1948 in art
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Events from the year 1948 in art.
Events
- Summer – The art exhibitions at the Venice Biennale are revived, introducing American abstract expressionism to Europe and part of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection to Venice.
- November 8 – COBRA (avant-garde movement) is formed by Karel Appel, Constant, Corneille, Christian Dotremont, Asger Jorn and Joseph Noiret.
- Georges Braque begins work on his Ateliers.
- The Colony Room Club, a private members' drinking club at 41 Dean Street, Soho, London, is founded and presided over by Muriel Belcher; painter Francis Bacon becomes a member the day after it opens, establishing it as a centre for London's alcoholic artistic elite.[1]
- Cadillac introduce the car tailfin, to Frank Hershey's design authorized by Harley Earl.
Exhibitions
- April 12 unti May 12 - "de Kooning" at the Charles Egan Gallery in New York City.[2]
- September 21 until December 5 - Collage (curated by Margaret Miller) at MoMA in New York City.[3]
Awards
Works
Paintings
- Victor Brauner – Meeting with Myself at the four Cats of the World
- Willem de Kooning
- Otto Dix – Ecce homo with self-likeness behind barbed wire
- Russell Drysdale – The cricketers
- Rudolf Hausner – It's Me!
- Isabel Lambert – Three Fish[6]
- Henri Matisse – The Plum Blossoms
- Barnett Newman – Onement I
- Sidney Nolan – The Abandoned Mine
- Jackson Pollock – No. 5, 1948
- Anne Redpath – Window in Menton
- Constance Stokes – Girl in Red Tights (approx. date)
- Rufino Tamayo – Cazadores de mariposas
- Andrew Wyeth
- Christina's World
- McVey's Barn
- Karl
Sculpture
- Wäinö Aaltonen – Kun ystävyyssuhteet solmitaan
- Joseph Cornell
- Medici Princess[7]
- Untitled (Cockatoo and Corks)
- Jacob Epstein – Lazarus
- Marino Marini – The Angel of the City
- Gerda Sprinchorn – Linnéstaty (modeled 1907)
- Iglica in Wrocław
- Thomas W. Talbot Monument
Graphic works
- M. C. Escher
- Dewdrop (mezzotint)
- Drawing Hands (lithograph)
- Stars (wood engraving)
- Tadeusz Trepkowski – Ostatni etap (movie poster)[8]
Births
- January 24 – Machiko Satonaka, Japanese manga artist
- March 9 – Eric Fischl, American painter
- March 14 – James Nachtwey, American photojournalist
- April 14 – Berry Berenson, American model and photographer (d. 2001)
- June 30 – Wolf Erlbruch, German children's book illustrator and writer
- July 7 – Alison Wilding, English sculptor and academic
- September 20 – Adrian Piper, American 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, Cuban American 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
- Jonathan Lasker, American abstract painter
- Christopher Makos, American photographer
- Marilyn Minter, American painter and photographer
- Roberta Smith, American art critic (The New York Times)
- Andrew Stevovich, Austrian-born American painter
Deaths
- January 8 – Kurt Schwitters, German painter, collagist and poet (b. 1887)
- January 21 – Ambrosia Tønnesen, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1859)
- February 23 – Fidus, German 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, Armenian American painter (b. 1904)
- August – Feliu Elias, Spanish caricaturist and painter (b. 1878)
- September 9 – Ignacy Pieńkowski, Polish painter (b. 1877)
- September 22 – Felicjan Kowarski, Polish painter and sculptor (b. 1885)
- October 17 – Royal Cortissoz, American art critic (b. 1869)
- November 4 – Shinzō Fukuhara, Japanese photographer (b. 1883)
- December 28 – Hakob Gyurjian, Armenian sculptor (b. 1890)
- December 30 – George Ault, American Precisionist painter (b. 1891)
- Date unknown – Hector Hyppolite, Haitian painter (b. 1894)
See also
References
- ↑ Miles, Barry (2010). London Calling: A Countercultural History of London since 1945. London: Atlantic Books. ISBN 9781848875548.
- ↑ "Past - Exhibitions - The Artist - Willem de Kooning Foundation". www.dekooning.org.
- ↑ Margaret Miller on MOMA Exhibition Spelunker https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2016/spelunker/constituents/3150/
- ↑ "Black Friday | Princeton University Art Museum". artmuseum.princeton.edu.
- ↑ "Willem de Kooning. Secretary. 1948 | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art.
- ↑ Thorpe, Vanessa (2021-02-13). "What's in a surname? The female artists lost to history because they got married". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
- ↑ "Untitled (Medici Princess) (c. 1948) by Joseph Cornell – Artchive".
- ↑ Mariusz Knorowski. "Kolekcja plakatu polskiego XX wieku". postermuseum.pl (in Polish). Warsaw: Poster Museum. Retrieved 2026-06-25.