1950 in art

List of years in Art

Events

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Awards

*Archibald Prize: William Dargie - "Sir Leslie McConnan"
*Audubon Artists Gold Medal - Richmond Barthé

Works

*Marc Chagall - "La Mariée"
*Alberto Giacometti - "The Chariot"
*Henry Moore - "Family Group" (Stevenage, UK)
*Jackson Pollock - "Autumn Rhythm, Number 30"

Births

*24 June - Bob Carlos Clarke, Irish photographer (d.2006).
*29 July - Jenny Holzer, conceptual artist.
*11 December - Aleksandr Tatarskiy, Russian animator, artist and film director (d.2007).

Full date unknown

*Antony Gormley, sculptor.

Deaths

*December 28 - Max Beckmann, painter (b. 1884)
* James Sleator, Irish painter (b.1889)
* Boris Vladimirski, painter of the Socialist Realism school
* Hiroshi Yoshida - Japanese painter and woodblock print maker (b. 1876)
* Albert Herter, artist and painter (b. 1871)