Editing 1940 in art (section)

==Events==
* February – The series of '[[British propaganda during World War II#Careless talk costs lives|Careless Talk Costs Lives]]' [[propaganda]] [[poster]]s by '[[Fougasse (cartoonist)|Fougasse]]' is published by the [[Ministry of Information (United Kingdom)]].
* March – The [[Tartu Art Museum]] is officially established in [[Tartu]], [[Estonia]]; its first exhibition is opened in November 1940.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tartmus.ee/en/tickets/ajalugu/|title = History}}</ref><ref>[https://agenda.ge/en/news/2016/689 Estonia’s famous "leaning house" displays Georgian artists’ work] – Agenda.ge</ref>
* July – The [[Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce]] (''Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg'') of the [[Nazi Party]] begins its task of appropriating cultural property from occupied territories, initially in France.
* October – [[Grandma Moses]]' second solo exhibition, "What a Farm Wife Painted", opens at Otto Kallir's Galerie Saint-Etienne in [[New York City]].
* [[November 3]] – The [[War Artists' Advisory Committee]] of the U.K. Ministry of Information opens its first exhibition of ''War Pictures by British Artists'' to the public at the otherwise-evacuated [[National Gallery]] in London.
* [[November 13]] – Release of [[Walt Disney]]'s [[Traditional animation|animated]] movie ''[[Fantasia (1940 film)|Fantasia]]'' in the [[United States]].
* [[December 8]] – Mexican painters [[Frida Kahlo]] and [[Diego Rivera]] remarry in [[San Francisco]] (U.S.)
* [[Cecil Beaton]] is among the photographers commissioned by the U.K. Ministry of Information to undertake [[war photography]].
* [[Xawery Dunikowski]] is deported to [[Auschwitz concentration camp]], where he survives until 1945.
* [[Jacques Lipchitz]] flees France for the United States.
* [[Henry Moore]] is commissioned as a [[war artist]] and produces drawings of Londoners sleeping in the [[London Underground]] while sheltering from [[The Blitz]].
* [[Anthony Blunt]]'s ''Artistic Theory in Italy 1450–1600'' is published. This year he is recruited to work for [[MI5]] while simultaneously spying for the [[NKVD]].