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Overview of the events of 1949 in art
Overview of the events of 1949 in art
Events from the year 1949 in art .
Events Formation of Penwith Society of Arts in St Ives, Cornwall .[1]
Philadelphia Artists Equity is established in Pennsylvania, United States, to protect artists' rights and improve working and economic conditions for fine artists.
[2] Young Contemporaries exhibition, initiated by Carel Weight for the British Society of Artists Galleries, establishes the New Contemporaries series.[3]
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of flowers in glasses.Yves Klein paints his first monochromes, while apprenticed to a picture-frame maker in London.Awards Works Births February 17 – Peter Kennard , English photomontage artistFebruary 18 – Charlie Waite , English landscape photographerMarch 11 – Griselda Pollock , South African-born feminist visual art historian and theoristApril 9 – Stephen Hickman , American illustrator, sculptor and authorMay 7 – Deborah Butterfield , American sculptorMay 12 – Ross Bleckner , American painterJuly 6 – Tibor Kalman , Hungarian -American graphic designer (d. 1999 )August 12 – Glòria Muñoz , Spanish painterAugust 15 – Richard Deacon , British sculptorAugust 27 – Istvan Kantor , Hungarian-Canadian performance artistJim Dolan , American sculptorP. K. Mahanandia , Indian-born portrait artistLincoln Perry -American painter, muralist, and sculptorDeaths Death mask of James Ensor March 17 – Aleksandra Ekster , painter and designer, Art Deco pioneer (b. 1882 )May 3 – Mariano Fortuny , fashion designer (b. 1871 )May 15 – Henri Beau , Canadian Impressionist painter (b. 1863 )June 21 – Edward Wadsworth , English Vorticist painter (b. 1889 )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 )November 27 – Vincenzo Irolli , Italian painter (b. 1860 )December 28 – Emília dos Santos Braga , Portuguese painter (b. 1867 )(Herbert Barnard) John Everett, English marine artist (b. 1877 ) See also References 
