1953 in art
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Events
- 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
- Hans Arp - Cloud Shepherd (sculpture, University City of Caracas)
- Francis Bacon - Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X
- Alexander Calder - Acoustic Clouds (installation, University City of Caracas)
- Edwin Dickinson - Ruin at Daphne (begun 1943; Metropolitan Museum of Art)
- 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
- L. S. Lowry
- Football Ground
- 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)
- 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)
- Ellis Wilson - Caribbean Bird Vendor
Exhibitions
- October - Robert Rauschenberg's White Paintings are exhibited at Eleanor Ward's Stable Gallery in New York City.
Births
- 7 January - Robert Longo, painter and sculptor.
- 25 February - Martin Kippenberger, German artist (d.1997).
- 24 April - Eric Bogosian, performance artist.
- 12 September - Stephen Sprouse, American fashion designer and artist (d.2004).
Full date unknown
- Helen Chadwick, British artist (d.1996).
- Kevin O'Neill, illustrator.
Deaths
- 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
- Moise 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)
- 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)
- November 30 - Francis Picabia, French painter and poet (b. 1879)
- date unknown - J. Laurie Wallace, Irish American painter (b.1864)
See also
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