1950 - Art

Art

Painting: Chief by New York "action" painter Franz Kline, 40; The Constructors by Fernand Léger; Excavation by Willem de Kooning; Lavender Mist, Number 27, and Autumn Rhythm: Number 30 by Jackson Pollock; Tundra and The Wild by Barnett Newman; La Combe I by New York abstract expressionist Ellsworth Kelly, 27; Months and Moon by New York abstract expressionist Grace Hartigan, 28; Zulma by Henri Matisse. Max Beckmann dies at New York December 27 at age 66.

Sculpture: Seven Figures and a Head by Alberto Giacometti; The Goat by Pablo Picasso; Blackburn—Song of an Irish Blacksmith by Indiana-born welded metal sculptor David (Roland) Smith, 44, who learned to work with metal in 1925 when he was employed briefly as a riveter in a Studebaker assembly plant at South Bend.

The Story of Art by E. H. Gombrich traces art history from prehistory to the present; it will go through at least 16 editions, be translated into 18 languages, and have sales of more than 4 million copies.