Editing 1946 in art

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Events from the year '''1946 in art'''.

==Events==
* March – Art collector [[Peggy Guggenheim]] publishes the first edition of her autobiographical ''Out of This Century'' in the United States.
* [[April 2]] – [[Jackson Pollock]]'s third solo exhibition opens in the Daylight Gallery of Peggy Guggenheim's [[The Art of This Century gallery]] on Manhattan.
* [[May 22]] – The [[Equestrian statue of Christian V]] recast in [[bronze]] by [[Einar Utzon-Frank]] ([[1688 in art|1688]] original by [[Abraham-César Lamoureux]]) is unveiled on [[Kongens Nytorv]], [[Copenhagen]].
* [[October 11]] – [[National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina]] established in [[Sarajevo]].
* [[October 24]] – In a double ceremony, [[Max Ernst]] (having been divorced from Peggy Guggenheim) marries [[Dorothea Tanning]] and [[Man Ray]] marries Juliet P. Browner in [[Beverly Hills, California]].
* The [[Vienna School of Fantastic Realism]] is founded by [[Ernst Fuchs (artist)|Ernst Fuchs]], [[Rudolf Hausner]], and others.
* The [[Borough Group]] of artists is founded in London by [[Cliff Holden]].
* [[Jean Dubuffet]] exhibits the series of works with paint mixed with sand and gravel, ''Hautes Pâtes'', at the Galérie René Drouin.
* [[Jacob Lawrence]] begins painting his ''War Series''.
* [[Sidney Nolan]] begins his first series of paintings of [[Ned Kelly]].
* [[David Olère]] begins to produce artworks based on his experiences as [[Jewish]] ''[[Sonderkommando]]'' inmate 106144 of [[Auschwitz concentration camp]] during [[World War II]].
* [[Musée de la Chartreuse, Molsheim]], France, established (at this time under the name "Musée municipal")

==Awards==
* [[Archibald Prize]]: [[William Dargie]] – ''L C Robson, MC, MA''

==Works==
* [[Harold Abbott (artist)|Harold Abbott]] – ''Triptych of Suffering''
* [[George Ault]] – ''Bright Light at Russell's Corners''
* [[Francis Bacon (painter)|Francis Bacon]]
** ''[[Painting (1946)]]''
** ''Study for Man with Microphones'' (later abandoned and slashed by the artist)
* [[Charles Comfort]] – ''Dieppe Raid''
* [[Dean Cornwell]] – ''[[The History of Transportation]]'' (lobby mural at [[10 Rockefeller Plaza]] in New York City, at this time the headquarters of [[Eastern Airlines]])<ref>{{cite web | url=http://art-nerd.com/newyork/the-history-of-transportation-in-gorgeous-crimson-and-gold/ | title=The History of Transportation in gorgeous crimson and gold &#124; Art Nerd New York }}</ref>
* [[Salvador Dalí]] – ''[[The Temptation of St. Anthony by Salvador Dalí|The Temptation of St. Anthony]]''
* [[Jean Dubuffet]] – ''Apartment Houses''
* [[Jacob Epstein]] – ''[[Bust of Winston Churchill (Epstein)|Bust of Winston Churchill]]''
* [[M. C. Escher]] – [[lithograph]]s
** ''[[Magic Mirror (M.C. Escher)|Magic Mirror]]''
** ''[[Three Spheres II]]''
* [[Sawlaram Haldankar]] – ''[[Glow of Hope]]''
* [[Barbara Hepworth]] – sculptures
** ''Pelagos''
** ''Tides''
* [[Edward Hopper]] – ''Approaching a City''
* Dame [[Laura Knight]] – ''The Dock, Nuremberg''
* [[L. S. Lowry]] – ''Good Friday, Daisy Nook''
* [[Henri Matisse]] – ''[[L'Asie]]''
* [[Georgia O'Keeffe]] – ''Bare Tree Trunks With Snow''
* [[Pablo Picasso]] – ''Woman-Flower''
* [[Ad Reinhardt]] – How to Look at Modern Art in America<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hyperallergic.com/98063/how-to-look-at-ad-reinhardts-cartoons/|title = How to Look at Ad Reinhardt's Cartoons|date = 12 December 2013}}</ref>
* [[Norman Rockwell]] – "Boy in a Dining Car"<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ijub9Wu7IgwC&dq=boy+in+a+dining+car+norman+rockwell&pg=PA284|title = Seeing High and Low: Representing Social Conflict in American Visual Culture|isbn = 9780520241879|last1 = Johnston|first1 = Patricia|date = 14 June 2006| publisher=University of California Press }}</ref>
* [[William Scott (artist)|William Scott]] – ''The Frying Pan''
* [[Andrew Wyeth]] – ''[[Winter 1946]]''
* [[Jack Butler Yeats]]
** ''[[Men of Destiny]]''
** ''The Whistle of a Jacket''

==Exhibitions==
* ''Contemporary British Art'' – [[Toledo Museum of Art]], [[Ohio]], the [[Albright-Knox Art Gallery]], [[Buffalo, New York]], and the [[City Art Museum, St Louis]].

==Births==
* [[January 8]] – [[Betty Beaumont]], Canadian American site-specific artist, all media
* [[January 10]] – [[Kalidas Karmakar]], Bangladeshi artist (d. 2019)
* [[January 18]] – [[Kirk Varnedoe]], [[Americans|American]] [[Art history|art historian]], writer and curator (d. [[2003 in art|2003]])
* [[January 26]] – [[Timothy Clifford]], [[English people|English]] art historian and curator
* [[February 9]] – [[Peter Linde]], Swedish sculptor
* [[April 11]] – [[Chris Burden]], American performance and installation artist and sculptor (d. [[2015 in art|2015]])
* [[April 27]] – [[Nicholas Serota]], English curator
* [[May 30]] – [[Jan de Bie]], painter and photographer (d. [[2021 in art|2021]])
* [[June 29]] – [[Egon von Fürstenberg]], [[Switzerland|Swiss]] [[fashion design]]er (d. [[2004 in art|2004]])
* [[July 6]] – [[Jamie Wyeth]], American realist [[Painting|painter]]
* [[July 11]] – [[Chris Killip]], Manx-born documentary photographer (d. [[2020 in art|2020]])
* [[July 25]] – [[Nicole Farhi]], French sculptor and [[fashion design]]er
* [[September 27]] – [[T. C. Cannon]], Native American painter (d. [[1978 in art|1978]])
* [[November 4]] – [[Robert Mapplethorpe]], American [[photographer]] (d. [[1989 in art|1989]])
* [[November 5]] – [[Herman Brood]], [[Dutch people|Dutch]] [[musician]], painter and [[News media|media]] personality (d. [[2001 in art|2001]])
* [[November 20]] – [[Alice Aycock]], American sculptor and installation artist
* [[December 2]] – [[Gianni Versace]], [[Italians|Italian]] fashion designer (k. [[1997 in art|1997]])
* [[December 8]] – [[Jacques Bourboulon]], French nude and fashion photographer
* [[December 12]] – [[Don Gummer]], American sculptor
* [[December 25]] – [[Christopher Frayling]], English cultural historian

==Deaths==
* [[January 2]] – [[O'Galop]] (Marius Rossillon), French cartoonist (b. [[1867 in art|1867]])
* [[January 23]] – [[Helene Schjerfbeck]], Finnish painter (b. [[1862 in art|1862]])
* [[February 17]]
** [[Dorothy Gibson]], American artist's model and silent film actress (b. [[1889 in art|1889]])
** [[George Pirie (artist)|Sir George Pirie]], [[Scottish people|Scottish]] painter (b. [[1863 in art|1863]])
* [[July 11]] – [[Paul Nash (artist)|Paul Nash]], English painter (b. 1889)
* [[July 13]] – [[Alfred Stieglitz]], American photographer (b. [[1864 in art|1864]])
* [[July 17]] – [[Florence Fuller]], Australian painter (b. 1867)
* [[October 7]] - [[C. R. W. Nevinson]], English war artist (b. 1889)
* [[October 28]] – [[Manuel Ortiz de Zárate]], Chilean painter (b. [[1887 in art|1887]])
* [[October 30]] – [[Charles Despiau]], French sculptor (b. [[1874 in art|1874]])
* [[November 23]]
** [[Arthur Dove]], American abstract painter (b. [[1880 in art|1880]])
** [[Léon Spilliaert]], Belgian symbolist painter and graphic artist (b. [[1881 in art|1881]])
* [[November 24]] – [[László Moholy-Nagy]], Hungarian painter and photographer (b. [[1895 in art|1895]])
* [[December 28]] – [[Elie Nadelman]], Polish-born American sculptor (b. [[1882 in art|1882]])
* [[December 29]] – [[Arnold Friedman]], American Modernist painter (b. 1874)

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