November 8 – COBRA (avant-garde movement) is formed by Karel Appel, Constant, Corneille, Christian Dotremont, Asger Jorn and Joseph Noiret.
Georges Braque begins work on his Ateliers
Cadillac introduce the car tailfin, to Frank Hershey's design authorized by Harley Earl.
Archibald Prize: William Dobell – Margaret Olley
Otto Dix – Ecce homo with self-likeness behind barbed wire
Russell Drysdale – The cricketers
Rudolf Hausner – It's Me!
Henri Matisse – The Plum Blossoms
Barnett Newman – Onement I
Sidney Nolan – The Abandoned Mine
Jackson Pollock – No. 5, 1948
Anne Redpath – Window in Menton
Constance Stokes – Girl in Red Tights (approx. date)
Rufino Tamayo – Cazadores de mariposas
Andrew Wyeth
Christina's World
McVey's Barn
Karl
Iglica
Wäinö Aaltonen – Kun ystävyyssuhteet solmitaan
Jacob Epstein – Lazarus
Marino Marini – The Angel of the City
Joseph Cornell – Untitled (Cockatoo and Corks)
M. C. Escher
Dewdrop (mezzotint)
Drawing Hands (lithograph)
Stars (wood engraving)
March 9 – Eric Fischl, painter
April 14 – Berry Berenson, American model and photographer
July 7 – Alison Wilding, English sculptor and academic
September 20 – Adrian Piper, conceptual artist
October 2 – Donna Karan, American fashion designer
October 8 – Gottfried Helnwein, Austrian fine artist, photographer, installation and performance artist
November 1 – Bill Woodrow, British sculptor
November 18 – Ana Mendieta, performance artist (d. 1985)
December 18 – Mimmo Paladino, Italian sculptor, painter and printmaker
December 26 – Lin Onus, Scottish-Aboriginal Koori artist (d. 1996)
Full date unknown
Jonathan Lasker, American painter
Marilyn Minter, American painter and photographer
Andrew Stevovich, Austrian-born American painter
January 8 – Kurt Schwitters, German painter, collagist and poet (b. 1887)
February 23 – Fidus, German illustrator, painter and publisher (b. 1868)
March 23 – Yevgeniy Abalakov, Soviet sculptor and mountaineer (b. 1907)
March 24 – Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter (b. 1885)
July 21 – Arshile Gorky, Armenian American painter (b. 1904)
September 22 – Felicjan Kowarski, Polish painter and sculptor (b. 1885)
December 28 – Hakob Gyurjian, Armenian sculptor (b. 1890)
December 30 – George Ault, American Precisionist painter (b. 1891)
date unknown
Shinzō Fukuhara, Japanese photographer (b. 1883)
Hector Hyppolite, Haitian painter (b. 1894)
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