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| 1937 |
| | Stanley Spencer gives a stark depiction of himself and his wife in The Leg of Mutton Nude | |
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| 1938 |
| | Leading British artists Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson marry | |
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| 1938 |
| | The Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira wins success with the first exhibition of his watercolours | |
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| 1938 |
| | American naïve painter Grandma Moses has her first exhibition in a local drug store at the age of 78 | |
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| 1939 |
| | Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson move their studios to St Ives | |
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| 1945 |
| | English painter Francis Bacon creates a sensation with his Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion | |
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| 1946 |
| | Sadler's Wells Ballet moves to the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden (and is known from 1956 as the Royal Ballet) | |
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| 1946 |
| | A new style of American painting, involving artists such as Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock, is given the name Abstract Expressionism | |
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| 1946 |
| | Australian painter Sidney Nolan begins a series of paintings on the theme of Ned Kelly | |
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| 1947 |
| | US artist Jackson Pollock's drip paintings cause a stir in New York | |
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