Formation of Penwith Society of Arts in St Ives, Cornwall.
Philadelphia Artists Equity is established in Pennsylvania, United States, to protect artists’ rights and improve working and economic conditions for fine artists.
Young Contemporaries exhibition, initiated by Carel Weight for the British Society of Artists Galleries, establishes the New Contemporaries series.
David Jones begins a 5-year sequence of watercolours of flowers in glasses.
Yves Klein paints his first monochromes, while apprenticed to a picture-frame maker in London.
Archibald Prize: Arthur Murch – Bonar Dunlop
Francis Bacon – Head VI
Brenda Chamberlain – The Fisherman's Return (National Museum of Wales)
Salvador Dalí
Leda Atomica
The Madonna of Port Lligat (original version; Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
Sir William Reid Dick – Lady Godiva (equestrian bronze, Coventry)
Sir Russell Drysdale – West Wyalong
Frida Kahlo
Diego and I
The Love Embrace of the Universe, the Earth (Mexico), Myself, Diego, and Señor Xolotl
Tadeusz Kantor – Man with Umbrella
L. S. Lowry
The Canal Bridge
The Football Match
The Spire
Robert Motherwell – Five in the Afternoon
Barnett Newman – Abraham
William Scott
Frying Pan and Eggs
Still Life with Candlestick
Graham Sutherland – Somerset Maugham
Vladimir Tretchikoff – The Dying Swan
Boris Vladimirski – Roses for Stalin
Lucien Wercollier – Le prisonnier politique (bronze)
February 17 – Peter Kennard, English photomontage artist
April 9 – Stephen Hickman, American illustrator, sculptor and author
May 7 – Deborah Butterfield, American sculptor
May 12 – Ross Bleckner, American painter
July 6 – Tibor Kalman, Hungarian-American graphic designer (d. 1999)
August 12 – Glòria Muñoz, Spanish painter
August 15 – Richard Deacon, British sculptor
August 27 – Istvan Kantor, Hungarian-Canadian performance artist
Jim Dolan, American sculptor
P K Mahanandia, Indian-born portrait artist
Charlie Waite, English landscape photographer
March 17 – Aleksandra Ekster, painter and designer, Art Deco pioneer (b. 1882)
May 3 – Mariano Fortuny, fashion designer (b. 1871)
June 21 – Edward Wadsworth, painter (b. 1889)
August 8 – Joaquín Torres García, Uruguayan painter (b. 1874)
September 7 - José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter and illustrator (b. 1883)
September 25 – Henri Manguin, painter (b. 1874)
November 3 – Solomon R. Guggenheim, art collector (b. 1861)
November 19 – James Ensor, painter (b. 1860)
(Herbert Barnard) John Everett, English marine artist (b. 1877)
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