1943 in art

Events

• February 20 – The painter David Olère is arrested by French police during a round up of Jews in Seine-et-Oise and spends the rest of World War II in Nazi concentration camps.
• Spring – The first exhibition of collage in the United States is shown in the Daylight Gallery of Peggy Guggenheim's The Art of This Century gallery on Manhattan.
• September – Retreating German troops deliberately destroy most of the collection of the Museo Civico Filangieri in Naples.
• September 21 – German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, in hiding in the south of France, is arrested by the Gestapo, ending the autobiographical series of 769 paintings Leben? oder Theater?: Ein Singspiel.
• November 9 – Jackson Pollock's first solo exhibition opens in the Daylight Gallery of Peggy Guggenheim's The Art of This Century gallery on Manhattan.
• December 9 – Willem de Kooning marries Elaine Fried in New York City.
• Filming in the United States of a version of The Picture of Dorian Gray uses an original work by Ivan Albright as the title picture.

  Awards

• Archibald Prize: William Dobell – Joshua Smith

  Works

• Constantin Brâncuși – The Seal
• Paul Cadmus – The Shower
• Salvador Dalí – Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man
• William Dobell – '
• M. C. Escher – Reptiles
• Murray Griffin – Roberts Hospital, Changi
• Barbara Hepworth – Oval Sculpture
• Edward Hopper – Hotel Lobby
• Dame Laura Knight – Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring
• Wifredo Lam – The Jungle
• L. S. Lowry
• * Britain at Play
• * :File:Going to Work - L S Lowry.png|Going To Work
• * '
• George Platt Lynes – Marsden Hartley
• Piet Mondrian – Broadway Boogie-Woogie
• Walter Thomas Monnington – :File:Clouds and Spitfires .jpg|Clouds and Spitfires
• Paul Nash – Landscape of the Vernal Equinox
• Felix Nussbaum – Self-portrait with Jewish identity card
• Arthur Pan – Winston Churchill
• Mervyn Peake
• * :File:The Evolution of the Cathode Ray Tube .jpg|The Evolution of the Cathode Ray Tube
• * :File:Glass-blowers 'Gathering' from the Furnace. .jpg|Glass-blowers 'Gathering' from the Furnace
• Jackson Pollock – Mural
• Norman Rockwell – Four Freedoms
• Walter Russell – Four Freedoms Monument
• Xul Solar – Fiordo
• Dorothea Tanning – Eine kleine Nachtmusik
• Edward Wadsworth – Top of the World
• Stanley Warren – Changi Murals
• U Wisara Monument
• Andrew Wyeth – Public Sale

  Births

• January 8 – Sighsten Herrgård, Swedish fashion designer
• January 20 – Jessica Rawson, English art historian
• February 22 – Dragoš Kalajić, Serbian modern painter
• April 24 – Jüri Kerem, Estonian portraitist
• May 1 – Judith Scott, American outsider fiber sculptor
• May 6 – James Turrell, American installation artist
• June 22 – Gordon Matta-Clark, American situationist, site-specific artist and performance artist
• July 15 – Michael Asher, American conceptual artist and installation artist
• July 29 – Martha Rosler, American video, photo-text, installation and performance artist
• August 30 – Robert Crumb, American cartoonist
• September 5 – Jerry Wilkerson, American painter
• September 17 – Gilbert, Italian-born artist partnering with George
• November 11 – Dave Cockrum, American comic book artist
• date unknown
• *Alfredo Rostgaard, Cuban visual artist
• *Tang Da Wu, Singaporean artist

  Deaths

• January 13
• * Xavier Martínez, Mexican-born American painter
• * Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss geometric abstract painter, sculptor and dancer
• March 8 – Alma del Banco, German painter
• March 9 – Otto Freundlich, German painter and sculptor
• March 12 – Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor
• April 13 – Oskar Schlemmer, German sculptor, painter, designer and choreographer
• May 25 – Percy Shakespeare, English painter
• June 28 – Pietro Porcelli, Italian-born Australian sculptor
• c. July 11 – Friedrich Adler, German-Jewish designer
• August 7 – Sarah Purser, Irish portrait painter and stained-glass maker
• August 9 – Chaim Soutine, Belarusian Jewish-born French painter
• August – Adolf Behrman, Polish painter
• September 2 – Marsden Hartley, American Modernist painter
• c. October 10 – Charlotte Salomon, German-Jewish painter
• October 19 – Camille Claudel, French sculptor and graphic artist