a Cornish Window Zebra and Parachute Grant Wood American Gothic Stone City, Iowa W. L. Wyllie – Panorama of the Battle of Trafalgar (Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth) Xu Beihong – A Portrait of Sun Duoci Statler Fountain Births January to June 15 January – Paul Ahyi, Togolese artist and sculptor (d. 2010) 26 January – Napoleon Abueva, Filipino sculptor (d. 2018) 3 February – Gillian Ayres, English abstract painter (d. 2018) 10 February – Eva Frankfurther, German-born portrait painter (suicide 1959) 13 February – Ernst Fuchs, Austrian artist (d. 2015) 18 February – Gahan Wilson, American cartoonist (d. 2019) 21 February – Enrique Tábara, Ecuadorian painter (d. 2021) 24 February – Anita Steckel, American feminist artist (d. 2012) 25 February – Wendy Beckett, English contemplative nun and art historian (d. 2018) 7 March – Antony Armstrong-Jones, English photographer (d. 2017) 8 March – Hector Lombana, Colombian sculptor, painter and architect (d. 2008) 11 March – David Gentleman, English graphic designer 27 March – Daniel Spoerri, Romanian-Swiss artist and writer 30 March – Rolf Harris, Australian entertainer, painter and child sexual abuser 31 March – Susan Weil, American painter 1 April – John Houston, Scottish painter (d. 2008) 12 April – Manuel Neri, American sculptor, painter and printmaker (d. 2021) 14 May – James Beck, American art historian (d. 2007) 15 May – Jasper Johns, American painter, sculptor and printmaker 22 May – Marisol Escobar, French-born sculptor and printmaker (d.2016) 23 May Richard Anuszkiewicz, American painter, sculptor and printmaker (d. 2020) Aslan, French-born pin-up artist (d.2014) 24 May – Unity Spencer, English artist (d. 2017) 30 May – Robert Ryman, American monochrome painter (d. 2019) 5 June – Vladimir Popov, Soviet animator, animation and art director (d. 1987) 15 June – Ikuo Hirayama, Japanese painter (d. 2009) 16 June – Allan D'Arcangelo, American painter and graphic artist (d. 1998) 19 June – Bryan Kneale, Manx sculptor and academic 20 June – Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish sculptor (d. 2017) 24 June Pierre Restany, French art critic and cultural philosopher (d. 2003) Flip Schulke, American photojournalist (d. 2008) July to December 4 July – Mohamed Demagh, Algerian sculptor (d. 2018) 4 August - Astrid Zydower, German-born British sculptor (d. 2005) 5 September – Ibrahim El-Salahi, Sudanese painter 28 September – Nikolai Pozdneev, Russian painter (d. 1978) 3 October – Robyn Denny, British abstract artist (d. 2014) 7 October – Kurt Dornis, German painter, graphic