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.
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