1946 in art
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List of years in Art

Events

• The Vienna School of Fantastic Realism is founded by Ernst Fuchs, Rudolf Hausner, and others.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: William Dargie - L C Robson, MC, MA

Works

See also: Category:1946 paintings

• George Ault - Bright Light at Russell's Corners
• Francis Bacon
  • Painting (1946)
  • Study for Man with Microphones (later abandoned and slashed by the artist)
• Salvador Dalí - The Temptation of St Anthony
• Barbara Hepworth - Pelagos and Tides
• Georgia O'Keeffe - Bare Tree Trunks With Snow

Exhibitions

• Contemporary British Art - Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, the Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, and the City Art Museum, St Louis.

Births

• 18 January - Kirk Varnedoe, American art historian, writer and curator (d.2003).
• 29 June - Egon von Fürstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d.2004).
• 25 July - Nicole Farhi, sculptor and fashion designer.
• 4 November - Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (d.1989).
• 5 November - Herman Brood, Dutch musician, painter and media personality (d.2001).
• 2 December - Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer, murdered (d.1997).
• 8 December - Jacques Bourboulon, photographer.
• 12 December - Don Gummer, sculptor.

Full date unknown

• Alice Aycock, sculptor.
• Betty Beaumont, site-specific artist, all media.
• Chris Burden, performance artist, sculptor.
• T.C. Cannon, painter (d.1978).
• Anthony McCall, installation artist, projected film.
• Jamie Wyeth, painter.

Deaths

• February 17 - Dorothy Gibson, artist's model and actress (b. 1889)
• July 13 - Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (b. 1864)
• November 23 - Arthur Dove, painter (b. 1880)
• November 24 - László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter and photographer (b. 1895)
• December 28 - Elie Nadelman, Poland-born US sculptor (b. 1882)
• Arnold Friedman, Modernist painter (b. 1874)
• Manuel Ortiz de Zárate, painter (b. 1887)