1957 in art

List of years in art (table)
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Events

May 17 – First known instance of a chimpanzee (Congo) painting.^[1] His mentor Desmond Morris organises an exhibition of chimpanzee art at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.
Chicago's Lithuanian community opens the Čiurlionis Art Gallery.
John Lennon enrols at Liverpool College of Art.
Man Ray's Object to Be Destroyed (1923) is destroyed
Three new neo-grotesque sans-serif typefaces are released: Folio (designed by Konrad Bauer and Walter Baum), Neue Haas Grotesk (designed by Max Miedinger) and Univers (designed by Adrian Frutiger); all will be influential in the International Typographic Style of graphic design.

January – Yves Klein – Proposte Monochrome, Epoca Blu ("Proposition Monochrome; Blue Epoch"), Gallery Apollinaire, Milan.

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 15 – C. T. Loo, art dealer (b. 1880)
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

↑ Morris, Desmond (2013). The Artistic Ape. London: Red Lemon Press. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-78342-002-5.