1961 in art

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List of years in Art

Events

• August 21 - Goya's Portrait of the Duke of Wellington is stolen from the National Gallery in London three weeks after first going on display there.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: William Edwin Pidgeon - Rabbi Dr I Porush

Works

• Jane Frank - Crags and Crevices
• David Hockney - We Two Boys Together Clinging
• Jasper Johns - Map
• Robert Motherwell - Black on White
• William Scott - Mural for Altnagelvin Hospital, Derry

Births

• March 26 - Leigh Bowery, Australian performance artist, club promoter, actor, model and fashion designer (d. 1994)
• April 28 - Grenville Davey, Turner Prize-winning sculptor

Deaths

• February 11 - Kate Carew, caricaturist (b. 1869)
• April 7 - Vanessa Bell, English painter and designer
• June 6 - Alfons Karpiński, Polish painter
• July 6 - Cuno Amiet, Swiss painter and sculptor
• August 13 - Mario Sironi, Italian painter (b.1885)
• October 1 - Sir William Reid Dick, Scottish sculptor (b. 1879)
• October 13 - Augustus John, Welsh painter (b. 1878)
• December 13 - Grandma Moses, American folk artist (b. 1860)
• February 20 - Jane Emmet de Glehn American painter (b. 1873)

See also

• 1961 in fine arts of the Soviet Union