Editing Timeline of art (section)

== 1940s ==
* '''[[1949 in art]]''' – Birth of [[Ross Bleckner]], [[Alberto Giacometti]] completes ''[[:Image:ThreeMenWalkingII.JPG|Three Men Walking II]]''
* '''[[1948 in art]]''' – Birth of [[Eric Fischl]], [[Hollis Sigler]],  Death of [[Arshile Gorky]], [[Kurt Schwitters]], [[George Ault]]
* '''[[1947 in art]]''' – Birth of [[Ronnie Landfield]] and [[James Schoppert]]; Death of [[Pierre Bonnard]], [[Wilhelm Uhde]], [[Peggy Guggenheim]] closes ''[[The Art of This Century gallery]]''
* '''[[1946 in art]]''' – Birth of [[Robert Mapplethorpe]], [[Kirk Varnedoe]], and [[Robert Davidson (artist)|Robert Davidson]]; Death of [[Arthur Dove]]
* '''[[1945 in art]]''' – Birth of [[Sean Scully]], [[Peter Reginato]], death of [[René Gimpel]]
* '''[[1944 in art]]''' – Birth of [[Odd Nerdrum]], [[Timothy Akis]], and [[Mathias Kauage]]; Death of [[Wassily Kandinsky]], [[Piet Mondrian]], [[Edvard Munch]], [[Francis Bacon (artist)|Francis Bacon]] completes ''[[Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion]]''
* '''[[1943 in art]]''' – Death of [[Chaïm Soutine]], [[Marsden Hartley]], [[Camille Claudel]], [[Maurice Denis]], [[Beatrix Potter]], [[Piet Mondrian]] completes ''[[Broadway Boogie-Woogie]]''
* '''[[1942 in art]]'''  – Death of [[Séraphine Louis]], Birth of [[Dan Christensen]] and [[Tony Hunt Sr.]]; [[Peggy Guggenheim]] opens ''[[The Art of This Century gallery]]''
* '''[[1941 in art]]'''  – Death of [[El Lissitzky]], Birth of [[Bruce Nauman]], [[Dale Chihuly]], Death of [[Robert Delaunay]]
* '''[[1940 in art]]''' –  Birth of [[Mary Ellen Mark]], [[Nancy Graves]], [[Elizabeth Murray (artist)|Elizabeth Murray]], Death of [[Harry Watrous]], [[Paul Klee]], [[Édouard Vuillard]]