1937_in_art

List of years in Art

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.

Works

• Oscar Domínguez - The Infernal Machine
• Arthur Dove - Me and the Moon
• Alberto Giacometti - The Artist\'s Mother

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Normand Baker - Self Portrait

Births

• June 7 - Red Grooms, multimedia, pop artist
• July 9 - David Hockney, painter
• Ronald Davis (1937-), painter
• Larry Poons (1937-),
• Robert Mangold (1937-), painter
• Peter Max (1937-) printmaker, graphic designer
• Edward Ruscha (1937-), painter, printmaker, photographer, conceptual artist
• Fritz Scholder (1937–2005), painter, printmaker, graphic artist
• Larry Zox (1937-2006), painter

Deaths

• April 19 - William Martin Conway, art critic (b. 1856)

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