1953 in art

none December 2021 1953 art 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 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 GobboBarcio Phillip Alberto Burri and the Transformation of Materials https://www.ideelart.com/magazine/alberto-burri IdeelArt August 5, 2016 Alexander Calder – Acoustic Clouds (installation, University City of Caracas) José Manuel Capuletti - Dama en la Playahttps://artishard.gr/paintings/jose-manuel-capuletti-dama-en-la-playa-1953/ Jose Manuel Capuletti - Dama en la playa 1953 25 June 2014 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 23 – Walter Wick, American photographer (I Spy) 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) November 29 – Alex Grey, American psychedelic artist and author undated 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)Archibald Frank Nicoll Neil Roberts 4n10 23 April 2017 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 Category:Years of the 20th century in art Category:1950s in art