1944 in art

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Events

• July – Dulwich Picture Gallery in London is substantially damaged by a V-1 flying bomb; half a dozen paintings are destroyed, but most have been evacuated to Aberystwyth.
• Clandestine publication of Vaincre, an album of 12 colour lithographs by 8 artists in support of the French Resistance.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Joshua Smith – Hon Sol Rosevear, MHR, Speaker of the House of Representatives

Exhibitions

• Jean Dubuffet's first solo exhibition.

Works

Epstein – Lucifer

• David Aronson – The Last Supper
• Francis Bacon – Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion
• David Bomberg – Evening in the City of London
• Stella Bowen – Bomber Crew
• Robert Capa – "The Magnificent Eleven" (photographs)
• William Coldstream – Casualty Reception Station, Capua
• Salvador Dalí – Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening
• Jacob Epstein – sculptures
  • First Portrait of Esther (with long hair)
  • Lucifer
• George Grosz – Cain, or Hitler in Hell
• Jean Hélion – The Stairway
• Frida Kahlo
  • The Broken Column
  • Diego and Frida 1929-1944
• Dame Laura Knight – Take Off
• Fernand Léger – Three Musicians (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
• Henri Matisse – Annelies, White Tulips and Anemones
• Joan Miró – Barcelona Series (lithographs)
• Piet Mondrian – Victory Boogie-Woogie (unfinished)
• Felix Nussbaum – Triumph of Death
• Pablo Picasso – Man with Sheep (sculpture)
• William Roberts
  • The Ballet
  • The Ferry (at Marston near Oxford)
  • Parson's Pleasure (On the Lawn)
• Robert F. Sargent – Into the Jaws of Death (photograph)
• Ben Shahn – The Red Stairway

Births

• 9 January – Ian Hornak, American painter and draughtsman (d. 2002).
• 10 January – Jeff Jones, American illustrator.
• 4 March – Glen Baxter, English cartoonist.
• 4 April – Phyllida Barlow, English sculptor.
• 8 May – David Vaughan, English psychedelic artist and muralist (d. 2003).
• 4 August – Allan McCollum, American conceptual artist, all media.
• 15 August – Gianfranco Ferré, Italian fashion designer (d. 2007).
• 20 August – Brian Barnes, English mural artist.
• 1 September – Louis Delsarte, American painter.
• 4 November – Don Eddy – American painter.

Full date unknown

• Abbas, Iranian-born documentary photographer.
• Michael Heizer, American sculptor, earth artist.
• Richard Mock, American painter, sculptor and cartoonist (d. 2006).
• Allen Ruppersberg, American conceptual artist, installation artist.

Deaths

• January 23 – Edvard Munch, Norwegian expressionist painter (b. 1863)
• February 1 – Piet Mondrian, Dutch abstract painter (b. 1872)
• April 25 – George Herriman, American cartoonist (Krazy Kat) (b. 1880)
• July 18 – Rex Whistler, English painter (killed in action) (b. 1905)
• August 2 – Felix Nussbaum, German Jewish surrealist painter (in Auschwitz concentration camp) (b. 1904)
• September 3 – William Logsdail, English landscape, portrait, and genre painter (b. 1859)
• September 27
  • Aristide Maillol, French sculptor (b. 1861)
  • Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Russian-born color photographer (b. 1863)
• October 14 – Marko Murat, Serbian painter (b. 1864)
• October 21 – Hilma af Klint, Swedish abstract painter and mystic (b. 1862)
• November 22 – Sir George Clausen, English artist (b. 1852)
• December 10 – Miklós Ligeti, Hungarian sculptor (b. 1871)
• December 13 – Wassily Kandinsky, Russian abstract painter (b. 1866)
• Undated – Esther Kenworthy, English flower painter (b. 1857)

See also

• 1944 in fine arts of the Soviet Union