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Events
Awards
- Archibald Prize: Ivor Hele - Sir Henry Simpson Newland, CBE, DSO, MS, FRCS
Works
See also: Category:1953 paintings
- Hans Arp - Cloud Shepherd, University City of Caracas.
- Alexander Calder - Acoustic Clouds, University City of Caracas.
- Willem De Kooning - Woman V
- Francis Bacon - Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X
- Barbara Hepworth - Hieroglyph
- Edward Hopper - Office in a Small City (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
- Milton Menasco - 'La Troienne' and Her Foals: Eighteen Vignettes and One Painting Together in One Frame for John Whitney
- Larry Rivers, Washington Crossing the Delaware.
- Jackson Pollock, Portrait and a Dream.
Exhibitions
Births
- 7 January - Robert Longo, painter and sculptor.
- 25 February - Martin Kippenberger, German artist (d.1997).
- 24 April - Eric Bogosian, performance artist.
- 12 September - Stephen Sprouse, American fashion designer and artist (d.2004).
Full date unknown
- Helen Chadwick, British artist (d.1996).
- Kevin O'Neill, illustrator.
Deaths
- March 23 - Raoul Dufy, painter (b. 1877)
- April 29 - Moise Kisling, painter
- April 29 - Alice Prin ("Kiki de Montparnasse"), artist, model and entertainer
- June 23 - Albert Gleizes, painter (b. 1881)
- October 2 - John Marin, Modernist painter (b. 1870)
- October 6 - Vera Mukhina, sculptor
- October 11 - James Earle Fraser, sculptor
- November 30 - Francis Picabia, painter and poet
- date unknown - J. Laurie Wallace, Irish/American artist (b.1864)
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