1954 in art

none June 20171954 art Events from the year 1954 in art. Events November 18 – Publication of Yves Peintures (in Madrid), the first public showing of Yves Klein's work. December – Pablo Picasso begins painting his Les Femmes d'Alger ("The Women of Algiers") series in homage to Delacroix's 1834 painting of the same name and to the memory of Matisse. Awards Archibald Prize: Ivor Hele – Rt Hon R G Menzies, PC, CH, QC, MP New Year Honours – Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire: Jacob Epstein40053 y 10 29 December 1953 Exhibitions Augustus John at the Royal Academy Works Category:1954 sculptures Francis Bacon Figure with Meat (Art Institute of Chicago) Two Figures in the Grass Thomas Hart Benton – The Kentuckian John Brack – The Bar (National Gallery of Victoria) Terence Cuneo The Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Westminster Abbey, 2nd June 1953 The Coronation Luncheon for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth in Guildhall, 12th June 1953 February 2021 InternetArchiveBot yes Salvador Dalí The Colossus of Rhodes Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity Jared French - The Ropehttps://whitney.org/collection/works/577 Jared French | the Rope Franz Kline – Painting No 2 (Museum of Modern Art, New York) Willem de Kooning – Marilyn Monroe Fernand Léger – Stained-glass window at University City of Caracas L. S. Lowry – Piccadilly GardensPiccadilly Gardens https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/piccadilly-gardens-205463 Art UK 1 January 2023 en Sergei Orlov and others – Statue of Yuriy Dolgorukiy, Moscow Abbott Pattison – Iron Horse (sculpture) Pablo Picasso – Sylvette Norman Rockwell – Breaking Home Ties Simon Rodia - Watts Towers (sculptures-assemblage) (completed) Mark Rothko – Untitled (Yellow and Blue)Mark Rothko. 'Untitled (Yellow and Blue)', 1954 Sotheby's https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/mark-rothko-untitled-yellow-and-blue-1954 8 November 2022 New York May 2015 Graham Sutherland – Portrait of Winston Churchill (later destroyed on orders issued by the Prime Minister's wife, Lady Clementine Churchill) Victor Vasarely – Hommage á Malévitch (ceramic wall at University City of Caracas) Births January 19 – Cindy Sherman, American photographer and artist February 6 – George Sherwood, American kinetic and landscape sculptor February 15 – Matt Groening, American cartoonist, animator and comics artist (The Simpsons) September 12 – Robert Gober, American sculptor December 6 – Nicola De Maria, Italian painter date unknown – Lubaina Himid, Zanzibar-born British graphic artist Deaths January 26 – Carl Eldh, Swedish painter and sculptor (b. 1873) February 21 – Augustin Lesage, French outsider artist (b. 1876) March 13 – César Klein, German painter and designer (b. 1876) May 5 – Henri Laurens, French sculptor (b. 1885) May 16 – Werner Bischof, Swiss photojournalist (b. 1916) May 25 – Robert Capa, Hungarian-born photojournalist (b. 1913) June 9 – Alain LeRoy Locke, American patron of the arts (b. 1886) July – Gaetano Orsolini, Italian sculptor, medallist and engraver (b. 1884) July 3 – Reginald Marsh, American painter (b. 1898) July 13 – Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (b. 1907) August 28 – Leonid Sherwood, Russian sculptor (b. 1871) September 8 Sigvald Asbjørnsen, Norwegian American sculptor (b. 1867) André Derain, French painter and illustrator (b. 1880) October 15 – Elwin Hawthorne, English painter (b. 1905) October 18 – Einar Jónsson, Icelandic sculptor (b. 1874) November 3 – Henri Matisse, French painter, sculptor and printmaker (b. 1869) December 23 – René Iché, French sculptor (b. 1897) See also 1954 in fine arts of the Soviet Union References Category:Years of the 20th century in art Category:1950s in art