1943 in art

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Events

• Willem de Kooning marries Elaine Fried.
• A film version of The Picture of Dorian Grey uses an original work by Ivan Albright as the title picture.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: William Dobell - Joshua Smith

Works

Paintings

See also: Category:1943 paintings

• Paul Cadmus - The Shower
• Dame Laura Knight - Ruby Loftus screwing a breech-ring
• Wifredo Lam - The Jungle
• L. S. Lowry
  • Britain at Play
  • Going To Work
• Piet Mondrian - Broadway Boogie-Woogie
• Arthur Pan - Winston Churchill

Sculptures

• Constantin Brâncuşi - The Seal (Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris)
• Barbara Hepworth - Oval Sculpture

Births

• January 8 - Sighsten Herrgård, fashion designer (d.1989)
• April 24 - Jüri Kerem, portraitist
• May 8 - James Turrell, installation artist
• June 22 - Gordon Matta-Clark, situationist, site-specific artist and performance artist (d.1978)
• July 15 - Michael Asher, conceptual artist and installation artist
• July 29 - Martha Rosler, video, photo-text, installation and performance art
• August 30 - Robert Crumb, cartoonist
• September 5 - Jerry Wilkerson, American painter (d.2007)
• September 17 - Gilbert (Proesch), artist partnering with George (Passmore)
• November 11 - Dave Cockrum, American comic book artist (d.2006)

Deaths

• January 13 - Xavier Martinez, painter (b. 1869)
• June 28 - Pietro Porcelli, sculptor
• July - Friedrich Adler, designer (in Auschwitz concentration camp)
• August 9 - Chaim Soutine, painter
• September 2 - Marsden Hartley, painter
• October 19 - Camille Claudel, sculptor and graphic artist (b. 1864)

See Also

• 1943 in fine arts of the Soviet Union