1960 in art

List of years in Art

Events

• Launch of Nouveau réalisme movement.^[1]

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Judy Cassab - Stanislaus Rapotec
• Prix de Rome (for painting) - Pierre Carron

Works

• M. C. Escher - Ascending and Descending
• Barbara Hepworth - Figure for a Landscape and Archaeon
• Yves Klein - A Leap Into The Void
• Ceri Richards - Cathedrale Engloutie
• Will Roberts - Woman with Cup of Tea
• Norman Rockwell - Triple Self-Portrait
• Jean Tinguely - Homage to New York (self-destroying sculpture)
• Andy Warhol - "Campbell's Soup"

Births

• 13 March - Joe Ranft, magician, animation storyboard artist, and voice actor (d.2005).
• 22 December - Jean-Michel Basquiat, American artist (d.1988).

Deaths

• January 12 - William Adams Delano, architect
• February 8 - Hakuyō Fuchikami, photographer
• February 22 - Paul-Émile Borduas, painter
• March 26 - Francisco Goitia, realist painter
• May 8 - Hugo Alfvén, musician and painter
• May 27 - James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator, poster artist
• June 6 - Ernest L. Blumenschein, member of the Taos art colony
• September 20 – David Park, painter (b. 1911)
• November 14 - Anne Bonnet, Belgian painter (b. 1908)
• November 17 - Gene Ahern, comic-strip artist
• November 29 - Fortunato Depero, painter, sculptor and designer
• date unknown - Morgan Dennis, painter and illustrator

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