1969 in art

none 1969 art Events from the year 1969 in art. Events February 2 – Ten paintings are defaced in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. August 8 – Iain Macmillan photographs the cover picture for The Beatles' album Abbey Road in London. October 5 – Monty Python's Flying Circus is broadcast for the first time on BBC Television,Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 with Terry Gilliam's animations. October 18 – Caravaggio's Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence (c.1609) is stolen from its frame in the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo, Sicily; it has not been recovered as of 2020. November 19 – The Apollo 12 lunar module lands on the Moon with astronaut and artist Alan Bean; American artist Forrest "Frosty" Myers claims to have smuggled the art piece Moon Museum onto a leg of the module which will remain on the surface.http://greg.org/archive/2008/02/28/the_moon_museum.html The Moon Museum Allen Greg 2008-02-28 greg.org: the making of greg.org 2011-11-07 c. December – The music and performance art collective COUM Transmissions is formed in England by Genesis P-Orridge. Late – Andy Warhol, John Wilcock, and Gerard Malanga co-found the magazine Interview. Opening of the Oakland Museum of California, designed by Kevin Roche. Exhibitions January 9 – In Washington, D.C., the Smithsonian Institution displays the art of Winslow Homer for 6 weeks.https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_12475 Winslow Homer's Graphic Art Smithsonian Archives 14 August 2025 December 19 - The exhibition Alvin Loving: Psintings opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City marking the frst solo exhibition given to a black artist in the institution's history.Alvin Loving, Paintings, Whitney Museum of American Art, Pamphlet, 1970 https://gallery98.org/2019/whitney-museum-of-american-art-alvin-loving-paintings-pamphlet-1970/ gallery98.org Most of the paintings from the following year's "Lyrical Abstraction" exhibition are displayed 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.Aldrich, Larry Young Lyrical Painters Art in America 57 6 November–December 1969 104–113https://thealdrich.org/exhibitions/lyrical-abstraction Lyrical Abstraction April 5, 1970 The Aldrich 14 August 2025 Awards Archibald Prize: Ray Crooke – George Johnston John Moores Painting Prize - Richard Hamilton and Mary Martin for "Toaster" and "Cross" (respectively)http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history/previous-winners-list/richard_hamilton.aspx Richard Hamilton - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk 28 November 2018http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history/prizewinners-exhibition/paintings/mary_martin.aspx Cross by Mary Martin (1907-1969) - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk 28 November 2018 Works Category:1969 paintings Category:1969 sculptures Kenojuak Ashevak – The Owl Michael Ayrton – The Arkville Minotaur Francis Bacon – Three Studies of Lucian Freud Thomas Bass – Australian Seal (bronze, Washington, D.C.) Edward Bawden – Victoria tile motif on London Underground's Victoria line Fernando Botero – Protestant Family Alexander Calder – La Grande Vitesse (sculpture) Christo and Jeanne Claude – "Wrapped Coast" in Little Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australiahttps://www.nga.gov/research/library/imagecollections/features/christo-jeanne-claude/wrapped-coast.html Wrapped Coast Mai Dantsig – Partisan Ballad Melvin Edwards – Curtain for William and Peter (sculpture)https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/edwards-curtain-for-william-and-peter-l04117 M. C. Escher – Snakes (woodcut print) Helen Frankenthaler – Slice of Stone Itself Frank Frazetta – Egyptian Queen Milton Glaser – Speed Cityhttps://www.disneyrollergirl.net/rip-milton-glaser-new-york-magazine/ R.I.P Milton Glaser 28 June 2020 Anna Hyatt Huntington – Equestrian statue of Israel Putnam at Putnam Memorial State Park in Redding, Connecticut (dedicated) Jess Collins – If All the World Were Paper and All the Water Sinkhttps://www.famsf.org/artworks/if-all-the-world-were-paper-and-all-the-water-sink If All the World Were Paper and All the Water Sink FAMSF Allen Jones – Hatstand, Table and Chair (sculptures) Ronnie Landfield – Diamond Lake André Lufwa – "Batteur de tam-tam"«Le Batteur de tam-tam» de Lufwa, une grande attraction à la Foire Internationale de Kinshasa - Congoforum.be Joan Mitchell – Sans NeigeScott Chadd 'Joan Mitchell' Is Everything At San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art https://www.forbes.com/sites/chaddscott/2021/10/31/joan-mitchell-is-everything-at-san-francisco-museum-of-modern-art/ 2022-01-19 Forbes en Danuta Nabel-Bochenek, Kazimierz Łaskawski – American Astronauts Memorial (sculpture, Kraków, Poland) Shalom Tomáš Neuman - Classical Myth (mixed media, painting, and sculpture)https://www.mcall.com/2017/04/15/new-york-fusion-artist-shalom-neuman-brings-philosophy-to-easton/ New York ‘Fusion’ artist Shalom Neuman brings philosophy to Easton April 15, 2017 Kanda Nissho – Snow Farm Pablo Picasso – The Kiss 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 Hans Unger – Oxford Circus and Green Park tile motifs on London Underground's Victoria line Exhibitions December 30 until March 1, 1970 - Spaces at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (Dan Flavin, Larry Bell, Robert Morris, Franz Erhard Walther, and Pulsa).Spaces - Dec 30, 1969–Mar 1, 1970 - MoMA https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/2698 www.moma.org Births January 5 – Marilyn Manson, American rock musician and painter February 7 – Andrew Micallef, Maltese painter and musicianSchiavone Michael J. Dictionary of Maltese Biographies Vol. II G-Z 2009 Pubblikazzjonijiet Indipendenza Pietà 9789993291329 1126 July 11 – Abigail McLellan, British painter (d. 2009) October 5 – Chantal Joffe, English painter November 26 – Kara Walker, African American artist date unknown Boushra Almutawakel, Yemeni photographerhttp://www.soas.ac.uk/gallery/myfathershouse/boushra-almutawakel-strata-2008.html Boushra Almutawakel, Strata, 2008 18 June 2012 School of Oriental and African Studies 3 March 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160303234819/http://www.soas.ac.uk/gallery/myfathershouse/boushra-almutawakel-strata-2008.html dead Steven Claydon, English sculptor, installation artist and musician Invader, French urban artist Patricia Martín, Mexican curator Deaths January 20 – Luigi Del Bianco, Italian-born American sculptor (b. 1892) January 29 – Edward Marshall Boehm, American Expressionist sculptor (b. 1913) March 14 – Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-born American painter and photographer (b. 1898) March 17 – Daniel Vázquez Díaz, Spanish painter (b. 1882) May 11 – T. K. Padmini, Keralan feminist painter (b. 1940; d. in childbirth) May 17 – Fritz Burger-Mühlfeld, German painter (b. 1882) June 12 – Aleksandr Deyneka, Russian painter and sculptor (b. 1899) July 5 – Walter Gropius, German-born architect (b. 1883) July 9 – Emerik Feješ, Hungarian and Serbian painter (b. 1904) July 25 – Otto Dix, German painter and printmaker (b. 1891) August – Doris Brabham Hatt, English modernist painter (b. 1890) September 15 – Edith Barry, American sculptor, painter, illustrator and designer (b. 1883) November 21 – Norman Lindsay, Australian sculptor and cartoonist (born 1879) See also 1969 in fine arts of the Soviet Union References Category:Years of the 20th century in art Category:1960s in art