1944 in art

none August 2018 1944 art Events from the year 1944 in art. Events June 6 – Normandy landings: Robert Capa takes "The Magnificent Eleven" photographs. July – Dulwich Picture Gallery in London is substantially damaged by a V-1 flying bomb; half a dozen paintings are destroyed, but most have been evacuated to Aberystwyth. Autumn – Peggy Guggenheim's The Art of This Century gallery on Manhattan releases a 78 rpm 3-record album containing Paul Bowles' Sonata for Flute and Piano and Two Mexican Dances with a cover by Max Ernst.Francine Prose Francine Prose Peggy Guggenheim: the shock of the new https://archive.org/details/peggyguggenheims0000pros registration New Haven Yale University Press 2015 978-0-300-20348-6 140 Clandestine publication of Vaincre, an album of 12 colour lithographs by 8 artists in support of the French Resistance. Awards Archibald Prize: Joshua Smith – Hon Sol Rosevear, MHR, Speaker of the House of Representatives Exhibitions Jean Dubuffet's first solo exhibition. Works thumb|Epstein – Lucifer David Aronson – The Last Supper Duffy Ayers – Portrait of Tirzah Garwood Francis Bacon – Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion David Bomberg – Evening in the City of London Stella Bowen – Bomber Crew Robert Capa – "The Magnificent Eleven" (photographs) William Coldstream – Casualty Reception Station, Capua Salvador Dalí – Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening Tristan and Isolde created for the ballet Mad Tristan by Leonide Massine and Dali which in turn was inspired by the opera Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/visualarts/2012/11/05/salvador_dali_painting_mad_tristan_not_seen_since_1944.html Salvador Dali painting Mad Tristan not seen since 1944 The Star The Toronto Star 5 November 2012 http://www.the-wagnerian.com/2012/11/salvador-dalis-mad-tristan-leaves.html?m=1 Salvador Dali's "Mad Tristan" leaves the noumenal and returns to the world of phenomenon Paul Delvaux – Sleeping Venus Jacob Epstein – sculptures First Portrait of Esther (with long hair) Lucifer George Grosz – Cain, or Hitler in Hell Ivor Hele – Battlefield Burial of Three NCOs Jean Hélion – The Stairway Bror Hjorth – Gås-Anders (sculpture) Frida Kahlo The Broken Column Diego and Frida 1929-1944 Dame Laura Knight – Take Off Fernand Léger – Three Musicians (Museum of Modern Art, New York) Henri Matisse – Annelies, White Tulips and Anemones Joan Miró – Barcelona Series (lithographs) Piet Mondrian (died February 1) – Victory Boogie-Woogie (unfinished) Walter Thomas Monnington Southern England: Spitfires Attacking Flying-bombs Tempests Attacking Flying-bombs Felix Nussbaum – Triumph of Death Pablo Picasso – Man with Sheep (sculpture) William Roberts The Ballet The Ferry (at Marston near Oxford) Parson's Pleasure (On the Lawn) Robert F. Sargent – Into the Jaws of Death (photograph) Ben Shahn – The Red Stairway Category:1944 sculptures Births 9 January – Ian Hornak, American painter and draughtsman (d. 2002). 10 January – Jeff Jones, American illustrator. 12 February - Jane Livingston, American curator. 4 March – Glen Baxter, English cartoonist. 13 March – George Rodrigue, American painter (d. 2013). 29 March – Abbas, Iranian-born documentary photographer (d. 2018). 4 April – Phyllida Barlow, English sculptor (d. 2023). 8 May – David Vaughan, English psychedelic artist and muralist (d. 2003). 24 July – Maya Wildevuur, Dutch painter (d. 2023). 4 August – Allan McCollum, American conceptual artist, all media. 15 August – Gianfranco Ferré, Italian fashion designer (d. 2007). 20 August – Brian Barnes, English mural artist. 27 August – Catherine Leroy, French-born photographer (d. 2006). 1 September – Louis Delsarte, American painter (d. 2020). 4 November Don Eddy, American painter. Michael Heizer, American sculptor, earth artist. 23 November – Peter Lindbergh, born Peter Brodbeck, Polish-born fashion photographer (d. 2019). Full date unknown Richard Mock, American painter, sculptor and cartoonist (d. 2006). Allen Ruppersberg, American conceptual artist, installation artist. Deaths January 23 – Edvard Munch, Norwegian expressionist painter (b. 1863) February 1 – Piet Mondrian, Dutch abstract painter (b. 1872) c. February 11 – Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita, Dutch Jewish graphic artist (killed in Auschwitz concentration camp) (b. 1868) February 26 – Lucienne Heuvelmans, French sculptor (b. 1885?) April 25 – George Herriman, American cartoonist (Krazy Kat) (b. 1880) July 18 – Rex Whistler, English painter (killed in action) (b. 1905) August 2 – Felix Nussbaum, German Jewish surrealist painter (killed in Auschwitz concentration camp) (b. 1904) August 18 – Hans Mertens, German painter (b. 1906) September 3 – William Logsdail, English landscape, portrait and genre painter (b. 1859) September 27 Aristide Maillol, French sculptor (b. 1861) Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Russian-born color photographer (b. 1863) David Dougal Williams, British painter (b. 1888) October 14 – Marko Murat, Serbian painter (b. 1864) October 21 – Hilma af Klint, Swedish abstract painter and mystic (b. 1862) November 22 – Sir George Clausen, English artist (b. 1852) December 10 – Miklós Ligeti, Hungarian sculptor (b. 1871) December 13 – Wassily Kandinsky, Russian abstract painter (b. 1866) December 24 – Alfred Drury, English sculptor (b. 1856) Undated – Esther Kenworthy Waterhouse, English flower painter (b. 1857) See also 1944 in fine arts of the Soviet Union References Category:Years of the 20th century in art Category:1940s in art