1943 in art explained

Events from the year 1943 in art.

Events

• January – After attending the Casablanca Conference, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and amateur painter Winston Churchill produces his only wartime painting, a view of the Kutubiyya Mosque in Marrakesh, as a gift for President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt.^[1]
• January 5–February 6 – Exhibition by 31 Women is staged at Peggy Guggenheim's The Art of This Century gallery on Manhattan, New York.
• February 20 – The painter David Olère is arrested by French police during a round up of Jews in Seine-et-Oise and spends the rest of World War II in Nazi concentration camps.
• Spring – The first exhibition of collage in the United States is shown in the Daylight Gallery of Peggy Guggenheim's The Art of This Century gallery on Manhattan.
• September – Retreating German troops deliberately destroy most of the collection of the Museo Civico Filangieri in Naples.
• September 21 – German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, in hiding in the south of France, is arrested by the Gestapo, ending the autobiographical series of 769 paintings Leben? oder Theater?: Ein Singspiel ("Life? or Theater?: A Song-play").
• November 9 – Jackson Pollock's first solo exhibition opens in the Daylight Gallery of Peggy Guggenheim's The Art of This Century gallery on Manhattan.
• December 9 – Willem de Kooning marries Elaine Fried in New York City.
• Filming in the United States of a version of The Picture of Dorian Gray uses an original work by Ivan Albright as the title picture.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: William Dobell – Joshua Smith

Works

• Constantin Brâncuși – The Seal (sculpture, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris)
• Paul Cadmus – The Shower
• Salvador Dalí – Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man
• William Dobell – The Billy Boy
• Jean Dubuffet – Cows and Groomers
• M. C. Escher – Reptiles (lithograph)
• Murray Griffin – Roberts Hospital, Changi^[2]
• Barbara Hepworth – Oval Sculpture
• Edward Hopper – Hotel Lobby
• Dame Laura Knight – Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring^{[3] [4]}
• Wifredo Lam – The Jungle
• L. S. Lowry
  • Britain at Play
  • Going to Work
  • Waiting for the Shop to Open
• George Platt Lynes – Marsden Hartley (photograph)
• Piet Mondrian
  • Broadway Boogie-Woogie
  • Trafalgar Square (completed)
• Walter Thomas Monnington – Clouds and Spitfires
• Paul Nash – Landscape of the Vernal Equinox
• Felix Nussbaum – Self-portrait with Jewish identity card
• Arthur Pan – Winston Churchill
• Mervyn Peake
  • The Evolution of the Cathode Ray (Radiolocation) Tube
  • Glass-blowers 'Gathering' from the Furnace
• Jackson Pollock –
  • Mural (for Peggy Guggenheim)
  • Guardians of the Secret^[5]
• Norman Rockwell – Four Freedoms (paintings)
• Walter Russell – Four Freedoms Monument
• Xul Solar – Fiordo
• Dorothea Tanning – Eine kleine Nachtmusik^[6]
• Edward Wadsworth – Top of the World
• Stanley Warren – Changi Murals
• U Wisara Monument (Rangoon)
• Andrew Wyeth – Public Sale

Births

• January 8 – Sighsten Herrgård, Swedish fashion designer (d.1989)
• January 20 – Jessica Rawson, English art historian
• February 22 – Dragoš Kalajić, Serbian modern painter (d. 2005)
• April 24 – Jüri Kerem, Estonian portraitist
• May 1 – Judith Scott, American outsider fiber sculptor (d. 2005)
• May 6 – James Turrell, American installation artist
• June 22 – Gordon Matta-Clark, American situationist, site-specific artist and performance artist (d.1978)
• July 15 – Michael Asher, American conceptual artist and installation artist (d. 2012)
• July 29 – Martha Rosler, American video, photo-text, installation and performance artist
• August 30 – Robert Crumb, American cartoonist
• September 5 – Jerry Wilkerson, American painter (d. 2007)
• September 17 – Gilbert (Proesch), Italian-born artist partnering with George (Passmore)
• October 1 – Sami Mohammad, Kuwaiti sculptor and artist
• November 11 – Dave Cockrum, American comic book artist (d. 2006)
• date unknown
  • Marta Minujin, Argentine conceptual and performance artist
  • Alfredo Rostgaard, Cuban visual artist (d. 2004)
  • Tang Da Wu, Singaporean artist

Deaths

• January 13
  • Xavier Martínez, Mexican-born American painter (b. 1869)
  • Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss geometric abstract painter, sculptor and dancer (accidental carbon monoxide poisoning) (born 1889)^[7]
• January 25 – Georges Picard, French decorative artist and illustrator (b. 1857)
• March 8 – Alma del Banco, German painter (suicide) (b. 1862)^[8]
• March 9 – Otto Freundlich, German painter and sculptor (killed in Majdanek concentration camp) (b. 1878)
• March 12 – Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
• April 13 – Oskar Schlemmer, German sculptor, painter, designer and choreographer (b. 1888)
• May 25 – Percy Shakespeare, English painter (on active service) (b. 1906)
• June 28 – Pietro Porcelli, Italian-born Australian sculptor (b. 1872)
• c. July 11 – Friedrich Adler, German-Jewish designer (in Auschwitz concentration camp) (b. 1878)
• August 7 – Sarah Purser, Irish portrait painter and stained-glass maker (b. 1848)
• August 9 – Chaïm Soutine, Belarusian Jewish-born French painter (b. 1893)
• August – Adolf Behrman, Polish painter (killed in Białystok Ghetto uprising) (b. 1876)
• September 2 – Marsden Hartley, American Modernist painter (b. 1877)
• c. October 10 – Charlotte Salomon, German-Jewish painter (in Auschwitz concentration camp) (b. 1917)
• October 19 – Camille Claudel, French sculptor and graphic artist (in asylum) (b. 1864)^[9]
• November 13 – Maurice Denis, French painter and decorative artist (b. 1870)
• December 22 – Beatrix Potter, English writer and illustrator (b. 1866)

See also

• 1943 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

Notes and References

1. Web site: Angelina Jolie Is Selling the Only Painting Winston Churchill Made During World War II. Caroline. Goldstein. 2021-02-01. 2021-02-03. Artnet.
2. Web site: Shared Experience: Art and War. awm.gov.au.
3. Web site: Ruby Loftus screwing a breech-ring – Dame Laura Knight RA (1877-1970). Canadian War Museum.
4. Web site: A Gun Girl – Ruby Loftus – Dame Laura Knight's Newport commission. Wartime Newport: The Home Front. 2011-09-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20160318192932/http://www.wartimenewport.virtuallyhere.co.uk/pages.php?page_id=54. 2016-03-18. dead.
5. Web site: Guardians of the Secret .
6. Web site: 'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik', Dorothea Tanning - Tate. Tate.
7. Book: Gaze, Delia . Concise Dictionary of Women Artists . London . Fitzroy Deerborn . 2001 . 978-1-57958-335-4 . 651.
8. Book: Franklin . Kopitzsch . Dirk . Brietzke . Hamburgische Biografie-Personenlexikon . A Personal Lexicon and Biography of the People of Hamburg . 2 . Göttingen . Wallstein Verlag . 2003 . DE . 38 . 978-3-76721-366-1.
9. Book: Schmoll, Josef A. . Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel . Munich . Prestel . 1999 . 13 . 978-3-79132-005-2.