Events from the year 1941 in art.

Events March 17 – In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. July 14 – American art collector Peggy Guggenheim and German painter Max Ernst arrive in New York City, fleeing occupied Europe. August 12 – The first evacuated paintings from the National Gallery in London are moved to underground storage at a slate quarry beneath Manod Mawr in North Wales. October 24 – English artist Brian Stonehouse is captured as a Special Operations Executive agent in France. October 31 – Work ceases on sculpting Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the United States, continued by Lincoln Borglum after the death in March of his father Gutzon Borglum. December 8 – The exhibition American Negro Art: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries opens in Edith Halpert's Downtown Gallery in New York City. December 30 – Peggy Guggenheim marries the exiled Max Ernst in Virginia. Ettore DeGrazia's work appears for the first time in Arizona Highways magazine. African-American painter Jacob Lawrence completes his Migration Series. German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, in hiding in the south of France, begins the autobiographical series of paintings Leben? oder Theater?: Ein Singspiel ("Life? or Theater?: A Song-play"). Indiana University Art Museum established in Bloomington. The Art Center in La Jolla established in California.

Awards Archibald Prize: William Dargie – Sir James Elder, KBE

Works

Ansel Adams – Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (photograph) Ethel V. Ashton – Defenders of the Wyoming Country 1778 (United States post office mural, Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania) Max Beckmann – Double Portrait, Max Beckmann and Quappi Peter Belov – 1941 ("Large Stalin and Red Army") Paul Cadmus – Aviator Paul Delvaux The Anxious City The Phases of the Moon A. E. Doyle and Associates – Loyal B. Stearns Memorial Fountain (Portland, Oregon) Sir Russell Drysdale – Moody's pub Jacob Epstein – Jacob and the Angel (alabaster sculpture, 1940–1) Ivon Hitchens Damp Autumn Interior, Boy in Bed Edward Hopper – Girlie Show Marcel Jean – Armoire Surréaliste Yousuf Karsh – The Roaring Lion (photographic portrait of Winston Churchill) Dame Laura Knight – In For Repairs Alonzo Victor Lewis – Dr. Mark A. Matthews (bronze bust, Denny Park (Seattle)) Musa McKim – Wildlife in White Mountain and Philip Guston – Pulp Wood Logging (murals at Federal Building (Laconia, New Hampshire)) Roberto Matta Composition Abstraite Ecouter Vivre Foeu The Initiation (Origine d’un Extrême) Invasion of the Night Théorie de l’Arbre Paul Nash Battle of Britain Totes Meer John Petts – Alun Lewis Pablo Picasso Dora Maar au Chat Tete de femme (Dora Maar) (sculpture) Horace Pippin – Self-portrait Albin Polasek – Masaryk Memorial, Chicago Victor Vasarely – Untitled Carel Weight Escape of the Zebra from the Zoo during an Air Raid It happened to us – daylight raid

Births April 13 – Jean-Marc Reiser, French comics artist (d. 1983) May 23 – Martin Puryear, American sculptor June 7 – Tony Ray-Jones, English photographer (d. 1972) July 12 – Richard Tuttle, American postminimalist sculptor, painter and installation artist July 22 – Vaughn Bodē, American underground comix, graphic design and graffiti artist (d. 1975) August 29 – Ugo Nespolo, Italian painter and filmmaker September 20 – Dale Chihuly, American glass sculptor. September 24 – Linda McCartney, née Eastman, American music photographer (d. 1998) December 6 – Bruce Nauman, American installation and video artist December 31 – Robert Lenkiewicz, English painter (d. 2002) date unknown Mary Kelly, American conceptual artist James Coleman, Irish installation and video artist Don Perlis, American realist painter Irene Avaalaaqiaq Tiktaalaaq, Canadian Inuk artist

Deaths January 10 – John Lavery, Irish painter and war artist (b. 1856)Anne Millar Stewart (2003), "Lavery, Sir John" in Brian Lalor (Ed.) The Encyclopedia of Ireland. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. February 6 – Maximilien Luce, French painter (b. 1858) March 6 – Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor (b. 1867) March 30 – Bertha Jaques, American etcher (b. 1863) April 14 – Guillermo Kahlo, German-Mexican photographer (b. 1871) April 16 – Émile Bernard, French Post-Impressionist painter (b. 1868) October 25 – Robert Delaunay, French painter (b. 1885) November 7 – Frank Pick, English transport administrator and patron of art and design (b. 1878) December 3 – Pavel Filonov, Russian painter and poet (b. 1883) December 5 – Amrita Sher-Gil, Indian painter (b. 1913) December 30 – El Lissitzky, Russian designer, architect and photographer (b. 1890) date unknown – William Jacob Baer, American miniature painter (b. 1860)

See also 1941 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

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