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1942 in art
Summary
Events from the year
1942 in art
.
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(
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)
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Events
edit
January – Treasures from the new
National Gallery of Art
in
Washington, D.C.
are evacuated by train to the
Biltmore Estate
at
Asheville, North Carolina
.
February 15
–
Singapore surrenders to Japanese
forces. Among the British troops captured are illustrator
Ronald Searle
and sculptor Anthony Twentyman.
March 28
–29 – Bombing of
St. Mary's Church, Lübeck
, destroys
Adriaen Isenbrandt
's Bröhmse triptych,
Jacob van Utrecht
's Trinity Altar,
Friedrich Overbeck
's
Entrance of Christ into Jerusalem
and
Bernt Notke
's
Gregorsmesse
and replica
Totentanz
, but reveals medieval
frescos
.
May 8
– English novelist
David Garnett
marries painter and writer
Angelica Bell
, the daughter of painters
Duncan Grant
(Garnett's lover) and
Vanessa Bell
.
[1]
July 27
– A large amount of "
degenerate art
" including works by
Picasso
,
Dalí
,
Ernst
,
Klee
,
Léger
and
Miró
is destroyed in a bonfire in the gardens of the
Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume
in Nazi-occupied
Paris
.
[2]
October –
Michael Ayrton
and
John Minton
exhibit together at the
Leicester Galleries
in London.
[3]
October 14
–
November 7
– The "First Papers of Surrealism" exhibition, arranged by
André Breton
and
Marcel Duchamp
, is held at the Whitelaw Reid Mansion on
Madison Avenue
in New York City, including Duchamp's
His Twine
and Breton's
Hanging
.
October 20
–
The Art of This Century gallery
is opened by
Peggy Guggenheim
at 30
West 57th Street
in
Manhattan
,
New York City
.
unknown dates
Salvador Dalí
publishes his autobiography,
The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí
.
Horst Rosenthal
, whilst in
Gurs internment camp
, produces
Mickey au Camp de Gurs
and two other comic books; on September 11 he is murdered on arrival at
Auschwitz concentration camp
.
Awards
edit
Archibald Prize
:
William Dargie
–
Corporal
Jim Gordon
, VC
Works
edit
Edward Hopper
–
Nighthawks
(
Art Institute of Chicago
)
Rita Angus
–
Portrait (Betty Curnow)
Thomas Hart Benton
–
Year of Peril
(series)
George Berry –
Statue of Benjamin Franklin
(sculpture,
Franklin High School (Portland, Oregon)
)
Pierre Bonnard
–
Red Roofs in Cannet
Paul-Émile Borduas
–
Abstraction No 7
Russell Drysdale
–
Soldier
Richard Eurich
HMS
Revenge
Leaving Harbour
The Raid on the Bruneval Radio-location Station
Marie Hadad –
Portrait of Mr. Dahesh
(
Dahesh Museum of Art
)
Edward Hopper
Dawn in Pennsylvania
Nighthawks
[4]
Dame
Laura Knight
–
A Balloon Site, Coventry
Helen Levitt
-
New York City
(photograph)
[5]
Jacques Lipchitz
–
Theseus
(sculpture)
L. S. Lowry
After the Blitz
Blitzed Site
Roberto Matta
The Apples we Know
Composition in Magenta: The End of Everything
The Disasters of Mysticism
The Hanged Man
Paul Nash
–
The Archer
Frank Newbould
–
Your Britain, Fight for it Now
(poster series)
Méret Oppenheim
–
Sun, Moon, Stars
Gordon Parks
–
American Gothic, Washington, D.C.
(photograph)
Pablo Picasso
Portrait of Dora Maar
Woman in a Fish Hat
(
Stedelijk Museum
,
Amsterdam
)
Diego Rivera
–
The Flower Seller
Ruskin Spear
–
We Can Take It
Dorothea Tanning
–
Birthday
(
Philadelphia Museum of Art
)
[6]
Carel Weight
–
Recruit's Progress – Medical Inspection
Andrew Wyeth
–
Winter Fields
Philip Zec
–
The price of petrol has been increased by one penny – Official
(
political cartoon
)
Births
edit
January 8
–
George Passmore
,
English
artist
partnering with Gilbert (Proesch)
February 2
Alonzo Davis
,
African American
artist
Graham Nash
, English-born rock singer-songwriter and photographer
February 10
–
Lawrence Weiner
,
American
conceptual artist (d.
2021
)
February 28
–
Oliviero Toscani
, Italian photographer
[7]
March 2
–
Jonathan Borofsky
, American
painter
, sculptor and installation artist
March 16
–
Danny Lyon
, American documentary photographer
March 20
–
Peter Schjeldahl
, 80, American art critic (
The New Yorker
,
The New York Times
) (d.
2022
)
March 31
Dan Graham
, American conceptual and performance artist (d. 2021)
David Medalla
, Filipino-born sculptor
May 20
–
Anna Maria Maiolino
, Italian-born Brazilian artist
August 18
? –
Charlotte Johnson Wahl
, born Charlotte Fawcett, English painter (d. 2021)
October 6
–
Dan Christensen
, American
abstract painter
(d.
2007
)
October 29
–
Bob Ross
, American painter and
television
presenter (d.
1995
)
November 7
–
Stan Rice
, American
poet
and artist (d.
2002
)
December 1
–
William Feaver
, English art critic and historian
date unknown
Susan Crile
, American painter
De Es Schwertberger
, born Dieter Schwertberger,
Austrian
painter
Deaths
edit
January –
Albert Moulton Foweraker
,
English
painter (b.
1873
)
January 5
–
Tina Modotti
,
Italian
photographer and model (b.
1896
)
January 6
–
John Bernard Flannagan
, American sculptor (b.
1895
) (suicide)
January 22
–
Walter Sickert
, British Impressionist painter (b.
1860
)
[8]
January 23
– Bogdan Šuput,
Serbian
painter (b.
1914
)
January 27
–
Petar Dobrović
, Serbian painter (b.
1890
)
February 9
–
Anna Elizabeth Klumpke
, American portrait and genre painter (b.
1856
)
February 12
–
Grant Wood
, American painter (b.
1892
)
[9]
February 16
–
Giovanni Bartolena
, Italian painter (b.
1886
)
[10]
February 20
–
Herbert Dicksee
, English canine painter (b.
1862
)
[11]
April 18
-
Adolphe Valette
, French painter (b.
1876
)
April 18
–
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
, founder of the
Whitney Museum of American Art
(b.
1875
)
May 23
–
C. R. Ashbee
, English designer (b.
1863
)
June 18
–
Sutherland Macdonald
, English tattoo artist (b. 1860)
June 30
–
William Henry Jackson
, American photographer (b.
1843
)
[12]
August 10
–
Albert Guillaume
, French painter and caricaturist (b.
1873
)
August 30
–
Sava Šumanović
,
Serbian
painter (b.
1896
)
September 2
–
Eric Ravilious
, English painter (b.
1903
) (lost on active service as a
war artist
)
[13]
September 7
Cecilia Beaux
, American portrait painter (b.
1855
)
[14]
Albert Julius Olsson
, English marine painter (b.
1864
)
November 24
–
Bohumil Kafka
,
Czech
sculptor (b.
1878
)
December 11
-
Séraphine Louis
, French painter (b.
1864
)
December 19
–
T. F. Šimon
, Czech painter (b.
1877
)
date unknown
Nampeyo
,
Hopi
ceramicist (b.
1860
)
See also
edit
1942 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
References
edit
^
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ISBN
978-0-7509-6963-5
.
^
Hellman, Mallory.
Let's Go Paris
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^
"Young Artists – Exhibition at Leicester Galleries".
The Times
. London. 1942-10-16. p. 6.
^
Dickos, Andrew (2002).
Street with No Name: A History of the Classic American Film Noir
. University Press of Kentucky. p. 227.
ISBN
978-0-8131-3749-0
.
^
"Helen Levitt | New York City".
^
"Birthday, 1942 by Dorothea Tanning - Paper and Canvas Print - Philadelphia Museum of Art - Custom Prints Store".
^
Lorella Pagnucco Salvemini (2002).
United Colors: The Benetton Campaigns
. Scriptum Editions. p. 9.
ISBN
978-1-902686-22-6
.
^
Walter Sickert (9 January 2003).
Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art
. Oxford University Press. p. 39.
ISBN
978-0-19-926169-7
.
^
Gerry Souter (15 September 2015).
American Realism
. Parkstone International. p. 286.
ISBN
978-1-78310-767-4
.
^
Giorgio di Genova. "BARTOLENA, Giovanni".
Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani
. Treccani
. Retrieved
6 April
2021
.
^
Ryno Greenwall (1992).
Artists & Illustrators of the Anglo-Boer War
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ISBN
978-0-9583154-2-5
.
^
"William Henry Jackson (1843-1942), Career Chronology". The Library of Congress. 2010
. Retrieved
29 September
2010
.
^
Oxford University Press (21 June 2012).
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. OUP USA. p. 252.
ISBN
978-0-19-992305-2
.
^
Alice A. Carter (2005).
Cecilia Beaux: A Modern Painter in the Gilded Age
. Random House Incorporated. p. 191.
ISBN
978-0-8478-2708-4
.