1947 in art
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[edit] Events
- Peggy Guggenheim closes The Art of This Century Gallery
- 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
- Jean Hélion - A Rebours (Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris)
- Alfred Janes - Little Cactus
- Bill Traylor - Construction with Figures and Animals
[edit] Births
- Laurie Anderson (1947-), experimental performance artist, musician
- Sarah Charlesworth (1947-), conceptual artist, photographer
- Ronnie Landfield, (1947-), painter
- Louise Lawler (1947-), photographer
- Sherrie Levine (1947-), conceptual artist
[edit] Deaths
- January 23 - Pierre Bonnard, French painter and printmaker (b. 1867)
- March 19 - Prudence Heward, Canadian painter (b. 1896)
- June 13 - Albert Marquet, Fauvist painter (b. 1875)
- date unknown - Georg Kolbe, sculptor (b. 1877)
