Events

• October 31 - Work ceases on sculpting Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the United States, continued by Lincoln Borglum after the death in March of his father Gutzon Borglum
• Ettore DeGrazia's work appears for the first time in Arizona Highways magazine.
• Indiana University Art Museum established in Bloomington.
• The Art Center in La Jolla established in California.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: William Dargie - Sir James Elder, KBE

Works

• Max Beckmann - Double Portrait, Max Beckmann and Quappi
• Peter Belov - 1941 ("Large Stalin and Red Army")
• Paul Cadmus - Aviator
• Paul Delvaux - The Phases of the Moon
• Jacob Epstein - Jacob and the Angel (sculpture, 1940–1)
• Yousuf Karsh - The Roaring Lion (photographic portrait of Winston Churchill)
• Dame Laura Knight - In For Repairs
• Roberto Matta
  • Composition Abstraite
  • Ecouter Vivre
  • Foeu
  • The Initiation (Origine d un Extr me)
  • Invasion of the Night
  • Th orie de l Arbre
• Paul Nash
  • Battle of Britain
  • Totes Meer
• John Petts - Alun Lewis
• Pablo Picasso
  • Dora Maar au Chat
  • Tete de femme (Dora Maar) (sculpture)
• Albin Polasek - Masaryk Memorial, Chicago
• Victor Vasarely - Untitled

Births

• April 13 - Jean-Marc Reiser, French comics creator (d.1983)
• May 23 - Martin Puryear, sculptor
• June 7 - Tony Ray-Jones, English photographer (d.1972)
• July 12 - Richard Tuttle, sculptor, painter and installation artist
• July 22 - Vaughn Bod , American underground comics, graphic design and graffiti artist (d.1975)
• August 29 - Ugo Nespolo, painter
• September 20 - Dale Chihuly, glass sculptor
• September 24 - Linda McCartney, photographer (d. 1998)
• December 6 - Bruce Nauman, installation artist and video artist
• date unknown
  • Mary Kelly, conceptual artist
  • James Coleman, installation and video artist

Deaths

• January 10 - John Lavery, Irish painter and war artist (b.1856)
• February 6 - Maximilien Luce, painter (b.1858)
• March 6 - Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor (b.1867)
• April 14 - Guillermo Kahlo, photographer (b. 1871)
• October 25 - Robert Delaunay, painter (b. 1885)
• December 3 - Pavel Filonov, painter and poet
• December 30 - El Lissitzky, designer, architect and photographer (b. 1890)
• date unknown - William Jacob Baer, painter (b. 1860)

See also

• 1941 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

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