1955 in art

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Events

January 21 – O. Winston Link starts a 5-year personal project to document steam operations on the Norfolk and Western Railway in the United States using flash photography.
March – A Photographer's Gallery established in New York City by Roy DeCarava.
May 17 – Clark Art Institute opens to the public in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
June 1 – Première of Billy Wilder's film of The Seven Year Itch featuring an iconic scene of Marilyn Monroe standing on a New York City Subway grating as her white dress (created by Travilla) is blown above her knees.^[1]
June 27 – Sir Jacob Epstein marries Kathleen Garman.
Iris Clert Gallery opens in the rue des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and its owner, Iris Clert, first meets Yves Klein (December).
Marcel Duchamp becomes a citizen of the United States.
Enrique Tabara obtains an Ecuadorian government scholarship to study in Spain.

January – The Family of Man, a photography exhibition curated by Edward Steichen, opens at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
October – First public exhibition of Yves Klein's monochrome oil paintings, at Club des Solitaires, Paris.
November 3 – December 18 – Stanley Spencer: a Retrospective Exhibition at the Tate Gallery, London.^[2]
Le Mouvement at Galerie Denise René, Paris, popularizing kinetic art.
Exhibition by London members of Groupe Espace, organized by Paule Vézelay at the Royal Festival Hall.

January 21 – Jeff Koons, American "kitsch" artist
February 2 – Madi Phala, South African artist (d. 2007)
March 24 – Beverly K. Effinger, American painter
July 29 – Dave Stevens, American illustrator and comics artist (d. 2008)
November 15 – Sergey Voychenko, Belarusian artist and designer (d. 2004)
undated
- Miroslav Grčev, Macedonian architect and graphic designer
- Mark A. Landis, American painter and art forger
- Jaume Plensa, Catalan sculptor
- Alexander Sokolov, sculptor

January 1 – Maria Bal, Polish model (b. 1879)
January 7
- Lamorna Birch, English painter (b. 1869)
- Alexander Sokolov, English painter (b. 1869)
March 16 – Nicolas de Staël, Russian-born French impasto painter (b. 1914)
May 3 – Rudolf Schlichter, German painter (b. 1890)
May 11 – Bradley Walker Tomlin, American painter (b. 1899)
May 23 – Auguste Chabaud, French painter (b. 1882)
June 1 – Antonio Dattilo Rubbo, Italian-born Australian painter and art teacher (b. 1870)
June 29 – Max Pechstein, German Expressionist artist (b. 1881)
August 17 – Fernand Léger, French artist (b. 1881)
September 19 – Carl Milles, Swedish sculptor (b. 1875)
September 27 – Leslie Garland Bolling, African American sculptor (b. 1898)
November 5 – Maurice Utrillo, French painter (b. 1883)
November 29 – Rene Paul Chambellan, American sculptor (b. 1893)
December 19 – Alexander Lubimov, Russian artist (b. 1879)

↑ Filmed on location September 1954. "The Seven Year Itch (1955)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2012-05-20.
↑ "Stanley Spencer: a Retrospective Exhibition". Tate Britain. Retrieved 2012-04-10.