1938 in art
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[edit] Events
- Albert Namatjira exhibition in Melbourne includes over 2,000 works.
- American art collector Louis J. Caldor 'discovers' Grandma Moses.
[edit] Awards
- Archibald Prize: Nora Heysen - Mme Elink Schuurman
[edit] Works
[edit] Paintings
See also: Category:1938 paintings
- Rita Angus - Head of a Maori Boy
- William Coldstream - Bolton
- Arthur Dove - Swing Music
- John Petts - Fishwife of Ynys Mon
- Walter Sickert - Sir Thomas Beecham Conducting
[edit] Sculptures
- Constantin Brâncuşi - The Endless Column
- Charles Despiau - Assia (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
[edit] Births
- 2 January - Robert Smithson, American artist (d.1973).
- 7 January - Roland Topor, French illustrator, painter, writer and filmmaker (d.1997).
- 13 February - Joan Brown, American figurative painter (d.1990).
- 24 July - Eugene J. Martin, American visual artist (d.2005).
- 28 July - Robert Hughes, art critic.
- 19 August - Robert Graham, Mexican-American sculptor (d.2008).
- 25 September - Bill Owens, American photographer
- 15 October - Brice Marden, American painter.
- 20 October - Iain Macmillan, Scottish photographer (d.2006).
- 10 November - Claude Serre, French cartoonist (d.1998).
- date unknown
- John Behan, sculptor.
- Dick Higgins, English composer, poet, printer and early Fluxus artist (d.1998).
[edit] Deaths
- January 1 - Alice Bailly, Swiss painter and multimedia artist (b. 1872)
- January 19 - Rosa Mayreder, painter and musician (b. 1858)
- April 7 - Suzanne Valadon, painter (b. 1865)
- April 24 - John Wycliffe Lowes Forster, portrait painter (b. 1850)
- May 22 - William Glackens, painter (b. 1870)
- June 15 - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Expressionist painter (b. 1880)
- October 24 - Ernst Barlach, sculptor (b. 1870)
