1949 In Art

Events from the year 1949 in art.

Events

* Formation of Penwith Society of Arts in St Ives, Cornwall.
* Philadelphia Artists Equity is established in Pennsylvania, United States, to protect artists' rights and improve working and economic conditions for fine artists.
* Young Contemporaries exhibition, initiated by Carel Weight for the British Society of Artists Galleries, establishes the New Contemporaries series.
* 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 Oiseau''
* 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
* 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

* 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

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Years of the 20th century in art
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