Austrian painter Arnulf Rainer founds the Hundsgruppe ("dog pack") with Arik Brauer, Ernst Fuchs and Josef Mikl.
Paint by number kits introduced by Max S. Klein, an engineer and owner of the Palmer Paint Company of Detroit, and Dan Robbins.
Ernst Gombrich's The Story of Art is published by Phaidon Press.
Archibald Prize: William Dargie – Sir Leslie McConnan
Audubon Artists Gold Medal – Richmond Barthé
Jean Arp – Evocation of a Form: Human, Lunar, Spectral (model for bronze)
Francis Bacon – Fragment of a Crucifixion
Marc Chagall – La Mariée
Salvador Dalí – The Madonna of Port Lligat (second version, Fukuoka Art Museum)
Robert Doisneau – Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville (The Kiss) (photograph)
Alberto Giacometti – The Chariot
Maruki Iri and Maruki Toshi – Ghosts, Fire and Water (Yūrei, Hi and Mizu), first of The Hiroshima Panels (原爆の図, Genbaku no zu)
L. S. Lowry – The Pond
Henri Matisse – Beasts of the Sea (paper collage)
Henry Moore – Family Group (Stevenage New Town, UK)
Jackson Pollock – Autumn Rhythm, Number 30
William Scott – Bowl, Eggs and Lemons
Vladimir Tretchikoff – Chinese Girl, popularly known as "The Green Lady"
Keith Vaughan – Theseus and the Minotaur (Tate Britain)
April 22 – Thierry Zéno, Belgian filmmaker
June 24 – Bob Carlos Clarke, Irish photographer (d. 2006)
July 29 – Jenny Holzer, American neo-conceptual artist
August 30
Konrad Bernheimer, Venezuelan-born German art dealer and collector
Antony Gormley, English sculptor
November 10 – Jonathan Janson, American painter and art historian
December 11 – Aleksandr Tatarskiy, Russian animator, artist and film director (d. 2007).
February 12 – Boris Vladimirski, painter of the Socialist Realism school
September 26 – Pierre Roy, painter, illustrator and designer
December 7 – Wojciech Weiss, painter and draughtsman (b. 1875)
December 28 – Max Beckmann, painter (b. 1884)
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Albert Herter, painter (b. 1871)
James Sleator, Irish painter (b. 1889)
Hiroshi Yoshida, Japanese painter and woodblock printmaker (b. 1876)
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