1944 - Art

Art

Painting: Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifix by English painter Francis Bacon, 34, whose asthma has kept him out of military service; Death's Head by Pablo Picasso; View of Paris with furtive pedestrians by French artist Jean Dubuffet, 43; How My Mother's Embroidered Apron Unfolds in My Life and The Liver Is the Cock's Comb by Arshile Gorky; The Survivor by George Grosz, who emigrated to America in 1932 and became a U.S. citizen in 1938; Pelvis III by Georgia O'Keeffe; That Red One by Arthur Dove; Factory Workers by Harlem painter Romare Bearden, 31; The Young Mother by Canadian-born U.S. painter Philip Guston, 31; Tattoo Artist by Norman Rockwell; Mother and Child by Milton Avery; Green Pom-Pom by Walt Kuhn; The Broken Column by Frida Kahlo; The King Playing with the Queen by Max Ernst. Edvard Munch dies at his estate outside Oslo January 23 at age 80; Piet Mondrian at New York February 1 at age 71; Florine Stettheimer at New York May 11 at age 72; Wassily Kandinsky at Paris December 17 at age 78; artist-illustrator Charles Dana Gibson at his New York townhouse December 23 at age 74 (President Roosevelt sent an amphibious plane to pick him up at his 700-acre island home off Isleboro, Me., when he became seriously ill in September).

Sculpture: Landscape Sculpture (wood) by Barbara Hepworth. Sculptor Aristide Maillol dies in an automobile accident near Banyuls-sur-Mer October 5 at age 82.