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Overview of the events of 1947 in art
Events
Awards
Works
Births
January 9 – Ronnie Landfield , painter
January 27 – Cal Schenkel , American painter and illustrator
February 14 – Ed Hamilton , sculptor
March 12 – Kalervo Palsa , Finnish artist (died 1987 )
March 29 – Sarah Charlesworth , conceptual artist and photographer
April 17 – Sherrie Levine , appropriation artist
April 20 – Vladimír Novák , painter
June 1 – Anna Hofman-Uddgren , Swedish actress, cabaret singer, music hall and revue artist and theatre 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
Deaths
January 14 – MacDonald Gill , English designer (born 1884 )
January 23 – Pierre Bonnard , French painter and printmaker (born 1867 )
March 2 – Stanhope Forbes , English painter of the Newlyn school (born 1857 )
March 19 – Prudence Heward , Canadian painter (born 1896 )
March 25 – Chen Cheng-po , Taiwanese painter (born 1895 ) (shot)
April 21 – Gustave Van de Woestijne , Belgian Expressionist painter (born 1881 )
May 25 – Rupert Bunny , Australian painter (born 1864 )
June 9 – Augusto Giacometti , Swiss painter (born 1877 )
June 13 – Albert Marquet , French Fauvist painter (born 1875 )
July 25 – Kathleen Scott (Lady Scott), British sculptor (born 1878 )
August 9 – Seraphima Blonskaya , Russian painter and art teacher (born 1870 )
September 20 – Edward McCartan , American sculptor (born 1879 )
November 8 – Mariano Benlliure , Spanish sculptor (born 1862 )
November 20 – Georg Kolbe , German sculptor (born 1877 )
December 1 – Samuel Courtauld , English art collector (born 1876 )
December 30 – Han van Meegeren , Dutch painter and art forger (born 1889 )
See also