1961 in art
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[edit] 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.
- First Fluxus event organised by George Maciunas at the AG Gallery in New York.
- Yves Klein patents[1] his use of International Klein Blue.
- Release of British film The Rebel starring Tony Hancock, satirizing artistic pretensions.
[edit] Awards
- Archibald Prize: William Edwin Pidgeon - Rabbi Dr I Porush
[edit] Works
See also: Category:1961 paintings and Category:1961 sculptures
- M. C. Escher - Waterfall (lithograph)
- 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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)
