1950 in art

Events

• Ernst Gombrich's The Story of Art is published by Phaidon Press.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: William Dargie - Sir Leslie McConnan
• Audubon Artists Gold Medal - Richmond Barthé

Works

• Jean Arp - Evocation of a Form: Human, Lunar, Spectral (model for bronze)
• Francis Bacon - Fragment of a Crucifixion
• Marc Chagall - La Mariée
• Salvador Dalí - The Madonna of Port Lligat (second version, Fukuoka Art Museum)
• Robert Doisneau - Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville (The Kiss) (photograph)^[1]
• Alberto Giacometti - The Chariot
• Maruki Iri and Maruki Toshi - Ghosts, Fire and Water (Yūrei, Hi and Mizu), first of The Hiroshima Panels (原爆の図, Genbaku no zu)
• L. S. Lowry - The Pond
• Henri Matisse - Beasts of the Sea (paper collage)
• Henry Moore - Family Group (Stevenage New Town, UK)
• Jackson Pollock - Autumn Rhythm, Number 30
• William Scott - Bowl, Eggs and Lemons
• Vladimir Tretchikoff - Chinese Girl, popularly known as "The Green Lady"
• Keith Vaughan - Theseus and the Minotaur (Tate Britain)

Births

• June 24 - Bob Carlos Clarke, Irish photographer (d. 2006)
• July 29 - Jenny Holzer, conceptual artist
• August 30 - Antony Gormley, sculptor
• November 10 - Jonathan Janson, painter and art historian
• December 11 - Aleksandr Tatarskiy, Russian animator, artist and film director (d. 2007).

Deaths

• February 12 - Boris Vladimirski, painter of the Socialist Realism school
• September 26 - Pierre Roy, painter, illustrator and designer
• December 7 - Wojciech Weiss, painter and draughtsman (b. 1875)
• December 28 - Max Beckmann, painter (b. 1884)
• date unknown
  • Albert Herter, painter (b. 1871)
  • James Sleator, Irish painter (b.1889)
  • Hiroshi Yoshida, Japanese painter and woodblock print maker (b. 1876)

See also

• 1950 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References