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Overview of the events of 1942 in art
Events
February 15 – Singapore surrenders to Japanese forces. Among the British troops captured is illustrator Ronald Searle .
March 28–29 – Bombing of St. Mary's Church, Lübeck , destroys Adriaen Isenbrandt 's Bröhmse triptych, Jacob van Utrecht 's Trinity Altar, Friedrich Overbeck 's Entrance of Christ into Jerusalem and Bernt Notke 's Gregorsmesse and replica Totentanz , but reveals medieval frescos .
May 8 – English novelist David Garnett marries painter and writer Angelica Bell , the daughter of painters Duncan Grant (Garnett's lover) and Vanessa Bell .
October 14–November 7 – The "First Papers of Surrealism" exhibition, arranged by André Breton and Marcel Duchamp , is held at the Whitelaw Reid Mansion on Madison Avenue in New York City, including Duchamp's His Twine and Breton's Hanging .
Salvador Dalí publishes his autobiography, The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí .
Awards
Works
Edward Hopper – Nighthawks
Births
January 8 – George Passmore , English artist partnering with Gilbert (Proesch)February 2 – Alonzo Davis , African American artistFebruary 10 – Lawrence Weiner , American conceptual artistFebruary 28 – Oliviero Toscani , Italian photographerMarch 2 – Jonathan Borofsky , American painter , sculptor and installation artistMarch 16 – Danny Lyon , American documentary photographerMarch 31 – Dan Graham , American conceptual and performance artistAugust 18 ? – Charlotte Johnson Wahl , born Charlotte Fawcett, English painterOctober 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
Deaths
January – Albert Moulton Foweraker , English painter (b. 1873 )
January 5 – Tina Modotti , Italian photographer and model (b. 1896 )January 22 – Walter Sickert , British Impressionist painter (b. 1860 )January 23 – Bogdan Šuput, Serbian painter (b. 1914 )January 27 – Petar Dobrović , Serbian painter (b. 1890 )February 9 – Anna Elizabeth Klumpke , American portrait and genre painter (b. 1856 )February 12 – Grant Wood , American painter (b. 1892 )February 20 – Herbert Dicksee , English canine painter (b. 1862 )April 18 – Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney , founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art (b. 1875 )May 23 – C. R. Ashbee , English designer (b. 1863 )June 30 – William Henry Jackson , American photographer (b. 1843 )August 10 – Albert Guillaume , French painter and caricaturist (b. 1873 )August 30 – Sava Šumanović , Serbian painter (b. 1896 )September 7 – Cecilia Beaux , American portrait painter (b. 1855 )September 9 – Eric Ravilious , English painter (b. 1903 ) (lost on active service as a war artist )November 24 – Bohumil Kafka , Czech sculptor (b. 1878 )December 19 – T. F. Šimon , Czech painter (b. 1877 )date unknown
See also
