Events

Awards

• Archibald Prize: J Carington Smith - Professor James McAuley

Exhibitions

• Visione e Colore, Palazzo Grassi, Venice
• Morris Louis memorial exhibition, Guggenheim Museum, New York City

Works

• Georg Baselitz - Die gro e Nacht im Eimer (Museum Ludwig, Cologne)
• Romare Bearden - Prevalence of Ritual
• Maurice Boitel - Cadaques
• M. C. Escher - M bius Strip II (Red Ants) (woodcut)
• Edward Hopper - Two Comedians
• John Piper and Patrick Reyntiens - windows at St Andrew's Church, Plymouth

Births

• January 20 - Mark Ryden, American painter
• April 20 - Rachel Whiteread, English sculptor
• May 16 - Jon Coffelt American painter, sculptor and book artist
• May 31 - Wesley Willis, American artist and musician (d. 2003)
• June 24 - Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (d. 2007)
• July 20 - Ciruelo Cabral, Argentine fantasy artist
• August 16 - Stevenson Magloire, painter of the School of Saint Soleil (d. 1994)
• date unknown - Marco Evaristti, Chilean sculptor.

Deaths

• February 27 - Vladimir Konashevich, Russian graphic artists (b. 1888).
• March 1 - Felice Casorati, painter (b. 1883)
• June 9 - Jacques Villon, Cubist painter and printmaker (b. 1875)
• July 16 - Antonio Donghi, painter (b. 1897)
• July 23 - Alexander Gerasimov, Socialist Realist artist (b. 1881)
• August 11 - Alois Arnegger, Austrian painter (b. 1879)
• August 31 - Georges Braque, painter and sculptor (b. 1882)
• September 11 - Suzanne Duchamp, Dadaist painter and sister of Marcel Duchamp (b. 1889)
• September 19 - David Low, New Zealand-born editorial cartoonist (b. 1891)
• October 20 - Everett Warner, American Impressionist painter and printmaker

See also

• 1963 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

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