1950 in art

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The year 1950 in art involved some significant events and new works.

Events

• Austrian painter Arnulf Rainer founds the Hundsgruppe ("dog pack") with Arik Brauer, Ernst Fuchs and Josef Mikl.
• Paint by number kits introduced by Max S. Klein, an engineer and owner of the Palmer Paint Company of Detroit, and Dan Robbins.
• Ernst Gombrich's The Story of Art is published by Phaidon Press.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: William Dargie – Sir Leslie McConnan
• Audubon Artists Gold Medal – Richmond Barthé

Works

See also: Category:1950 sculptures

• Jean Arp – Evocation of a Form: Human, Lunar, Spectral (model for bronze)
• Francis Bacon – Fragment of a Crucifixion
• Marc Chagall – La Mariée
• Salvador Dalí – The Madonna of Port Lligat (second version, Fukuoka Art Museum)
• Max Desfor – Flight of Refugees Across Wrecked Bridge in Korea (photograph)
• Robert Doisneau – Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville (The Kiss) (photograph)
• Alberto Giacometti – The Chariot
• Maruki Iri and Maruki Toshi – Ghosts, Fire and Water (Yūrei, Hi and Mizu), first of The Hiroshima Panels (原爆の図, Genbaku no zu)
• L. S. Lowry – The Pond
• Henri Matisse – Beasts of the Sea (paper collage)
• Jackson Pollock – Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)
• William Scott – Bowl, Eggs and Lemons
• Vladimir Tretchikoff – Chinese Girl, popularly known as "The Green Lady"
• Keith Vaughan – Theseus and the Minotaur (Tate Britain)

Births

• April 22 – Thierry Zéno, Belgian filmmaker
• June 24 – Bob Carlos Clarke, Irish photographer (d. 2006)
• July 29 – Jenny Holzer, American neo-conceptual artist
• August 30
  • Konrad Bernheimer, Venezuelan-born German art dealer and collector
  • Antony Gormley, English sculptor
• November 10 – Jonathan Janson, American painter and art historian
• December 11 – Aleksandr Tatarskiy, Russian animator, artist and film director (d. 2007)
• David Ruben Piqtoukun, Canadian Inuit sculptor

Deaths

• February 12 – Boris Vladimirski, Soviet painter of the Socialist Realism school (b. 1878)
• February 15 – Albert Herter, American painter (b. 1871)
• April 5 – Hiroshi Yoshida, Japanese painter and woodblock printmaker (b. 1876)
• September 26 – Pierre Roy, French-born painter, illustrator and designer (b. 1880)
• December 7 – Wojciech Weiss, Polish painter and draughtsman (b. 1875)
• December 28 – Max Beckmann, German painter (b. 1884)
• James Sleator, Irish painter (b. 1889)

See also

• 1950 in fine arts of the Soviet Union