1954 in art

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List of years in Art

Contents

1 Events
2 Awards
3 Exhibitions
4 Works
5 Exhibitions
6 Births
7 Deaths

Events

Awards

Archibald Prize: Ivor Hele - Rt Hon R G Menzies, PC, CH, QC, MP

Exhibitions

Augustus John at the Royal Academy

Works

Francis Bacon - Figure with Meat (Art Institute of Chicago)
John Brack - The bar (National Gallery of Victoria)
Franz Kline - Painting No 2 The Museum of Modern Art
Fernand Léger - Stained Glass Window at the University City of Caracas
Willem de Kooning - Marilyn Monroe
Pablo Picasso - Sylvette
Victor Vasarely -Hommage á Malévitch at the University City of Caracas

Exhibitions

Births

January 19 - Cindy Sherman, artist, photographer
March 23 - Kenneth Cole, fashion designer

Deaths

January 26 - Carl Eldh, Swedish painter and sculptor (b. 1873)
March 13 - César Klein, German painter and designer (b. 1876)
May 5 - Henri Laurens, sculptor (b. 1885)
May 16 - Werner Bischof, photographer (b. 1916)
May 25 - Robert Capa, photographer (b. 1913)
June 9 - Alain LeRoy Locke, patron of the arts (b. 1886)
July 3 - Reginald Marsh, painter (b. 1898)
July 13 - Frida Kahlo, painter (b. 1907)
September 8 - André Derain, painter and illustrator (b. 1880)
October 18 - Einar Jónsson, sculptor (b. 1874)
November 3 - Henri Matisse, painter, sculptor, printmaker (b. 1869)
December 23 - René Iché, sculptor (b. 1897)