List of years in art (Table)
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List of years in Art

Events

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Ivor Hele - Sir Henry Simpson Newland, CBE, DSO, MS, FRCS

Works

• Francis Bacon - Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X
• Barbara Hepworth - Hieroglyph
• Edward Hopper - Office in a Small City (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
• Milton Menasco - 'La Troienne' and Her Foals: Eighteen Vignettes and One Painting Together in One Frame for John Whitney

Exhibitions

Births

• January 7 - Robert Longo, painter and sculptor
• February 25 - Martin Kippenberger, artist
• April 24 - Eric Bogosian, performance artist
• date unknown - Kevin O'Neill, illustrator

Deaths

• March 23 - Raoul Dufy, painter
• April 29 - Moise Kisling, painter
• April 29 - Alice Prin ("Kiki de Montparnasse"), artist, model and entertainer
• June 23 - Albert Gleizes, painter
• October 2 - John Marin, Modernist painter
• October 6 - Vera Mukhina, sculptor
• October 11 - James Earle Fraser, sculptor
• November 30 - Francis Picabia, painter and poet
• date unknown - J. Laurie Wallace, Irish/American artist (b.1864)