Events

• Albert Namatjira exhibition in Melbourne includes over 2,000 works.
• American art collector Louis J. Caldor 'discovers' Grandma Moses.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Nora Heysen - Mme Elink Schuurman

Works

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• Vilmos Aba-Nov k - Fair in Transylvania
• Rita Angus - Head of a Maori Boy
• Thomas Hart Benton - Haystack
• Constantin Br ncu i - The Endless Column (sculpture)
• Marc Chagall - White Crucifixion
• William Coldstream - Bolton
• Salvador Dal
  • Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach
  • Rainy Taxi
• Charles Despiau - Assia (sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York)
• Arthur Dove - Swing Music
• M. C. Escher - Sky and Water II (lithograph)
• Leonor Fini - Composition with Figures on a Terrace
• Ren Magritte - Time Transfixed
• Aristide Maillol - Air
• Paul Nash
  • Landscape from a Dream
  • Nocturnal Landscape
• John Petts - Fishwife of Ynys Mon
• Pablo Picasso - Maya with Doll
• Walter Sickert - Sir Thomas Beecham Conducting

Births

• January 2
  • David Bailey, English photographer
  • Robert Smithson, American artist (d.1973)
• January 7 - Roland Topor, French illustrator, painter, writer and filmmaker (d.1997)
• February 13 - Joan Brown, American figurative painter (d.1990)
• March 15 - Dick Higgins, English composer, poet, printer and early Fluxus artist (d.1998)
• May 18 - Janet Fish, American Realist painter
• July 24 - Eugene J. Martin, American visual artist (d.2005)
• July 28 - Robert Hughes, art critic
• August 19 - Robert Graham, Mexican-American sculptor (d.2008)
• September 25 - Bill Owens, American photographer
• October 15 - Brice Marden, American painter.
• October 20 - Iain Macmillan, Scottish photographer (d.2006).
• November 10 - Claude Serre, French cartoonist (d.1998)
• date unknown - John Behan, sculptor.

Deaths

• January 1 - Alice Bailly, Swiss painter and multimedia artist (b. 1872)
• January 19 - Rosa Mayreder, painter and musician (b. 1858)
• April 7 - Suzanne Valadon, painter (b. 1865)
• April 24 - John Wycliffe Lowes Forster, portrait painter (b. 1850)
• May 22 - William Glackens, painter (b. 1870)
• June 15 - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Expressionist painter (b. 1880)
• October 24 - Ernst Barlach, sculptor (b. 1870)

See also

• 1938 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

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