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Events
- The Vienna School of Fantastic Realism is founded by Ernst Fuchs, Rudolf Hausner, and others.
Awards
- Archibald Prize: William Dargie - L C Robson, MC, MA
Works
See also: Category:1946 paintings
- 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
- Barbara Hepworth - Pelagos and Tides
- Georgia O'Keeffe - Bare Tree Trunks With Snow
Exhibitions
- Contemporary British Art - Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, the Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, and the City Art Museum, St Louis.
Births
- January 18 - Kirk Varnedoe, American art historian, writer and curator (d.2003).
- 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 13 - Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (b. 1864)
- October 28 - Manuel Ortiz de Zárate, painter (b. 1887)
- 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)
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