List of years in Art

Events

• Feb 6 - Mar 4 - Jane Frank, solo exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery
• February 10 - Ervin Eisch, Lothar Fischer, Dieter Kunzelmann, Renee Nele, Heimrad Prem, Gretel Stadler, Helmut Sturm and Hans-Peter Zimmer are excluded from the Situationist International (SI).
• March 15 - Ansgar Elde and Jørgen Nash are excluded from the Situationist International.
• October 31 the Sidney Janis Gallery mounts The New Realists the first Pop Art group exhibition in an uptown gallery in New York City. in a storefront near the gallery at 15 E. 57th Street
• Musashino Art University

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Louis Kahan - Patrick White

Works

• Herman Wilhelm Bissen - Iderstedter Löwe
• Yves Klein - Immaterial Pictorial Sensitivity
• Piero Manzoni - The Base of the World
• Henry Moore - Knife Edge - Two Piece (Westminster, London)
• Marie Vorobieff - Homage to Friends from Montparnasse
• Andy Warhol
  • Marilyn 3 Times
  • 129 DIE IN JET (Plane Crash)
  • Campbell's Soup Cans
  • Elvis
  • Green Coca-Cola Bottles

Births

• 2 March - Pieter van der Werf, conceptual artist.
• 2 May - Alexandra Boulat, French photographer (d.2007).

Full date unknown

• Gary Hume, British painter.

Deaths

• January 24 - André Lhote, painter (b. 1885)
• April 23 - Harold Parker, sculptor (b. 1873)
• May 13 - Franz Kline, abstract expressionist painter (b. 1910)
• June 6 - Yves Klein, painter (b. 1928)
• September 7 - Morris Louis, color field painter (b. 1912)
• date unknown - Karl Völker, painter and architect (b. 1889)

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