1948 in art
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Events
- Georges Braque begins work on his Ateliers
Awards
Works
Paintings
- Otto Dix - Ecce homo with self-likeness behind barbed wire
- Russell Drysdale - The cricketers
- Rudolf Hausner - It's Me!
- Henri Matisse - The Plum Blossoms
- Barnett Newman - Onement I
- Sidney Nolan - The Abandoned Mine
- Jackson Pollock - No. 5, 1948
- Anne Redpath - Window in Menton
- Rufino Tamayo - Cazadores de mariposas
- Andrew Wyeth - Christina's World, McVey's Barn
Sculpture
See also: Category:1948 sculptures
- Iglica
- Wäinö Aaltonen - Kun ystävyyssuhteet solmitaan
- Jacob Epstein - Lazarus
- Marino Marini - The Angel of the City
Graphic works
- M. C. Escher
- Dewdrop (mezzotint)
- Drawing Hands (lithograph)
- Stars (wood engraving)
Births
- March 9 - Eric Fischl, painter
- April 14 - Berry Berenson, American model and photographer
- September 20 - Adrian Piper, conceptual artist
- October 2 - Donna Karan, American fashion designer
- October 8 - Gottfried Helnwein, Austrian fine artist, photographer, installation and performance artist
- November 1 - Bill Woodrow, British sculptor
- November 18 - Ana Mendieta, performance artist (d. 1985)
- December 18 - Mimmo Paladino, Italian sculptor, painter and printmaker
- December 26 - Lin Onus, Scottish-Aboriginal Koori artist (d. 1996)
- Full date unknown
- Jonathan Lasker, painter
- Marilyn Minter, painter and photographer
Deaths
- January 8 - Kurt Schwitters, painter, collagist, poet (b. 1887)
- February 23 - Fidus, illustrator, painter and publisher (b. 1868)
- March 23 - Yevgeniy Abalakov, Soviet sculptor and mountaineer (b. 1907)
- March 24 - Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter (b. 1885)
- July 21 - Arshile Gorky, painter (b. 1904)
- September 22 - Felicjan Kowarski, Polish painter and sculptor (b. 1885)
- December 28 - Hakob Gyurjian, Armenian sculptor (b. 1890)
- December 30 - George Ault, American Precisionist painter (b. 1891)
- date unknown
- Shinzō Fukuhara, Japanese photographer (b. 1883)
- Hector Hyppolite, Haitian painter (b. 1894)
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