1948 in art

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List of years in Art

Contents

1 Events
2 Awards
3 Works
4 Births
5 Deaths

Events

Georges Braque begins work on his Ateliers

Awards

Archibald Prize: William Dobell - Margaret Olley

Works

Paintings

Russell Drysdale - The cricketers
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

Sculpture

Iglica
Marino Marini - The Angel of the City

Graphic works

M. C. Escher - Drawing Hands

Births

March 9 - Eric Fischl, painter
April 14 - Berry Berenson, American model and photographer
September 20 - Adrian Piper, conceptual artist
October 2 - Donna Karan, American fashion designer.
October 8 - Gottfried Helnwein, Austrian fine artist, photographer, installation and performance artist
November 18 - Ana Mendieta, performance artist (d.1985)
December 26 - Lin Onus, Scottish-Aboriginal Koori artist (d.1996).
Full date unknown
- Jonathan Lasker, painter.
- Marilyn Minter, painter and photographer.

Deaths

January 8 - Kurt Schwitters, painter, collagist, poet (b. 1887)
February 23 - Fidus, illustrator, painter and publisher (b. 1868)
March 23 - Yevgeniy Abalakov, Soviet sculptor and mountaineer (b. 1907)
March 24 - Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter (b. 1885)
July 21 - Arshile Gorky, painter (b. 1904)
December 30 - George Ault, American Precisionist painter (b. 1891)
date unknown
- Shinzō Fukuhara, Japanese photographer (b. 1883)
- Hector Hyppolite, Haitian painter (b. 1894)