February 12 – Christian Dior introduces The "New Look" in women's fashion, in Paris.
October 2 – São Paulo Museum of Art opens to the public in Brazil.
Peggy Guggenheim closes The Art of This Century Gallery.
Journalist Tancrede Marcil Jr. coins the term Les Automatistes in a review of their Montreal exhibition.
Norman Rockwell produces the first of his Four Seasons calendar illustrations for Brown & Bigelow.
Jackson Pollock produces the first of his Drip Paintings, the series that brings him international acclaim, in the Springs, East Hampton, New York.
Lebanese woman painter Saloua Raouda Choucair stages what is perhaps the Arab world's first abstract art exhibition, at the Arab Cultural Gallery in Beirut.
Béla Hamvas and his wife Katalin write Forradalom a művészetben: Absztrakció és szürrealizmus Magyarországon ("Revolution in Art: Abstraction and Surrealism in Hungary").
Robert Woods Bliss acquires the Dumbarton Oaks birthing figure.
Archibald Prize: William Dargie – Sir Marcus Clark, KBE
Sir Russell Drysdale – Sofala
M. C. Escher
Another World (woodcut)
Crystal (mezzotint)
Up and Down (lithograph)
Alberto Giacometti
Man Pointing (sculpture; bronze castings in MoMA, New York, and Tate, England)
Man Walking (sculpture)
Hand (sculpture)
Jean Hélion – A Rebours (Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris)
Alfred Janes – Little Cactus
Louis le Brocquy – Travelling Woman with Newspaper
Henri Matisse
Deux fillettes, fond jaune et rouge
Le Lanceur De Couteaux (cutout)
Sidney Nolan – The Trial
José Clemente Orozco – watercolor illustrations for John Steinbeck's The Pearl
Eduardo Paolozzi – I was a Rich Man's Plaything (collage)
Bill Traylor – Construction with Figures and Animals
Andrew Wyeth – Wind from the Sea
January 9 – Ronnie Landfield, painter
January 27 – Cal Schenkel, American painter and illustrator
February 14 – Ed Hamilton, sculptor
March 12 – Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist (died 1987)
March 29 – Sarah Charlesworth, conceptual artist and photographer
April 17 – Sherrie Levine, appropriation artist
April 20 – Vladimír Novák, painter
June 1 – Anna Hofman-Uddgren, Swedish actress, cabaret singer, music hall and revue artist and theatre and film director
June 5 – Laurie Anderson, experimental performance artist and musician
June 15 – John Hoagland, American photographer (d.1984)
December – Richard Amsel, American illustrator and graphic designer (d.1985)
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Louise Lawler, American photographer
Dona Nelson, American abstract painter
Daphne Todd, English portrait painter
January 14 – MacDonald Gill, English designer (born 1884)
January 23 – Pierre Bonnard, French painter and printmaker (born 1867)
March 2 – Stanhope Forbes, English painter of the Newlyn school (born 1857)
March 19 – Prudence Heward, Canadian painter (born 1896)
March 25 – Chen Cheng-po, Taiwanese painter (born 1895) (shot)
April 21 – Gustave Van de Woestijne, Belgian Expressionist painter (born 1881)
May 25 – Rupert Bunny, Australian painter (born 1864)
June 9 – Augusto Giacometti, Swiss painter (born 1877)
June 13 – Albert Marquet, French Fauvist painter (born 1875)
July 25 – Kathleen Scott (Lady Scott), British sculptor (born 1878)
August 9 – Seraphima Blonskaya, Russian painter and art teacher (born 1870)
September 20 – Edward McCartan, American sculptor (born 1879)
November 8 – Mariano Benlliure, Spanish sculptor (born 1862)
November 20 – Georg Kolbe, German sculptor (born 1877)
December 1 – Samuel Courtauld, English art collector (born 1876)
December 30 – Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter and art forger (born 1889)
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