- 1944 in art
List of years in Art Events
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Awards
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Archibald Prize : "Joshua Smith" - "Hon Sol Rosevear, MHR, Speaker of the House of Representatives"Exhibitions
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Jean Dubuffet 's first solo exhibition.Works
*Francis Bacon - "
Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion "
*George Grosz - "Cain, or Hitler in Hell"
*Frida Kahlo - "The Broken Column"
*Fernand Léger - "Three Musicians" (Museum of Modern Art , New York)
*Piet Mondrian - "Victory Boogie-Woogie " (unfinished)Births
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9 January -Ian Hornak , American painter and draughtsman (d.2002).
*10 January - Jeff Jones, illustrator.
*4 August -Allan McCollum , conceptual artist, all media.
*15 August -Gianfranco Ferré , Italian fashion designer (d.2007).
*20 August - Brian Barnes, mural artist.
*1 September -Louis Delsarte , American painter.
*4 November -Don Eddy - painter.Full date unknown
*Abbas, photographer.
*Michael Heizer , sculptor, earth artist.
*Richard Mock , American painter, sculptor and cartoonist (d.2006).
*Allen Ruppersberg , conceptual artist, installation artist.Deaths
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January 23 -Edvard Munch , Norwegian expressionist painter (b.1863 )
*February 1 -Piet Mondrian , Dutch abstract painter (b.1872 )
*July 18 -Rex Whistler , English painter (killed in action) (b.1905 )
*December 13 -Wassily Kandinsky , Russian abstract painter (b.1866 )
* Esther Kenworthy, flower painter (b. 1857)
*Miklós Ligeti , sculptor (b. 1871)
*George Herriman , cartoonist (Krazy Kat) (b. 1880)
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