The Vienna School of Fantastic Realism is founded by Ernst Fuchs, Rudolf Hausner, and others.
The Borough Group of artists is founded in London by Cliff Holden.
Jean Dubuffet exhibits the series of works with paint mixed with sand and gravel, Hautes Pâtes, at the Galérie René Drouin.
Sidney Nolan begins his first series of paintings of Ned Kelly.
David Olère begins to produce artworks based on his experiences as Jewish Sonderkommando inmate 106144 of Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.
Archibald Prize: William Dargie – L C Robson, MC, MA
Harold Abbott – Triptych of Suffering
George Ault – Bright Light at Russell's Corners
Francis Bacon
Painting (1946)
Study for Man with Microphones (later abandoned and slashed by the artist)
Charles Comfort – Dieppe Raid
Salvador Dalí – The Temptation of St. Anthony
Jean Dubuffet – Apartment Houses
Jacob Epstein – Bust of Winston Churchill
M. C. Escher – lithographs
Magic Mirror
Three Spheres II
Sawlaram Haldankar – Glow of Hope
Barbara Hepworth – sculptures
Pelagos
Tides
Edward Hopper – Approaching a City
Dame Laura Knight – The Dock, Nuremberg
L. S. Lowry – Good Friday, Daisy Nook
Henri Matisse – L'Asie
Georgia O'Keeffe – Bare Tree Trunks With Snow
Pablo Picasso – Woman-Flower
William Scott – The Frying Pan
Andrew Wyeth – Winter 1946
Jack Butler Yeats
Men of Destiny
The Whistle of a Jacket
Contemporary British Art – Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, and the City Art Museum, St Louis.
January 18 – Kirk Varnedoe, American art historian, writer and curator (d. 2003)
January 26 – Timothy Clifford, English art historian and curator
February 2 – David Gopito, Zimbabwean sculptor
April 11 – Chris Burden, American performance and installation artist and sculptor (d. 2015)
April 27 – Nicholas Serota, English curator
June 29 – Egon von Fürstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004)
July 6 – Jamie Wyeth, American realist painter
July 25 – Nicole Farhi, French sculptor and fashion designer
September 27 – T. C. Cannon, Native American painter (d. 1978)
November 4 – Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (d. 1989).
November 5 – Herman Brood, Dutch musician, painter and media personality (d. 2001)
November 20 – Alice Aycock, American sculptor and installation artist
December 2 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (k. 1997)
December 8 – Jacques Bourboulon, French nude and fashion photographer
December 12 – Don Gummer, American sculptor
December 25 – Christopher Frayling, English cultural historian
Full date unknown – Betty Beaumont, Canadian American site-specific artist, all media
February 17
Dorothy Gibson, American artist's model and silent film actress (b. 1889)
Sir George Pirie, Scottish painter (b. 1863)
July 11 – Paul Nash, English painter (b. 1889)
July 13 – Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (b. 1864)
July 17 – Florence Fuller, Australian painter (b. 1867)
October 28 – Manuel Ortiz de Zárate, Chilean painter (b. 1887)
October 30 – Charles Despiau, French sculptor (b. 1874)
November 23 – Arthur Dove, American abstract painter (b. 1880)
November 24 – László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter and photographer (b. 1895)
December 28 – Elie Nadelman, Polish-born American sculptor (b. 1882)
Full date unknown – Arnold Friedman, American Modernist painter (b. 1874)
1946 in art Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA
