1943 in art

List of years in Art

Events

*Willem de Kooning marries Elaine Fried.
*A film version of "The Picture of Dorian Grey" uses an original work by Ivan Albright as the title picture.

Awards

*Archibald Prize: William Dobell - "Joshua Smith"

Works

Paintings

*Paul Cadmus - "The Shower"
*Wifredo Lam - "The Jungle"
*Piet Mondrian - "Broadway Boogie-Woogie"

culptures

*Constantin Brancusi - "The Seal" (Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris)
*Barbara Hepworth - "Oval Sculpture"

Births

*24 April - Jüri Kerem, portraitist.
*11 November - Dave Cockrum, American comic book artist (d.2006).

Full date unknown

*Michael Asher, conceptual artist and installation artist.
*Robert Crumb, cartoonist.
*Sighsten Herrgård, fashion designer.
*Gordon Matta-Clark, situationist, site-specific artist and performance artist (d.1978).
*Martha Rosler, video, photo-text, installation and performance art.
*James Turrell, installation artist.
*Jerry Wilkerson, American painter (d.2007).

Deaths

*"date unknown" - Friedrich Adler, designer (in Auschwitz concentration camp)
*28 June - Pietro Porcelli, sculptor
*August 9 - Chaim Soutine, painter
*September 2 - Marsden Hartley, painter
* Camille Claudel, sculptor and graphic artist (b. 1864)
* Xavier Martinez, painter (b. 1869)