1949 in art

none March 2016 1949 art Events from the year 1949 in art. Events Formation of Penwith Society of Arts in St Ives, Cornwall.http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/penwith-society-of-arts Penwith Society of Arts 2014 Tate 2016-05-18 Philadelphia Artists Equity is established in Pennsylvania, United States, to protect artists' rights and improve working and economic conditions for fine artists.http://www.artistsequity.org/about.html https://web.archive.org/web/20100430192931/http://www.artistsequity.org/about.html dead April 30, 2010 Committed to service: Our History 2010-07-02 Philadelphia/Tri State Artists Equity Association, Inc. 2010-07-02 Young Contemporaries exhibition, initiated by Carel Weight for the British Society of Artists Galleries, establishes the New Contemporaries series.Young Contemporaries 1949 James Phillip Bruton Arts Council of Great Britain 1949 London 1 David Jones begins a 5-year sequence of watercolours of flowers in glasses. Yves Klein paints his first monochromes, while apprenticed to a picture-frame maker in London. Awards Archibald Prize: Arthur Murch – Bonar Dunlop Works Francis Bacon – Head III, Head IV, Head V, Head VI Brenda Chamberlain – The Fisherman's Return (National Museum of Wales) Salvador Dalí Leda Atomica The Madonna of Port Lligat (original version; Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) Paul Delvaux – The Temple Sir William Reid Dick – Lady Godiva (equestrian bronze, Coventry) Sir Russell Drysdale – West Wyalong Frida Kahlo Diego and I The Love Embrace of the Universe, the Earth (Mexico), Myself, Diego, and Señor Xolotl Tadeusz Kantor – Man with Umbrella Wifredo Lam = Femme avec un Oiseauhttps://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/impressionist-modern-art-day-n10148/lot.377.html (#377) WIFREDO LAM - Femme avec un oiseau Sotheby's August 30, 2022 L. S. Lowry The Canal Bridge The Football Match The Spire Henry Moore – Family Group (first casting) Robert Motherwell – Five in the Afternoon Barnett Newman – Abraham Pablo Picasso – Dove William Scott Frying Pan and Eggs Still Life with Candlestick Graham Sutherland – Somerset Maugham Steffen Thomas – Statue of Eugene Talmadge Vladimir Tretchikoff – The Dying Swan Boris Vladimirski – Roses for Stalin Lucien Wercollier – Le prisonnier politique (bronze) Andrzej Wróblewski – Execution V Births February 17 – Peter Kennard, English photomontage artist February 18 – Charlie Waite, English landscape photographer February 27 – Richard P. Cook, English artist March 11 – Griselda Pollock, South African-born feminist visual art historian and theorist April 9 – Stephen Hickman, American illustrator, sculptor and author May 7 – Deborah Butterfield, American sculptor May 12 – Ross Bleckner, American painter July 6 – Tibor Kalman, Hungarian-American graphic designer (d. 1999) August 12 – Glòria Muñoz, Spanish painter August 15 – Richard Deacon, British sculptor August 27 – Istvan Kantor, Hungarian-Canadian performance artist Jim Dolan, American sculptor P. K. Mahanandia, Indian-born portrait artist Lincoln Perry -American painter, muralist, and sculptor Deaths thumb|Death mask of James Ensor March 17 – Aleksandra Ekster, painter and designer, Art Deco pioneer (b. 1882) May 3 – Mariano Fortuny, fashion designer (b. 1871) May 15 – Henri Beau, Canadian Impressionist painter (b. 1863) June 21 – Edward Wadsworth, English Vorticist painter (b. 1889) August 8 – Joaquín Torres García, Uruguayan painter (b. 1874) September 7 - José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter and illustrator (b. 1883) September 25 – Henri Manguin, painter (b. 1874) November 3 – Solomon R. Guggenheim, art collector (b. 1861) November 19 – James Ensor, painter (b. 1860) November 27 – Vincenzo Irolli, Italian painter (b. 1860) December 28 – Emília dos Santos Braga, Portuguese painter (b. 1867) (Herbert Barnard) John Everett, English marine artist (b. 1877) See also 1949 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union References Category:Years of the 20th century in art Category:1940s in art