1942 in art

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Events from the year 1942 in art.

Events

January – Treasures from the new National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. are evacuated by train to the Biltmore Estate at Asheville, North Carolina.
Singapore surrenders to Japanese forces. Among the British troops captured are illustrator Ronald Searle
and sculptor Anthony Twentyman.

Friedrich Overbeck's Entrance of Christ into Jerusalem and Bernt Notke's Gregorsmesse and replica Totentanz, but reveals medieval frescos
.

May 8 – English novelist David Garnett marries painter and writer Angelica Bell, the daughter of painters Duncan Grant (Garnett's lover) and Vanessa Bell.^[1]
July 27 – A large amount of "degenerate art" including works by Picasso, Dalí, Ernst, Klee, Léger and Miró is destroyed in a bonfire in the gardens of the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Nazi-occupied Paris.^[2]
October – Michael Ayrton and John Minton exhibit together at the Leicester Galleries in London.^[3]
October 14–November 7 – The "First Papers of Surrealism" exhibition, arranged by André Breton and Marcel Duchamp, is held at the Whitelaw Reid Mansion on Madison Avenue in New York City, including Duchamp's His Twine and Breton's Hanging.
West 57th Street in Manhattan, New York City
.

unknown dates
Salvador Dalí publishes his autobiography, The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí.

Horst Rosenthal, whilst in Gurs internment camp, produces Mickey au Camp de Gurs and two other comic books; on September 11 he is murdered on arrival at Auschwitz concentration camp.

Awards

Jim Gordon
, VC

Works

Nighthawks (Art Institute of Chicago

)

Rita Angus – Portrait (Betty Curnow)
Thomas Hart Benton – Year of Peril (series)
George Berry – Statue of Benjamin Franklin (sculpture, Franklin High School (Portland, Oregon))
Pierre Bonnard – Red Roofs in Cannet
Paul-Émile Borduas – Abstraction No 7
Russell Drysdale – Soldier
Richard Eurich
- HMS Revenge Leaving Harbour
- The Raid on the Bruneval Radio-location Station
Marie Hadad – Portrait of Mr. Dahesh (Dahesh Museum of Art)
Edward Hopper
- Dawn in Pennsylvania
- Nighthawks^[4]

Dame Laura Knight – A Balloon Site, Coventry
Helen Levitt - New York City (photograph)^[5]
Jacques Lipchitz – Theseus (sculpture)
L. S. Lowry
- After the Blitz
- Blitzed Site
Roberto Matta
- The Apples we Know
- Composition in Magenta: The End of Everything
- The Disasters of Mysticism
- The Hanged Man
Paul Nash – The Archer
Frank Newbould – Your Britain, Fight for it Now (poster series)
Méret Oppenheim – Sun, Moon, Stars
Gordon Parks – American Gothic, Washington, D.C. (photograph)
Pablo Picasso
- Portrait of Dora Maar
- Woman in a Fish Hat (
  Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
  )

Diego Rivera – The Flower Seller
Ruskin Spear – We Can Take It
Dorothea Tanning – Birthday (Philadelphia Museum of Art)^[6]
Carel Weight – Recruit's Progress – Medical Inspection
Andrew Wyeth – Winter Fields
Philip Zec – The price of petrol has been increased by one penny – Official (political cartoon)

Births

George Passmore, English artist
partnering with Gilbert (Proesch)

February 2
- African American
  artist
- Graham Nash, English-born rock singer-songwriter and photographer
February 10 – Lawrence Weiner, American conceptual artist (d. 2021)
February 28 – Oliviero Toscani, Italian photographer^[7]
March 2 – Jonathan Borofsky, American painter, sculptor and installation artist
March 16 – Danny Lyon, American documentary photographer
March 20 – Peter Schjeldahl, 80, American art critic (The New Yorker, The New York Times) (d.2022)
March 31
- Dan Graham, American conceptual and performance artist (d. 2021)
- David Medalla, Filipino-born sculptor
May 20 – Anna Maria Maiolino, Italian-born Brazilian artist
August 18? – Charlotte Johnson Wahl, born Charlotte Fawcett, English painter (d. 2021)
abstract painter (d.2007
)

October 29 – Bob Ross, American painter and television presenter (d.1995)
November 7 – Stan Rice, American poet and artist (d.2002)
December 1 – William Feaver, English art critic and historian
date unknown
- Susan Crile, American painter
- De Es Schwertberger, born Dieter Schwertberger, Austrian painter

Deaths

January – Albert Moulton Foweraker, English painter (b. 1873)
January 5 – Tina Modotti, Italian photographer and model (b. 1896)
January 6 – John Bernard Flannagan, American sculptor (b. 1895) (suicide)
January 22 – Walter Sickert, British Impressionist painter (b. 1860)^[8]
Serbian painter (b. 1914
)

January 27 – Petar Dobrović, Serbian painter (b. 1890)
February 9 – Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, American portrait and genre painter (b. 1856)
February 12 – Grant Wood, American painter (b. 1892)^[9]
February 16 – Giovanni Bartolena, Italian painter (b. 1886)^[10]
February 20 – Herbert Dicksee, English canine painter (b. 1862)^[11]
Adolphe Valette, French painter (b. 1876
)

Whitney Museum of American Art (b. 1875
)

C. R. Ashbee, English designer (b. 1863
)

June 18 – Sutherland Macdonald, English tattoo artist (b. 1860)
June 30 – William Henry Jackson, American photographer (b. 1843)^[12]
August 10 – Albert Guillaume, French painter and caricaturist (b. 1873)
Serbian painter (b. 1896
)

September 2 – Eric Ravilious, English painter (b. 1903) (lost on active service as a war artist)^[13]
September 7
- Cecilia Beaux, American portrait painter (b. 1855)^[14]
- Albert Julius Olsson, English marine painter (b. 1864)
November 24 – Bohumil Kafka, Czech sculptor (b. 1878)
December 11 - Séraphine Louis, French painter (b. 1864)
T. F. Šimon, Czech painter (b. 1877
)

date unknown
Nampeyo, Hopi ceramicist (b. 1860)

References

ISBN 978-0-7509-6963-5
.

^ Hellman, Mallory. Let's Go Paris. p. 84.

^ "Young Artists – Exhibition at Leicester Galleries". The Times. London. 1942-10-16. p. 6.

ISBN 978-0-8131-3749-0
.

^ "Helen Levitt | New York City".

^ "Birthday, 1942 by Dorothea Tanning - Paper and Canvas Print - Philadelphia Museum of Art - Custom Prints Store".

ISBN 978-1-902686-22-6
.

ISBN 978-0-19-926169-7
.

ISBN 978-1-78310-767-4
.

^ Giorgio di Genova. "BARTOLENA, Giovanni". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Treccani. Retrieved 6 April 2021.

ISBN 978-0-9583154-2-5
.

^ "William Henry Jackson (1843-1942), Career Chronology". The Library of Congress. 2010. Retrieved 29 September 2010.

ISBN 978-0-19-992305-2
.

ISBN 978-0-8478-2708-4
.

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[1] ISBN 978-0-7509-6963-5
.

[2] Hellman, Mallory. Let's Go Paris. p. 84.

[3] "Young Artists – Exhibition at Leicester Galleries". The Times. London. 1942-10-16. p. 6.

[4] ISBN 978-0-8131-3749-0
.

[5] "Helen Levitt | New York City".

[6] "Birthday, 1942 by Dorothea Tanning - Paper and Canvas Print - Philadelphia Museum of Art - Custom Prints Store".

[7] ISBN 978-1-902686-22-6
.

[8] ISBN 978-0-19-926169-7
.

[9] ISBN 978-1-78310-767-4
.

[10] Giorgio di Genova. "BARTOLENA, Giovanni". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Treccani. Retrieved 6 April 2021.

[11] ISBN 978-0-9583154-2-5
.

[12] "William Henry Jackson (1843-1942), Career Chronology". The Library of Congress. 2010. Retrieved 29 September 2010.

[13] ISBN 978-0-19-992305-2
.

[14] ISBN 978-0-8478-2708-4
.

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