1948 In Art

Events from the year 1948 in art.

Events

* Summer – The art exhibitions at the Venice Biennale are revived, introducing American abstract expressionism to Europe and part of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection to Venice.
* November 8 – COBRA (avant-garde movement) is formed by Karel Appel, Constant, Corneille, Christian Dotremont, Asger Jorn and Joseph Noiret.
* Georges Braque begins work on his ''Ateliers''.
* The Colony Room Club, a private members' drinking club at 41 Dean Street, Soho, London, is founded and presided over by Muriel Belcher; painter Francis Bacon becomes a member the day after it opens, establishing it as a centre for London's alcoholic artistic elite.
* Cadillac introduce the car tailfin, to Frank Hershey's design authorized by Harley Earl.

Awards

* Archibald Prize: William Dobell – ''Margaret Olley''

Works

Paintings

* Otto Dix – ''Ecce homo with self-likeness behind barbed wire''
* Russell Drysdale – '' The cricketers''
* Rudolf Hausner – ''It's Me!''
* Isabel Lambert – ''Three Fish''
* Henri Matisse – ''The Plum Blossoms''
* Barnett Newman – ''Onement I''
* Sidney Nolan – ''The Abandoned Mine''
* Jackson Pollock – ''No. 5, 1948''
* Anne Redpath – ''Window in Menton''
* Constance Stokes – '' Girl in Red Tights'' (approx. date)
* Rufino Tamayo – ''Cazadores de mariposas''
* Andrew Wyeth
** ''Christina's World''
** ''McVey's Barn''
** ''Karl''

Sculpture

* Wäinö Aaltonen – '' Kun ystävyyssuhteet solmitaan''
* Joseph Cornell – ''Untitled (Cockatoo and Corks)''
* Jacob Epstein – ''Lazarus''
* Marino Marini – ''The Angel of the City''
* Gerda Sprinchorn – ''Linnéstaty'' (modeled 1907)
* '' Iglica''
* Thomas W. Talbot Monument

Graphic works

* M. C. Escher
** ''Dewdrop'' (mezzotint)
** ''Drawing Hands'' (lithograph)
** ''Stars'' (wood engraving)

Births

* January 24 – Machiko Satonaka, Japanese manga artist
* March 9 – Eric Fischl, American painter
* April 14 – Berry Berenson, American model and photographer (d. 2001)
* July 7 – Alison Wilding, English sculptor and academic
* September 20 – Adrian Piper, American conceptual artist
* October 2 – Donna Karan, American fashion designer
* October 8 – Gottfried Helnwein, Austrian fine artist, photographer, installation and performance artist
* November 1 – Bill Woodrow, British sculptor
* November 18 – Ana Mendieta, Cuban American performance artist (d. 1985)
* December 18 – Mimmo Paladino, Italian sculptor, painter and printmaker
* December 26 – Lin Onus, Scottish-Aboriginal Koori artist (d. 1996)
* ''Full date unknown''
** Wolf Erlbruch, German children's book illustrator and writer
** Jonathan Lasker, American abstract painter
** Christopher Makos, American photographer
** Marilyn Minter, American painter and photographer
** Roberta Smith, American art critic (The New York Times)
** Andrew Stevovich, Austrian-born American painter

Deaths

* January 8 – Kurt Schwitters, German painter, collagist and poet (b. 1887)
* January 21 – Ambrosia Tønnesen, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1859)
* February 23 – Fidus, German illustrator, painter and publisher (b. 1868)
* March 23 – Yevgeniy Abalakov, Soviet sculptor and mountaineer (b. 1907)
* March 24 – Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter (b. 1885)
* July 21 – Arshile Gorky, Armenian American painter (b. 1904)
* August – Feliu Elias, Spanish caricaturist and painter (b. 1878)
* September 9 – Ignacy Pieńkowski, Polish painter (b. 1877)
* September 22 – Felicjan Kowarski, Polish painter and sculptor (b. 1885)
* October 17 – Royal Cortissoz, American art critic (b. 1869)
* November 4 – Shinzō Fukuhara, Japanese photographer (b. 1883)
* December 28 – Hakob Gyurjian)
* December 30 – George Ault, American Precisionist painter (b. 1891)
* ''Date unknown'' – Hector Hyppolite, Haitian painter (b. 1894)

See also

* 1948 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union

References

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Years of the 20th century in art
1940s in art