1948 in art

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List of years in Art

Contents 1 Events 2 Awards 3 Works 3.1 Paintings 3.2 Sculpture 3.3 Graphic works 4 Births 4.1 Full date unknown 5 Deaths

Events

• Georges Braque begins work on his Ateliers

Awards

• Archibald Prize: William Dobell - Margaret Olley

Works

Andrew Wyeth, Christina's World, 1948

Barnett Newman, Onement 1, 1948

Jackson Pollock, No. 5, 1948, 1948

M.C. Escher, Drawing Hands, 1948

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

Sculpture

• 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)

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