Events from the year 1960 in art.
Events August 10 – The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art opens at Inverleith House in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. December – The Huysman Gallery is founded in Los Angeles. Launch of Nouveau réalisme movement. The Pace Gallery is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.
Awards Archibald Prize: Judy Cassab – Stanislaus Rapotec Prix de Rome (for painting) – Pierre Carron
Works
Bison (stone sculpture, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon) Salvador Dalí – The Ecumenical Council M. C. Escher – Ascending and Descending (lithograph) Alberto Giacometti – bronzes Large Standing Woman I (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) Monumental Head (Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.) Barbara Hepworth Archaeon Figure for Landscape (bronze) Edward Hopper – Second Story Sunlight M. F. Husain – The Prancing Horse Alex Katz - Black Dress Yves Klein Anthropometries of The Blue Epoch (performance art) A Leap Into The Void Alberto Korda – Guerrillero Heroico (photograph of Che Guevara) Peter Lanyon – Thermal Rico Lebrun – Genesis Julio Le Parc - Mobile Transport Theme Norman Lewis - American Totem Morris Louis – Unfurled paintings Piero Manzoni – Corpo d'aria (artist's multiple) William McMillan – Lion and Unicorn statues for Kensington Central Library, London Ivan Meštrović – Immigrant Mother (bronze) Pablo Picasso – Bust of a Seated Woman (Jacqueline Roque) Ceri Richards – Cathedrale Engloutie Will Roberts – Woman with Cup of Tea Norman Rockwell – Triple Self-Portrait Antoni Tàpies - Cnvas Burned to Matter (circa) Jean Tinguely – Homage to New York (self-destroying sculpture) Andy Warhol – Campbell's Soup Cans Robert Whitman - American Moon (performance)
Births February 21 – Isaac Julien, Black British installation artist and filmmaker March 13 – Joe Ranft, American magician, animation storyboard artist and voice actor (d. 2005) March – Philip Mould, English art dealer and historian July 28 – Jon J Muth, American author and illustrator August 13 – Lorna Simpson, African American photographic and video artist September – Shaun Greenhalgh, English art forger September 21 – Maurizio Cattelan, Italian satirical sculptor October 2 – Joe Sacco, Maltese-born comics journalist December 22 – Jean-Michel Basquiat, American neo-expressionist painter (suicide 1988) December 26 – Andrew Graham Dixon, British art historian and broadcaster date unknown Ken Currie, British figurative painter Antonia Papatznaki, Greek artist
Deaths January 12 – William Adams Delano, American architect (b. 1874) January 16 – Rudulph Evans, American sculptor (b. 1878) February 8 – Hakuyō Fuchikami, Japanese photographer (b. 1889) February 22 – Paul-Émile Borduas, Canadian painter (b. 1905) March 3 – Nina Veselova, Russian painter (b. 1922) March 18 – Alexander V. Kuprin, Russian painter (b. 1880) March 26 – Francisco Goitia, Mexican realist painter (b. 1882) April 13 – Eric Kennington, English sculptor and war artist (b. 1888) May 8 – Hugo Alfvén, Swedish musician and painter (b. 1872) May 16 – Igor Grabar, Russian painter, publisher, and art historian (b. 1871) May 27 – James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator, poster artist (b. 1877) June 6 – Ernest L. Blumenschein, American painter, member of the Taos art colony (b. 1874) August 8 – Georg Mayer-Marton, Hungarian-British graphic artist (b. 1897) September 20 – David Park, American painter (b. 1911) October 22 Morgan Dennis, American painter and illustrator (b. 1892) Alexander Matveyev, Russian sculptor (b. 1878) Sreten Stojanović, Serbian sculptor (b. 1898) November 14 – Anne Bonnet, Belgian painter (b. 1908) November 17 – Gene Ahern, American comic-strip artist (b. 1895) November 29 – Fortunato Depero, Italian futurist painter, sculptor, and designer b. 1892) December 4 - Dean Cornwell - American illustrator, muralist, and painter (b. 1892) date unknown -Charles Pillet, French sculptor and engraver (b. 1869
See also 1960 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union
References
ru:1960 год в истории изобразительного искусства СССР