1947 in art

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Events

• Peggy Guggenheim closes The Art of This Century Gallery
• Journalist Tancrede Marcil Jr. coins the term Les Automatistes in a review of their Montreal exhibition.
• Norman Rockwell produces the first of his Four Seasons calendar illustrations for Brown & Bigelow.
• Jackson Pollock produces the first of his Drip Paintings, the series that brought him international acclaim, in the Springs, East Hampton, New York.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: William Dargie - Sir Marcus Clark, KBE

Works

See also: Category:1947 paintings

• Alberto Giacometti - Man Walking
• Jean Hélion - A Rebours (Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris)
• Alfred Janes - Little Cactus
• José Clemente Orozco - watercolor illustrations for John Steinbeck's The Pearl
• Bill Traylor - Construction with Figures and Animals

Births

• January 9 - Ronnie Landfield, painter
• March 12 - Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist (d.1987)
• March 29 - Sarah Charlesworth, conceptual artist and photographer
• April 17 - Sherrie Levine, appropriation artist
• April 20 - Vladimír Novák, painter
• 1 June - Anna Hoffman-Uddgren, Swedish actress and cabaret singer, Music hall and Revue artist, theatre director and Film director.
• June 5 - Laurie Anderson, experimental performance artist and musician
• June 15 - John Hoagland, American photographer (d.1984)
• December - Richard Amsel, American illustrator and graphic designer (d.1985)
• date unknown - Louise Lawler, photographer

Deaths

• January 23 - Pierre Bonnard, French painter and printmaker (b. 1867)
• March 2 - Stanhope Forbes, painter of the Newlyn school (b. 1857)
• March 19 - Prudence Heward, Canadian painter (b. 1896)
• April 21 - Gustave Van de Woestijne, Belgian Expressionist painter (b. 1881)
• May 25 - Rupert Bunny, Australian painter (b. 1864)
• June 9 - Augusto Giacometti, Swiss painter (b. 1877)
• June 13 - Albert Marquet, Fauvist painter (b. 1875)
• July 25 - Kathleen Scott (Lady Scott), sculptor (b. 1878)
• August 9 - Seraphima Blonskaya, painter and art teacher (b. 1870)
• November 20 - Georg Kolbe, sculptor (b. 1877)
• December 1 - Samuel Courtauld, art collector (b. 1876)

See also

• 1947 in fine arts of the Soviet Union