1944 in art

Events

June 6 – Normandy landings: Robert Capa takes "The Magnificent Eleven" photographs.
July – Dulwich Picture Gallery in London is substantially damaged by a V-1 flying bomb; half a dozen paintings are destroyed, but most have been evacuated to Aberystwyth.
Autumn – Peggy Guggenheim's The Art of This Century gallery on Manhattan releases a 78 rpm 3-record album containing Paul Bowles' Sonata for Flute and Piano and Two Mexican Dances with a cover by Max Ernst.^[1]
Clandestine publication of Vaincre, an album of 12 colour lithographs by 8 artists in support of the French Resistance.

Births

9 January – Ian Hornak, American painter and draughtsman (d. 2002).
10 January – Jeff Jones, American illustrator.
12 February - Jane Livingston, American curator.
4 March – Glen Baxter, English cartoonist.
29 March – Abbas, Iranian-born documentary photographer (d. 2018).
4 April – Phyllida Barlow, English sculptor (d. 2023).
8 May – David Vaughan, English psychedelic artist and muralist (d. 2003).
24 July – Maya Wildevuur, Dutch painter (d. 2023).
4 August – Allan McCollum, American conceptual artist, all media.
15 August – Gianfranco Ferré, Italian fashion designer (d. 2007).
20 August – Brian Barnes, English mural artist.
27 August – Catherine Leroy, French-born photographer (d. 2006).
1 September – Louis Delsarte, American painter (d. 2020).
4 November
- Don Eddy, American painter.
- Michael Heizer, American sculptor, earth artist.
23 November – Peter Lindbergh, born Peter Brodbeck, Polish-born fashion photographer (d. 2019).

January 23 – Edvard Munch, Norwegian expressionist painter (b. 1863)
February 1 – Piet Mondrian, Dutch abstract painter (b. 1872)
February 26 – Lucienne Heuvelmans, French sculptor (b. 1885?)
April 25 – George Herriman, American cartoonist (Krazy Kat) (b. 1880)
July 18 – Rex Whistler, English painter (killed in action) (b. 1905)
August 2 – Felix Nussbaum, German Jewish surrealist painter (in Auschwitz concentration camp) (b. 1904)
August 18 – Hans Mertens, German painter (b. 1906)
September 3 – William Logsdail, English landscape, portrait and genre painter (b. 1859)
September 27
- Aristide Maillol, French sculptor (b. 1861)
- Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Russian-born color photographer (b. 1863)
- David Dougal Williams, British painter (b. 1888)
October 14 – Marko Murat, Serbian painter (b. 1864)
October 21 – Hilma af Klint, Swedish abstract painter and mystic (b. 1862)
November 22 – Sir George Clausen, English artist (b. 1852)
December 10 – Miklós Ligeti, Hungarian sculptor (b. 1871)
December 13 – Wassily Kandinsky, Russian abstract painter (b. 1866)
December 24 – Alfred Drury, English sculptor (b. 1856)
Undated – Esther Kenworthy Waterhouse, English flower painter (b. 1857)

Events