1947 in art

Events

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.
Peggy Guggenheim closes The Art of This Century Gallery.
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.
Jackson Pollock produces the first of his Drip Paintings, the series that brings him international acclaim, in the Springs, East Hampton, New York.
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.

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

January 9 – Ronnie Landfield, painter
January 27 – Cal Schenkel, American painter and illustrator
February 14 – Ed Hamilton, sculptor
March 12 – Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist (died 1987)
March 29 – Sarah Charlesworth, conceptual artist and photographer
April 17 – Sherrie Levine, appropriation artist
April 20 – Vladimír Novák, painter
June 1 – Anna Hofman-Uddgren, Swedish actress, cabaret singer, music hall and revue artist and theatre and film director
June 5 – Laurie Anderson, experimental performance artist and musician
June 15 – John Hoagland, American photographer (d.1984)
December – Richard Amsel, American illustrator and graphic designer (d.1985)
date unknown
- Louise Lawler, American photographer
- Dona Nelson, American abstract painter
- Daphne Todd, English portrait painter