1963 in art

none thumb | right 1963 art Events from the year 1963 in art. Events January 8 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first (and only) time, for a period of four weeks, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. During this time it was viewed by over half a million people.https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/1963/mona_lisa.html Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci National Gallery of Art 14 October 2020 September – The David Mirvish Gallery is opened in Toronto by David Mirvish. November 17 – Museo Bodoniano opens in Parma, Italy. Museum of Contemporary Art (Skopje) opens in Yugoslavia. First Pirelli Calendar (for 1964), photographed by Robert Freeman in Mallorca, issued in the United Kingdom. His portrait of The Beatles is used on the cover of their album With the Beatles (released November 22). Awards Archibald Prize: J Carington Smith – Professor James McAuley John Moores Painting Prize – Roger Hilton for "March 1963"http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history/previous-winners-list/roger_hilton.aspx Roger Hilton - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk 28 November 2018 Exhibitions Visione e Colore, Palazzo Grassi, Venice Roy Lichtenstein's second solo exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City Morris Louis memorial exhibition, Guggenheim Museum, New York City December 16 unti January 5, 1964 - Sven Lukin at Pace Gallery in Boston, Massachusettshttps://www.pacegallery.com/exhibitions/sven-lukin/ Sven Lukin | Pace Gallery www.pacegallery.com Works Category:1963 sculptures Josef Albers – "Manhattan" for the Pan Am Building in New York City (disassembled and removed in 2000 - recreated from Albers' design specifications in 2019 after the original was determined to be unsalvageable due to asbestos)https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/23/arts/design/josef-albers-modernist-mural-metlife.html Once Removed and Destroyed, a Modernist Mural Makes Its Return The New York Times 23 September 2019 Coleman Nancy Liberty Bell (Portland, Oregon) Georg Baselitz – Die große Nacht im Eimer (Museum Ludwig, Cologne) Romare Bearden – Prevalence of Ritual Maurice Boitel – Cadaques Stuart Davis - ContranuitiesContranuities by Stuart Davis A Masterpiece by a Modern American Artist Sotheby's NY https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/contranuities-by-stuart-davis-a-masterpiece-by-a-modern-american-artist 18 November 2024 Donald De Lue = Rocket Thrower (bronze sculpture created for the 1964 World's Fair in and then permanently installed in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, New York) Melvin Edwards - Lynch Fragments (sculpture series) M. C. Escher – Möbius Strip II (Red Ants) (woodcut) David Hockney – Domestic Scene, Los Angeles https://web.archive.org/web/20170115192826/http://www.hockneypictures.com/works_paintings_60_09.php 2017-01-15 Edward Hopper – Two Comedians Roy Lichtenstein Bratatat! Crying Girl (lithograph) Drowning Girl Hopeless In the Car Okay Hot-Shot, Okay! Torpedo...Los! Varoom! Whaam! (diptych) Woman with Flowered Hat René Magritte – The Difficult Crossing (2nd version) Lewis Morley – Christine Keeler (photograph) John Piper and Patrick Reyntiens – windows at St Andrew's Church, Plymouth Andy Warhol Death in America (screenprint series) Eight Elvises Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I) Orange Disaster #5 Red Car Crash Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) Suicide (Purple Jumping Man) Thirty Are Better Than One White Disaster (White Car Crash 19 Times) David Wynne Christ and Mary Magdalene (bronze castings, Ely Cathedral and Magdalen College, Oxford) Fire Figure (partly gilded aluminium, Lewis's, Hanley, Staffordshire) Reclining Woman (bronzes) The Sisters (bronzes) Sleeping girl (bronzes) Yehudi Menuhin (bronze heads) Births January 20 – Mark Ryden, American painter April 4 – Martin Firrell, French-born British public artistCreative Review, "One to Watch". London: Centaur Publishing, 2005, Vol. 25, Issue 1, p. 18. April 20 – Dame Rachel Whiteread, English sculptorWroe Richard Rachel Whiteread: a life in art https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/apr/06/rachel-whiteread-life-in-art The Guardian 5 April 2013 May 16 – Jon Coffelt, American painter, sculptor and book artist May 31 – Wesley Willis, American artist and musician (d. 2003) June 24 – Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (d. 2007) http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=11188 Mike Wieringo Passes Away at 44 Jonah Weiland August 13, 2007 CBR.com https://web.archive.org/web/20121002051833/http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=11188 October 2, 2012 dead mdy-all March 27, 2024 July 20 – Ciruelo Cabral, Argentine fantasy artist August 16 – Stevenson Magloire, painter of the School of Saint Soleil (d. 1994) August 21 – Hanoch Piven, Uruguayan-born Israeli mixed media artist and caricaturist October 6 – Romero Britto, Brazilian artisthttps://artincontext.org/romero-britto/ Romero Britto - Explore the Art of Brazilian Artist Romero Britto 9 September 2022 date unknown Marco Evaristti, Chilean sculptor Anya Gallaccio, British installation artistGreat women artists 2019 Phaidon Press 978-0714878775 16 Sophie Ryder, English sculptor Bob and Roberta Smith (Patrick Brill), English slogan painter Deaths February 3 – Piero Manzoni, Italian artist (b. 1933) February 8 – Fortunino Matania, Italian-born illustrator and war artist (b. 1881) February 14 – Hilda Vīka, Latvian painter (born 1897) February 27 – Vladimir Konashevich, Russian graphic artist (b. 1888). March 1 – Felice Casorati, Italian painter (b. 1883) June 9 – Jacques Villon, French Cubist painter and printmaker (b. 1875) June 20 – Manuel Benedito, Spanish painter (b. 1875) July 16 – Antonio Donghi, Italian painter (b. 1897) July 23 – Aleksandr Gerasimov, Soviet socialist realist painter (b. 1881) August 11 – Alois Arnegger, Austrian painter (b. 1879) August 16 – Joan Eardley, British painter (b. 1921) August 31 – Georges Braque, French painter and sculptor (b. 1882) September 11 – Suzanne Duchamp, French Dadaist painter and sister of Marcel Duchamp (b. 1889) September 19 – David Low, New Zealand-born editorial cartoonist (b. 1891) October 20 – Everett Warner, American impressionist painter and printmaker (b. 1877) See also 1963 in fine arts of the Soviet Union References Category:Years of the 20th century in art Category:1960s in art