Events from the year 1948 in art.
Events Summer – The art exhibitions at the Venice Biennale are revived, introducing American abstract expressionism to Europe and part of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection to Venice. November 8 – COBRA (avant-garde movement) is formed by Karel Appel, Constant, Corneille, Christian Dotremont, Asger Jorn and Joseph Noiret. Georges Braque begins work on his Ateliers. The Colony Room Club, a private members' drinking club at 41 Dean Street, Soho, London, is founded and presided over by Muriel Belcher; painter Francis Bacon becomes a member the day after it opens, establishing it as a centre for London's alcoholic artistic elite. Cadillac introduce the car tailfin, to Frank Hershey's design authorized by Harley Earl.
Exhibitions April 12 unti May 12 - "de Kooning" at the Charles Egan Gallery in New York City. September 21 until December 5 - Collage (curated by Margaret Miller) at MoMA in New York City.Margaret Miller on MOMA Exhibition Spelunker https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2016/spelunker/constituents/3150/
Awards Archibald Prize: William Dobell – Margaret Olley
Works
Paintings Victor Brauner – Meeting with Myself at the four Cats of the World Willem de Kooning Black Friday Secretary Otto Dix – Ecce homo with self-likeness behind barbed wire Russell Drysdale – The cricketers Rudolf Hausner – It's Me! Isabel Lambert – Three Fish Henri Matisse – The Plum Blossoms Barnett Newman – Onement I Sidney Nolan – The Abandoned Mine Jackson Pollock – No. 5, 1948 Anne Redpath – Window in Menton Constance Stokes – Girl in Red Tights (approx. date) Rufino Tamayo – Cazadores de mariposas Andrew Wyeth Christina's World McVey's Barn Karl
Sculpture
Wäinö Aaltonen – Kun ystävyyssuhteet solmitaan Joseph Cornell Medici Princess Untitled (Cockatoo and Corks) Jacob Epstein – Lazarus Marino Marini – The Angel of the City Gerda Sprinchorn – Linnéstaty (modeled 1907) Iglica in Wrocław Thomas W. Talbot Monument
Graphic works M. C. Escher Dewdrop (mezzotint) Drawing Hands (lithograph) Stars (wood engraving) Tadeusz Trepkowski – Ostatni etap (movie poster)
Births January 24 – Machiko Satonaka, Japanese manga artist March 9 – Eric Fischl, American painter March 14 – James Nachtwey, American photojournalist April 14 – Berry Berenson, American model and photographer (d. 2001) June 30 – Wolf Erlbruch, German children's book illustrator and writer July 7 – Alison Wilding, English sculptor and academic September 20 – Adrian Piper, American conceptual artist October 2 – Donna Karan, American fashion designer October 8 – Gottfried Helnwein, Austrian fine artist, photographer, installation and performance artist November 1 – Bill Woodrow, British sculptor November 18 – Ana Mendieta, Cuban American performance artist (d. 1985) December 18 – Mimmo Paladino, Italian sculptor, painter and printmaker December 26 – Lin Onus, Scottish-Aboriginal Koori artist (d. 1996) Full date unknown Jonathan Lasker, American abstract painter Christopher Makos, American photographer Marilyn Minter, American painter and photographer Roberta Smith, American art critic (The New York Times) Andrew Stevovich, Austrian-born American painter
Deaths January 8 – Kurt Schwitters, German painter, collagist and poet (b. 1887) January 21 – Ambrosia Tønnesen, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1859) February 23 – Fidus, German illustrator, painter and publisher (b. 1868) March 23 – Yevgeniy Abalakov, Soviet sculptor and mountaineer (b. 1907) March 24 – Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter (b. 1885) July 21 – Arshile Gorky, Armenian American painter (b. 1904) August – Feliu Elias, Spanish caricaturist and painter (b. 1878) September 9 – Ignacy Pieńkowski, Polish painter (b. 1877) September 22 – Felicjan Kowarski, Polish painter and sculptor (b. 1885) October 17 – Royal Cortissoz, American art critic (b. 1869) November 4 – Shinzō Fukuhara, Japanese photographer (b. 1883) December 28 – Hakob Gyurjian, Armenian sculptor (b. 1890) December 30 – George Ault, American Precisionist painter (b. 1891) Date unknown – Hector Hyppolite, Haitian painter (b. 1894)
See also 1948 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union
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