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Events
Awards
- Archibald Prize: Joshua Smith - Hon Sol Rosevear, MHR, Speaker of the House of Representatives
Exhibitions
- Jean Dubuffet's first solo exhibition.
Works
- See also: Category:1944 paintings
- Francis Bacon - Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion
- George Grosz - Cain, or Hitler in Hell
- Frida Kahlo - The Broken Column
- Fernand Léger - Three Musicians (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
- Piet Mondrian - Victory Boogie-Woogie (unfinished)
Births
- 9 January - Ian Hornak, American painter and draughtsman (d.2002).
- 10 January - Jeff Jones, illustrator.
- 4 August - Allan McCollum, conceptual artist, all media.
- 15 August - Gianfranco Ferré, Italian fashion designer (d.2007).
- 20 August - Brian Barnes, mural artist.
- 1 September - Louis Delsarte, American painter.
- 4 November - Don Eddy - painter.
Full date unknown
- Abbas, photographer.
- Michael Heizer, sculptor, earth artist.
- Richard Mock, American painter, sculptor and cartoonist (d.2006).
- Allen Ruppersberg, conceptual artist, installation artist.
Deaths
- January 23 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian expressionist painter (b. 1863)
- February 1 - Piet Mondrian, Dutch abstract painter (b. 1872)
- July 18 - Rex Whistler, English painter (killed in action) (b. 1905)
- December 13 - Wassily Kandinsky, Russian abstract painter (b. 1866)
- Esther Kenworthy, flower painter (b. 1857)
- Miklós Ligeti, sculptor (b. 1871)
- George Herriman, cartoonist (Krazy Kat) (b. 1880)
