# 1946 in art

Events from the year 1946 in art.

## Events

* March – Art collector Peggy Guggenheim publishes the first edition of her autobiographical Out of This Century in the United States.
* April 2 – Jackson Pollock's third solo exhibition opens in the Daylight Gallery of Peggy Guggenheim's The Art of This Century gallery on Manhattan.
* May 22 – The Equestrian statue of Christian V recast in bronze by Einar Utzon-Frank (1688 original by Abraham-César Lamoureux) is unveiled on Kongens Nytorv, Copenhagen.
* October 11 – National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina established in Sarajevo.
* October 24 – In a double ceremony, Max Ernst (having been divorced from Peggy Guggenheim) marries Dorothea Tanning and Man Ray marries Juliet P. Browner in Beverly Hills, California.
* The Vienna School of Fantastic Realism is founded by Ernst Fuchs, Rudolf Hausner, and others.
* The Borough Group of artists is founded in London by Cliff Holden.
* Jean Dubuffet exhibits the series of works with paint mixed with sand and gravel, Hautes Pâtes, at the Galérie René Drouin.
* Jacob Lawrence begins painting his War Series.
* Sidney Nolan begins his first series of paintings of Ned Kelly.
* David Olère begins to produce artworks based on his experiences as Jewish Sonderkommando inmate 106144 of Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.
* Musée de la Chartreuse, Molsheim, France, established (at this time under the name "Musée municipal")

## Awards

* Archibald Prize: William Dargie – L C Robson, MC, MA

## Works

* Harold Abbott – Triptych of Suffering
* George Ault – Bright Light at Russell's Corners
* Francis Bacon
** Painting (1946)
** Study for Man with Microphones (later abandoned and slashed by the artist)
* Charles Comfort – Dieppe Raid
* Dean Cornwell – The History of Transportation (lobby mural at 10 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, at this time the headquarters of Eastern Airlines)
* Salvador Dalí – The Temptation of St. Anthony
* Jean Dubuffet – Apartment Houses
* Jacob Epstein – Bust of Winston Churchill
* M. C. Escher – lithographs
** Magic Mirror
** Three Spheres II
* Sawlaram Haldankar – Glow of Hope
* Barbara Hepworth – sculptures
** Pelagos
** Tides
* Edward Hopper – Approaching a City
* Dame Laura Knight – The Dock, Nuremberg
* L. S. Lowry – Good Friday, Daisy Nook
* Henri Matisse – L'Asie
* Georgia O'Keeffe – Bare Tree Trunks With Snow
* Pablo Picasso – Woman-Flower
* Ad Reinhardt – How to Look at Modern Art in America
* Norman Rockwell – "Boy in a Dining Car"
* William Scott – The Frying Pan
* Andrew Wyeth – Winter 1946
* Jack Butler Yeats
** Men of Destiny
** The Whistle of a Jacket

## Exhibitions

* Contemporary British Art – Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, and the City Art Museum, St Louis.

## Births

* January 8 – Betty Beaumont, Canadian American site-specific artist, all media
* January 10 – Kalidas Karmakar, Bangladeshi artist (d. 2019)
* January 18 – Kirk Varnedoe, American art historian, writer and curator (d. 2003)
* January 26 – Timothy Clifford, English art historian and curator
* February 9 – Peter Linde, Swedish sculptor
* April 11 – Chris Burden, American performance and installation artist and sculptor (d. 2015)
* April 27 – Nicholas Serota, English curator
* May 30 – Jan de Bie, painter and photographer (d. 2021)
* June 29 – Egon von Fürstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004)
* July 6 – Jamie Wyeth, American realist painter
* July 11 – Chris Killip, Manx-born documentary photographer (d. 2020)
* July 25 – Nicole Farhi, French sculptor and fashion designer
* September 27 – T. C. Cannon, Native American painter (d. 1978)
* November 4 – Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (d. 1989)
* November 5 – Herman Brood, Dutch musician, painter and media personality (d. 2001)
* November 20 – Alice Aycock, American sculptor and installation artist
* December 2 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (k. 1997)
* December 8 – Jacques Bourboulon, French nude and fashion photographer
* December 12 – Don Gummer, American sculptor
* December 25 – Christopher Frayling, English cultural historian

## Deaths

* January 2 – O'Galop (Marius Rossillon), French cartoonist (b. 1867)
* January 23 – Helene Schjerfbeck, Finnish painter (b. 1862)
* February 17
** Dorothy Gibson, American artist's model and silent film actress (b. 1889)
** Sir George Pirie, Scottish painter (b. 1863)
* July 11 – Paul Nash, English painter (b. 1889)
* July 13 – Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (b. 1864)
* July 17 – Florence Fuller, Australian painter (b. 1867)
* October 7 - C. R. W. Nevinson, English war artist (b. 1889)
* October 28 – Manuel Ortiz de Zárate, Chilean painter (b. 1887)
* October 30 – Charles Despiau, French sculptor (b. 1874)
* November 23
** Arthur Dove, American abstract painter (b. 1880)
** Léon Spilliaert, Belgian symbolist painter and graphic artist (b. 1881)
* November 24 – László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter and photographer (b. 1895)
* December 28 – Elie Nadelman, Polish-born American sculptor (b. 1882)
* December 29 – Arnold Friedman, American Modernist painter (b. 1874)