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1963 in art

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Events

  • 8 January – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first (and only) time, opening at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
  • September – The David Mirvish Gallery is opened in Toronto by David Mirvish.
  • 17 November – Museo Bodoniano opens in Parma, Italy.
  • First Pirelli Calendar (for 1964), photographed by Robert Freeman in Majorca, issued in the United Kingdom.
  • Awards

  • Archibald Prize: J Carington Smith – Professor James McAuley
  • Exhibitions

  • Visione e Colore, Palazzo Grassi, Venice
  • Roy Lichtenstein's second solo exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City
  • Morris Louis memorial exhibition, Guggenheim Museum, New York City
  • Works

  • Liberty Bell (Portland, Oregon)
  • Georg Baselitz – Die große Nacht im Eimer (Museum Ludwig, Cologne)
  • Romare Bearden – Prevalence of Ritual
  • Maurice Boitel – Cadaques
  • M. C. Escher – Möbius Strip II (Red Ants) (woodcut)
  • David Hockney – Domestic Scene, Los Angeles
  • Edward Hopper – Two Comedians
  • Roy Lichtenstein
  • Bratatat!
  • Crying Girl (lithograph)
  • Drowning Girl
  • Hopeless
  • In the Car
  • Okay Hot-Shot, Okay!
  • Torpedo...Los!
  • Whaam! (diptych)
  • Woman with Flowered Hat
  • René Magritte – The Difficult Crossing (2nd version)
  • Lewis Morley – Christine Keeler (photograph)
  • John Piper and Patrick Reyntiens – windows at St Andrew's Church, Plymouth
  • Andy Warhol
  • Eight Elvises
  • Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I)
  • Orange Disaster #5
  • Red Car Crash
  • Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)
  • Sleep (film)
  • Suicide (Purple Jumping Man)
  • David Wynne
  • Christ and Mary Magdalene (bronze castings, Ely Cathedral and Magdalen College, Oxford)
  • Fire Figure (partly gilded aluminium, Lewis's, Hanley, Staffordshire)
  • Reclining Woman (bronzes)
  • The Sisters (bronzes)
  • Sleeping girl (bronzes)
  • Yehudi Menuhin (bronze heads)
  • Births

  • January 20 – Mark Ryden, American painter
  • April 20 – Rachel Whiteread, English sculptor
  • May 16 – Jon Coffelt American painter, sculptor and book artist
  • May 31 – Wesley Willis, American artist and musician (d. 2003)
  • June 24 – Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (d. 2007)
  • July 20 – Ciruelo Cabral, Argentine fantasy artist
  • August 16 – Stevenson Magloire, painter of the School of Saint Soleil (d. 1994)
  • date unknown – Marco Evaristti, Chilean sculptor.
  • Deaths

  • February 27 – Vladimir Konashevich, Russian graphic artist (b. 1888).
  • March 1 – Felice Casorati, Italian painter (b. 1883)
  • June 9 – Jacques Villon, French Cubist painter and printmaker (b. 1875)
  • July 16 – Antonio Donghi, Italian painter (b. 1897)
  • July 23 – Aleksandr Gerasimov, Soviet socialist realist painter (b. 1881)
  • August 11 – Alois Arnegger, Austrian painter (b. 1879)
  • August 16 – Joan Eardley, British painter (b. 1921)
  • August 31 – Georges Braque, French painter and sculptor (b. 1882)
  • September 11 – Suzanne Duchamp, French Dadaist painter and sister of Marcel Duchamp (b. 1889)
  • September 19 – David Low, New Zealand-born editorial cartoonist (b. 1891)
  • October 20 – Everett Warner, American impressionist painter and printmaker (b. 1877)
  • References

    1963 in art Wikipedia