List of years in Art

Events

• Salvador Dalí publishes his autobiography, The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí

Awards

• Archibald Prize: William Dargie - Corporal Jim Gordon, VC

Works

See also: Category:1942 paintings

• Rita Angus - Portrait (Betty Curnow)
• Pierre Bonnard - Red Roofs in Cannet
• Paul-Émile Borduas - Abstraction No 7
• Edward Hopper - Nighthawks (Art Institute of Chicago)
• Pablo Picasso - Woman in a Fish Hat (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam)

Births

• 6 October - Dan Christensen, American abstract painter (d.2007).
• 29 October - Bob Ross, American painter and television presenter (d.1995).
• 7 November - Stan Rice, American poet and artist (d.2002).

Full date unknown

• Jonathan Borofsky, painter, sculptor, installation artist.
• Susan Crile, painter.
• Dan Graham, conceptual artist, performance artist.
• Lawrence Weiner, conceptual artist.
• De Es Schwertberger, Austrian painter.

Deaths

• January 5 - Tina Modotti, photographer and model
• January 22 - Walter Richard Sickert, Impressionist painter
• April 18 - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art
• December 19 - T. F. Simon, painter
• Albert Guillaume, painter and caricaturist (b. 1873)
• William Jackson, photographer (b. 1843)
• Cecilia Beaux, portrait painter (b. 1855)
• Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, portrait and genre painter (b. 1856)
• Iris Nampeyo - potter, ceramic artist (b. 1860)
• Herbert Dicksee, painter (b. 1862)
• Albert Moulton Foweraker, English painter (b. 1873)
• Grant Wood, painter (b. 1892)