1950 in art

Events from the year 1950 in art.

Events

• Austrian painter Arnulf Rainer founds the Hundsgruppe ("dog pack") with Arik Brauer, Ernst Fuchs and Josef Mikl.
• Paint by number kits introduced by Max S. Klein, an engineer and owner of the Palmer Paint Company of Detroit, and Dan Robbins.
• Ernst Gombrich's The Story of Art is published by Phaidon Press.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: William Dargie – Sir Leslie McConnan
• Audubon Artists Gold Medal – Richmond Barthé

Works

• Jean Arp – ' (model for bronze)
• Francis Bacon – Fragment of a Crucifixion
• Max Beckmann – Falling Man
• Marc Chagall – La Mariée
• Salvador Dalí – The Madonna of Port Lligat (second version, Fukuoka Art Museum)
• Max Desfor – Flight of Refugees Across Wrecked Bridge in Korea (photograph)
• Robert Doisneau – Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville (The Kiss) (photograph)
• Alberto Giacometti – The Chariot
• E. Chambré Hardman – The Birth of the Ark Royal (photograph)
• Maruki Iri and Maruki Toshi – Ghosts, Fire and Water (YÅ«rei, Hi and Mizu), first of The Hiroshima Panels (原爆の図, Genbaku no zu)
• Oskar Kokoschka – The Myth of Prometheus (triptych)
• L. S. Lowry – The Pond
• Henri Matisse – Beasts of the Sea (paper collage)
• Joan Mitchell - Figure and the City
• Jackson Pollock – Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)
• William Scott – Bowl, Eggs and Lemons
• Vladimir Tretchikoff – Chinese Girl, popularly known as "The Green Lady"
• Keith Vaughan – Theseus and the Minotaur (Tate Britain)