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List of years in Art

Contents 1 Events 2 Awards 3 Works 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Foundation of COBRA (avant-garde movement)

[edit] Awards

• Archibald Prize: Arthur Murch - Bonar Dunlop

[edit] Works

• Barnett Newman - Abraham
• Brenda Chamberlain - The Fisherman's Return (National Museum of Wales)
• Salvador Dalí - The Madonna of Port Lligat (original version) (Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
• Tadeusz Kantor - Man with Umbrella
• Robert Motherwell - Five in the Afternoon
• Boris Vladimirski - Roses for Stalin

[edit] Births

• April 9 - Stephen Hickman, illustrator, sculptor and author
• May 7 - Deborah Butterfield, sculptor
• May 12 - Ross Bleckner, painter
• July 6 - Tibor Kalman, Hungarian-American graphic designer (d.1999).
• August 15 - Richard Deacon, sculptor
• August 27 - Istvan Kantor, performance artist

[edit] Deaths

• March 17 - Aleksandra Ekster, painter and designer, Art Deco pioneer (b. 1882)
• May 3 - Mariano Fortuny, fashion designer (b. 1871)
• August 8 - Joaquín Torres García, Uruguayan painter (b. 1874)
• November 3 - Solomon R. Guggenheim, art collector (b. 1861)
• date unknown - Henri Manguin, painter (b. 1874)