# 1941 in art

Events from the year 1941 in art.

## Events

* March 17 – In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
* July 14 – American art collector Peggy Guggenheim and German painter Max Ernst arrive in New York City, fleeing occupied Europe.
* August 12 – The first evacuated paintings from the National Gallery in London are moved to underground storage at a slate quarry beneath Manod Mawr in North Wales.
* October 24 – English artist Brian Stonehouse is captured as a Special Operations Executive agent in France.
* 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.
* December 8 – The exhibition American Negro Art: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries opens in Edith Halpert's Downtown Gallery in New York City.
* December 30 – Peggy Guggenheim marries the exiled Max Ernst in Virginia.
* Ettore DeGrazia's work appears for the first time in Arizona Highways magazine.
* African-American painter Jacob Lawrence completes his Migration Series.
* German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, in hiding in the south of France, begins the autobiographical series of paintings Leben? oder Theater?: Ein Singspiel ("Life? or Theater?: A Song-play").
* 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

* Ansel Adams – Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (photograph)
* Ethel V. Ashton – Defenders of the Wyoming Country 1778 (United States post office mural, Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania)
* Max Beckmann – Double Portrait, Max Beckmann and Quappi
* Peter Belov – 1941 ("Large Stalin and Red Army")
* Paul Cadmus – Aviator
* Paul Delvaux
** The Anxious City
** The Phases of the Moon
* A. E. Doyle and Associates – Loyal B. Stearns Memorial Fountain (Portland, Oregon)
* Sir Russell Drysdale – Moody's pub
* Jacob Epstein – Jacob and the Angel (alabaster sculpture, 1940–1)
* Ivon Hitchens
** Damp Autumn
** Interior, Boy in Bed
* Edward Hopper – Girlie Show
* Marcel Jean – Armoire Surréaliste
* Yousuf Karsh – The Roaring Lion (photographic portrait of Winston Churchill)
* Dame Laura Knight – In For Repairs
* Alonzo Victor Lewis – Dr. Mark A. Matthews (bronze bust, Denny Park (Seattle))
* Musa McKim – Wildlife in White Mountain and Philip Guston – Pulp Wood Logging (murals at Federal Building (Laconia, New Hampshire))
* Roberto Matta
** Composition Abstraite
** Ecouter Vivre
** Foeu
** The Initiation (Origine d’un Extrême)
** Invasion of the Night
** Théorie 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)
* Horace Pippin – Self-portrait
* Albin Polasek – Masaryk Memorial, Chicago
* Victor Vasarely – Untitled
* Carel Weight
** Escape of the Zebra from the Zoo during an Air Raid
** It happened to us – daylight raid

## Births

* April 13 – Jean-Marc Reiser, French comics artist (d. 1983)
* May 23 – Martin Puryear, American sculptor
* June 7 – Tony Ray-Jones, English photographer (d. 1972)
* July 12 – Richard Tuttle, American postminimalist sculptor, painter and installation artist
* July 22 – Vaughn Bodē, American underground comix, graphic design and graffiti artist (d. 1975)
* August 29 – Ugo Nespolo, Italian painter and filmmaker
* September 20 – Dale Chihuly, American glass sculptor.
* September 24 – Linda McCartney, née Eastman, American music photographer (d. 1998)
* December 6 – Bruce Nauman, American installation and video artist
* December 31 – Robert Lenkiewicz, English painter (d. 2002)
* date unknown
** Mary Kelly, American conceptual artist
** James Coleman, Irish installation and video artist
** Irene Avaalaaqiaq Tiktaalaaq, Canadian Inuk artist

## Deaths

* January 10 – John Lavery, Irish painter and war artist (b. 1856)
* February 6 – Maximilien Luce, French painter (b. 1858)
* March 6 – Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor (b. 1867)
* March 30 – Bertha Jaques, American etcher (b. 1863)
* April 14 – Guillermo Kahlo, German-Mexican photographer (b. 1871)
* April 16 – Émile Bernard, French Post-Impressionist painter (b. 1868)
* October 25 – Robert Delaunay, French painter (b. 1885)
* November 7 – Frank Pick, English transport administrator and patron of art and design (b. 1878)
* December 3 – Pavel Filonov, Russian painter and poet (b. 1883)
* December 5 – Amrita Sher-Gil, Indian painter (b. 1913)
* December 30 – El Lissitzky, Russian designer, architect and photographer (b. 1890)
* date unknown – William Jacob Baer, American miniature painter (b. 1860)