1964 in art

List of years in Art

Events

• The Post-painterly Abstraction exhibition curated by art critic Clement Greenberg opens at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and subsequently travels to the Walker Art Center and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.
• David Bailey issues Box of Pin-Ups, a collection of his photographic portraits, in London.

Works

• Barbara Hepworth - Single Form (United Nations Headquarters)^[1]
• René Magritte - The Son of Man
• Norman Rockwell - The Problem We All Live With
• Jean Tinguely - Heureka (kinetic sculpture)
• Andy Warhol - The Shot Marilyns

Births

• April 30 - Kelly Sullivan, "FingerSmear" painter
• June 23 - Peter Joyce, landscape painter

Deaths

• January 26 - Xawery Dunikowski, sculptor
• February 25 - Alexander Archipenko, sculptor (b. 1887)
• February 27 - Orry-Kelly, costume designer
• March 28 - Vlastislav Hofman, painter, architect (b. 1884)
• April 4 - Seán O'Sullivan, portrait painter (b. 1906)
• April 20 - August Sander, photographer (b. 1876)
• June 18 - Giorgio Morandi, still life painter (b. 1890)
• June 24 - Stuart Davis, painter (b. 1892)
• June 26 - Gerrit Rietveld, designer and architect
• July 21 - Jean Fautrier, painter and sculptor (b. 1898)
• August 31 - Peter Lanyon, landscape painter (b. 1918)
• December 29 - Vladimir Favorsky, Russian graphic artist (b. 1886)

See also

• 1964 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References