1942 in art

List of years in Art

Events

*Salvador Dalí publishes his autobiography, "The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí"

Awards

*Archibald Prize: William Dargie - "Corporal Jim Gordon, VC"

Works

*Rita Angus - "Portrait (Betty Curnow)"
*Pierre Bonnard - "Red Roofs in Cannet"
*Paul-Émile Borduas - "Abstraction No 7"
*Edward Hopper - "Nighthawks" (Art Institute of Chicago)
*Pablo Picasso - "Woman in a Fish Hat" (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam)

Births

*6 October - Dan Christensen, American abstract painter (d.2007).
*29 October - Bob Ross, American painter and television presenter (d.1995).
*7 November - Stan Rice, American poet and artist (d.2002).

Full date unknown

*Jonathan Borofsky, painter, sculptor, installation artist.
*Susan Crile, painter.
*Dan Graham, conceptual artist, performance artist.
*Lawrence Weiner, conceptual artist.
*De Es Schwertberger, Austrian painter.

Deaths

*January 5 - Tina Modotti, photographer and model
*January 22 - Walter Richard Sickert, Impressionist painter
*April 18 - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art
*December 19 - T. F. Simon, painter
* Albert Guillaume, painter and caricaturist (b. 1873)
* William Jackson, photographer (b. 1843)
* Cecilia Beaux, portrait painter (b. 1855)
* Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, portrait and genre painter (b. 1856)
* Iris Nampeyo - potter, ceramic artist (b. 1860)
* Herbert Dicksee, painter (b. 1862)
* Albert Moulton Foweraker, English painter (b. 1873)
* Grant Wood, painter (b. 1892)