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 ("Revolution in Art: Abstraction and Surrealism in Hungary"). Robert Woods Bliss acquires the Dumbarton Oaks birthing figure. Awards Archibald Prize: William Dargie – Sir Marcus Clark, KBE Works 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 Births 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 (died 2013) April 7 – Peggy Cooper Cafritz, born Pearl Alice Cooper, African American