1948 in art

List of years in Art

Events

*Georges Braque begins work on his "Ateliers"

Awards

*Archibald Prize: William Dobell - "Margaret Olley"

Works

Paintings

*Rudolf Hausner - "It's Me!"
*Henri Matisse - "The Plum Blossoms"
*Barnett Newman - "Onement I"
*Jackson Pollock - "No. 5, 1948"
*Anne Redpath - "Window in Menton"
*Rufino Tamayo - "Cazadores de mariposas"
*Andrew Wyeth - "Christina's World", "McVey's Barn"

culpture

*"Iglica"
*Marino Marini - "The Angel of the City

Graphic works

*M. C. Escher - "Drawing Hands"

Births

*14 April - Berry Berenson, American model and photographer.
*2 October - Donna Karan, American fashion designer.
*8 October - Gottfried Helnwein, Austrian fine artist, photographer, installation and performance artist.
*26 December - Lin Onus, Scottish-Aboriginal Koori artist (d.1996).

Full date unknown

*Eric Fischl, painter.
*Guan Housheng, Chinese painter.
*Jonathan Lasker, painter.
*Ana Mendieta, performance artist (d.1985).
*Marilyn Minter, painter and photographer.
*Adrian Piper, conceptual artist.
*Qiu Deshu, Chinese painter.

Deaths

*January 8 - Kurt Schwitters, painter, collagist, poet (b. 1887)
*July 21 - Arshile Gorky, painter (b. 1904)
*December 30 - George Ault, American Precisionist painter (b. 1891)