1946 in art

Events

• The Vienna School of Fantastic Realism is founded by Ernst Fuchs, Rudolf Hausner, and others.
• Sidney Nolan begins his first series of paintings of Ned Kelly.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: William Dargie - L C Robson, MC, MA

Works

• George Ault - Bright Light at Russell's Corners
• Francis Bacon
  • Painting (1946)
  • Study for Man with Microphones (later abandoned and slashed by the artist)
• Salvador Dalí - The Temptation of St Anthony
• Jacob Epstein - Bust of Winston Churchill
• M. C. Escher - lithographs
  • Magic Mirror
  • Three Spheres II
• Sawlaram Haldankar - Glow of Hope
• Barbara Hepworth - sculptures
  • Pelagos
  • Tides
• Edward Hopper - Approaching a City
• Dame Laura Knight - The Dock, Nuremberg
• L. S. Lowry - Good Friday, Daisy Nook
• Henri Matisse - L'Asie
• Georgia O'Keeffe - Bare Tree Trunks With Snow
• Pablo Picasso - Woman-Flower
• Jack Butler Yeats - Men of Destiny

Exhibitions

• Contemporary British Art - Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, and the City Art Museum, St Louis.

Births

• January 18 - Kirk Varnedoe, American art historian, writer and curator (d.2003)
• February 2 - David Gopito, Zimbabwean sculptor
• June 29 - Egon von Fürstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d.2004)
• July 6 - Jamie Wyeth, painter
• July 25 - Nicole Farhi, sculptor and fashion designer.
• September 27 - T.C. Cannon, painter (d.1978)
• November 4 - Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (d.1989).
• November 5 - Herman Brood, Dutch musician, painter and media personality (d.2001)
• November 20 - Alice Aycock, sculptor
• December 2 - Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer, murdered (d.1997).
• December 8 - Jacques Bourboulon, photographer.
• December 12 - Don Gummer, sculptor
• Full date unknown
  • Betty Beaumont, site-specific artist, all media.
  • Chris Burden, performance artist, sculptor.
  • Anthony McCall, installation artist, projected film.

Deaths

• February 17 - Dorothy Gibson, artist's model and actress (b. 1889)
• July 11 - Paul Nash, English painter (b. 1889)
• July 13 - Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (b. 1864)
• October 28 - Manuel Ortiz de Zárate, painter (b. 1887)
• October 30 - Charles Despiau, sculptor (b. 1874)
• November 23 - Arthur Dove, painter (b. 1880)
• November 24 - László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter and photographer (b. 1895)
• December 28 - Elie Nadelman, Poland-born US sculptor (b. 1882)
• date unknown - Arnold Friedman, Modernist painter (b. 1874)