1951 in art

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Events

Festival Star emblem by Abram Games

• May 3–September 30 - Festival of Britain, based on London's South Bank.^[1] Director Hugh Casson has assembled a team of young designers and architects to create it.
  • Festival Star emblem by Abram Games.
  • Royal Festival Hall by Leslie Martin, Peter Moro and Robert Matthew.
  • Dome of Discovery by Ralph Tubbs.
  • Skylon by Philip Powell, Hidalgo Moya and Felix Samuely.
  • Riverside Restaurant, New Schools building and Waterloo entrance tower by Jane Drew with Maxwell Fry.^[2]
  • Sculptures: Youth Advancing by Jacob Epstein; Reclining Figure by Henry Moore; Contrapuntal Forms and Turning Forms by Barbara Hepworth; The Islanders by Siegfried Charoux; and Sunbathers by Peter Peri.^[3]
  • Murals by Josef Herman and John Tunnard.
  • The Arts Council of Great Britain has also commissioned work from Robert Adams, Reg Butler, Lynn Chadwick, Frank Dobson, Karin Jonzen, F. E. McWilliam, Bernard Meadows, Uli Nimptsch and Eduardo Paolozzi. Some is sited in the concurrent open-air exhibition of sculpture in Battersea Park and there is an associated exhibition Sixty Paintings for '51 at the RBA Galleries.^[3]
• May 2–July 29 - Sculpture and Drawings by Henry Moore retrospective exhibition at the Tate Gallery, London.
• May 21–June 10 - 9th Street Art Exhibition (otherwise known as the Ninth Street Show), stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Ivor Hele - Laurie Thomas
• Sculptor Henry Moore refuses the offer of a knighthood.

Works

Girl with a white dog, 1950–1951, by Lucian Freud; Tate Gallery. The subject is Freud's first wife, Kitty, daughter of Jacob Epstein and Kathleen Garman

• Salvador Dalí
  • Christ of Saint John of the Cross
  • A Logician Devil (woodcut)
• M. C. Escher - lithographs
  • Curl-up
  • House of Stairs
• Lucian Freud - Girl With a White Dog
• Alfred Janes - Portrait of William Grant Murray
• Louis le Brocquy - A Family
• Barnett Newman - Vir Heroicus Sublimis
• Pablo Picasso - Massacre in Korea
• James Buchanan “Buck” Winn - The History of Ranching (mural for Pearl Brewing Company, San Antonio, Texas)

Publications

• Thomas Jones - Memoirs of Thomas Jones of Penkerrig (posthumous)^[4]

Births

• April 16 - Pierre Toutain-Dorbec, sculptor
• November 17 - Jack Vettriano, Scottish painter
• date unknown - John Kindness, Northern Irish multi-media artist

Deaths

• April 23 - Charles Keck, American sculptor
• May 11 - Wilfrid de Glehn, painter (b. 1871)
• August 10 - Tony Gaudio, Italian photographer
• September - Wols, German painter, photographer
• September 5 - Mário Eloy, Expressionist painter
• September 18 - Gelett Burgess, art critic
• September 26 - Lane Bryant, designer
• October 1 - Karel Teige, graphic artist
• November 15 - Frank Weston Benson, Impressionist painter (b. 1862)
• date unknown
  • Ernst Ludvig Ipsen, portrait painter
  • Louis Legrand, painter

See also

• 1951 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References