1948 in art

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List of years in Art

Contents 1 Events 2 Awards 3 Works 3.1 Paintings 3.2 Sculpture 3.3 Graphic works 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Georges Braque begins work on his Ateliers

[edit] Awards

• Archibald Prize: William Dobell - Margaret Olley

[edit] Works

[edit] Paintings

• Rudolf Hausner - It's Me!
• 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] Sculpture

• Iglica
• Marino Marini - The Angel of the City

[edit] Graphic works

• M. C. Escher - Drawing Hands

[edit] Births

• Eric Fischl (1948-), painter
• Jonathan Lasker (1948-), painter
• Ana Mendieta (1948-1985), performance artist
• Marilyn Minter (1948-), painter, photographer
• Adrian Piper (1948-), conceptual artist
• 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
• Guan Housheng, Chinese painter
• Lin Onus, Australian aboriginal painter
• Qiu Deshu, Chinese painter

[edit] Deaths

• January 8 - Kurt Schwitters, painter, collagist, poet (b. 1887)
• July 21 - Arshile Gorky, painter (b. 1904)
• December 30 - George Ault, American Precisionist painter (b. 1891)