1937 in art

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Events

• May–June - Pablo Picasso paints Guernica, a cubistic mural created in reaction to the German bombing of the Spanish Basque town of the same name on 26 April. It is first exhibited in July at the Spanish Republican government pavilion in the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne in Paris before commencing a world tour.
• July 19 - Entartete Kunst "(Degenerate art)" exhibition, mounted by the Nazis, opens in Munich.
• Salvador Dalí paints Metamorphosis of Narcissus, a surrealist work influenced by the Greek Myth of Narcissus.
• 1937–1938 - Mussolini has the Ara Pacis Augustae reconstructed in its present location.
• Formation in London of the Euston Road School.

Works

See also: Category:1937 paintings

• Endre Bálint - My Room at the Bindendorfs
• Balthus - The Mountain
• William Coldstream - Winifred Burger
• Oscar Domínguez - The Infernal Machine
• Max Dupain - Sunbaker
• Arthur Dove - Me and the Moon
• Alberto Giacometti - The Artist's Mother
• Henri Matisse - Lady in Blue
• Joan Miró - Still Life With An Old Shoe; Naked woman climbing a staircase
• Stanley Spencer - Double Nude Portrait

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Normand Baker - Self Portrait

Births

• May 31 - Larry Zox, American painter and printmaker (d.2006)
• June 7 - Red Grooms, multimedia, pop artist
• July 9 - David Hockney, painter
• August 18 - Willie Rushton, English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer (d.1996)
• October 1 - Larry Poons, op artist
• October 6 -Fritz Scholder, painter, printmaker and graphic artist (d.2005)
• October 12 - Robert Mangold, minimalist painter
• October 19 - Peter Max, printmaker and graphic designer
• December 16 - Edward Ruscha, painter, printmaker, photographer and conceptual artist
• full date unknown - Ronald Davis, painter

Deaths

• January 29 - Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté, painter and sculptor (b. 1869)
• April 19 - William Martin Conway, art critic (b. 1856)
• November 6 - Colin Campbell Cooper, painter (b. 1856)
• December 5 - János Thorma, Post-Impressionist painter (b. 1870)
• December 6
  • Francis Cadell, Scottish Colourist painter (b. 1883)
  • Florence Griswold, curator (b. 1850)
• full date unknown
  • Helen Thornycroft, English painter (b. 1848)
  • Peter Waals, furniture designer (b. 1870)