1947 in art

List of years in Art

Events

*Peggy Guggenheim closes "The Art of This Century Gallery"
*Journalist Tancrede Marcil Jr. coins the term "Les Automatistes" in a review of their Montreal exhibition.
*Norman Rockwell produces the first of his "Four Seasons" calendar illustrations for Brown & Bigelow.
*Jackson Pollock produces the first of his "Drip Paintings", the series that brought him international acclaim, in the Springs, East Hampton, New York.

Awards

*Archibald Prize: William Dargie - "Sir Marcus Clark, KBE"

Works

*Alberto Giacometti - "Man Walking"
*Jean Hélion - "A Rebours" (Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris)
*Alfred Janes - "Little Cactus"
*Bill Traylor - "Construction with Figures and Animals"

Births

*12 March - Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist (d.1987).
*15 June - John Hoagland, American photographer (d.1984).

Full date unknown

*Richard Amsel, American illustrator and graphic designer (d.1985).
*Laurie Anderson, experimental performance artist and musician.
*Sarah Charlesworth, conceptual artist and photographer.
*Ronnie Landfield, painter.
*Louise Lawler, photographer.
*Sherrie Levine, conceptual artist.

Deaths

*January 23 - Pierre Bonnard, French painter and printmaker (b. 1867)
*March 19 - Prudence Heward, Canadian painter (b. 1896)
*June 13 - Albert Marquet, Fauvist painter (b. 1875)
* Georg Kolbe, sculptor (b. 1877)
* Stanhope Forbes, painter of the Newlyn school (b. 1857)
* Kathleen Scott (Lady Scott), sculptor (b. 1878)