1937 in art

List of years in Art

Events

* Pablo Picasso painted "Guernica", a cubistic mural painted in reaction to the German bombing of the Spanish Basque town of the same name.
* "Entartete Kunst" "(Degenerate art)" exhibition, mounted by the Nazis in Munich.
* Salvador Dalí painted "Metamorphosis of Narcissus", a surrealist painting influenced by the Greek Myth of Narcissus.

Works

*Oscar Domínguez - "The Infernal Machine"
*Arthur Dove - "Me and the Moon"
*Alberto Giacometti - "The Artist's Mother"
*Joan Miro - "Still Life With An Old Shoe"

Awards

*Archibald Prize: Normand Baker - "Self Portrait"

Births

*31 May - Larry Zox, American painter and printmaker (d.2006).
*7 June - Red Grooms, multimedia, pop artist.
*9 July - David Hockney, painter.
*18 August - Willie Rushton, English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer (d.1996).

Full date unknown

*Ronald Davis, painter.
*Larry Poons.
*Robert Mangold, painter.
*Peter Max, printmaker and graphic designer.
*Edward Ruscha, painter, printmaker, photographer and conceptual artist.
*Fritz Scholder, painter, printmaker and graphic artist (d.2005).

Deaths

*April 19 - William Martin Conway, art critic (b. 1856)
* Florence Griswold, curator (b. 1850)
* Marc Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté, painter and sculptor (b. 1869)