Art competitions were held as part of the

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. Medals were awarded in five categories (

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing buildings ...

literature Literature is any collection of Writing, written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to ...

music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspe ...

painting Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and a ...

, and

sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable ...

), for works inspired by sport-related themes. The art exhibition was held at the

Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and nam ...

from 15 July to 14 August, and displayed works of art from 27 different countries. The literature competition attracted 44 entries, and the music competition had 36 entries. The art competitions included multiple subcategories for each of the five artistic categories. The judges declined to award any medals for dramatic works in literature, and no gold medals in another five subcategories. Alex Diggelmann of

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won both a silver medal and a bronze medal for two different entries in the applied arts and crafts subcategory, a feat unlikely to be duplicated in any event in the current Olympic program. These were the last Games in which art competitions were held, after being in the official program for all Games since 1912. At a meeting of the

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in 1949 it was decided to hold art ''exhibitions'' instead, as it was judged illogical to permit professionals to compete in the art competitions while only amateurs were permitted to compete in sporting events. Since 1952 a non-competitive art and cultural festival has been associated with each Games.

Architecture

Literature

Music

Painting and graphic art

Sculpture

Medal table

At the time, medals were awarded to these artists, but art competitions are no longer regarded as official Olympic events by the International Olympic Committee. These events do not appear in the IOC medal database, and these totals are not included in the IOC's medal table for the 1948 Games.

Events summary

Architecture

Designs for Town Planning The following architects took part: Architectural designs The following architects took part: Further entries The following architects took part:

Literature

Dramatic works The following writers took part: Epic works The following writers took part: Lyric works The following writers took part: Unknown event The following writers took part:

Music

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Grażyna Bacewicz Grażyna Bacewicz Biernacka (; 5 February 1909 – 17 January 1969) was a Polish composer and violinist. She is the second Polish female composer to have achieved national and international recognition, the first being Maria Szymanowska in the ea ...

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Einar Englund Sven Einar Englund (June 17, 1916 – June 27, 1999) was a Finnish composer. Life Sven Einar Englund was born at Ljugarn in Gotland, Sweden, on June 17, 1916; he died June 27, 1999, in Visby, Sweden. He married twice: in 1941 to Meri Mirja ...

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Yves Baudrier Yves Marie Baudrier (11 February 1906 – 9 November 1988) was a French composer. Along with André Jolivet, Olivier Messiaen and Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, he was a founder of the '' La jeune France'' group of composers. He also competed in the ...

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Jean Daetwyler Jean Daetwyler (24 January 1907, Basel – 4 June 1994, Sierre) was a Swiss composer and musician. He is barely remembered, mostly for his largely forgotten works for alphorn inspired by Jozsef Molnar beginning in 1970. Also inspired by tromboni ...

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Alexander Brott Alexander Brott, , born Joël Brod (March 14, 1915April 1, 2005),

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Oskar Morawetz Oskar Morawetz, (January 17, 1917 – June 13, 2007) was a Canadian composer. Biography Morawetz was born in Světlá nad Sázavou, Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic). He studied piano and theory in Prague and, following the Nazi tak ...

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Harry Somers Harry Stewart Somers, CC (September 11, 1925 – March 9, 1999) was a contemporary Canadian composer. Possessing a charismatic attitude and rather dashing good looks, as well as a genuine talent for his art, Somers earned the unofficial title ...

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Gabriele Bianchi Gabriele Bianchi (27 August 1901 – 8 October 1974) was an Italian composer, conductor and teacher. He was born in Verona Verona ( , ; vec, Verona or ) is a city on the Adige River in Veneto, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants. It ...

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Gerard Victory Thomas Joseph Gerard Victory (24 December 1921 – 14 March 1995) was a prolific Irish composer. He wrote over two hundred works across many genres and styles, including tonal, serial, aleatoric and electroacoustic music. Biography Victory w ...

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Painting

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Albert Decaris Albert Decaris (6 May 1901 – 1 January 1988) was a French artist, engraver, painter and Olympic Gold Medallist. Early life Decaris was born in Sotteville-lès-Rouen. At age 19, Decaris won the '' Concours de Rome'', which was seen as the pr ...

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Walter Battiss Walter Whall Battiss (6 January 1906 – 20 August 1982) was a South African artist, also known as the creator of the "Fook Island" concept. Early life Battiss was born into an English Methodist family in the Karoo town of Somerset Ea ...

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Laura Knight Dame Laura Knight ( Johnson; 4 August 1877 – 7 July 1970) was an English artist who worked in oils, watercolours, etching, engraving and drypoint. Knight was a painter in the figurative, realist tradition, who embraced English Impressi ...

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John Skeaping John Rattenbury Skeaping, RA (9 June 1901 – 5 March 1980) was an English sculptor and equine painter and sculptor. He designed animal figures for Wedgwood, and his life-size statue of Secretariat is exhibited at the National Museum of R ...

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André Dunoyer de Segonzac André Dunoyer de Segonzac (6 July 1884 – 17 September 1974) was a French painter and graphic artist. Biography Segonzac was born in Boussy-Saint-Antoine and spent his childhood there and in Paris. His parents wanted him to attend the military ...

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Hans Erni Hans Erni (February 21, 1909 – March 21, 2015) was a Swiss graphic designer, painter, illustrator, engraver and sculptor. Born in Lucerne, the third of eight siblings, to a cabin cruiser engineer, he studied art at the Académie Julian in Par ...

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William Washington William Washington (February 28, 1752 – March 6, 1810) was a cavalry officer of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, who held a final rank of brigadier general in the newly created United States after the war. Primarily ...

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Alfred Thomson Alfred Reginald Thomson (10 December 1894 – 27 October 1979) was an English artist and Olympic Gold Medalist, most notable for being an official War Artist to the Royal Air Force during World War Two. Biography Thomson was born in Ban ...

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Jan Goedhart Jan Goedhart (28 June 1893 – 16 September 1975) was a Dutch painter. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1936 Summer Olympics and the 1948 Summer Olympics. Goedhart's work was included in the 1939 exhibition and sale ''Onze Ku ...

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Lionel Edwards Lionel Edwards (9 November 1878 – 13 April 1966) was a British artist who specialised in painting horses and other aspects of British country life. He is best known for his hunting scenes but also painted pictures of horse racing, shootin ...

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Mino Maccari Mino Maccari (24 November 1898 – 16 June 1989) was an Italian painter. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and ...

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Robert Lips Robert Lips (21 August 1912 – 28 February 1975), was a Swiss cartoonist. He is best known as the creator of the cartoon character ''Globi'' for Globus. He was also a fencer and competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1948 Sum ...

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Karl Borschke Karl Borschke (11 June 1886 – 14 July 1941) was an Austrian painter. His work was part of the Art competitions at the 1936 Summer Olympics#Painting, painting event in the Art competitions at the 1936 Summer Olympics, art competition at the ...

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, , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Anna Zinkeisen , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Gino De Finetti , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Clifford Hall , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Vera Matthews-Irving , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Maurice MacGonigal , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Ciaran Clear , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Thomas Healy , , align="left", Unknown event The following painters took part: {, width="100%" , - valign="top" , {, class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" ! Rank !! Name !! Country , - , AC , , align="left", Adrienne Jouclard , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Anna Zinkeisen , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Deirdre Henty-Creer , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left",

Doris Zinkeisen Doris Clare Zinkeisen (31 July 1898 – 3 January 1991) was a Scottish theatrical stage and costume designer, painter, commercial artist, and writer. She was best known for her work in theatrical design. Early life Doris Zinkeisen was born in C ...

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Alfred Munnings Sir Alfred James Munnings, (8 October 1878 – 17 July 1959) was known as one of England's finest painters of horses, and as an outspoken critic of Modernism. Engaged by Lord Beaverbrook's Canadian War Memorials Fund, he earned several presti ...

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Charles Cundall Charles Ernest Cundall, , (6 September 1890 – 4 November 1971), was an English painter of topographical subjects and townscapes, best known for his large panoramic canvases. Early life Cundall was born in Stretford, Lancashire. Af ...

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Charles Lamb Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his '' Essays of Elia'' and for the children's book '' Tales from Shakespeare'', co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764� ...

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Kees Maks Cornelis Johannes Maks (August 22, 1876 – October 28, 1967), known as Kees Maks, was a Dutch painter born in Amsterdam. He studied for a time at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, before becoming a pupil of George Hendrik Breitner.Jansen ...

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Felice Ludovisi Felice Ludovisi (27 August 1917 – 2 April 2012) was born in Viterbo in 1917. He studied at the Art Academy in Rome. After obtaining the diploma of artistic maturity and teaching qualification, he graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the ...

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Giuseppe Capogrossi Giuseppe Capogrossi (7 March 1900 – 9 October 1972) was an Italian painter. Biography Capogrossi was born in Rome. After obtaining a degree in law in 1923–1924, he decided to study painting with Felice Carena at Accademia di Belle Arti di Ro ...

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John Farleigh John Farleigh (16 June 1900 – 30 March 1965), also known as Frederick William Charles Farleigh, was an English wood-engraver, noted for his illustrations of George Bernard Shaw's work ''The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for Go ...

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Roy de Maistre Roy De Maistre CBE (27 March 18941 March 1968) was an Australian artist of international fame. He is renowned in Australian art for his early experimentation with "colour-music", and is recognised as the first Australian artist to use pure abst ...

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Ray Howard-Jones Rosemary "Ray" Howard-Jones (30 May 1903 – 25 June 1996) was a prolific Welsh painter best known for her impressionistic seascapes and paintings of the coastline of Wales, particularly of the areas around Skomer and Marloes. Early life and ...

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Bernard Cuzner Bernard Lionel Cuzner (1877 – 4 January 1956) was an England, English silversmith and product designer. Cuzner was born in Alcester in Warwickshire and initially trained as a watchmaker, before showing talent as a silversmith while taking e ...

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Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz (1919–2005) was a Polish sculptor. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also known as Lo ...

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Sculpture

Medals and plaques The following sculptors took part: {, width="100%" , - valign="top" , {, class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" ! Rank !! Name !! Country , - bgcolor=gold , 1 , , align="left", ''Not awarded'' , , align="left", , - bgcolor=silver , 2 , , align="left", Oskar Thiede , , align="left", , - bgcolor=#CC9966 , 3 , , align="left", Edwin Grienauer , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Alex Walter Diggelmann , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Filippo Sgarlata , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Stanislav Binar , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Alessandro Manzo , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Omero Taddeini , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Thomas Wilkinson , , align="left", Reliefs The following sculptors took part: {, width="100%" , - valign="top" , {, class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" ! Rank !! Name !! Country , - bgcolor=gold , 1 , , align="left", ''Not awarded'' , , align="left", , - bgcolor=silver , 2 , , align="left", ''Not awarded'' , , align="left", , - bgcolor=#CC9966 , 3 , , align="left",

Rosamund Fletcher Rosamund Mary Beatrice Fletcher (5 August 1908 — 18 February 1993) was an English sculptor. Her works were shown over twenty times at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition from 1938 to 1965. In 1957, she became a Fellow of the Royal Soci ...

, , align="left", Statues The following sculptors took part: {, width="100%" , - valign="top" , {, class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" ! Rank !! Name !! Country , - bgcolor=gold , 1 , , align="left", Gustaf Nordahl , , align="left", , - bgcolor=silver , 2 , , align="left", Chintamoni Kar , , align="left", , - bgcolor=#CC9966 , 3 , , align="left", Hubert Yencesse , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left",

Emilio Greco Emilio Greco (11 October 1913 in Catania, Sicily – 5 April 1995) was an Italian sculptor, engraver, medallist, writer and poet. He is best known for his monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world in museums such as - Tat ...

, , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Filippo Sgarlata , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Franciszek Strynkiewicz , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Jerzy Bandura , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Joseph Rivière , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Knud Nellemose , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Margarete Markl , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Edwin Grienauer , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left",

Edmund Reitter Edmund Reitter (22 October 1845 – 15 March 1920) was an Austrian entomologist, writer and a collector. Biography Edmund Reitter was best known as an expert on the beetles of the Palaearctic. He was an imperial advisor and editor of the ' ...

, , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Karl Stemolak , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Guy Van Den Steen , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Elsy Blom-Wirz , , align="left", , {, class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" ! Rank !! Name !! Country , - , AC , , align="left", Odon Lallemand , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Sybil Kennedy , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Robert Norgate , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Henri Lagriffoul , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Joël Martel , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Jan Martel , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left",

Dora Gordine Dora Gordine (8 June 1895 – 29 December 1991) was an Estonian Jewish Modernist figurative and portraitist sculptor. Her early career was influenced by the Noor Eesti (‘Young Estonia’) group of artists who favoured Art Nouveau. She moved ...

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Mary Morton Mary Morton (21 March 1879 – 15 June 1965) was a British sculptor. Early life and education Morton was born in Stroud, England on 21 March 1879. Her father was George Morton, a surgeon who was born around 1839 in the East Indies. She ...

, , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Phyllis Bone , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Eric Winters , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Desmond Broe , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Edmondo Gigante , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", May Power , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Filippo Tallone , , align="left", , {, class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" ! Rank !! Name !! Country , - , AC , , align="left", Angelo Di Castro , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Alessandro Manzo , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Co Derr , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Graciano Nepomuceno , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Jacek Żuławski , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Jan Ślusarczyk , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Maria Bujakowa , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Helena Bukowska-Szlekys , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Hans Brandenberger , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Ferdy Denzler , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Olof Ahlberg , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Karel Otáhal , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Jakub Obrovský , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Jindřich Severa , , align="left", Unknown event The following sculptors took part: {, width="100%" , - valign="top" , {, class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" ! Rank !! Name !! Country , - , AC , , align="left", Karl Stemolak , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Kostas Valsamis , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Peter Peri , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left",

Leoncillo Leonardi Leoncillo Leonardi (18 November 1915 – 3 September 1968), commonly known as Leoncillo, was an Italian sculptor who worked principally in glazed ceramics, often large-scale, and often using vivid colours. Until the mid-1950s his work was mostl ...

, , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Marcel Chauvenet , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left",

Marino Mazzacurati Renato Marino Mazzacurati (22 July 1907 – 18 September 1969) was an Italian painter and sculptor belonging to the modern movement of the '' Scuola romana (Roman School)'', of eclectic styles and able within his career span to represent the a ...

, , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Maurice Lambert , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Michael Drobil , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Otto Hofner , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Paul Vincze , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Tait McKenzie , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Raymond Coulon , , align="left", , {, class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" ! Rank !! Name !! Country , - , AC , , align="left", René Iché , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Robert Allan Miller , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left",

Siegfried Charoux Siegfried Joseph Charoux (15 November 1896 – 26 April 1967) was an artist, primarily a figurative sculptor working in bronze, stone, or terracotta. Born in Austria, he moved to England in 1935, where he became naturalised in 1946. Early and ...

, , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Hugo Daini , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", V. Robinson Hodge , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left",

Wäinö Aaltonen Wäinö Valdemar Aaltonen (8 March 1894 – 30 May 1966) was a Finnish artist and sculptor. The Chambers Biographical Dictionary describes him as "one of the leading Finnish sculptors". He was born to a tailor in the village of Karinainen, Finl ...

, , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Walter Linck , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left",

, , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Chintamoni Kar , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Norman Tyrrell , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left",

Antoni Kenar Antoni Kenar (23 October 1906 – 19 February 1959) was a Polish sculptor. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1932 Summer Olympics and the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Ol ...

, , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Jakub Obrovský , , align="left", , {, class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" ! Rank !! Name !! Country , - , AC , , align="left", Guy Van Den Steen , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Alex Walter Diggelmann , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Knud Nellemose , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Filippo Sgarlata , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Ferdinand Opitz , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Edmund Moiret , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Albin Döbrich , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Karin Jarl-Sakellarios , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Jack Downing , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Charles Stanier , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", W. G. Webb , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Gertrude Bohnert , , align="left",

References

{{Art competitions at the Summer Olympics 1948 Summer Olympics events

1948 Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British ...

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