1944 in art

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Events

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Joshua Smith - Hon Sol Rosevear, MHR, Speaker of the House of Representatives

Exhibitions

• Jean Dubuffet's first solo exhibition.

Works

Epstein - Lucifer

• Francis Bacon - Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion
• William Coldstream - Casualty Reception Station, Capua
• Salvador Dalí - Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening
• Jacob Epstein - sculptures
  • First Portrait of Esther (with long hair)
  • Lucifer
• George Grosz - Cain, or Hitler in Hell
• Jean Hélion - The Stairway
• Frida Kahlo - The Broken Column
• Dame Laura Knight - Take Off
• Fernand Léger - Three Musicians (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
• Henri Matisse - Annelies, White Tulips and Anemones
• Joan Miró - Barcelona Series (lithographs)
• Piet Mondrian - Victory Boogie-Woogie (unfinished)
• Pablo Picasso - Man with Sheep (sculpture)

Births

• 9 January - Ian Hornak, American painter and draughtsman (d.2002).
• 10 January - Jeff Jones, illustrator.
• 4 March - Glen Baxter, English cartoonist.
• 4 August - Allan McCollum, conceptual artist, all media.
• 15 August - Gianfranco Ferré, Italian fashion designer (d.2007).
• 20 August - Brian Barnes, mural artist.
• 1 September - Louis Delsarte, American painter.
• 4 November - Don Eddy - painter.

Full date unknown

• Abbas, photographer.
• Michael Heizer, sculptor, earth artist.
• Richard Mock, American painter, sculptor and cartoonist (d.2006).
• Allen Ruppersberg, conceptual artist, installation artist.

Deaths

• January 23 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian expressionist painter (b. 1863)
• February 1 - Piet Mondrian, Dutch abstract painter (b. 1872)
• July 18 - Rex Whistler, English painter (killed in action) (b. 1905)
• December 13 - Wassily Kandinsky, Russian abstract painter (b. 1866)
• Esther Kenworthy, flower painter (b. 1857)
• Miklós Ligeti, sculptor (b. 1871)
• George Herriman, cartoonist (Krazy Kat) (b. 1880)

See also

• 1944 in fine arts of the Soviet Union