1951 in art

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Events

• The Festival of Britain includes a mural by John Tunnard and new buildings designed by a team of architects led by Hugh Casson.
• Sculptor Henry Moore refuses the offer of a knighthood.
• The 9th Street Art Exhibition, otherwise known as the Ninth Street Show (May 21-June 10) was the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Ivor Hele - Laurie Thomas

Works

See also: Category:1951 paintings

• Lucian Freud - Girl With a White Dog
• Alfred Janes - Portrait of William Grant Murray
• Louis le Brocquy - A Family (painting)
• Willem de Kooning - Woman I

Births

• April 16 - Pierre Toutain-Dorbec, sculptor
• November 17 - Jack Vettriano, Scottish painter
• date unknown - John Kindness, Northern Irish multi-media artist

Deaths

• April 23 - Charles Keck, American sculptor
• May 11 - Wilfrid de Glehn, painter (b. 1871)
• August 10 - Tony Gaudio, Italian photographer
• September - Wols, German painter, photographer
• September 5 - Mário Eloy, Expressionist painter
• September 18 - Gelett Burgess, art critic
• September 26 - Lane Bryant, designer
• October 1 - Karel Teige, graphic artist
• November 15 - Frank Weston Benson, Impressionist painter (b. 1862)
• date unknown
  • Ernst Ludvig Ipsen, portrait painter
  • Louis Legrand, painter

See also

• 1951 in fine arts of the Soviet Union