Events

• Launch of Nouveau r alisme movement.^[1]
• The Pace Gallery is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Judy Cassab - Stanislaus Rapotec
• Prix de Rome (for painting) - Pierre Carron

Works

Cast of Barbara Hepworth's Figure for Landscape

• Salvador Dal - The Ecumenical Council
• M. C. Escher - Ascending and Descending (lithograph)
• Barbara Hepworth
  • Archaeon
  • Figure for Landscape (bronze)
• Edward Hopper -
• M. F. Husain - The Prancing Horse
• Yves Klein
  • Anthropometries of The Blue Epoch (performance art)
  • A Leap Into The Void
• Alberto Korda - Guerrillero Heroico (photograph of Che Guevara)
• Morris Louis
  • Beta Lambda
  • Where
• Piero Manzoni - Corpo d'aria (artist's multiple)
• Ivan Me trovi - Immigrant Mother (bronze)
• Ceri Richards - Cathedrale Engloutie
• Will Roberts - Woman with Cup of Tea
• Norman Rockwell - Triple Self-Portrait
• Jean Tinguely - Homage to New York (self-destroying sculpture)
• Andy Warhol - "Campbell's Soup"

Births

• March 13 - Joe Ranft, magician, animation storyboard artist, and voice actor (d. 2005)
• December 22 - Jean-Michel Basquiat, American artist (d. 1988)

Deaths

• January 12 - William Adams Delano, architect
• January 16 - Rudulph Evans, sculptor (b. 1878)
• February 8 - Hakuy Fuchikami, photographer
• February 22 - Paul- mile Borduas, painter
• March 3 - Nina Veselova, Russian painter (b. 1922)
• March 18 - Alexander Kuprin, Russian painter (b. 1880)
• March 26 - Francisco Goitia, realist painter
• April 13 - Eric Kennington, sculptor and war artist (b. 1888)
• May 8 - Hugo Alfv n, musician and painter
• May 16 - Igor Grabar, Russian painter, publisher, and art historian (b. 1871)
• May 27 - James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator, poster artist
• June 6 - Ernest L. Blumenschein, member of the Taos art colony
• September 20 David Park, painter (b. 1911)
• October 22 - Alexander Matveyev, Russian sculptor (b. 1878)
• November 14 - Anne Bonnet, Belgian painter (b. 1908)
• November 17 - Gene Ahern, comic-strip artist
• November 29 - Fortunato Depero, painter, sculptor and designer
• date unknown - Morgan Dennis, painter and illustrator

See also

• 1960 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union

References

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