1942 in art
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[edit] Events
- Salvador Dalí publishes his autobiography, The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí
[edit] Awards
- Archibald Prize: William Dargie - Corporal Jim Gordon, VC
[edit] Works
See also: Category:1942 paintings
- Rita Angus - Portrait (Betty Curnow)
- Pierre Bonnard - Red Roofs in Cannet
- Paul-Émile Borduas - Abstraction No 7
- Edward Hopper - Nighthawks (Art Institute of Chicago)
- Dame Laura Knight - A Balloon Site, Coventry
- Pablo Picasso - Woman in a Fish Hat (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam)
[edit] Births
- January 8 - George Passmore, artist partnering with Gilbert (Proesch)
- February 10 - Lawrence Weiner, conceptual artist
- March 2 - Jonathan Borofsky, painter, sculptor, installation artist
- March 31 - Dan Graham, conceptual artist, performance artist
- October 6 - Dan Christensen, American abstract painter (d.2007).
- October 29 - Bob Ross, American painter and television presenter (d.1995).
- November 7 - Stan Rice, American poet and artist (d.2002).
- date unknown
- Susan Crile, painter
- De Es Schwertberger, Austrian painter.
[edit] Deaths
- January - Albert Moulton Foweraker, English painter (b. 1873)
- January 5 - Tina Modotti, photographer and model (b. 1896)
- January 22 - Walter Sickert, Impressionist painter (b. 1860)
- February 9 - Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, portrait and genre painter (b. 1856)
- February 12 - Grant Wood, painter (b. 1892)
- April 18 - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art (b. 1875)
- June 30 - William Henry Jackson, photographer (b. 1843)
- August 10 - Albert Guillaume, painter and caricaturist (b. 1873)
- September 7 - Cecilia Beaux, portrait painter (b. 1855)
- September 9 - Eric Ravilious, painter (b. 1903) (lost on active service as a war artist)
- December 19 - T. F. Šimon, painter (b. 1877)
- date unknown
- Herbert Dicksee, painter (b. 1862)
- Nampeyo, potter, ceramic artist (b. 1860)
- Adolphe Valette, painter (b. 1876)