1950 in art

Events

• Austrian painter Arnulf Rainer founds the Hundsgruppe ("dog pack") with Arik Brauer, Ernst Fuchs and Josef Mikl.
• Paint by number kits introduced by Max S. Klein, an engineer and owner of the Palmer Paint Company of Detroit, and Dan Robbins.
• 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, American neo-conceptual artist
• August 30
  • Konrad Bernheimer, Venezuelan-born German art dealer and collector
  • Antony Gormley, English sculptor
• November 10 – Jonathan Janson, American 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 printmaker (b. 1876)

See also

• 1950 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References