1957 in art
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Events
- Chicago's Lithuanian community opens the Čiurlionis Art Gallery.
- John Lennon enrols at Liverpool College of Art.
- Desmond Morris organises an exhibition of chimpanzee art at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.
- Man Ray's Object to Be Destroyed (1923) is destroyed
Awards
- Archibald Prize: Ivor Hele - Self Portrait
Exhibitions
- January - Yves Klein - 'Proposte Monochrome, Epoca Blu ("Proposition Monochrome; Blue Epoch"), Gallery Apollinaire, Milan.
Works
- Jean Arp - Evocation of a Form: Human, Lunar, Spectral (cast bronze)
- Maurice Boitel - The Hens
- Paul-Émile Borduas - Étoile noire
- Arthur Boyd - Dreaming Bridegroom 1
- Yves Klein - Aerostatic Sculpture (Paris).
- L. S. Lowry - Man Lying on a Wall; Portrait of Ann
- Isamu Noguchi - Endless Coupling
- Clyfford Still - 1957-D No. 1
Births
- January 27 - Frank Miller, comic-book artist
- April 3 - Yves Chaland, French cartoonist (d.1990)
- August 7 - Mark Bagley, comic-book artist
- August 9 - Rick Leonardi, comic-book illustrator
- November 26 - Félix González-Torres, Cuban artist (d.1996)
Full date unknown
- Bill Barker, conceptual artist
- Mike Bernard, painter and multi-media artist
- Jim Hodges, installation artist
Deaths
- January 1 - Óscar Domínguez, painter (b. 1906)
- January 17 - Jože Plečnik, architect (b. 1872)
- January 20 - John Minton, painter and illustrator (b. 1917)
- February 4 - Miguel Covarrubias, painter and caricaturist (b. 1904)
- February 11 - Gwen Raverat, English wood engraver (b. 1885)
- February 14 - Emanuel Hahn, sculptor (b. 1881)
- March 16 - Constantin Brâncuși, sculptor (b. 1876)
- March 28 - Jack Butler Yeats, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1871)
- March 23 - Andrzej Wróblewski, painter (mountaineering accident)
- May 14 - Marie Vassilieff, painter
- May 18 - Bruce Rogers, book designer and typographer
- June 12 - Mario Urteaga Alvarado, painter
- July 7 - Kiyoshi Koishi, photographer
- August 2 - Lasar Segall, painter
- August 19 - David Bomberg, painter
- September 26 - Pompeo Coppini, sculptor
- October 11 - René Auberjonois, painter
- October 15 - Henry van de Velde, painter, architect and designer, one of the founders of the Art Nouveau movement (b. 1863)
- October 24 - Christian Dior, fashion designer
- November 2 - Mahonri Young, sculptor
- November 20 - Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, graphic artist
- November 24 - Diego Rivera, painter (b. 1886)
- November 30 - Paja Jovanović, one of the top three Serbian Realist painters, along with Đorđe Krstić and Uroš Predić (b. 1859)
- December 14 - Josef Lada, painter
- date unknown
- Adam Emory Albright, painter of figures in landscapes (b. 1862)
- Onoe Saishu, calligrapher
See also
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