1947 in art

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The year 1947 in art involved some significant events and new works.

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.^[1]
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.^[2]
Béla Hamvas and his wife Katalin write Forradalom a művészetben: Absztrakció és szürrealizmus Magyarországon ("Revolution in Art: Abstraction and Surrealism in Hungary").
Robert Woods Bliss acquires the Dumbarton Oaks birthing figure.

Aristide Berto Cianfarani – Statue of John V. Power
Paul Delvaux – The Great Sirens
Sir Russell Drysdale – Sofala
M. C. Escher
- Another World (woodcut)
- Crystal (mezzotint)
- Up and Down (lithograph)
Alberto Giacometti
- Man Pointing (sculpture; bronze castings in MoMA, New York, and Tate, England)
- Man Walking (sculpture)
- Hand (sculpture)
Jean Hélion – A Rebours (Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris)
Alfred Janes – Little Cactus
Louis le Brocquy – Travelling Woman with Newspaper
Henri Matisse
- Deux fillettes, fond jaune et rouge
- Le Lanceur De Couteaux (cutout)
Sidney Nolan – The Trial
José Clemente Orozco – watercolor illustrations for John Steinbeck's The Pearl
Eduardo Paolozzi – I was a Rich Man's Plaything (collage)
Bill Traylor – Construction with Figures and Animals
Andrew Wyeth – Wind from the Sea

January 9 – Ronnie Landfield, American abstract painter
January 27 – Cal Schenkel, American painter and illustrator
February 14 – Ed Hamilton, American sculptor
March 12 – Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist (died 1987)
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 (died 2018)
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 (died 1984)
July 27 - Shalom Tomáš Neuman , Czech born American sculptor and painter
December – Richard Amsel, American illustrator and graphic designer (died 1985)
date unknown
- Louise Lawler, American photographer
- Dona Nelson, American abstract painter

^ "History". London: Courtauld Institute of Art. 2018. Retrieved 2020-07-24.
^ Mikdadi Nashashibi, Salwa (1994). Forces of change: artists of the Arab world. International Council for Women in the Arts. p. 126.