor (born 1829)
- February 14 – Carl Eneas Sjöstrand, Swedish sculptor (born 1828)
- March 5 – Hugh Ramsay, Australian painter (born 1877)
- March 17 – Thomas Dalziel, English engraver (born 1823)
- March 27 – Eugène Carrière, French Symbolist painter (born 1849)
- March 19 – Étienne Carjat, French portraitist (born 1828)
- March 29 – Slava Raskaj, Croatian watercolour painter (born 1877)
- April 5 – Wyke Bayliss, English painter (born 1835)
- April 14 – Walter Williams, English landscape painter (born 1834)
- April 19 – Daniel Huntington, American painter (born 1816)
- May – John Mulvany, Irish-born American painter (b. circa 1839)
- June 20 – John Clayton Adams, English landscape artist (born 1840)
- August 21 – Eugen Felix, Austrian painter (born 1836)
- August 29 – Alfred Stevens, Belgian painter (born 1828)
- October 2 – Raja Ravi Varma, Indian painter (born 1848)
- October 22 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (born 1839)[2]
- October 28 – Jean Benner, French artist (born 1836)
- November 5 – Frits Thaulow, Norwegian Impressionist painter (born 1847)
- December 11 – Axel Lindahl, Swedish landscape photographer (born 1841)
- November 20 – Charles Eastlake, English architect and furniture designer (born 1836)
- December 31 – Julia Goodman, English portrait painter (born 1812)
- date unknown
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