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Events
- Salvador Dalí publishes his autobiography, The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí
Awards
- Archibald Prize: William Dargie - Corporal Jim Gordon, VC
Works
See also: Category:1942 paintings
- Rita Angus - Portrait (Betty Curnow)
- Pierre Bonnard - Red Roofs in Cannet
- Paul-Émile Borduas - Abstraction No 7
- Edward Hopper - Nighthawks (Art Institute of Chicago)
- Pablo Picasso - Woman in a Fish Hat (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam)
Births
- 6 October - Dan Christensen, American abstract painter (d.2007).
- 29 October - Bob Ross, American painter and television presenter (d.1995).
- 7 November - Stan Rice, American poet and artist (d.2002).
Full date unknown
- Jonathan Borofsky, painter, sculptor, installation artist.
- Susan Crile, painter.
- Dan Graham, conceptual artist, performance artist.
- Lawrence Weiner, conceptual artist.
- De Es Schwertberger, Austrian painter.
Deaths
- January 5 - Tina Modotti, photographer and model
- January 22 - Walter Richard Sickert, Impressionist painter
- April 18 - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art
- December 19 - T. F. Simon, painter
- Albert Guillaume, painter and caricaturist (b. 1873)
- William Jackson, photographer (b. 1843)
- Cecilia Beaux, portrait painter (b. 1855)
- Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, portrait and genre painter (b. 1856)
- Iris Nampeyo - potter, ceramic artist (b. 1860)
- Herbert Dicksee, painter (b. 1862)
- Albert Moulton Foweraker, English painter (b. 1873)
- Grant Wood, painter (b. 1892)
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