1942

Jean Dubuffet ( 1901-1985 ) gives up the trade of wines and liqueurs to dedicate itself definitively to the painting.

Publication of They Taught Themselves : American Primitive Painters of the Twentieth Century, by Sidney Janis (Dial Press, New York), a fundamental work which will launch the concept of self-taught art in the United-States. The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) opens a division dedicated to Folk Art.