1938 in art

List of years in Art

Events

*Albert Namatjira exhibition in Melbourne includes over 2,000 works.

Awards

*Archibald Prize: Nora Heysen - "Mme Elink Schuurman"

Works

Paintings

*Rita Angus - "Head of a Maori Boy"
*Arthur Dove - "Swing Music"
*John Petts - "Fishwife of Ynys Mon"
*Walter Sickert - "Sir Thomas Beecham Conducting"

culptures

*Constantin Brancusi - "The Endless Column"
*Charles Despiau - "Assia" (Museum of Modern Art, New York)

Births

*2 January - Robert Smithson, American artist (d.1973).
*7 January - Roland Topor, French illustrator, painter, writer and filmmaker (d.1997).
*13 February - Joan Brown, American figurative painter (d.1990).
*24 July - Eugene J. Martin, American visual artist (d.2005).
*28 July - Robert Hughes, art critic.
*15 October - Brice Marden, painter.
*20 October - Iain Macmillan, Scottish photographer (d.2006).
*10 November - Claude Serre, French cartoonist (d.1998).

Full date unknown

*John Behan, sculptor.
*Dick Higgins, English composer, poet, printer and early Fluxus artist (d.1998).

Deaths

*January 1 - Alice Bailly, Swiss painter and multimedia artist (b. 1872)
*April 7 - Suzanne Valadon, painter (b. 1865)
*May 22 - William Glackens, painter (b. 1870)
*June 15 - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Expressionist painter (b. 1880)
*October 24 - Ernst Barlach, sculptor (b. 1870)
* John Wycliffe Lowes Forster, portrait painter (b. 1850)
* Rosa Mayreder, painter and musician (b. 1858)