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Events
- Pablo Picasso painted Guernica, a cubistic mural painted in reaction to the German bombing of the Spanish Basque town of the same name.
- Entartete Kunst "(Degenerate art)" exhibition, mounted by the Nazis in Munich.
- Salvador Dalí painted Metamorphosis of Narcissus, a surrealist painting influenced by the Greek Myth of Narcissus.
Works
- Oscar Domínguez - The Infernal Machine
- Arthur Dove - Me and the Moon
- Alberto Giacometti - The Artist's Mother
Awards
- Archibald Prize: Normand Baker - Self Portrait
Births
- June 7 - Red Grooms, multimedia, pop artist
- July 9 - David Hockney, painter
- Ronald Davis (1937-), painter
- Larry Poons (1937-),
- Robert Mangold (1937-), painter
- Peter Max (1937-) printmaker, graphic designer
- Edward Ruscha (1937-), painter, printmaker, photographer, conceptual artist
- Fritz Scholder (1937–2005), painter, printmaker, graphic artist
- Larry Zox (1937-2006), painter
Deaths
- April 19 - William Martin Conway, art critic (b. 1856)
