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1937 in art
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[edit] Events
- Pablo Picasso painted Guernica, a cubistic mural painted in reaction to the German bombing of the Spanish Basque town of the same name.
- Entartete Kunst "(Degenerate art)" exhibition, mounted by the Nazis in Munich.
- Salvador Dalí painted Metamorphosis of Narcissus, a surrealist painting influenced by the Greek Myth of Narcissus.
[edit] Works
- See also: Category:1937 paintings
- Oscar Domínguez - The Infernal Machine
- Arthur Dove - Me and the Moon
- Alberto Giacometti - The Artist's Mother
- Joan Miró - Still Life With An Old Shoe
[edit] Awards
- Archibald Prize: Normand Baker - Self Portrait
[edit] Births
- 31 May - Larry Zox, American painter and printmaker (d.2006).
- 7 June - Red Grooms, multimedia, pop artist.
- 9 July - David Hockney, painter.
- 18 August - Willie Rushton, English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer (d.1996).
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- Ronald Davis, painter.
- Larry Poons.
- Robert Mangold, painter.
- Peter Max, printmaker and graphic designer.
- Edward Ruscha, painter, printmaker, photographer and conceptual artist.
- Fritz Scholder, painter, printmaker and graphic artist (d.2005).
[edit] Deaths
- April 19 - William Martin Conway, art critic (b. 1856)
- November 6 - Colin Campbell Cooper, painter (b. 1856)
- Florence Griswold, curator (b. 1850)
- Marc Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté, painter and sculptor (b. 1869)
- Helen Thornycroft, English painter (b. 1848)