– Archibald Nicoll, New Zealand painter (b. 1886) February 12 – Uroš Predić, Serbian Realist painter (b. 1857) March 23 – Raoul Dufy, French Fauvist painter (b. 1877) March 26 – Đorđe Jovanović, Serbian sculptor (b. 1861) April 15 – Charles R. Knight, American animal painter (b. 1874) April 29 Moïse Kisling, Polish-born painter (b. 1891) Alice Prin ("Kiki de Montparnasse"), French artist, model and entertainer (b. 1901) June 23 – Albert Gleizes, French painter (b. 1881) September 13 – Mary Brewster Hazelton, American portrait painter (b. 1868) September 26 – Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (b. 1895) October 2 – John Marin, American modernist painter (b. 1870) October 6 – Vera Mukhina, Latvian-born Soviet sculptor (b. 1889) October 11 – James Earle Fraser, American sculptor (b. 1876) October 21 – Sir Muirhead Bone, British etcher (b. 1876) November 30 – Francis Picabia, French painter and poet (b. 1879) date unknown – J. Laurie Wallace, Irish American painter (b.1864) See also 1953 in fine arts of the Soviet Union References Years of the 20th century in art 1950s in art