1941 in art
Events
    
- March 17 – In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
 - July 14 – American art collector Peggy Guggenheim and German painter Max Ernst arrive in New York City, fleeing occupied Europe.
 - August – Evacuated paintings from the National Gallery in London are moved to underground storage at a slate quarry beneath Manod Mawr in North Wales.[1]
 - October 24 – English artist Brian Stonehouse is captured as a Special Operations Executive agent in France.[2]
 - October 31 – Work ceases on sculpting Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the United States, continued by Lincoln Borglum after the death in March of his father Gutzon Borglum.
 - December 8 – The exhibition American Negro Art: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries opens in Edith Halpert's Downtown Gallery in New York City.
 - December 30 – Peggy Guggenheim marries the exiled Max Ernst in Virginia.
 - Ettore DeGrazia's work appears for the first time in Arizona Highways magazine.
 - African-American painter Jacob Lawrence completes his Migration Series.
 - German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, in hiding in the south of France, begins the autobiographical series of paintings Leben? oder Theater?: Ein Singspiel ("Life? or Theater?: A Song-play").
 - Indiana University Art Museum established in Bloomington.
 - The Art Center in La Jolla established in California.
 
Awards
    
- Archibald Prize: William Dargie – Sir James Elder, KBE
 
Works
    
- Ansel Adams – Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (photograph)
 - Ethel V. Ashton – Defenders of the Wyoming Country 1778 (United States post office mural, Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania)
 - Max Beckmann – Double Portrait, Max Beckmann and Quappi
 - Peter Belov – 1941 ("Large Stalin and Red Army")
 - Paul Cadmus – Aviator
 - Paul Delvaux – The Phases of the Moon
 - A. E. Doyle and Associates – Loyal B. Stearns Memorial Fountain (Portland, Oregon)
 - Sir Russell Drysdale – Moody's pub
 - Jacob Epstein – Jacob and the Angel (alabaster sculpture, 1940–1)
 - Ivon Hitchens
 - Edward Hopper – Girlie Show
 - Marcel Jean - Armoire Surréaliste[3][4]
 - Yousuf Karsh – The Roaring Lion (photographic portrait of Winston Churchill)
 - Dame Laura Knight – In For Repairs
 - Alonzo Victor Lewis – Dr. Mark A. Matthews (bronze bust, Denny Park (Seattle))
 - Musa McKim – Wildlife in White Mountain and Philip Guston – Pulp Wood Logging (murals at Federal Building (Laconia, New Hampshire))
 - Roberto Matta
- Composition Abstraite
 - Ecouter Vivre
 - Foeu
 - The Initiation (Origine d’un Extrême)
 - Invasion of the Night
 - Théorie de l’Arbre
 
 - Paul Nash
 - John Petts – Alun Lewis
 - Pablo Picasso
- Dora Maar au Chat
 - Tete de femme (Dora Maar) (sculpture)
 
 - Horace Pippin – Self-portrait
 - Albin Polasek – Masaryk Memorial, Chicago
 - Victor Vasarely – Untitled
 - Carel Weight
 
Births
    
- April 13 – Jean-Marc Reiser, French comics artist (d. 1983)
 - May 23 – Martin Puryear, American sculptor
 - June 7 – Tony Ray-Jones, English photographer (d. 1972)
 - July 12 – Richard Tuttle, American postminimalist sculptor, painter and installation artist
 - July 22 – Vaughn Bodē, American underground comix, graphic design and graffiti artist (d. 1975)
 - August 29 – Ugo Nespolo, Italian painter and filmmaker
 - September 20 – Dale Chihuly, American glass sculptor.[5]
 - September 24 – Linda McCartney, née Eastman, American music photographer (d. 1998)
 - December 6 – Bruce Nauman, American installation and video artist
 - December 31 – Robert Lenkiewicz, English painter (d. 2002)
 - date unknown
- Mary Kelly, American conceptual artist
 - James Coleman, Irish installation and video artist
 - Irene Avaalaaqiaq Tiktaalaaq, Canadian Inuit artist
 
 
Deaths
    
- January 10 – John Lavery, Irish painter and war artist (b. 1856)[6]
 - February 6 – Maximilien Luce, French painter (b. 1858)
 - March 6 – Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor (b. 1867)
 - March 30 – Bertha Jaques, American etcher (b. 1863)
 - April 14 – Guillermo Kahlo, German-Mexican photographer (b. 1871)
 - April 16 – Émile Bernard, French Post-Impressionist painter (b. 1868)
 - October 25 – Robert Delaunay, French painter (b. 1885)
 - November 7 – Frank Pick, English transport administrator and patron of art and design (b. 1878)
 - December 3 – Pavel Filonov, Russian painter and poet (b. 1883)
 - December 5 – Amrita Sher-Gil, Indian painter (b. 1913)
 - December 30 – El Lissitzky, Russian designer, architect and photographer (b. 1890)
 - date unknown – William Jacob Baer, American miniature painter (b. 1860)
 
References
    
- Bosman, Suzanne (2008). The National Gallery in Wartime. London: National Gallery Company. ISBN 978-1-85709-424-4.
 - "Obituary: Brian Stonehouse". The Independent. London. 1999-01-20. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 2010-09-28.
 - "Armoire surréaliste". madparis.fr.
 - "Marcel Jean".
 - Williams, David O. "Dale Chihuly". Diane Farris Gallery. Diane Farris Gallery. Archived from the original on January 14, 2012. Retrieved 2014-10-29.
 - Anne Millar Stewart (2003), "Lavery, Sir John" in Brian Lalor (Ed.) The Encyclopedia of Ireland. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. ISBN 0-7171-3000-2
 
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