April – David Low's cartoon character Colonel Blimp first appears in the London Evening Standard.August 31 – John Smiukse destroys the mural Nightmare of 1934 in Tarrytown, New York.Publication in the United States of Irving Stone's biographical novel of Vincent van Gogh, Lust for Life.Eileen Agar – The Autobiography of an EmbryoHans Arp – Human Concretion (Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris)Balthus – Guitar LessonPaul CadmusConey IslandThe Fleet's In!Greenwich Village CafeteriaSalvador Dalí – The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a TableEdwin Dickinson – Stranded BrigAntonio Donghi – CanzoneRaoul Dufy – Regatta at Cowes (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)Jacob Epstein – Portrait bust of George Bernard ShawM. C. Escher – Still Life with Spherical Mirror (lithograph)Leo Friedlander – marble reliefs outside Oregon State CapitolCovered WagonLewis and ClarkLily Furedi – The SubwayEdward Hopper – East Wind Over WeehawkenPaul Manship – Prometheus (gilded bronze sculpture, Rockefeller Center, New York City)Joan Miró – WomanRonald Moody – Wohin (carved oak head)José Clemente Orozco – The Epic of American Civilization (mural, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, 1932-34)Pablo Picasso – MinotauromachyDiego Rivera – Man, Controller of the Universe (mural, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City)Raphael Soyer – How Long Since You Wrote to Mother?April - The Unit One group holds its only exhibition, in Cork Street (London), accompanied by a book, Unit 1: the Modern Movement in English Architecture, Painting and Sculpture, edited by Herbert Read.Archibald Prize: Henry Hanke – Self PortraitLégion d'honneur: Gen PaulJanuary 18 – Raymond Briggs, English illustrator (d. 2022)
February 11 – Mary Quant, English fashion designer (d. 2023)
February 26
Frank Bowling, Guyanese-born painter
José Luis Cuevas, Mexican artist (d. 2017)
February 27 – Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (d. 1992)
March 1 – Jean-Michel Folon, Belgian sculptor (d. 2005)
March 7 – Gray Morrow, American comic book artist and book illustrator (d. 2001)
March 20 – Eric Hebborn, English art forger (d. 1996)
April 16 – Vicar, Chilean comic book artist
May 29 – Jef Geys, Belgian artist (d. 2018)
June 15 – Aron Tager, American-Canadian actor, voice actor and artist (d. 2019)
June 18 – Dimitris Mytaras, Greek painter (d. 2017)
June 20 – Rius, Mexican cartoonist (d. 2017)
July 11 – Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer
July 18 – Jean-Michel Sanejouand, French painter and sculptor (d. 2021)
July 24 – Lee Friedlander, American photographer
August 14 – Lucien Clergue, French photographer (d. 2014)
September 14 – Kate Millett, American sculptor and feminist activist (d. 2017)
October 14 – Rose Wylie, English painter
December 28 – Alasdair Gray, Scottish fiction writer and artist (d. 2019)
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Sheila Hicks, American-born textile artist
Neil Williams, American painter (d. 1988)
March 23 – Wenzel Hablik, German painter, graphic artist and designer (b. 1881)March 28 – Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor (b. 1891)April 11 – John Collier, English Pre-Raphaelite painter (b. 1850)June 29 – Adolf Kašpar, Czech painter and illustrator (b. 1877)August 17 – Alexander Alexeyevich Borisov, Russian Arctic landscape painter (b. 1866)September 1 – Yumeji Takehisa, Japanese poet and painter (b. 1884)October 12 – Gertrude Käsebier, American portrait photographer (b. 1852)October 17 – Adolf Hölzel, German painter of an Impressionism to expressive modernism style (b. 1853)November 4 – Sir Alfred Gilbert, English sculptor (b. 1854)December 4 – Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter (b. 1849)December 28 – Pablo Gargallo, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1881)date unknownAlfred Boucher, French sculptor (b. 1850)Melvin Ormond Hammond, Canadian photographer (b. 1876) 