1942 in art

Events

• Salvador Dalí publishes his autobiography, The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí

Awards

• Archibald Prize: William Dargie - Corporal Jim Gordon, VC

Works

Edward Hopper - Nighthawks

• Rita Angus - Portrait (Betty Curnow)
• Pierre Bonnard - Red Roofs in Cannet
• Paul-Émile Borduas - Abstraction No 7
• Marie Hadad - Portrait of Mr. Dahesh (Dahesh Museum of Art)
• Edward Hopper - Nighthawks (Art Institute of Chicago)
• Dame Laura Knight - A Balloon Site, Coventry
• Roberto Matta
  • The Apples we Know
  • Composition in Magenta: The End of Everything
  • The Disasters of Mysticism
  • The Hanged Man
• Paul Nash - The Archer
• Méret Oppenheim - Sun, Moon, Stars
• Pablo Picasso
  • Portrait of Dora Maar
  • Woman in a Fish Hat (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam)
• Diego Rivera - The Flower Seller
• Dorothea Tanning - Birthday (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
• Philip Zec - The price of petrol has been increased by one penny – Official (political cartoon)

Births

• January 8 - George Passmore, artist partnering with Gilbert (Proesch)
• February 10 - Lawrence Weiner, conceptual artist
• March 2 - Jonathan Borofsky, painter, sculptor, installation artist
• March 31 - Dan Graham, conceptual artist, performance artist
• October 6 - Dan Christensen, American abstract painter (d.2007).
• October 29 - Bob Ross, American painter and television presenter (d.1995).
• November 7 - Stan Rice, American poet and artist (d.2002).
• date unknown
  • Susan Crile, painter
  • De Es Schwertberger, Austrian painter.

Deaths

• January - Albert Moulton Foweraker, English painter (b. 1873)
• January 5 - Tina Modotti, photographer and model (b. 1896)
• January 22 - Walter Sickert, Impressionist painter (b. 1860)
• February 9 - Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, portrait and genre painter (b. 1856)
• February 12 - Grant Wood, painter (b. 1892)
• February 20 - Herbert Dicksee, painter (b. 1862)
• April 18 - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art (b. 1875)
• June 30 - William Henry Jackson, photographer (b. 1843)
• August 10 - Albert Guillaume, painter and caricaturist (b. 1873)
• September 7 - Cecilia Beaux, portrait painter (b. 1855)
• September 9 - Eric Ravilious, painter (b. 1903) (lost on active service as a war artist)
• December 19 - T. F. Šimon, painter (b. 1877)
• date unknown
  • Nampeyo, potter, ceramic artist (b. 1860)
  • Adolphe Valette, painter (b. 1876)

See also

• 1942 in fine arts of the Soviet Union