1962 in art

Events

• February 6 – March 4 – Jane Frank, solo exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery.
• February 10
  • Ervin Eisch, Lothar Fischer, Dieter Kunzelmann, Renee Nele, Heimrad Prem, Gretel Stadler, Helmut Sturm and Hans-Peter Zimmer are excluded from the Situationist International (SI).
  • Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opens at Leo Castelli's gallery in New York City, including Look Mickey, featuring his first employment of Ben-Day dots, speech balloons and imagery from comics.
• March 15 – Ansgar Elde and Jørgen Nash are excluded from the Situationist International.
• May – The comic book character The Incredible Hulk, created visually by Jack Kirby, is introduced.
• May–June – David Smith creates the Voltri series of abstract sculptures (e.g. Voltri XV) in Italy.
• May 25 – The new Coventry Cathedral, designed by Basil Spence, is consecrated in England; artworks incorporated include: the exterior sculpture St Michael's Victory over the Devil by Sir Jacob Epstein; the tapestry Christ in Glory in the Tetramorph, designed by Graham Sutherland; the Mater Dolorosa sculpture by John Bridgeman; the Baptistry window by John Piper and Patrick Reyntiens; and the engraved glass Screen of Saints and Angels by John Hutton.
• July 9 – Andy Warhol's first solo California gallery exhibition as a fine artist opens at the Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, California, marking the West Coast debut of pop art and featuring his Campbell's Soup Cans.^[1][2]
• July 23 – The Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum is opened in Cairo.

Epstein's St Michael's Victory over the Devil at Coventry Cathedral

• August – The comic book character Spider-Man, created visually by Steve Ditko, is introduced.
• September 25 – The Pasadena Art Museum mounts New Painting of Common Objects, a survey of contemporary American Pop Art.^[3]
• October 31 – The Sidney Janis Gallery mounts International Exhibition of the New Realists, a survey of contemporary American Pop Art and the European Nouveau Réalisme movement and the first Pop Art group exhibition in an 'uptown gallery' in New York City, a rented storefront at 19 W. 57th Street, near the main gallery at 15 E. 57th Street. Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, Philip Guston and Adolph Gottlieb quit the Janis Gallery as a protest against the exhibition.
• November 14 – The British General Post Office issues the first commemorative stamps to be designed by David Gentleman.
• Michelangelo Pistoletto begins painting on mirrors.
• Ernst Barlach House completed as an art museum in Hamburg, Germany.
• City Hall Museum and Art Gallery established in Hong Kong.
• The Institute of American Indian Arts is set up in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
• Musashino Art University.
• Museo de Arte Español Enrique Larreta imaugurated in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• The Queen's Gallery is opened to the public at Buckingham Palace, London.
• The Stanley Spencer Gallery opens in Spencer's home village of Cookham, England.
• Robert Fraser sets up his gallery, specializing in contemporary British art, in the Mayfair district of London.
• The comic book character Barbarella, created by Jean-Claude Forest, is introduced in France.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Louis Kahan – Patrick White

Works

Yves Klein – IKB 191

• Herman Wilhelm Bissen – Iderstedter Löwe
• Alexander Calder – Sky Hooks (sculpture)
• Anthony Caro – Early One Morning (painted metal sculpture)
• Jean Dubuffet – Court les rues
• Yves Klein
  • IKB 191
  • Immaterial Pictorial Sensitivity
• Roy Lichtenstein
  • Blam
  • Brattata
  • Golf Ball
  • Jet Pilot
  • Kiss II
  • Masterpiece
  • Portrait of Madame Cézanne
• L. S. Lowry – Station Approach
• Piero Manzoni – The Base of the World
• Henry Moore – Knife Edge Two Piece 1962–65
• Otto Muehl and followers of Viennese Actionism – Die Blutorgel (performance art)
• David Shepherd – The Wise Old Elephant
• Jean Tinguely – Study for an End of the World No. 2 (self-destroying sculpture)
• Marie Vorobieff – Homage to Friends from Montparnasse
• Andy Warhol
  • Campbell's Soup Cans
  • Coca-Cola (3)
  • Green Coca-Cola Bottles
  • Elvis
  • Marilyn Diptych
  • Marilyn 3 Times
  • 129 DIE IN JET (Plane Crash)
  • Men in Her Life
• David Wynne
  • The Breath of Life Column (Hammersmith)
  • John Gielgud (bronze busts)

Births

• 27 April – Gabriel Orozco, Mexican visual artist.
• 2 May – Alexandra Boulat, French photographer (d.2007).
• 9 May – Gary Hume, English painter.

Deaths

Natalia Goncharova

• January 24 – André Lhote, painter (b. 1885)
• March 19 – Ethel Sands, painter (b. 1873)
• April 23 – Harold Parker, sculptor (b. 1873)
• May 13 – Franz Kline, abstract expressionist painter (b. 1910)
• May 25 – Zora Petrović, one of the most significant representatives of Expressionism of color in Serbian art between two wars (b. 1894)
• June 6 – Yves Klein, painter (b. 1928)
• September 7 – Morris Louis, color field painter (b. 1912)
• October 17 – Natalia Goncharova, Russian avant-garde artist (b. 1881).
• December 28 – Karl Völker, painter and architect (b. 1889)

See also

• 1962 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References