Events from the year 1939 in art.
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- John Angel – Statue of Alexander Hamilton
- Maurice Ascalon – The Scholar, The Laborer, and The Toiler of the Soil (beaten copper relief sculpture for Jewish Palestine Pavilion at 1939 New York World's Fair)
- James Bateman – Haytime in the Cotswolds
- Thomas Hart Benton – Persephone
- Alexander Calder – Lobster Trap and Fish Tail (mobile)
- Salvador Dalí
- Paul Delvaux
- Aaron Douglas – Power Plant, Harlem
- James Earle Fraser – Equestrian Statue of Theodore Roosevelt
- Jared French - Calvarymen Crossing a River (mural) at the Lewis F. Powell Courthouse annex in Richmond, Virginia[11]
- Leo Friedlander – Pioneer Woman (sculpture)
- Julio González – Monsieur Cactus (Cactus Man 1) (sculpture)
- Edward Hopper
- Frida Kahlo
- Fernand Léger – Adam and Eve
- David Low – Rendezvous (political cartoon)
- Musa McKim – Spanish Hill and the Early Inhabitants of the Vicinity (mural at United States Post Office (Waverly, New York))
- Marino Marini – The Pilgrim (bronze)
- Joan Miró – Constellations (series begun)
- Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen – The Young Man playing Pan-pipes on a Wingless Pegasus (monument to the sculptor's husband, the composer Carl Nielsen (d. 1931), in Copenhagen)
- José Clemente Orozco – "Hombre de fuego" (Man of Fire) (fresco in Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico, 1936–39)
- Eric Ravilious – watercolours
- Beachy Head
- Train Landscape
- Westbury Horse
- Percy Shakespeare – Tropical Bird House, Dudley Zoo
- Charles Sheeler – Power series (paintings)
- Situ Qiao – Guqin
- Elizabeth Wyn Wood – Welland-Crowland War Memorial (Welland, Ontario)
- Grant Wood
- Xu Beihong – Put Down Your Whip
- February 16 – David Griffiths, Welsh portrait painter
- February 21 – Gert Neuhaus, German mural artist
- March 17 – Jim Gary, American sculptor (d. 2006)
- March 24 – Gérard Coste, French painter and diplomat
- April 1 – Spider Martin, American photographer (d. 2003)
- April 8 – Trina Schart Hyman, American illustrator of children's books (d. 2004)
- April 25 – Patrick Lichfield, English photographer (d. 2005)
- April 27 – Erik Pevernagie, Belgian painter
- June 26 – Barbara Chase-Riboud, American visual artist, bestselling novelist and award-winning poet
- July 20 – Judy Chicago, born Judith Cohen, American feminist artist
- July 27 – William Eggleston, American color photographer
- September 6 – Brigid Berlin, American actress and artist, Warhol associate (d. 2020)
- September 30 - Anthony Green, British painter, member of the RA (d. 2023)
- October 2 – Heinz Zander, German painter and writer
- October 5 – A. R. Penck, born Ralf Winkler, German artist and jazz drummer (d. 2017)
- October 12 – Carolee Schneemann, American visual artist (d. 2019)
- November 2 – Richard Serra, American sculptor
- December 23 – Nancy Graves, American sculptor, painter and printmaker (d. 1996)
- unknown date
- February 16 – Phyllis Gardner, British graphic artist and dog breeder, beloved of Rupert Brooke (b. 1890)[12]
- April 11 – Willard Huntington Wright, American art critic and detective-story writer as S. S. Van Dine (b. 1888)
- April 19 – János Vaszary, Hungarian painter and graphic artist (b. 1867)[13]
- May 25 – Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen, English art dealer (b. 1869)
- June 3 – Sir Philip Sassoon, 3rd Baronet, English art collector (b. 1888)[14]
- June 17 – Jean Boucher, French sculptor (b. 1870)
- June 23 – Mark Gertler, English painter (b. 1891) (suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning)[15]
- July 4 – Louis Wain, English artist (b. 1860)[16]
- July 21 – Ambroise Vollard, French art dealer (b. 1866)
- August 14 – Isaak Brodsky, Russian socialist realist painter (b. 1884)
- August 24 – Frederick Carl Frieseke, American Impressionist painter (b. 1874)
- August 29 – Jessica Dismorr, English Vorticist painter (b. 1885) (suicide by hanging)
- September 6 – Arthur Rackham, English illustrator (b. 1867)[17]
- September 18
- December 1 – Jorma Gallen-Kallela, Finnish painter (b. 1898)[18]
- December 3 – Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, member of the British Royal Family and sculptor (b. 1848)
- December 14 – Helene Kröller-Müller, German-born Dutch art collector (b. 1869)[19]
- December 18 – Ernest Lawson, Canadian-American painter, member of The Eight (b. 1873)
- December 25 – Margrethe Mather, American photographer and painter (b. 1886)
- December 27 – Rinaldo Cuneo, American painter (b. 1877)[20]
- date unknown – Jane Mary Dealy, English painter and illustrator (b. 1856)
Grosshans, Henry (1983). Hitler and the Artists. New York: Holmes & Meyer. p. 113. ISBN 0-8419-0746-3.
A Celebration of Marine Art: Fifty Years of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. Blandford. 1996. ISBN 9780713725643.
Bosman, Suzanne (2008). The National Gallery in Wartime. London: National Gallery Company. p. 25. ISBN 978-1-85709-424-4.
Maclean, Caroline (2020). Circles and Squares: the lives and art of the Hampstead Modernists. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4088-8969-5.
Mark Gertler: Biography of a Painter 1891-1939, John Woodeson, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1972, p. 411