1943 in art

Events

• February 20 – The painter David Olère is arrested by French police during a round up of Jews in Seine-et-Oise and spends the rest of World War II in Nazi concentration camps.
• December 9 – Willem de Kooning marries Elaine Fried in New York.
• Filming in the United States of a version of The Picture of Dorian Grey uses an original work by Ivan Albright as the title picture.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: William Dobell – Joshua Smith

Works

A Bofors Gun, Algiers, Henry Carr

Self-portrait with Jewish identity card, Felix Nussbaum

• Constantin Brâncuși – The Seal (sculpture, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris)
• Paul Cadmus – The Shower
• Salvador Dalí – Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man
• M. C. Escher – Reptiles (lithograph)
• Murray Griffin – Roberts Hospital, Changi^[1]
• Barbara Hepworth – Oval Sculpture
• Edward Hopper – Hotel Lobby
• Dame Laura Knight – Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring^[2][3]
• Wifredo Lam – The Jungle
• L. S. Lowry
  • Britain at Play
  • Going To Work
• George Platt Lynes – Marsden Hartley (photograph)
• Piet Mondrian – Broadway Boogie-Woogie
• Paul Nash – Landscape of the Vernal Equinox
• Felix Nussbaum – Self-portrait with Jewish identity card
• Arthur Pan – Winston Churchill
• Jackson Pollock – Mural (for Peggy Guggenheim)
• Norman Rockwell – Four Freedoms (paintings)
• Walter Russell – Four Freedoms Monument
• Xul Solar – Fiordo
• Dorothea Tanning – Eine kleine Nachtmusik^[4]
• Stanley Warren – Changi Murals
• U Wisara Monument (Rangoon)

Births

• January 8 – Sighsten Herrgård, fashion designer (d.1989)
• April 24 – Jüri Kerem, portraitist
• May 8 – James Turrell, installation artist
• June 22 – Gordon Matta-Clark, situationist, site-specific artist and performance artist (d.1978)
• July 15 – Michael Asher, conceptual artist and installation artist
• July 29 – Martha Rosler, video, photo-text, installation and performance art
• August 30 – Robert Crumb, cartoonist
• September 5 – Jerry Wilkerson, American painter (d. 2007)
• September 17 – Gilbert (Proesch), artist partnering with George (Passmore)
• November 11 – Dave Cockrum, American comic book artist (d. 2006)
• unknown date – Dragoš Kalajić, Serbian modern painter (d. 2005).

Deaths

• January 13 – Xavier Martinez, painter (b. 1869)
• May 25 – Percy Shakespeare, painter (on active service) (b. 1906)
• June 28 – Pietro Porcelli, sculptor
• July – Friedrich Adler, designer (in Auschwitz concentration camp)
• August 7 – Sarah Purser, painter and stained-glass maker (b. 1848)
• August 9 – Chaim Soutine, painter
• September 2 – Marsden Hartley, painter
• October 19 – Camille Claudel, sculptor and graphic artist (b. 1864)

See also

• 1943 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References

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