1938 in art
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Events
- Albert Namatjira exhibition in Melbourne includes over 2,000 works, the first solo display of indigenous Australian art.
- American art collector Louis J. Caldor 'discovers' Grandma Moses.
Awards
- Archibald Prize: Nora Heysen – Mme Elink Schuurman
Works
- Vilmos Aba-Novák – Fair in Transylvania
- Rita Angus – Head of a Maori Boy
- Thomas Hart Benton – Haystack
- Constantin Brâncuși – The Endless Column (sculpture)
- Marc Chagall – White Crucifixion
- William Coldstream – Bolton
- Salvador Dalí
- Charles Despiau – Assia (sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York)
- Arthur Dove – Swing Music
- M. C. Escher – Sky and Water II (lithograph)
- Leonor Fini – Composition with Figures on a Terrace
- Frida Kahlo – Self-Portrait with Monkey
- René Magritte – Time Transfixed
- Aristide Maillol – Air
- Ronald Moody – Tacet (carved wood head)
- Paul Nash
- Landscape from a Dream
- Nocturnal Landscape
- John Petts – Fishwife of Ynys Mon
- Pablo Picasso – Maya with Doll
- Walter Sickert – Sir Thomas Beecham Conducting
Births
- January 2
- January 7 – Roland Topor, French illustrator, painter, writer and filmmaker (d. 1997)
- February 13 – Joan Brown, American figurative painter (d. 1990)
- March 15 – Dick Higgins, English composer, poet, printer and early Fluxus artist (d. 1998)
- May 18 – Janet Fish, American Realist painter
- July 24 – Eugene J. Martin, American visual artist (d. 2005)
- July 28 – Robert Hughes, Australian-born art critic (d. 2012)
- August 19 – Robert Graham, Mexican-American sculptor (d. 2008)
- September 25 – Bill Owens, American photographer
- October 15 – Brice Marden, American painter.
- October 20 – Iain Macmillan, Scottish photographer (d. 2006).
- November 10 – Claude Serre, French cartoonist (d. 1998)
- date unknown – John Behan, sculptor.
Deaths
- January 1 – Alice Bailly, Swiss painter and multimedia artist (b. 1872)
- January 19 – Rosa Mayreder, painter and musician (b. 1858)
- April 7 – Suzanne Valadon, painter (b. 1865)
- April 24 – John Wycliffe Lowes Forster, portrait painter (b. 1850)
- May 22 – William Glackens, painter (b. 1870)
- June 15 – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Expressionist painter (b. 1880)
- October 24 – Ernst Barlach, sculptor (b. 1870)