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Overview of the events of 1962 in art
Events February 6 –March 4 – Jane Frank , solo exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. February 7 – Opening of this year's "Young contemporaries " student exhibition at the RBA Galleries in London at which David Hockney exhibits his four "Demonstrations of Versatility" (1961): A Grand Procession of Dignitaries in the Semi-Egyptian Style , Swiss Landscape in a Scenic Style (retitled Flight into Italy - Swiss Landscape Tea Painting in an Illusionistic Style and Figure in a Flat Style .[1] Patrick Procktor at this exhibition and, with Maurice Agis , John Bowstead and Peter Phillips , Hockney's work is selected for a further exhibition at the ICA .February 10
March 15 – Ansgar Elde and Jørgen Nash are excluded from the Situationist International.March 25 – BBC Television in the United Kingdom broadcasts Ken Russell 's film Pop Goes the Easel in its Monitor pop art movement.April 7 – The Stanley Spencer Gallery opens in Spencer 's home village of Cookham , England, to display his work.April 10 – Robert Fraser sets up his gallery, specializing in contemporary British art, in the Mayfair district of London.May – The comic book character The Incredible Hulk Jack Kirby , is introduced.
May–June – David Smith creates the Voltri series of abstract sculptures (e.g. Voltri XV
May 25 – The new Coventry Cathedral , designed by Basil Spence , is consecrated in England ; artworks incorporated include: the exterior sculpture St Michael's Victory over the Devil by Sir Jacob Epstein ; the tapestry Christ in Glory in the Tetramorph , designed by Graham Sutherland ; the Mater Dolorosa sculpture by John Bridgeman ; the Baptistry window by John Piper and Patrick Reyntiens ; and the engraved glass Screen of Saints and Angels by John Hutton .late June – Bert Stern begins shooting The Last Sitting Marilyn Monroe , originally for Vogue
July 9 – Andy Warhol 's first solo California gallery exhibition as a fine artist opens at the Ferus Gallery , Los Angeles , California , marking the West Coast debut of pop art and featuring his Campbell's Soup Cans [2] [3] July 23 – The Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum is opened in Cairo .July 25 – The Queen's Gallery is opened to the public at Buckingham Palace , London.Epstein 's St Michael's Victory over the Devil at Coventry Cathedral August – The comic book character Spider-Man Steve Ditko , is introduced.
September 25 – The Pasadena Art Museum mounts New Painting of Common Objects Pop Art .[4] October 23 – "Fifty California Artists" exhibition at Whitney Museum of American Art , New York, NY. 1962-1963. Catalogue published. Organized by San Francisco Museum of Art with assistance of Los Angeles County Museum of Art . Circulated to Walker Art Center , Minneapolis, MN; Albright-Knox Art Gallery , Buffalo, NY; Des Moines Art Center , IA. Notable artists in exhibition include Elmer Bischoff , Bruce Conner , Roy De Forest , Richard Diebenkorn , George Herms , John Paul Jones , Edward Kienholz , Frank Lobdell , Nathan Oliveira , Ed Moses , Lorser Feitelson , Helen Lundeberg and Peter Voulkos .[5] October 31 – The Sidney Janis Gallery mounts International Exhibition of the New Realists , a survey of contemporary American Pop Art and the European Nouveau Réalisme movement and the first Pop Art group exhibition in an 'uptown gallery' in New York City , a rented storefront at 19 W. 57th Street, near the main gallery at 15 E. 57th Street. Robert Motherwell , Mark Rothko , Philip Guston and Adolph Gottlieb quit the Janis Gallery as a protest against the exhibition.November 14 – The British General Post Office issues the first commemorative stamps to be designed by David Gentleman .Michelangelo Pistoletto begins painting on mirrors.Ernst Barlach House completed as an art museum in Hamburg , Germany.City Hall Museum and Art Gallery established in Hong Kong .The Institute of American Indian Arts is set up in Santa Fe, New Mexico .
Musashino Art University .National Art Museum of China opens in Beijing .Museo de Arte Español Enrique Larreta imaugurated in Buenos Aires , Argentina.The comic book character Barbarella , created by Jean-Claude Forest , is introduced in France.
Frederic Leighton 's painting Flaming June 1895 ) is rediscovered in London.Awards Works Yves Klein – IKB 191 Births Deaths Natalia Goncharova See also References 
