1946 in art

none 1946 art Events from the year 1946 in art. Events March – Art collector Peggy Guggenheim publishes the first edition of her autobiographical Out of This Century in the United States. April 2 – Jackson Pollock's third solo exhibition opens in the Daylight Gallery of Peggy Guggenheim's The Art of This Century gallery on Manhattan. May 22 – The Equestrian statue of Christian V recast in bronze by Einar Utzon-Frank (1688 original by Abraham-César Lamoureux) is unveiled on Kongens Nytorv, Copenhagen. October 11 – National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina established in Sarajevo. October 24 – In a double ceremony, Max Ernst (having been divorced from Peggy Guggenheim) marries Dorothea Tanning and Man Ray marries Juliet Browner in Beverly Hills, California. The Vienna School of Fantastic Realism is founded by Ernst Fuchs, Rudolf Hausner, and others. The Borough Group of artists is founded in London by Cliff Holden. Jean Dubuffet exhibits the series of works with paint mixed with sand and gravel, Hautes Pâtes, at the Galerie René Drouin. Jacob Lawrence begins painting his War Series. Sidney Nolan begins his first series of paintings of Ned Kelly. David Olère begins to produce artworks based on his experiences as Jewish Sonderkommando inmate 106144 of Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. Musée de la Chartreuse, Molsheim, France, established (at this time under the name "Musée municipal") Awards Archibald Prize: William Dargie – L C Robson, MC, MA Works thumb|The Nuremberg Trial by Laura Knight Harold Abbott – Triptych of Suffering George Ault – Bright Light at Russell's Corners Francis Bacon Painting (1946) Study for Man with Microphones (later abandoned and slashed by the artist) Charles Comfort – Dieppe Raid Dean Cornwell – The History of Transportation (lobby mural at 10 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, at this time the headquarters of Eastern Airlines)http://art-nerd.com/newyork/the-history-of-transportation-in-gorgeous-crimson-and-gold/ The History of Transportation in gorgeous crimson and gold | Art Nerd New York Salvador Dalí – The Temptation of St. Anthony Jean Dubuffet – Apartment Houses Jacob Epstein – Bust of Winston Churchill M. C. Escher – lithographs Magic Mirror Three Spheres II Sawlaram Haldankar – Glow of Hope Barbara Hepworth – sculptures Pelagos Tides Edward Hopper – Approaching a City Laura Knight – The Nuremberg Trial L. S. Lowry – Good Friday, Daisy Nook Henri Matisse – L'Asie Georgia O'Keeffe – Bare Tree Trunks With Snow Pablo Picasso – Woman-Flower Ad Reinhardt – How to Look at Modern Art in Americahttps://hyperallergic.com/98063/how-to-look-at-ad-reinhardts-cartoons/ How to Look at Ad Reinhardt's Cartoons 12 December 2013 Norman Rockwell – "Boy in a Dining Car"https://books.google.com/books?id=Ijub9Wu7IgwC&dq=boy+in+a+dining+car+norman+rockwell&pg=PA284 Seeing High and Low: Representing Social Conflict in American Visual Culture 9780520241879 Johnston Patricia 14 June 2006 University of California Press William Scott – The Frying Pan Andrew Wyeth – Winter 1946 Jack Butler Yeats Men of Destiny The Whistle of a Jacket Exhibitions Contemporary British Art – Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, and the City Art Museum, St Louis. Births January 8 – Betty Beaumont, Canadian American site-specific artist, all media January 10 – Kalidas Karmakar, Bangladeshi artist (d. 2019) January 18 – Kirk Varnedoe, American art historian, writer and curator (d. 2003) January 26 – Timothy Clifford, English art historian and curator February 9 – Peter Linde, Swedish sculptor April 11 – Chris Burden, American performance and installation artist and sculptor (d. 2015) April 19 – John Langdon, American ambigram artist, graphic designer and typographer (d. 2026) April 27 – Nicholas Serota, English curator May 30 – Jan de Bie, Dutch painter and photographer (d. 2021) June 29 – Egon von Fürstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004) July 6 – Jamie Wyeth, American realist painter July 11 – Chris Killip, Manx-born documentary photographer (d. 2020) July 25 – Nicole Farhi, French sculptor and fashion designer August 2 – Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat, Austrian art historian (d. 2025) August 16 – Louis-Pierre Bougie, Canadian painter and printmaker (d. 2021) September 27 – T. C. Cannon, Native American painter (d. 1978) November 4 – Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (d. 1989) November 5 – Herman Brood, Dutch musician, painter and media personality (d. 2001) November 20 – Alice Aycock, American sculptor and installation artist December 2 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (k. 1997) December 8 – Jacques Bourboulon, French nude and fashion photographer December 12 – Don Gummer, American sculptor December 25 – Christopher Frayling, English cultural historian Deaths January 2 – O'Galop (Marius Rossillon), French cartoonist (b. 1867) January 23 – Helene Schjerfbeck, Finnish painter (b. 1862) February 17 Dorothy Gibson, American artist's model and silent film actress (b. 1889) Sir George Pirie, Scottish painter (b. 1863) July 11 – Paul Nash, English painter (b. 1889) July 13 – Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (b. 1864) July 17 – Florence Fuller, Australian painter (b. 1867) October 7 - C. R. W. Nevinson, English war artist (b. 1889) October 28 – Manuel Ortíz de Zárate, Chilean painter (b. 1887) October 30 – Charles Despiau, French sculptor (b. 1874) November 23 Arthur Dove, American abstract painter (b. 1880) Léon Spilliaert, Belgian symbolist painter and graphic artist (b. 1881) November 24 – László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter and photographer (b. 1895) December 28 – Elie Nadelman, Polish-born American sculptor (b. 1882) December 29 – Arnold Friedman, American Modernist painter (b. 1874) References Category:Years of the 20th century in art Category:1940s in art