1940s
- 1949 in art - Birth of Ross Bleckner, Alberto Giacometti completes Three Men Walking II
- 1948 in art - Birth of Eric Fischl, Death of Arshile Gorky, George Ault
- 1947 in art - Birth of Ronnie Landfield, Death of Pierre Bonnard, Peggy Guggenheim closes The Art of This Century gallery
- 1946 in art - Birth of Robert Mapplethorpe, Kirk Varnedoe, Death of Arthur Dove
- 1945 in art - Birth of Sean Scully, Peter Reginato
- 1944 in art - Birth of Odd Nerdrum, death of Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Edvard Munch, Francis Bacon completes Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion
- 1943 in art - Death of Chaim Soutine, Marsden Hartley, Piet Mondrian completes Broadway Boogie-Woogie
- 1942 in art - Birth of Dan Christensen, Peggy Guggenheim opens The Art of This Century gallery
- 1941 in art - Birth of Bruce Nauman, Dale Chihuly, Death of Robert Delaunay
- 1940 in art - Birth of Mary Ellen Mark, Nancy Graves, Elizabeth Murray, Death of Paul Klee, Édouard Vuillard
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