1944 in art
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[edit] Events
[edit] Awards
- Archibald Prize: Joshua Smith - Hon Sol Rosevear, MHR, Speaker of the House of Representatives
[edit] Exhibitions
- Jean Dubuffet's first solo exhibition.
[edit] Works
- Francis Bacon - Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion
- George Grosz - Cain, or Hitler in Hell
- Frida Kahlo - The Broken Column
- Fernand Léger - Three Musicians (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
- Piet Mondrian - Victory Boogie-Woogie (unfinished)
[edit] Births
- January 10 - Jeff Jones, illustrator
- August 4 - Allan McCollum, conceptual artist, all media
- August 20 - Brian Barnes, mural artist
- September 1 - Louis Delsarte, American painter
- November 4 - Don Eddy - painter
- (date unknown) - Abbas, photographer
- (date unknown) - Michael Heizer - sculptor, earth artist
- (date unknown) - Allen Ruppersberg - conceptual artist, installation artist
[edit] Deaths
- January 23 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian expressionist painter (b. 1863)
- February 1 - Piet Mondrian, Dutch abstract painter (b. 1872)
- July 18 - Rex Whistler, English painter (killed in action) (b. 1905)
- December 13 - Wassily Kandinsky, Russian abstract painter (b. 1866)
