1969 in art

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Events

• October 5 - Monty Python's Flying Circus is broadcase for the first time on BBC Television, with Terry Gilliam's animations.
• Andy Warhol and Gerard Malanga co-found the magazine, Interview.
• Opening of the Oakland Museum of California.
• Lyrical Abstraction exhibition debuts at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum marking a significant return to expressivity in American abstract painting. For two years the exhibition travels throughout the U.S. including to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Ray Crooke - George Johnston

Works

See also: Category:1969 paintings and Category:1969 sculptures

• Kenojuak Ashevak - The Owl
• Michael Ayrton - The Arkville Minotaur
• Alexander Calder - La Grande Vitesse (sculpture)
• Helen Frankenthaler - Slice of Stone Itself
• Ronnie Landfield - Diamond Lake
• Kanda Nissho - Snow Farm
• Enzo Plazzotta - Baigneuse
• Jean-Paul Riopelle - La Joute (public sculptural installation, Montreal)
• Will Roberts - Redberth Village, Pembrokeshire
• Alexander Semionov - Leningrad in the Morning
• Victor Teterin - Sredne-Podjacheskaya street in Leningrad
• Nikolai Timkov - Russian Winter

Births

• January 1 - Marilyn Manson, American rock musician and painter
• date unknown
  • Chantal Joffe, English painter
  • Patricia Martín, Mexican curator

Deaths

• March 14 - Ben Shahn, painter and photographer
• May 11 - T. K. Padmini, feminist painter
• July 5 - Walter Gropius, architect
• July 25 - Otto Dix, painter and printmaker (born 1891)
• November 21 - Norman Lindsay, sculptor and cartoonist (born 1879)

Unknown date:

• Emerik Feješ Hungarian and Serbian painter (b. 1904)

See also

• 1969 in fine arts of the Soviet Union