1946 in art

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List of years in Art

Events

*The Vienna School of Fantastic Realism is founded by Ernst Fuchs, Rudolf Hausner, and others.

Awards

*Archibald Prize: William Dargie - "L C Robson, MC, MA"

Works

*George Ault - "Bright Light at Russell's Corners"
*Francis Bacon
**"Painting (1946)"
**"Study for Man with Microphones" (later abandoned and slashed by the artist)
*Salvador Dalí - "The Temptation of St Anthony"
*Barbara Hepworth - "Pelagos" and "Tides"
*Georgia O'Keeffe - "Bare Tree Trunks With Snow"

Exhibitions

*"Contemporary British Art" - Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, the Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, and the City Art Museum, St Louis.

Births

*18 January - Kirk Varnedoe, American art historian, writer and curator (d.2003).
*29 June - Egon von Fürstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d.2004).
*25 July - Nicole Farhi, sculptor and fashion designer.
*4 November - Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (d.1989).
*5 November - Herman Brood, Dutch musician, painter and media personality (d.2001).
*2 December - Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer, murdered (d.1997).
*8 December - Jacques Bourboulon, photographer.
*12 December - Don Gummer, sculptor.

Full date unknown

*Alice Aycock, sculptor.
*Betty Beaumont, site-specific artist, all media.
*Chris Burden, performance artist, sculptor.
*T.C. Cannon, painter (d.1978).
*Anthony McCall, installation artist, projected film.
*Jamie Wyeth, painter.

Deaths

*February 17 - Dorothy Gibson, artist's model and actress (b. 1889)
*July 13 - Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (b. 1864)
*November 23 - Arthur Dove, painter (b. 1880)
*November 24 - László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter and photographer (b. 1895)
*December 28 - Elie Nadelman, Poland-born US sculptor (b. 1882)
* Arnold Friedman, Modernist painter (b. 1874)
* Manuel Ortiz de Zárate, painter (b. 1887)