1957 in art

Events

• 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

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Ivor Hele - Self Portrait

Exhibitions

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

Works

• Jean Arp - Evocation of a Form: Human, Lunar, Spectral (cast bronze)
• Maurice Boitel - The Hens
• Paul-Émile Borduas - Étoile noire
• Arthur Boyd - Dreaming Bridegroom 1
• Yves Klein - Aerostatic Sculpture (Paris).
• L. S. Lowry - Man Lying on a Wall; Portrait of Ann
• Isamu Noguchi - Endless Coupling
• Clyfford Still - 1957-D No. 1

Births

• January 27 - Frank Miller, comic-book artist
• April 3 - Yves Chaland, French cartoonist (d.1990)
• August 7 - Mark Bagley, comic-book artist
• August 9 - Rick Leonardi, comic-book illustrator
• November 26 - Félix González-Torres, Cuban artist (d.1996)

Full date unknown

• Bill Barker, conceptual artist
• Mike Bernard, painter and multi-media artist
• Jim Hodges, installation artist

Deaths

• January 1 - Óscar Domínguez, painter (b. 1906)
• January 17 - Jože Plečnik, architect
• January 20 - John Minton, painter and illustrator
• February 4 - Miguel Covarrubias, painter and caricaturist
• February 14 - Emanuel Hahn, sculptor
• March 16 - Constantin Brâncuşi, sculptor
• 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 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)
• December 14 - Josef Lada, painter
• date unknown
  • Adam Emory Albright, painter of figures in landscapes (b. 1862)
  • Onoe Saishu, calligrapher

See also

• 1957 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union