1955 in art
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[edit] Events
- January 21 - O. Winston Link starts a 5-year personal project to document steam operations on the Norfolk and Western Railway in the United States using flash photography.
- March - A Photographer's Gallery established in New York City by Roy DeCarava.
- May 17 - Clark Art Institute opens to the public in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
- June 1 - Première of Billy Wilder's film of The Seven Year Itch featuring an iconic scene of Marilyn Monroe standing on a New York City Subway grating as her white dress (created by Travilla) is blown above her knees.[1]
- June 27 - Sir Jacob Epstein marries Kathleen Garman.
- Iris Clert Gallery opens in the rue des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and its owner, Iris Clert, first meets Yves Klein (December).
- Enrique Tabara obtains an Ecuadorian government scholarship to study in Spain.
[edit] Awards
- Archibald Prize: Ivor Hele - Robert Campbell Esq.
[edit] Works
See also: Category:1955 sculptures
- Michael Andrews - Four People Sunbathing (Arts Council England)
- Balthus
- Girls on the Couch
- Nude Before a Mirror
- John Brack - Collins St., 5 pm
- Edward Burra - Izzy Orts
- Carroll Cloar - My Father Was Big as a Tree
- Salvador Dalí - The Sacrament of the Last Supper (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
- M. C. Escher - lithographs: Compass Rose (Order and Chaos II); Convex and Concave; Three Worlds
- Alberto Giacometti
- Diego (approx. date)
- Grande tête mince
- Oswaldo Guayasamín - El ataúd blanco
- Edward Hopper - South Carolina Morning
- Jasper Johns - Flag
- Willem de Kooning - Composition
- Lee Krasner - Color Totem
- L. S. Lowry - Industrial Landscape; A Young Man (both Tate)
- René Magritte - The Mysteries of the Horizon
- Henry Moore - Upright Motive No. 1: Glenkiln Cross
- Sidney Nolan - Ned Kelly
- Pablo Picasso - Don Quixote (sketch for Les Lettres Françaises, August)
[edit] Exhibitions
- January - The Family of Man, a photography exhibition curated by Edward Steichen, opens at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
- October - First public exhibition of Yves Klein's monochrome oil paintings, at Club des Solitaires, Paris.
- November 3–December 18 - Stanley Spencer: a Retrospective Exhibition at the Tate Gallery, London.[2]
- Le Mouvement at Galerie Denise René, Paris, popularizing kinetic art.
- Exhibition by London members of Groupe Espace, organized by Paule Vézelay at the Royal Festival Hall.
[edit] Births
- January 21 - Jeff Koons, American "kitsch" artist
- February 2 - Madi Phala, South African artist (d. 2007)
- March 24 - Beverly K. Effinger, American painter
- July 29 - Dave Stevens, American illustrator and comics artist (d. 2008)
- November 15 - Sergey Voychenko, Belarusian artist and designer (d. 2004)
- undated
- Jaume Plensa, Catalan sculptor
- Alexander Sokolov, sculptor
[edit] Deaths
- January 7 - Alexander Sokolov, English painter (b. 1869)
- March 16 - Nicolas de Staël, Russian-born French impasto painter (b. 1914)
- May 3 - Rudolf Schlichter, German painter (b. 1890)
- May 11 - Bradley Walker Tomlin, American painter (b. 1899)
- June 1 - Antonio Dattilo Rubbo, Italian-born Australian painter and art teacher (b. 1870)
- June 29 - Max Pechstein, German Expressionist artist (b. 1881)
- August 17 - Fernand Léger, French artist (b. 1881)
- September 19 - Carl Milles, Swedish sculptor (b. 1875)
- November 5 - Maurice Utrillo, French painter (b. 1883)
- November 29 - Rene Paul Chambellan, American sculptor (b. 1893)
- December 19 - Alexander Lubimov, Russian artist (b. 1879)
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Filmed on location September 1954. "The Seven Year Itch (1955)". Rotten Tomatoes. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/movie-1018644/. Retrieved 2012-05-20.
- ^ "Stanley Spencer: a Retrospective Exhibition". Tate Britain. http://e.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/stanleyspencer/default.shtm. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
