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Events
- Peggy Guggenheim closes The Art of This Century Gallery
- Journalist Tancrede Marcil Jr. coins the term Les Automatistes in a review of their Montreal exhibition.
- Norman Rockwell produces the first of his Four Seasons calendar illustrations for Brown & Bigelow.
- Jackson Pollock produces the first of his Drip Paintings, the series that brought him international acclaim, in the Springs, East Hampton, New York.
Awards
- Archibald Prize: William Dargie - Sir Marcus Clark, KBE
Works
See also: Category:1947 paintings
- Alberto Giacometti - Man Walking
- Jean Hélion - A Rebours (Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris)
- Alfred Janes - Little Cactus
- Bill Traylor - Construction with Figures and Animals
Births
- January 9 - Ronnie Landfield, painter
- March 12 - Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist (d.1987)
- March 29 - Sarah Charlesworth, conceptual artist and photographer
- April 17 - Sherrie Levine, conceptual artist
- June 5 - Laurie Anderson, experimental performance artist and musician
- June 15 - John Hoagland, American photographer (d.1984)
- December - Richard Amsel, American illustrator and graphic designer (d.1985)
- Full date unknown - Louise Lawler, photographer
Deaths
- January 23 - Pierre Bonnard, French painter and printmaker (b. 1867)
- March 2 - Stanhope Forbes, painter of the Newlyn school (b. 1857)
- March 19 - Prudence Heward, Canadian painter (b. 1896)
- June 9 - Augusto Giacometti, Swiss painter (b. 1877)
- June 13 - Albert Marquet, Fauvist painter (b. 1875)
- July 25 - Kathleen Scott (Lady Scott), sculptor (b. 1878)
- August 9 - Seraphima Blonskaya, painter and art teacher (b. 1870)
- November 20 - Georg Kolbe, sculptor (b. 1877)
- December 1 - Samuel Courtauld, art collector (b. 1876)
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