1968 in art

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List of years in Art

Events

• Chess match between Marcel Duchamp and John Cage takes place at Ryerson Polytechnic, Toronto.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: William Edwin Pidgeon - Lloyd Rees
• Elaine Hamilton wins first prize at the Biennale de Menton, France

Exhibitions

• Eva Hesse - Chain Polymers, Fischbach Gallery, W. 57th Street, New York City
• Ralph Hotere - Black Paintings, Auckland, New Zealand

Works

• Eduardo Kingman - Fin de Mascarada
• Robert Motherwell - Open #23 (Currently exhibited at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, loaned by Graham Gund)

Births

• December 23 - Manuel Rivera-Ortiz, documentary photographer
• George Henry Smyth, Northern Irish artist
• July 23 - Paulo Henrique (choreographer), Portuguese multidisciplinary artist

Deaths

• February 11 - Jacob Steinhardt, painter and woodcut artist (b. 1887)
• May 21 - Bror Hjorth, sculptor
• May 28 - Kees van Dongen, Fauvist painter (b. 1877)
• July 2 - Sir Hans Heysen, watercolour painter
• October 2 - Marcel Duchamp, influential artist (b. 1887)
• November 4 - Michel Kikoine, painter (b. 1892)
• date unknown
  • William Conor - Irish painter (b.1881)
  • Lee Gatch - painter and mixed-media artist
  • Orovida Camille Pissarro, English painter and etcher (b. 1893)

See also

• 1968 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union