1960 in art
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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.{{cite news|title=Scotland's New Gallery: Modern Painting and Sculpture|newspaper=The Times|location=London|date=1960-08-05|page=11|issue=54842}}
- December – The Huysman Gallery is founded in Los Angeles.
- Launch of Nouveau réalisme movement.{{cite book|first1=Karl|last1=Ruhrberg|first2=Ingo F.|last2=Walther|title=Art of the 20th Century|publisher=Taschen|year=2000|page=518|isbn=3-8228-5907-9}}
- The Pace Gallery is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.
Awards
- Archibald Prize: Judy Cassab – Stanislaus Rapotec
- Prix de Rome (for painting) – Pierre Carron
Works
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File:Rico Lebrun's Genesis at Pomona College.jpg's Genesis mural at Pomona College]]
- 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 – [http://www.artchive.com/artchive/h/hopper/second_story_sunlight.jpg Second Story Sunlight]
- M. F. Husain – The Prancing Horse
- Alex Katz - Black Dress{{cite web | url=https://www.museum-brandhorst.de/en/factory/artworks/the-black-dress/# | title=The Black Dress | Museum Brandhorst }}
- Yves Klein
- Anthropometries of The Blue Epoch (performance art)
- A Leap Into The Void
- Alberto Korda – Guerrillero Heroico (photograph of Che Guevara)
- Peter Lanyon – [http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lanyon-thermal-t00375 Thermal]
- Rico Lebrun – Genesis{{cite journal |last=Davidson |first=Martha |date=Spring 1962 |title=Rico Lebrun Mural at Pomona |journal=Art Journal |language=en |volume=21 |issue=3 |pages=143–175 |doi=10.2307/774410 |jstor=774410}}
- Norman Lewis - American Totemhttps://whitney.org/media/46044
- Morris Louis – [http://morrislouis.org/paintings/gallery/unfurled_paintings 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 Tapies - Cnvas Burned to Matter (circa)https://www.artmajeur.com/en/magazine/8-artist-portraits/antoni-tapies-a-visionary-of-abstract-expressionism/335977
- Jean Tinguely – Homage to New York (self-destroying sculpture)
- Andy Warhol – Campbell's Soup Cans
- Robert Whitman - American Moon (performance){{cite web | url=https://www.pacegallery.com/exhibitions/robert-whitman-american-moon/ | title=Robert Whitman: American Moon | Pace Gallery | date=19 January 2024 }}
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
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)