1960 in art

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List of years in Art

Events

• 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

• Salvador Dalí - The Ecumenical Council
• M. C. Escher - Ascending and Descending
• Barbara Hepworth - Figure for a Landscape and Archaeon
• Yves Klein - A Leap Into The Void
• Ceri Richards - Cathedrale Engloutie
• Will Roberts - Woman with Cup of Tea
• Norman Rockwell - Triple Self-Portrait
• Jean Tinguely - Homage to New York (self-destroying sculpture)
• Andy Warhol - "Campbell's Soup"

Births

• March 13 - Joe Ranft, magician, animation storyboard artist, and voice actor (d. 2005)
• December 22 - Jean-Michel Basquiat, American artist (d. 1988)

Deaths

• January 12 - William Adams Delano, architect
• January 16 - Rudulph Evans, sculptor (b. 1878)
• February 8 - Hakuyō Fuchikami, photographer
• February 22 - Paul-Émile Borduas, painter
• March 3 - Nina Veselova, Russian painter (b. 1922)
• March 18 - Alexander Kuprin, Russian painter (b. 1880)
• March 26 - Francisco Goitia, realist painter
• April 13 - Eric Kennington, sculptor and war artist (b. 1888)
• May 8 - Hugo Alfvén, musician and painter
• May 16 - Igor Grabar, Russian painter, publisher, and art historian (b. 1871)
• May 27 - James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator, poster artist
• June 6 - Ernest L. Blumenschein, member of the Taos art colony
• September 20 – David Park, painter (b. 1911)
• October 22 - Alexander Matveyev, Russian sculptor (b. 1878)
• November 14 - Anne Bonnet, Belgian painter (b. 1908)
• November 17 - Gene Ahern, comic-strip artist
• November 29 - Fortunato Depero, painter, sculptor and designer
• date unknown - Morgan Dennis, painter and illustrator

See also

• 1960 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union