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Overview of the events of 1948 in art
Events
Awards
Works
Paintings
Sculpture
Graphic works
Births
- March 9 – Eric Fischl, painter
- April 14 – Berry Berenson, American model and photographer
- July 7 – Alison Wilding, English sculptor and academic
- September 20 – Adrian Piper, conceptual artist
- October 2 – Donna Karan, American fashion designer
- October 8 – Gottfried Helnwein, Austrian fine artist, photographer, installation and performance artist
- November 1 – Bill Woodrow, British sculptor
- November 18 – Ana Mendieta, performance artist (d. 1985)
- December 18 – Mimmo Paladino, Italian sculptor, painter and printmaker
- December 26 – Lin Onus, Scottish-Aboriginal Koori artist (d. 1996)
- Full date unknown
Deaths
- January 8 – Kurt Schwitters, painter, collagist, poet (b. 1887)
- February 23 – Fidus, illustrator, painter and publisher (b. 1868)
- March 23 – Yevgeniy Abalakov, Soviet sculptor and mountaineer (b. 1907)
- March 24 – Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter (b. 1885)
- July 21 – Arshile Gorky, painter (b. 1904)
- September 22 – Felicjan Kowarski, Polish painter and sculptor (b. 1885)
- December 28 – Hakob Gyurjian, Armenian sculptor (b. 1890)
- December 30 – George Ault, American Precisionist painter (b. 1891)
- date unknown
See also