1940 - Art

Art

Painting: Woman Dressing Her Hair by Pablo Picasso; The Romanian Blouse by Henri Matisse; Sky Blue by Wassily Kandinsky; Circus Caravan by Max Beckmann; Death and Fire by Paul Klee; The Robing of the Bride by Max Ernst; The Red Mask by Mexican painter Ruffino Tamayo, 40; The Dream (or The Bed) by Frida Kahlo; Stump in Red Hills by Georgia O'Keeffe; T.B. Harlem by "bohemian" New York painter Alice Neel, 40; Garden in Sochi by Turkish-born New York painter Arshile Gorky (originally Manoug [or Vostanik] Adoian), 39, who grew up in Armenia and came to New York at age 16, determined to be a painter, recreating himself as a Russian with claims to kinship with the late Maksim Gorky; Madawaska—Acadian Light Heavy by Marsden Hartley. Jean Edouard Vuillard dies at La Baule, France, June 21 at age 71; Paul Klee of scleroderma at Muralto-Locarno, Switzerland, June 29 at age 60.

Sculpture: The Spider and Little Spider (mobiles) by Alexander Calder. Sculptor (and typeface designer) Eric Gill dies at Uxbridge, Middlesex, November 17 at age 58.