August 10 – The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art opens at Inverleith House in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
December – The Huysman Gallery is founded in Los Angeles.
Launch of Nouveau réalisme movement.
The Pace Gallery is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.
Archibald Prize: Judy Cassab – Stanislaus Rapotec
Prix de Rome (for painting) – Pierre Carron
Bison (sculpture) (stone sculpture, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon)
Salvador Dalí – The Ecumenical Council
M. C. Escher – Ascending and Descending (lithograph)
Alberto Giacometti – bronzes
Large Standing Woman I (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston)
Monumental Head (Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.)
Barbara Hepworth
Archaeon
Figure for Landscape (bronze)
Edward Hopper – Second Story Sunlight
M. F. Husain – The Prancing Horse
Yves Klein
Anthropometries of The Blue Epoch (performance art)
A Leap Into The Void
Alberto Korda – Guerrillero Heroico (photograph of Che Guevara)
Morris Louis
Beta Lambda
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Piero Manzoni – Corpo d'aria (artist's multiple)
Ivan Meštrović – Immigrant Mother (bronze)
Ceri Richards – Cathedrale Engloutie
Will Roberts – Woman with Cup of Tea
Norman Rockwell – Triple Self-Portrait
Jean Tinguely – Homage to New York (self-destroying sculpture)
Andy Warhol – "Campbell's Soup"
March 13 – Joe Ranft, American magician, animation storyboard artist and voice actor (d. 2005)
August 13 – Lorna Simpson, African American photographic and video artist
December 22 – Jean-Michel Basquiat, American artist (d. 1988)
January 12 – William Adams Delano, American architect (b. 1874)
January 16 – Rudulph Evans, American sculptor (b. 1878)
February 8 – Hakuyō Fuchikami, Japanese photographer (b. 1889)
February 22 – Paul-Émile Borduas, Canadian painter (b. 1905)
March 3 – Nina Veselova, Russian painter (b. 1922)
March 18 – Alexander V. Kuprin, Russian painter (b. 1880)
March 26 – Francisco Goitia, Mexican realist painter (b. 1882)
April 13 – Eric Kennington, English sculptor and war artist (b. 1888)
May 8 – Hugo Alfvén, Swedish musician and painter (b. 1872)
May 16 – Igor Grabar, Russian painter, publisher, and art historian (b. 1871)
May 27 – James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator, poster artist (b. 1877)
June 6 – Ernest L. Blumenschein, American painter, member of the Taos art colony (b. 1874)
July 28 – Jon J. Muth, American author and illustrator
September 20 – David Park, American painter (b. 1911)
October 22
Morgan Dennis, American painter and illustrator (b. 1892)
Alexander Matveyev, Russian sculptor (b. 1878)
Sreten Stojanović, Serbian sculptor (b. 1898)
November 14 – Anne Bonnet, Belgian painter (b. 1908)
November 17 – Gene Ahern, American comic-strip artist (b. 1895)
November 29 – Fortunato Depero, Italian futurist painter, sculptor and designer (b. 1892)
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Charles Pillet, French sculptor and engraver (b. 1869)
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