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1953 in art
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Events from the year
1953 in art
.
Events
November – New building for
Yale University Art Gallery
,
New Haven, Connecticut
, the first major commission for
Louis Kahn
, opens.
Anthony Blunt
's
Art and Architecture in France 1500–1700
is published.
Yves Klein
becomes a master at
judo
, receiving the rank of
yodan
(4th
dan
/degree black-belt) from the
Kodokan
in Japan.
Awards
Archibald Prize
:
Ivor Hele
–
Sir Henry Simpson Newland, CBE, DSO, MS, FRCS
Works
See also:
Category:1953 sculptures
Hans Arp
–
Cloud Shepherd
(sculpture,
University City of Caracas
)
Francis Bacon
Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X
Two Figures (1953)
John Brack
Men's Wear
The New House
Alberto Burri
-
Rosso Gobbo
[
1
]
Alexander Calder
–
Acoustic Clouds
(installation, University City of Caracas)
José Manuel Capuletti -
Dama en la Playa
[
2
]
Edwin Dickinson
–
Ruin at Daphne
(begun 1943;
Metropolitan Museum of Art
)
Dong Xiwen –
The Founding Ceremony of the Nation
(original version)
Jacob Epstein
–
Social Consciousness
(sculpture group,
Philadelphia
)
M. C. Escher
–
Relativity
(
lithograph
)
Barbara Hepworth
–
Hieroglyph
(sculpture)
Edward Hopper
–
Office in a Small City
(
Metropolitan Museum of Art
)
Willem de Kooning
–
Woman III
Norman Lewis
-
Migrating Birds
L. S. Lowry
Football Ground
(
Going to the Match
)
Industrial Landscape
The Procession passing the Queen Victoria Memorial, Coronation
René Magritte
–
Golconda
Marino Marini
–
Horse and Rider
(bronze)
Henri Matisse
–
The Snail
(colored paper
collage
)
Roberto Matta
–
Cercle du Blé (Circle of Wheat)
(
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
)
Milton Menasco
–
'La Troienne' and Her Foals: Eighteen Vignettes and One Painting Together in One Frame for John Whitney
Henry Moore
–
Draped Reclining Figure
(bronze)
Alexander Phimister Proctor
–
John McLoughlin
(bronze)
Jackson Pollock
–
Portrait and a Dream
Larry Rivers
–
Washington Crossing the Delaware
Mark Rothko
–
No. 61 (Rust and Blue)
Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov
–
In the Sun
Charles Sheeler
–
Ore Into Iron
(
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
)
Exhibitions
October –
Robert Rauschenberg
's
White Paintings
are exhibited at Eleanor Ward's
Stable Gallery
in New York City.
Births
January 7
–
Robert Longo
, American painter and sculptor
January 9
–
Javad Alizadeh
, Iranian cartoonist and painter
February 25
–
Martin Kippenberger
, German artist (d.
1997
)
April 24
–
Eric Bogosian
, American performance artist
May 18
–
Helen Chadwick
, English conceptual artist (d.
1996
)
September 12
–
Stephen Sprouse
, American
fashion designer
and artist (d.
2004
)
Full date unknown
Steven Campbell
, Scottish figurative painter (d.
2007
)
Michael Kenna
, English landscape photographer
Kevin O'Neill
, English comic book illustrator
Marjetica Potrč
, Slovenian artist and architect
Deaths
February 1
–
Archibald Nicoll
,
New Zealand
painter (b.
1886
)
[
3
]
February 12
–
Uroš Predić
,
Serbian
Realist
painter (b.
1857
)
March 23
–
Raoul Dufy
, French
Fauvist
painter (b.
1877
)
March 26
–
Đorđe Jovanović
, Serbian sculptor (b.
1861
)
April 15
–
Charles R. Knight
, American
animal painter
(b.
1874
)
April 29
Moïse Kisling
, Polish-born painter (b.
1891
)
Alice Prin
("Kiki de Montparnasse"), French artist, model and entertainer (b.
1901
)
June 23
–
Albert Gleizes
, French painter (b.
1881
)
September 13
–
Mary Brewster Hazelton
, American portrait painter (b.
1868
)
September 26
–
Xu Beihong
, Chinese painter (b.
1895
)
October 2
–
John Marin
,
American modernist
painter (b.
1870
)
October 6
–
Vera Mukhina
,
Latvian
-born
Soviet
sculptor (b.
1889
)
October 11
–
James Earle Fraser
, American sculptor (b.
1876
)
October 21
– Sir
Muirhead Bone
, British etcher (b.
1876
)
November 30
–
Francis Picabia
, French painter and poet (b.
1879
)
date unknown
–
J. Laurie Wallace
,
Irish American
painter (b.
1864
)
See also
1953 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
References
↑
Barcio, Phillip (August 5, 2016).
"Alberto Burri and the Transformation of Materials"
.
IdeelArt
.
↑
"Jose Manuel Capuletti - Dama en la playa 1953"
. 25 June 2014.
↑
Roberts, Neil.
"Archibald Frank Nicoll"
.
Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
.
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
. Retrieved
23 April
2017
.
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