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List of years in Art

Edward Hopper, Nighthawks

Events

• Salvador Dalí publishes his autobiography, The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí

Awards

• Archibald Prize: William Dargie - Corporal Jim Gordon, VC

Works

• Rita Angus - Portrait (Betty Curnow)
• Pierre Bonnard - Red Roofs in Cannet
• Paul-Émile Borduas - Abstraction No 7
• Edward Hopper - Nighthawks (Art Institute of Chicago)
• Pablo Picasso - Woman in a Fish Hat (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam)

Births

• Jonathan Borofsky (1941-), painter, sculptor, installation artist
• Dan Christensen (1942-2007), painter
• Susan Crile (1942-), painter
• Dan Graham (1942-), conceptual artist, performance artist
• Bob Ross (1942-1995), painter, television artist
• Lawrence Weiner (1942-), conceptual artist
• De Es Schwertberger, Austrian painter

Deaths

• January 5 - Tina Modotti, photographer and model
• January 22 - Walter Richard Sickert, Impressionist painter
• April 18 - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art
• December 19 - T. F. Simon, painter
• Albert Guillaume, painter and caricaturist (b. 1873)
• William Jackson, photographer (b. 1843)
• Cecilia Beaux, portrait painter (b. 1855)
• Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, portrait and genre painter (b. 1856)
• Iris Nampeyo - potter, ceramic artist (b. 1860)
• Herbert Dicksee, painter (b. 1862)
• Albert Moulton Foweraker, English painter (b. 1873)
• Grant Wood, painter (b. 1892)