Jan; Exhibition by 31 Women, Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century gallery in New York Feb; Vichy France introduces forced labor for all men normally eligible for military service. Suicide of Elsie Houston aged 41 March. Sonia Mosse Arrested and deported to Sobibor ~>, where she died. June 13th. Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, and Barnett Newman signal their alignment with the goals and mythical subjects of international Surrealism in the New York Times Nov. 9th. Jackson Pollock’s first solo exhibition opens at Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of This Century Back to 1942 Forward to 1944 Back to Timeline