1943 in art

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Events from the year 1943 in art.

January – After attending the Casablanca Conference, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and amateur painter Winston Churchill produces his only wartime painting, a view of the Kutubiyya Mosque in Marrakesh, as a gift for President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt.^[1]
January 5–February 6 – Exhibition by 31 Women is staged at Peggy Guggenheim's The Art of This Century gallery on Manhattan, New York.
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 ("Life? or Theater?: A Song-play").
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

January 8 – Sighsten Herrgård, Swedish fashion designer (d.1989)
January 20 – Jessica Rawson, English art historian
February 22 – Dragoš Kalajić, Serbian modern painter (d. 2005)
April 24 – Jüri Kerem, Estonian portraitist
May 1 – Judith Scott, American outsider fiber sculptor (d. 2005)
May 6 – James Turrell, American installation artist
June 22 – Gordon Matta-Clark, American situationist, site-specific artist and performance artist (d.1978)
July 15 – Michael Asher, American conceptual artist and installation artist (d. 2012)
July 29 – Martha Rosler, American video, photo-text, installation and performance artist
August 30 – Robert Crumb, American cartoonist
September 5 – Jerry Wilkerson, American painter (d. 2007)
September 17 – Gilbert (Proesch), Italian-born artist partnering with George (Passmore)
October 1 – Sami Mohammad, Kuwaiti sculptor and artist
November 11 – Dave Cockrum, American comic book artist (d. 2006)
date unknown
- Marta Minujin, Argentine conceptual and performance artist
- Alfredo Rostgaard, Cuban visual artist (d. 2004)
- Tang Da Wu, Singaporean artist