1947 in art

Events from the year 1947 in art.

Events

January 14 – Jackson Pollock's fourth solo exhibition opens in the Daylight Gallery of Peggy Guggenheim's The Art of This Century gallery on Manhattan. Later this year, Guggenheim closes the gallery and Pollock produces the first of his Drip Paintings, the series that brings him international acclaim, in the Springs, East Hampton, New York.
February 12 – Christian Dior introduces The "New Look" in women's fashion, in Paris.
October 2 – São Paulo Museum of Art opens to the public in Brazil.
October – Anthony Blunt takes office as director of the Courtauld Institute of Art in the University of London.
Journalist Tancrede Marcil Jr. coins the term Les Automatistes in a review of their Montreal exhibition.
Norman Rockwell produces the first of his Four Seasons calendar illustrations for Brown & Bigelow.
Lebanese woman painter Saloua Raouda Choucair stages what is perhaps the Arab world's first abstract art exhibition, at the Arab Cultural Gallery in Beirut.
Béla Hamvas and his wife Katalin write Forradalom a művészetben: Absztrakció és szürrealizmus Magyarországon.
Robert Woods Bliss acquires the Dumbarton Oaks birthing figure.

January 9 – Ronnie Landfield, American abstract painter
January 16 – Jamie Reid, English punk visual artist
January 27 – Cal Schenkel, American painter and illustrator
February 14 – Ed Hamilton, American sculptor
March 12 – Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist
March 18 – Drew Struzan, American artist, illustrator and designer
March 27 – Daphne Todd, English portrait painter
March 29 – Sarah Charlesworth, American conceptual artist and photographer
April 7 – Peggy Cooper Cafritz, born Pearl Alice Cooper, African American art collector
April 17 – Sherrie Levine, American appropriation artist
April 20 – Vladimír Novák, Czech painter
June 1 – Anna Hofman-Uddgren, Swedish actress, cabaret singer, music hall and revue artist and theatre and film director
June 5 – Laurie Anderson, American experimental performance artist and musician
June 15 – John Hoagland, American photographer
July 27 - Shalom Tomáš Neuman, Czech born American sculptor and painter
December – Richard Amsel, American illustrator and graphic designer date unknown
* Keith Christiansen, American art historian and curator
* Louise Lawler, American photographer
* Dona Nelson, American abstract painter