1947 in art

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Contents 1 Events 2 Awards 3 Works 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Journalist Tancrede Marcil Jr. coins the term Les Automatistes in a review of their Montreal exhibition.
• Norman Rockwell produces the first of his Four Seasons calendar illustrations for Brown & Bigelow.
• Jackson Pollock produces the first of his Drip Paintings, the series that brought him international acclaim, in the Springs, East Hampton, New York.

[edit] Awards

• Archibald Prize: William Dargie - Sir Marcus Clark, KBE

[edit] Works

• Alberto Giacometti - Man Walking
• Alfred Janes - Little Cactus
• Bill Traylor - Construction with Figures and Animals

[edit] Births

• January 9 - Ronnie Landfield

[edit] Deaths

• January 23 - Pierre Bonnard, French painter and printmaker
• March 19 - Prudence Heward, Canadian painter
• June 13 - Albert Marquet, Fauvist painter