1944 in art

List of years in Art

Events

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Awards

*Archibald Prize: "Joshua Smith" - "Hon Sol Rosevear, MHR, Speaker of the House of Representatives"

Exhibitions

*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

*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

*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)