Events

• Xawery Dunikowski is deported to the concentration camp at Auschwitz, where he survives until 1945.
• October - Grandma Moses' first solo exhibition, "What a Farm Wife Painted", opens at Otto Kallir's Galerie Saint-Etienne in New York City.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Max Meldrum - Dr J Forbes McKenzie

Works

Paintings

• Jacob Epstein - Jacob and the Angel
• Edward Hopper - Gas
• John Piper - Coventry Cathedral
• Eric Ravilious - Submarines in Dry Dock; A Warship in Dock; Ship's Screw on a Railway Truck; Midnight Sun

Sculptures

• Carl Milles - The Wedding of the Waters (fountain, St. Louis, Missouri)

Births

• January 2 - Peter Young, American, painter
• January 6 - John Byrne, Scottish painter and writer.
• January 24
  • Vito Acconci, conceptual artist, installation artist, performance artist and filmmaker
  • Mel Bochner, conceptual artist.
• March 7 - Hannah Wilke, American painter, sculptor and photographer (d.1993).
• March 20 - Mary Ellen Mark, photographer.
• April 11 - Marcia Tucker, American museum curator (d.2006)
• April 16 - Joan Snyder, American painter
• April 30 - Burt Young, actor, painter and author
• June 17 - Alton Kelley, American poster and album artist (d.2008).
• July 5 - Chuck Close, "photorealistic" painter.
• September 10 - David Mann, painter.
• September 27 - Rudolph Moshammer, German fashion designer (d.2005).
• date unknown
  • Elizabeth Murray, American painter, printmaker and draughtsman (d.2007).
  • Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, painter and printmaker.

Deaths

• January 18 - Jonas Lie, landscape painter
• February 27 - Nicolae Tonitza, painter and etcher
• April 15 - Alexandru Pl m deal , Moldovan sculptor (b. 1888)
• June 21 - douard Vuillard, painter (b. 1868)
• June 29 - Paul Klee, Swiss painter expressionism, cubism, and surrealism (b. 1879)
• July 4 - J zef Pankiewicz, painter, graphic artist and teacher (b. 1866)
• August 22 - Paul G sch, German artist and architect (b. 1885)
• September 15 - Dick Ket, painter
• September 27 - Walter Benjamin, German philosopher, "comparatist" and art critic (b. 1892)
• November 17 - Eric Gill, sculptor and engraver (b. 1882)
• date unknown - Francesco Stella, painter and set designer (b. 1862)

See also

• 1940 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

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