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1959 in art
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August 04, 2025
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Events
Awards
Works
Publications
Births
Deaths
See also
References
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Events from the year
1959 in art
.
Events
June 10 –
National Museum of Western Art
established in
Tokyo
.
André Breton
asks
Salvador Dalí
,
Joan Miró
,
Enrique Tábara
and
Eugenio Granell
to represent Spain by exhibiting some of their works in the
Homage to Surrealism Exhibition
celebrating the fortieth anniversary of
Surrealism
.
Awards
Archibald Prize
:
William Dobell
–
Dr Edward MacMahon
John Moores Painting Prize
-
Patrick Heron
for "Black Painting - Red, Brown and Olive
: July 1959"
[
1
]
Knighthood
(United Kingdom):
Stanley Spencer
Works
See also:
Category:1959 sculptures
Milton Avery
–
Tangerine Moon and Wine Dark Sea
José de Creeft
–
Alice in Wonderland
Salvador Dalí
–
The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus
Ivan Generalić
–
The Deer Wedding
Allan Gwynne-Jones
–
Lord Beveridge in his 80th year
Barbara Hepworth
–
Figure (Archaean)
(bronze, 7 casts)
Asger Jorn
–
Solvejg
Alex Katz
-
Double Portrait of
Robert Rauschenberg
[
2
]
Franz Kline
–
Orange and Black Wall
Lee Krasner
–
Cool White
Peter Lanyon
–
Lost Mine
Georg J. Lober
–
Statue of George M. Cohan
(bronze)
Elmer Petersen
– "
World's Largest Buffalo
" in
Jamestown, North Dakota
Pablo Picasso
–
Le déjeuner sur l'herbe
Nikolai Pozdneev
–
Spring Day
Ad Reinhardt
–
Abstract Painting Diptych
Stanley Spencer
–
Self-portrait
Frank Stella
-
Die Fahne Hoch!
Publications
John Golding –
Cubism: a history and an analysis, 1907-1914
Births
January 17
–
Herbert Brandl
, Austrian painter (died
2025
)
June 2
–
Rineke Dijkstra
, Dutch photographer
August 27
–
Juan Fernando Cobo
, Colombian artist (died
2024
)
November 11
–
Celia Paul
, British painter known for self-portraits
Willie Doherty
, Northern Irish visual artist
Caio Fonseca
, American painter
Peter Lik
, Australian-born
landscape photographer
Deaths
January –
Eva Frankfurther
, German-born British portrait painter, suicide (born
1930
)
January 29
–
Winifred Brunton
, South African painter and illustrator (born
1880
)
February 26
–
Gabrielle Renard
, French artist's model (born
1878
)
February 28
–
Beatrix Farrand
, American landscape architect (born
1872
)
April 9
–
Frank Lloyd Wright
, American architectural pioneer (born
1867
)
May 3
–
Renato Birolli
, Italian painter (born
1905
)
June 8
–
Pietro Canonica
, Italian sculptor (born
1869
)
July 6
–
George Grosz
,
German
painter, draftsman and caricaturist (born
1893
)
July 17
– Sir
Alfred Munnings
, English equine painter (born
1878
)
August 5
–
Frank Godwin
, American illustrator (born
1889
)
August 19
– Sir
Jacob Epstein
, American-born British sculptor (born
1880
)
August 20
–
Alfred Kubin
, Austrian illustrator (born
1877
)
August 27
–
Tom Purvis
, English poster artist (born
1888
).
September 9
Merric Boyd
, Australian painter, sculptor and ceramic artist (born 1888)
Cathleen Mann
, English portrait painter and costume designer (born
1896
)
September 13
–
Adrian
(Greenberg), Hollywood costume designer (born
1903
)
September 18
Benjamin Péret
, French poet, Dadaist and editor of
La Révolution surréaliste
(born
1899
)
Adolf Ziegler
, German painter and politician (born
1892
)
September 29
–
Matthew Smith
, English painter (born
1879
)
October 6
–
Bernard Berenson
, Lithuanian American art historian (born
1865
)
November 15
–
Charles Jones
, English gardener and photographer (born
1866
)
November 18
–
Arkady Shaikhet
, Soviet documentary photographer (born
1898
)
November 24
–
Stepan Erzia
,
Mordvin
sculptor (born
1876
)
December 9
–
Gene Carr
, American cartoonist (born
1881
)
December 14
Lizzy Ansingh
, Dutch painter (born
1875
)
Sir
Stanley Spencer
, English painter (born
1891
)
See also
1959 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
References
↑
"Patrick Heron - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums"
.
Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk
. Retrieved
28 November
2018
.
↑
"Alex Katz
|
Double portrait of Robert Rauschenberg (1959)
|
Artsy"
.
www.artsy.net
.
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