1943 in art

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.
 * 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
 * Barbara Hepworth – Oval Sculpture
 * Edward Hopper – Hotel Lobby
 * Dame Laura Knight – Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring
 * 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
 * Norman Rockwell – Four Freedoms (paintings)
 * Walter Russell – Four Freedoms Monument
 * Xul Solar – Fiordo
 * Dorothea Tanning – Eine kleine Nachtmusik
 * 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)
 * January 25 – Georges Picard, French decorative artist and illustrator (b. 1857)
 * March 8 – Alma del Banco, German painter (suicide) (b. 1862)
 * 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)
 * November 13 – Maurice Denis, French painter and decorative artist (b. 1870)
 * December 22 – Beatrix Potter, English writer and illustrator (b. 1866)