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Overview of the events of 1939 in art
Events
Awards
Works
- Maurice Ascalon – The Scholar, The Laborer, and The Toiler of the Soil (beaten copper relief sculpture for Jewish Palestine Pavilion at 1939 New York World's Fair)
- Alexander Calder – Lobster Trap and Fish Tail (mobile)
- Salvador Dalí – Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time
- Paul Delvaux – The Phases of the Moon I
- Aaron Douglas – Power Plant, Harlem
- James Earle Fraser – Equestrian Statue of Theodore Roosevelt
- Leo Friedlander – Pioneer Woman (sculpture)
- Julio González – Monsieur Cactus (sculpture)
- Edward Hopper – Cape Cod Evening
- Frida Kahlo
- Fernand Léger – Adam and Eve
- David Low – Rendezvous (political cartoon)
- Musa McKim – Spanish Hill and the Early Inhabitants of the Vicinity (mural at United States Post Office (Waverly, New York))
- Marino Marini – The Pilgrim (bronze)
- Joan Miró – Constellations (series begun)
- Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen – The Young Man playing Pan-pipes on a Wingless Pegasus (monument to the sculptor's husband, the composer Carl Nielsen (d. 1931), in Copenhagen)
- José Clemente Orozco – Man of Fire (fresco in Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico, 1936-39)
- Eric Ravilious – watercolours
- Train Landscape
- Westbury Horse
- Percy Shakespeare – Tropical Bird House, Dudley Zoo
- Charles Sheeler – Power series (paintings)
- Situ Qiao – Guqin
- Elizabeth Wyn Wood – Welland-Crowland War Memorial (Welland, Ontario)
- Grant Wood
- Xu Beihong – Put Down Your Whip
Births
- February 16 – David Griffiths, Welsh portrait painter
- February 21 – Gert Neuhaus, German mural artist
- March 17 – Jim Gary, American sculptor (d. 2006)
- March 24 – Gérard Coste, French painter and diplomat
- April 1 – Spider Martin, American photographer (d. 2003)
- April 8 – Trina Schart Hyman, American illustrator of children's books (d. 2004)
- April 25 – Patrick Lichfield, English photographer (d. 2005)
- July 27 – William Eggleston, American color photographer
- November 2 – Richard Serra, American sculptor
- December 11 – Peter Bagge, American author and illustrator
- December 23 – Nancy Graves, American sculptor, painter and printmaker (d. 1996)
- unknown date
Deaths
- April 11 – Willard Huntington Wright, American art critic and detective-story writer as S. S. Van Dine (b. 1888)
- May 25 – Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen, English art dealer (b. 1869)
- June 3 – Sir Philip Sassoon, 3rd Baronet, English art collector (b. 1888)
- June 23 – Mark Gertler, English painter (b. 1891) (suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning)
- July 21 – Ambroise Vollard, French art dealer (b. 1866)
- August 14 – Isaak Brodsky, socialist realist painter (b. 1884)
- August 24 – Frederick Carl Frieseke, American Impressionist painter (b. 1874)
- August 29 – Jessica Dismorr, Vorticist painter (b. 1885) (suicide by hanging)
- September 6 – Arthur Rackham, illustrator (b. 1867)
- September 18
- December 1 – Jorma Gallen-Kallela, painter (b. 1898)
- December 3 – Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, member of the British Royal Family and sculptor (b. 1848)
- December 14 – Helene Kröller-Müller, art collector (b. 1869)
- December 18 – Ernest Lawson, Canadian-American painter, member of The Eight (b. 1873)
- December 25 – Margrethe Mather, photographer and painter (b. 1886)
- December 27 – Rinaldo Cuneo, American painter (b. 1877)
- date unknown – Jane Mary Dealy, painter and illustrator (1856)
See also
References