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 10 – Stephen Gammell, American illustrator February 22 – Dragoš Kalajić, Serbian modern painter (d. 2005) February 28 – Octavio Ocampo, Mexican surrealist painter 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)

See also 1943 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

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