1948 in art

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See also: 1947 in art, other events of 1948, 1949 in art, list of years in art

Contents 1 Events 2 Awards 3 Works 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Georges Braque begins work on his Ateliers

[edit] Awards

• Archibald Prize: William Dobell - Margaret Olley

[edit] Works

• Iglica
• M. C. Escher - Drawing Hands
• Rudolf Hausner - It's Me!
• Marino Marini - The Angel of the City
• Henri Matisse - The Plum Blossoms
• Barnett Newman - Onement I
• Jackson Pollock - No. 5, 1948
• Anne Redpath - Window in Menton
• Rufino Tamayo - Cazadores de mariposas
• Andrew Wyeth - Christina's World, McVey's Barn

[edit] Births

• April 14 - Berry Berenson, American model and photographer
• October 2 - Donna Karan, American fashion designer
• October 8 - Gottfried Helnwein, Austrian fine artist, photographer, installation and performance artist
• unknown date - Guan Housheng, Chinese painter
• unknown date - Lin Onus, Australian aboriginal painter
• unknown date - Qiu Deshu, Chinese painter

[edit] Deaths

• December 30 - George Ault, American Precisionist painter