1942 in art

January – Treasures from the new National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. are evacuated by train to the Biltmore Estate at Asheville, North Carolina.
February 15 – Singapore surrenders to Japanese forces. Among the British troops captured are illustrator Ronald Searle and sculptor Anthony Twentyman.
March 28–29 – Bombing of St. Mary's Church, Lübeck, destroys Adriaen Isenbrandt's Bröhmse triptych, Jacob van Utrecht's Trinity Altar, Friedrich Overbeck's Entrance of Christ into Jerusalem and Bernt Notke's Gregorsmesse and replica Totentanz, but reveals medieval frescos.
May 8 – English novelist David Garnett marries painter and writer Angelica Bell, the daughter of painters Duncan Grant (Garnett's lover) and Vanessa Bell.^[1]
July 27 – A large amount of "degenerate art" including works by Picasso, Dalí, Ernst, Klee, Léger and Miró is destroyed in a bonfire in the gardens of the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Nazi-occupied Paris.^[2]
October – Michael Ayrton and John Minton exhibit together at the Leicester Galleries in London.^[3]
October 14–November 7 – The "First Papers of Surrealism" exhibition, arranged by André Breton and Marcel Duchamp, is held at the Whitelaw Reid Mansion on Madison Avenue in New York City, including Duchamp's His Twine and Breton's Hanging.
October 20 – The Art of This Century gallery is opened by Peggy Guggenheim at 30 West 57th Street in Manhattan, New York City.
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- Salvador Dalí publishes his autobiography, The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí.
- Horst Rosenthal, whilst in Gurs internment camp, produces Mickey au Camp de Gurs and two other comic books; on September 11 he is murdered on arrival at Auschwitz concentration camp.

January – Albert Moulton Foweraker, English painter (b. 1873)
January 5 – Tina Modotti, Italian photographer and model (b. 1896)
January 6 – John Bernard Flannagan, American sculptor (b. 1895) (suicide)
January 22 – Walter Sickert, British Impressionist painter (b. 1860)^[8]
January 23 – Bogdan Šuput, Serbian painter (b. 1914)
January 27 – Petar Dobrović, Serbian painter (b. 1890)
February 9 – Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, American portrait and genre painter (b. 1856)
February 12 – Grant Wood, American painter (b. 1892)^[9]
February 16 – Giovanni Bartolena, Italian painter (b. 1886)^[10]
February 20 – Herbert Dicksee, English canine painter (b. 1862)^[11]
April 18 - Adolphe Valette, French painter (b. 1876)
April 18 – Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art (b. 1875)
May 23 – C. R. Ashbee, English designer (b. 1863)
June 18 – Sutherland Macdonald, English tattoo artist (b. 1860)
June 30 – William Henry Jackson, American photographer (b. 1843)^[12]
August 10 – Albert Guillaume, French painter and caricaturist (b. 1873)
August 30 – Sava Šumanović, Serbian painter (b. 1896)
September 2 – Eric Ravilious, English painter (b. 1903) (lost on active service as a war artist)^[13]
September 7
- Cecilia Beaux, American portrait painter (b. 1855)^[14]
- Albert Julius Olsson, English marine painter (b. 1864)
November 24 – Bohumil Kafka, Czech sculptor (b. 1878)
December 11 - Séraphine Louis, French painter (b. 1864)
December 19 – T. F. Šimon, Czech painter (b. 1877)
date unknown
- Nampeyo, Hopi ceramicist (b. 1860)

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