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1946 in art
Summary
Events from the year
1946 in art
.
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(
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)
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Events
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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 P. 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 Galérie 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
edit
Archibald Prize
:
William Dargie
–
L C Robson, MC, MA
Works
edit
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 (formerly the headquarters of
Eastern Airlines
)
[1]
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
Dame
Laura Knight
–
The Dock, Nuremberg
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 America
[2]
Norman Rockwell
- "Boy in a Dining Car"
[3]
William Scott
–
The Frying Pan
Andrew Wyeth
–
Winter 1946
Jack Butler Yeats
Men of Destiny
The Whistle of a Jacket
Exhibitions
edit
Contemporary British Art
–
Toledo Museum of Art
,
Ohio
, the
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
,
Buffalo, New York
, and the City Art Museum, St Louis.
Births
edit
January 8
–
Betty Beaumont
, Canadian American site-specific artist, all media
January 10
–
Kalidas Karmakar
, Bangladeshi artist
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 27
–
Nicholas Serota
, English curator
May 30
–
Jan de Bie
, 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
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
edit
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 Ortiz 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
edit
^
"The History of Transportation in gorgeous crimson and gold | Art Nerd New York".
^
"How to Look at Ad Reinhardt's Cartoons". 12 December 2013.
^
Johnston, Patricia (14 June 2006).
Seeing High and Low: Representing Social Conflict in American Visual Culture
.
ISBN
9780520241879
.