1947 in art
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- Peggy GuggenheimPeggy GuggenheimMarguerite "Peggy" Guggenheim was an American art collector. Born to a wealthy New York City family, she was the daughter of Benjamin Guggenheim, who went down with the Titanic in 1912 and the niece of Solomon R. Guggenheim, who would establish the Solomon R...
closes The Art of This Century GalleryThe Art of This Century GalleryThe Art of This Century gallery was opened by Peggy Guggenheim at 30 W. 57th Street in New York City on October 20, 1942. The gallery occupied two commercial spaces on the seventh floor of a building that was part of the midtown arts district including the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of... - Journalist Tancrede Marcil Jr. coins the term Les AutomatistesLes AutomatistesLes Automatistes were a group of Québécois artistic dissidents from Montreal, Quebec. The movement was founded in the early 1940s by painter Paul-Émile Borduas. "Les Automatistes" were so called because they were influenced by Surrealism and its theory of automatism...
in a review of their Montreal exhibition. - Norman RockwellNorman RockwellNorman Percevel Rockwell was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening...
produces the first of his Four Seasons calendar illustrations for Brown & BigelowBrown & BigelowBrown & Bigelow is a publishing company based in Saint Paul, Minnesota that produces advertising specialties, or promotional products, such as clocks, pens, cocktail spoons with corkscrew and cap-lifter, and advertising calendars...
. - Jackson PollockJackson PollockPaul Jackson Pollock , known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality, and...
produces the first of his Drip Paintings, the series that brought him international acclaim, in the Springs, East Hampton, New YorkEast Hampton (town), New YorkThe Town of East Hampton is located in southeastern Suffolk County, New York, at the eastern end of the South Shore of Long Island. It is the easternmost town in the state of New York...
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Works
- Alberto GiacomettiAlberto GiacomettiAlberto Giacometti was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.Alberto Giacometti was born in the canton Graubünden's southerly alpine valley Val Bregaglia and came from an artistic background; his father, Giovanni, was a well-known post-Impressionist painter...
- Man Walking - Jean HélionJean HélionJean Hélion was a French painter whose abstract work of the 1930s established him as a leading modernist. His midcareer rejection of abstraction was followed by nearly five decades as a figurative painter...
- A Rebours (Musée National d'Art ModerneMusée National d'Art ModerneThe Musée National d'Art Moderne is the national museum for modern art of France. It is located in Paris and is housed in the Centre Pompidou in the 4th arrondissement of the city. Created in 1947, it was then housed in the Palais de Tokyo and moved to its current location in 1977...
, Paris) - Alfred JanesAlfred JanesAlfred George Janes was a Welsh artist, who is also remembered as one of The Kardomah Gang; a group of bohemian friends that included the poets Dylan Thomas and Vernon Watkins, and the composer Daniel Jones....
- Little Cactus - José Clemente OrozcoJosé Clemente OrozcoJosé Clemente Orozco was a Mexican social realist painter, who specialized in bold murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and others...
- watercolor illustrations for John SteinbeckJohn SteinbeckJohn Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. was an American writer. He is widely known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden and the novella Of Mice and Men...
's The PearlThe Pearl (novel)The Pearl is a novella by American author John Steinbeck, published in 1947.- Analysis :A story based on a Mexican folk tale, The Pearl explores the secrets of man's nature, the darkest depths of evil, and the disastrous effects of stepping out of an established system... - Bill TraylorBill TraylorWilliam "Bill" Traylor was a self-taught artist born into slavery on a plantation belonging to George Hartwell Traylor near Benton, in Lowndes County, Alabama. After emancipation, his family continued to farm on the plantation until the 1930s...
- Construction with Figures and Animals
Births
- January 9 - Ronnie LandfieldRonnie LandfieldRonnie Landfield is an American abstract painter. During his early career from the mid-1960s through the 1970s his paintings were associated with Lyrical Abstraction, , and he was represented by the David Whitney Gallery and the André Emmerich Gallery.Landfield is...
, painter - March 12 - Kalervo PalsaKalervo PalsaHugo Kalervo Palsa , or Kalle was a Finnish artist in a style that has been described as fantastic realism....
, Finnish artist (d.19871987 in art-Awards:*Archibald Prize – William Robinson, Equestrian self-portrait*Turner Prize – Richard Deacon-January to June:*18 February – William Coldstream, English realist painter ....
) - March 29 - Sarah CharlesworthSarah CharlesworthSarah Charlesworth is a well-known American conceptual artist and photographer. She was born in East Orange, New Jersey. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College in 1969 and now lives in New York City...
, conceptual artist and photographer - April 17 - Sherrie LevineSherrie LevineSherrie Levine is an American photographer and appropriation artist.-Education:Levine received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1969. In 1973, she earned an M.F.A. from the same institution....
, appropriation artist - April 20 - Vladimír NovákVladimír Novák (painter)Vladimír Novák is a Czech painter.- Biography :Novák was born in Louny, Czech Republic. He studied at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts under Professor . He is a member of the art group 12/15: Better Late Than Never. Currently he lives in Prague and Milan...
, painter - 1 June - Anna Hoffman-UddgrenAnna Hoffman-UddgrenAnna Maria Viktoria Hoffman-Uddgren, née Hammarström was a Swedish actress and cabaret singer, Music hall and Revue artist, theatre director and Film director. She was the first female Film director in Sweden...
, Swedish actress and cabaret singer, Music hall and Revue artist, theatre director and Film director. - June 5 - Laurie Anderson, experimental performance artist and musician
- June 15 - John HoaglandJohn HoaglandJohn Hoagland was a war photographer and photojournalist noted for his documentation of civil conflicts in Nicaragua, Lebanon, and El Salvador....
, American photographer (d.19841984 in art-Works:*Felim Egan - Battle of Hercules and Antaeus*John Doubleday - Statue of Dylan Thomas -January to June:*6 February - Jimmy Ernst, American painter born in Germany ....
) - December - Richard AmselRichard AmselRichard Amsel was an American illustrator and graphic designer. His career was brief but prolific, including movie posters, album covers, and magazine covers. His portrait of comedienne Lily Tomlin for the cover of Time is now part of the permanent collection at the Smithsonian Institution...
, American illustrator and graphic designer (d.19851985 in art-Events:*Charles Saatchi's collection opens to the public, arousing interest in Neo-expressionism-Awards:*Archibald Prize: Guy Warren – Flugelman with Wingman*Turner Prize – Howard Hodgkin-Works:*Wayne Thiebaud – Sunset Streets...
) - date unknown - Louise LawlerLouise LawlerLouise Lawler is a U.S. artist and photographer. From the late 1970s onwards, Lawler's work has focused on the presentation and marketing of artwork. Much of this work consists of photographs of other peoples' artwork and the context in which it is viewed...
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Deaths
- January 23 - Pierre BonnardPierre BonnardPierre Bonnard was a French painter and printmaker, as well as a founding member of Les Nabis.-Biography:...
, French painter and printmaker (b. 18671867 in art-Paintings:*George Henry Boughton - Pilgrims Going To Church*Giuseppe Calì - Death of Dragut *Edgar Degas - The Bellelli Family completed *Édouard Manet...
) - March 2 - Stanhope ForbesStanhope ForbesStanhope Alexander Forbes R.A., , was an artist and member of the influential Newlyn school of painters...
, painter of the Newlyn schoolNewlyn SchoolThe Newlyn School is a term used to describe an art colony of artists based in or near to Newlyn, a fishing village adjacent to Penzance, Cornwall, from the 1880s until the early 20th century. The establishment of the Newlyn School was reminiscent of the Barbizon School in France, where artists...
(b. 18571857 in art-Events:*Lewis Carroll meets John Ruskin and begins to associate with the Pre-Raphaelites. In the same year, Ruskin publishes his Political Economy of Art.-Works:...
) - March 19 - Prudence HewardPrudence Heward-Biography:Born Efa Prudence Heward in Montreal, Quebec, Canada into a well-to-do family, she was educated at private schools. At a young age, she showed an interest in art and, encouraged by her family, she attended the Art Association of Montreal school for training.During World War I, Heward...
, Canadian painter (b. 18961896 in art-Events:*A bout of typhoid fever puts an end to Maurice de Vlaminck's career as a cyclist.-Works:*Harry Bates - equestrian statue of Lord Roberts*Julian Fałat - Self-portrait-Births:*4 January - André Masson, French artist .*2 July...
) - April 21 - Gustave Van de WoestijneGustave Van de WoestijneGustave Van de Woestijne was a Belgian expressionist painter.He belonged to the so-called "First Group of Latem", a group of artists who worked in the rural village of Sint-Martens-Latem on the banks of the Lys, near Ghent. He was the brother of the Flemish poet Karel Van de Woestijne....
, Belgian Expressionist painter (b. 18811881 in art-Events:*The Société des Artistes Français is established, with William-Adolphe Bouguereau as its first president.-Works:*Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The Tepidarium*Marie Bashkirtseff - The Studio...
) - May 25 - Rupert BunnyRupert BunnyRupert Charles Wulsten Bunny was an Australian painter, born in St Kilda, Victoria. He achieved success and critical acclaim as an expatriate in fin-de-siècle Paris....
, Australian painter (b. 18641864 in art-Works:*Richard Dadd - The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke*Henri Fantin-Latour - Homage to Delacroix*Édouard Manet**Les Anges au tombeau du Christ, Le Christ mort aux anges...
) - June 9 - Augusto GiacomettiAugusto GiacomettiAugusto Giacometti was a Swiss painter from Stampa, Graubünden, cousin of Giovanni Giacometti who was the father of Alberto, Diego and Bruno Giacometti....
, Swiss painter (b. 18771877 in art-Works:-Paintings:*Frederick Arthur Bridgman - The Funeral Procession of a Mummy on the Nile*Gustave Caillebotte - Rue de Paris; Temps de pluie...
) - June 13 - Albert MarquetAlbert MarquetAlbert Marquet was a French painter, associated with the Fauvist movement.-Life and work:Marquet was born in 1875 at Bordeaux. In 1890 he moved to Paris to attend the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, where he met Henri Matisse. They were roommates for a time, and they influenced each other's work...
, Fauvist painter (b. 18751875 in art-Paintings:*Gustave Caillebotte - Floor-scrapers *Jean-Paul Laurens - L'Excommunication de Robert le Pieux ...
) - July 25 - Kathleen ScottKathleen ScottKathleen Scott, Baroness Kennet, FRSBS was a British sculptor.-Early life:Born Edith Agnes Kathleen Bruce at Carlton in Lindrick, Bassetlaw, Nottinghamshire, she was the youngest of eleven children of Canon Lloyd Stuart Bruce and Jane Skene Kathleen Scott, Baroness Kennet, FRSBS (27 March...
(Lady Scott), sculptor (b. 18781878 in art-Events:*James McNeill Whistler sues critic John Ruskin for libel over his painting Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket. Whistler wins a farthing in nominal damages, and is bankrupted by his legal costs.-Works:...
) - August 9 - Seraphima BlonskayaSeraphima BlonskayaSeraphima Ioasonovna Blonskaya was a Russian artist and art teacher.Seraphima Blonskaya was born on October 3, 1870 in Verkhnodniprovsk of Yekaterinovslav Government. In 1875 her family moved to Taganrog...
, painter and art teacher (b. 18701870 in art-Events:*Franco-Prussian War breaks out: Monet and Pissarro flee to London.*Édouard Manet and Louis Edmond Duranty fight a duel at Café Guerbois, Paris.-Paintings:*Henri Fantin-Latour - A Studio in the Batignolles...
) - November 20 - Georg KolbeGeorg KolbeGeorg Kolbe was the leading German figure sculptor of his generation, in a vigorous, modern, simplified classical style similar to Aristide Maillol of France.Kolbe was born in Waldheim ....
, sculptor (b. 18771877 in art-Works:-Paintings:*Frederick Arthur Bridgman - The Funeral Procession of a Mummy on the Nile*Gustave Caillebotte - Rue de Paris; Temps de pluie...
) - December 1 - Samuel CourtauldSamuel Courtauld (art collector)Samuel Courtauld son of Sydney Courtauld and Sarah Lucy Sharpe was an English industrialist who is best remembered as an art collector...
, art collector (b. 18761876 in art-Works:*Lawrence Alma-Tadema - An Audience at Agrippa's*Edward Mitchell Bannister - Under the Oaks*Albert Fitch Bellows - Sunday in Devonshire*Gustave Caillebotte - Le pont de l'Europe *Paul Cézanne - Vase of Flowers...
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