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1949 in art
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Events from the year 1949 in art.
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Events
- Formation of Penwith Society of Arts in St Ives, Cornwall.[1]
- Philadelphia Artists Equity is established in Pennsylvania, United States, to protect artists' rights and improve working and economic conditions for fine artists.[2]
- Young Contemporaries exhibition, initiated by Carel Weight for the British Society of Artists Galleries, establishes the New Contemporaries series.[3]
- David Jones begins a 5-year sequence of watercolours of flowers in glasses.
- Yves Klein paints his first monochromes, while apprenticed to a picture-frame maker in London.
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Awards
- Archibald Prize: Arthur Murch – Bonar Dunlop
Works
- Francis Bacon – Head III, Head IV, Head V, Head VI
- Brenda Chamberlain – The Fisherman's Return (National Museum of Wales)
- Salvador Dalí
- Leda Atomica
- The Madonna of Port Lligat (original version; Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
- Paul Delvaux – The Temple
- Sir William Reid Dick – Lady Godiva (equestrian bronze, Coventry)
- Sir Russell Drysdale – West Wyalong
- Frida Kahlo
- Tadeusz Kantor – Man with Umbrella
- Wifredo Lam = Femme avec un Oiseau[4]
- L. S. Lowry
- The Canal Bridge
- The Football Match
- The Spire
- Henry Moore – Family Group (first casting)
- Robert Motherwell – Five in the Afternoon
- Barnett Newman – Abraham
- Pablo Picasso – Dove
- William Scott
- Frying Pan and Eggs
- Still Life with Candlestick
- Graham Sutherland – Somerset Maugham
- Steffen Thomas – Statue of Eugene Talmadge
- Vladimir Tretchikoff – The Dying Swan
- Boris Vladimirski – Roses for Stalin
- Lucien Wercollier – Le prisonnier politique (bronze)
- Andrzej Wróblewski – Execution V
Births
- February 17 – Peter Kennard, English photomontage artist
- February 18 – Charlie Waite, English landscape photographer
- February 27 – Richard P. Cook, English artist
- March 11 – Griselda Pollock, South African-born feminist visual art historian and theorist
- April 9 – Stephen Hickman, American illustrator, sculptor and author
- May 7 – Deborah Butterfield, American sculptor
- May 12 – Ross Bleckner, American painter
- July 6 – Tibor Kalman, Hungarian-American graphic designer (d. 1999)
- August 12 – Glòria Muñoz, Spanish painter
- August 15 – Richard Deacon, British sculptor
- August 27 – Istvan Kantor, Hungarian-Canadian performance artist
- Jim Dolan, American sculptor
- P. K. Mahanandia, Indian-born portrait artist
- Lincoln Perry -American painter, muralist, and sculptor
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Deaths
- March 17 – Aleksandra Ekster, painter and designer, Art Deco pioneer (b. 1882)
- May 3 – Mariano Fortuny, fashion designer (b. 1871)
- May 15 – Henri Beau, Canadian Impressionist painter (b. 1863)
- June 21 – Edward Wadsworth, English Vorticist painter (b. 1889)
- August 8 – Joaquín Torres García, Uruguayan painter (b. 1874)
- September 7 - José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter and illustrator (b. 1883)
- September 25 – Henri Manguin, painter (b. 1874)
- November 3 – Solomon R. Guggenheim, art collector (b. 1861)
- November 19 – James Ensor, painter (b. 1860)
- November 27 – Vincenzo Irolli, Italian painter (b. 1860)
- December 28 – Emília dos Santos Braga, Portuguese painter (b. 1867)
- (Herbert Barnard) John Everett, English marine artist (b. 1877)
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References
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