– Winter 1946 Jack Butler Yeats Men of Destiny The Whistle of a Jacket Exhibitions Contemporary British Art – Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, and the City Art Museum, St Louis. Births January 8 – Betty Beaumont, Canadian American site-specific artist, all media January 10 – Kalidas Karmakar, Bangladeshi artist January 18 – Kirk Varnedoe, American art historian, writer and curator (d. 2003) January 26 – Timothy Clifford, English art historian and curator February 2 – David Gopito, Zimbabwean sculptor February 9 – Peter Linde, Swedish sculptor April 11 – Chris Burden, American performance and installation artist and sculptor (d. 2015) April 27 – Nicholas Serota, English curator May 30 – Jan de Bie, painter and photographer (d. 2021) June 29 – Egon von Fürstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004) July 6 – Jamie Wyeth, American realist painter July 11 – Chris Killip, Manx-born documentary photographer (d. 2020) July 25 – Nicole Farhi, French sculptor and fashion designer September 27 – T. C. Cannon, Native American painter (d. 1978) November 4 – Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (d. 1989) November 5 – Herman Brood, Dutch musician, painter and media personality (d. 2001) November 20 – Alice Aycock, American sculptor and installation artist December 2 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (k. 1997) December 8 – Jacques Bourboulon, French nude and fashion photographer December 12 – Don Gummer, American sculptor December 25 – Christopher Frayling, English cultural historian Deaths January 2 – O'Galop (Marius Rossillon), French cartoonist (b. 1867) January 23 – Helene Schjerfbeck, Finnish painter (b. 1862) February 17 Dorothy Gibson, American artist's model and silent film actress (b. 1889) Sir George Pirie, Scottish painter (b. 1863) July 11 – Paul Nash, English painter (b. 1889) July 13 – Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (b. 1864) July 17 – Florence Fuller, Australian painter (b. 1867) October 7 - Christopher R. W. Nevinson, English war artist (b. 1889) October 28 – Manuel Ortiz de Zárate, Chilean painter (b. 1887) October 30 – Charles Despiau, French sculptor (b. 1874) November 23 Arthur Dove, American abstract painter (b. 1880) Léon Spilliaert, Belgian symbolist painter and graphic artist (b. 1881) November 24 – László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter and photographer (b. 1895) December 28 – Elie Nadelman, Polish-born American sculptor (b. 1882) December 29 – Arnold Friedman, American Modernist painter (b. 1874) References Years of the 20th century in art