# 1943 in art

Events from the year 1943 in art.

## Events

* January – After attending the Casablanca Conference, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and amateur painter Winston Churchill produces his only wartime painting, a view of the Kutubiyya Mosque in Marrakesh, as a gift for President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt.
* January 5–February 6 – Exhibition by 31 Women is staged at Peggy Guggenheim's The Art of This Century gallery on Manhattan, New York.
* February 20 – The painter David Olère is arrested by French police during a round up of Jews in Seine-et-Oise and spends the rest of World War II in Nazi concentration camps.
* Spring – The first exhibition of collage in the United States is shown in the Daylight Gallery of Peggy Guggenheim's The Art of This Century gallery on Manhattan.
* September – Retreating German troops deliberately destroy most of the collection of the Museo Civico Filangieri in Naples.
* September 21 – German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, in hiding in the south of France, is arrested by the Gestapo, ending the autobiographical series of 769 paintings Leben? oder Theater?: Ein Singspiel ("Life? or Theater?: A Song-play").
* November 9 – Jackson Pollock's first solo exhibition opens in the Daylight Gallery of Peggy Guggenheim's The Art of This Century gallery on Manhattan.
* December 9 – Willem de Kooning marries Elaine Fried in New York City.
* Filming in the United States of a version of The Picture of Dorian Gray uses an original work by Ivan Albright as the title picture.

## Awards

* Archibald Prize: William Dobell – Joshua Smith

## Works

* Constantin Brâncuși – The Seal (sculpture, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris)
* Paul Cadmus – The Shower
* Salvador Dalí – Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man
* William Dobell – The Billy Boy
* Jean Dubuffet – Cows and Groomers
* M. C. Escher – Reptiles (lithograph)
* Murray Griffin – Roberts Hospital, Changi
* Barbara Hepworth – Oval Sculpture
* Edward Hopper – Hotel Lobby
* Dame Laura Knight – Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring
* Wifredo Lam – The Jungle
* L. S. Lowry
** Britain at Play
** Going to Work
** Waiting for the Shop to Open
* George Platt Lynes – Marsden Hartley (photograph)
* Piet Mondrian
** Broadway Boogie-Woogie
** Trafalgar Square (completed)
* Walter Thomas Monnington – Clouds and Spitfires
* Paul Nash – Landscape of the Vernal Equinox
* Felix Nussbaum – Self-portrait with Jewish identity card
* Arthur Pan – Winston Churchill
* Mervyn Peake
** The Evolution of the Cathode Ray (Radiolocation) Tube
** Glass-blowers 'Gathering' from the Furnace
* Jackson Pollock –
** Mural (for Peggy Guggenheim)
** Guardians of the Secret
* Norman Rockwell – Four Freedoms (paintings)
* Walter Russell – Four Freedoms Monument
* Xul Solar – Fiordo
* Dorothea Tanning – Eine kleine Nachtmusik
* Edward Wadsworth – Top of the World
* Stanley Warren – Changi Murals
* U Wisara Monument (Rangoon)
* Andrew Wyeth – Public Sale

## Births

* January 8 – Sighsten Herrgård, Swedish fashion designer (d.1989)
* January 20 – Jessica Rawson, English art historian
* February 22 – Dragoš Kalajić, Serbian modern painter (d. 2005)
* April 24 – Jüri Kerem, Estonian portraitist
* May 1 – Judith Scott, American outsider fiber sculptor (d. 2005)
* May 6 – James Turrell, American installation artist
* June 22 – Gordon Matta-Clark, American situationist, site-specific artist and performance artist (d.1978)
* July 15 – Michael Asher, American conceptual artist and installation artist (d. 2012)
* July 29 – Martha Rosler, American video, photo-text, installation and performance artist
* August 30 – Robert Crumb, American cartoonist
* September 5 – Jerry Wilkerson, American painter (d. 2007)
* September 17 – Gilbert (Proesch), Italian-born artist partnering with George (Passmore)
* October 1 – Sami Mohammad, Kuwaiti sculptor and artist
* November 11 – Dave Cockrum, American comic book artist (d. 2006)
* date unknown
** Marta Minujin, Argentine conceptual and performance artist
** Alfredo Rostgaard, Cuban visual artist (d. 2004)
** Tang Da Wu, Singaporean artist

## Deaths

* January 13
** Xavier Martínez, Mexican-born American painter (b. 1869)
** Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss geometric abstract painter, sculptor and dancer (accidental carbon monoxide poisoning) (born 1889)
* January 25 – Georges Picard, French decorative artist and illustrator (b. 1857)
* March 8 – Alma del Banco, German painter (suicide) (b. 1862)
* March 9 – Otto Freundlich, German painter and sculptor (killed in Majdanek concentration camp) (b. 1878)
* March 12 – Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
* April 13 – Oskar Schlemmer, German sculptor, painter, designer and choreographer (b. 1888)
* May 25 – Percy Shakespeare, English painter (on active service) (b. 1906)
* June 28 – Pietro Porcelli, Italian-born Australian sculptor (b. 1872)
* c. July 11 – Friedrich Adler, German-Jewish designer (in Auschwitz concentration camp) (b. 1878)
* August 7 – Sarah Purser, Irish portrait painter and stained-glass maker (b. 1848)
* August 9 – Chaïm Soutine, Belarusian Jewish-born French painter (b. 1893)
* August – Adolf Behrman, Polish painter (killed in Białystok Ghetto uprising) (b. 1876)
* September 2 – Marsden Hartley, American Modernist painter (b. 1877)
* c. October 10 – Charlotte Salomon, German-Jewish painter (in Auschwitz concentration camp) (b. 1917)
* October 19 – Camille Claudel, French sculptor and graphic artist (in asylum) (b. 1864)
* November 13 – Maurice Denis, French painter and decorative artist (b. 1870)
* December 22 – Beatrix Potter, English writer and illustrator (b. 1866)