1945 - Art

Art

Painting: If This Be Not I by Philip Guston; The Unattainable and The Diary of a Seducer by Arshile Gorky; The Charnel House by Pablo Picasso; Big Julie by Fernand Léger; Woman Grinding Coffee by Jean Dubuffet; The Temptation of St. Anthony by Max Ernst; Old Stone Bridge by Lyonel Feininger; For Internal Use Only by Stuart Davis; Star Performer by Walt Kuhn; Great Tenochtitlan and The Market in Tiangucio (murals) by Diego Rivera for Mexico City's Palacio Nacional; The Swimming Hole by Norman Rockwell (cover illustration, Saturday Evening Post, August 11). German graphic artist Käthe Kollwitz dies outside Dresden at Moritzburg Castle April 22 at age 77; illustrator and muralist N. C. Wyeth at Chadds Ford, Pa., October 19 at age 62 when his car stalls on the track and is struck by the milk train, killing his grandson along with himself.

Sculpture: Red Pyramid (mobile) by Alexander Calder; The Hotel Eden by Joseph Cornell; Kuros by Isamu Noguchi; Family Group by Henry Moore (who has gained fame for his sketches of London crowds during the blitz); Portrait by French sculptor Germaine Richier, 41, who has spent the war years at Zürich.