1967 in art

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Events from the year 1967 in art.

Events

• May 14 – Dedication of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral in England, designed by Frederick Gibberd, with stained glass by John Piper, Patrick Reyntiens and Margaret Traherne and a bronze crucifix by Elisabeth Frink.
• September 25 – Gilbert and George first meet while studying sculpture at St Martins School of Art in London.
• December 17 – 1967 Basel Picasso paintings purchase referendum: The people of Basel (Switzerland) vote to purchase two paintings by Picasso to retain them in the Kunstmuseum Basel.
• John Willett publishes Art in a City, ^[1] a pioneering sociological study of art in a single city, Liverpool.
• Foundation of the Project Arts Centre, Dublin.
• The Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels is established in Higashimatsuyama, Saitama, Japan, as a permanent home for The Hiroshima Panels .

Exhibitions

• February 28 – May 7 – New Documents photography exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York curated by John Szarkowski and featuring the work of Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand.
• September–October – Im Spazio ("The Space of Thoughts") at the Galleria La Bertesca, Genoa, Italy, curated by Germano Celant and introducing Arte Povera.

Works

See also: Category:1967 sculptures

• Diane Arbus – Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967 (photograph)
• Francis Bacon – Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne Standing in a Street in Soho
• Sargis Baghdasaryan – We Are Our Mountains (sculpture)
• Max Bill – Rhythm in Space (sculpture)
• Peter Blake with Jann Haworth – Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (collage for record album cover)
• Sir Anthony Caro - Prairie (sculpture) ^[2]
• Salvador Dalí – Tuna Fishing
• Edward Delaney – Wolfe Tone (bronze statue)
• Jose de Rivera – Infinity (sculpture)
• Dušan Džamonja – Monument to the Revolution of the people of Moslavina
• Milton Glaser – Dylan (poster)
• Barbara Hepworth – Two Forms (Orkney) (slate sculpture)
• Eila Hiltunen – Sibelius Monument (Helsinki)
• David Hockney – A Bigger Splash
• Richard Long – A Line Made by Walking (land art)
• Timothy Malone – Corten Steel Sculpture
• Joan Miró – The Caress of a Bird (sculpture)
• Henry Moore – sculptures
  • Nuclear Energy
  • Two-Piece Reclining Figure No. 9
• Barnett Newman
  • Broken Obelisk (sculpture - completed)
  • Voice of Fire (painting commissioned for Expo 67 in Montreal)
• Isamu Noguchi – Sinai (sculpture)
• Pablo Picasso – Chicago Picasso (sculpture)
• Michelangelo Pistoletto –
• Muretto di straci (Rag Wall - assemblage)
• Venus of the Rags , (Assemblage - first version) ^[3]
• Faith Ringgold – The American People Series #18: The Flag is Bleeding
• Faith Ringgold – The American People Series #20: Die
• Norman Rockwell – Russian Schoolroom
• Kenneth Snelson – Six Number Two (sculpture)
• Mark di Suvero – Are Years What? (for Marianne Moore) (sculpture)
• Yevgeny Vuchetich – The Motherland Calls (sculpture)
• Andy Warhol
  • Big Electric Chair
  • I, a Man (film)
• Steve Weaver – John Lennon's psychedelic Rolls-Royce
• James Wines – Three Bronze Discs (sculpture)
• David Wynne – Bird Fountains (Ambassador College, Pasadena, California)

Births

• January 1 – Spencer Tunick, American photographer
• March 4 – Sam Taylor-Johnson, born Samantha Taylor-Wood, English-born film director, photographer and visual artist
• March 10 – Tim Pitsiulak, Inuk artist
• December 15 – David Černý, sculptor associated with Prague
• date unknown
  • Olafur Eliasson, Danish-Icelandic installation artist
  • Andy Taylor, Australian painter and printmaker

Deaths

• January 8 – Josef Frank, Austrian-born Swedish architect and designer (born 1885)
• January 10 – Charles E. Burchfield, American landscape watercolorist (born 1893)
• January 15 – David Burliuk, Russian avant-garde artists (born 1882)
• January 28 – Ary Stillman, Russian-American representational and abstract painter (born 1891)
• January 31 – Oscar Fischinger, German born American animator, filmmaker and painter (born 1900)
• February 17 – Nancy Cox-McCormack, American portrait sculptor (born 1885)
• March 31 – Jefto Perić, Serbian painter (born 1895)
• May 15
  • Edward Hopper, American painter and printmaker (born 1882)
  • Italo Mus, Italian painter (born 1892)
  • Jessie Traill, Australian printmaker (born 1881)
• May 27 – Johannes Itten, Swiss painter (born 1888)
• August 15 – René Magritte, Belgian surrealist painter (born 1898)
• August 30 – Ad Reinhardt, American abstract painter (born 1913)
• September 20 – Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian-born French painter (born 1884)
• November 21 – Vladimir Lebedev, Russian painter and graphic artist (born 1891)
• November 22 – Pavel Korin, Russian painter (born 1892)
• December 12 – Mac Raboy, American illustrator (born 1914)
• December 26 – Ambrose McCarthy Patterson, Australian painter and printmaker (born 1877)
• date unknown
  • Marguerite Huré, French stained-glass artist (born 1895)
  • Veljko Stanojević, Serbian painter (born 1892)

See also

• 1967 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References

1. London: Methuen.
2. Sight Unseen: Anthony Caro’s Prairie, 1967
3. "'Venus of the Rags', Michelangelo Pistoletto, 1967, 1974".