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List of years in Art

Contents 1 Events 2 Awards 3 Works 3.1 Paintings 3.2 Sculpture 3.3 Graphic works 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Georges Braque begins work on his Ateliers

[edit] Awards

• Archibald Prize: William Dobell - Margaret Olley

[edit] Works

[edit] Paintings

• Russell Drysdale - The cricketers
• Rudolf Hausner - It's Me!
• Henri Matisse - The Plum Blossoms
• Barnett Newman - Onement I
• Jackson Pollock - No. 5, 1948
• Anne Redpath - Window in Menton
• Rufino Tamayo - Cazadores de mariposas
• Andrew Wyeth - Christina's World, McVey's Barn

[edit] Sculpture

• Iglica
• Marino Marini - The Angel of the City

[edit] Graphic works

• M. C. Escher - Drawing Hands

[edit] Births

• March 9 - Eric Fischl, painter
• April 14 - Berry Berenson, American model and photographer
• September 20 - Adrian Piper, conceptual artist
• October 2 - Donna Karan, American fashion designer.
• October 8 - Gottfried Helnwein, Austrian fine artist, photographer, installation and performance artist
• November 18 - Ana Mendieta, performance artist (d.1985)
• December 26 - Lin Onus, Scottish-Aboriginal Koori artist (d.1996).
• Full date unknown
  • Jonathan Lasker, painter.
  • Marilyn Minter, painter and photographer.

[edit] Deaths

• January 8 - Kurt Schwitters, painter, collagist, poet (b. 1887)
• February 23 - Fidus, illustrator, painter and publisher (b. 1868)
• March 23 - Yevgeniy Abalakov, Soviet sculptor and mountaineer (b. 1907)
• March 24 - Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter (b. 1885)
• July 21 - Arshile Gorky, painter (b. 1904)
• December 30 - George Ault, American Precisionist painter (b. 1891)
• date unknown
  • Shinzō Fukuhara, Japanese photographer (b. 1883)
  • Hector Hyppolite, Haitian painter (b. 1894)