November – New building for Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, the first major commission for Louis Kahn, opens.
Yves Klein becomes a master at judo, receiving the rank of yodan (4th dan/degree black-belt) from the Kodokan in Japan.
Archibald Prize: Ivor Hele – Sir Henry Simpson Newland, CBE, DSO, MS, FRCS
Hans Arp – Cloud Shepherd (sculpture, University City of Caracas)
Francis Bacon – Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X
John Brack
Men's Wear
The New House
Alexander Calder – Acoustic Clouds (installation, University City of Caracas)
Edwin Dickinson – Ruin at Daphne (begun 1943; Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Dong Xiwen – The Founding Ceremony of the Nation (original version)
Jacob Epstein – Social Consciousness (sculpture group, Philadelphia)
M. C. Escher – Relativity (lithograph)
Barbara Hepworth – Hieroglyph (sculpture)
Edward Hopper – Office in a Small City (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Willem de Kooning – Woman III
L. S. Lowry
Football Ground
The Procession passing the Queen Victoria Memorial, Coronation
René Magritte – Golconda
Marino Marini – Horse and Rider (bronze)
Henri Matisse – The Snail (colored paper collage)
Roberto Matta – Cercle du Blé (Circle of Wheat) (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Milton Menasco – 'La Troienne' and Her Foals: Eighteen Vignettes and One Painting Together in One Frame for John Whitney
Henry Moore – Draped Reclining Figure (bronze)
Alexander Phimister Proctor – Dr. John McLoughlin (bronze)
Jackson Pollock – Portrait and a Dream
Larry Rivers – Washington Crossing the Delaware
Mark Rothko – No. 61 (Rust and Blue)
Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov – In the Sun
Charles Sheeler – Ore Into Iron (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Ellis Wilson – Caribbean Bird Vendor
October – Robert Rauschenberg's White Paintings are exhibited at Eleanor Ward's Stable Gallery in New York City.
January 7 – Robert Longo, American painter and sculptor
February 25 – Martin Kippenberger, German artist (d. 1997)
April 24 – Eric Bogosian, American performance artist
May 18 – Helen Chadwick, English conceptual artist (d. 1996)
September 12 – Stephen Sprouse, American fashion designer and artist (d. 2004)
Full date unknown
Michael Kenna, English landscape photographer
Kevin O'Neill, English comic book illustrator
February 12 – Uroš Predić, Serbian Realist painter (b. 1857)
March 23 – Raoul Dufy, French Fauvist painter (b. 1877)
March 26 – Đorđe Jovanović, Serbian sculptor (b. 1861)
April 15 – Charles R. Knight, American animal painter (b. 1874)
April 29
Moïse Kisling, Polish-born painter (b. 1891)
Alice Prin ("Kiki de Montparnasse"), French artist, model and entertainer (b. 1901)
June 23 – Albert Gleizes, French painter (b. 1881)
September 13 – Mary Brewster Hazelton, American portrait painter (b. 1868)
September 26 – Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (b. 1895)
October 2 – John Marin, American modernist painter (b. 1870)
October 6 – Vera Mukhina, Latvian-born Soviet sculptor (b. 1889)
October 11 – James Earle Fraser, American sculptor (b. 1876)
October 21 – Sir Muirhead Bone, British etcher (b. 1876)
November 30 – Francis Picabia, French painter and poet (b. 1879)
date unknown – J. Laurie Wallace, Irish American painter (b.1864)
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