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| 1938 |
| | Leading British artists Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson marry | |
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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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| 1954 |
| | A painting by Graham Sutherland, commissioned for Winston Churchill's 80th birthday, does not meet with the full approval of the sitter or his wife | |
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| 1960 |
| | British artist Anthony Caro begins welding and painting abstract metal sculpture | |
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| 1960 |
| | British artist Bridget Riley creates patterns that produce unexpected optical effects, in a style that becomes known as op art | |
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| 1962 |
| | Coventry's new cathedral is inaugurated, enhanced by a wide range of work by leading British artists | |
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| 1967 |
| | A Bigger Splash, by English painter David Hockney, casts a new light on sunlit swimming pools | |
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| 1971 |
| | British artist David Hockney paints a striking triple portrait in Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy | |
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