1953 In Art

Events from the year 1953 in art.

Events

* November – New building for Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, the first major commission for Louis Kahn, opens.
* Anthony Blunt's ''Art and Architecture in France 1500–1700'' is published.
* Yves Klein becomes a master at judo, receiving the rank of ''yodan'' (4th ''dan''/degree black-belt) from the Kodokan in Japan.

Awards

* Archibald Prize: Ivor Hele – ''Sir Henry Simpson Newland, CBE, DSO, MS, FRCS''

Works

* Hans Arp – '' Cloud Shepherd'' (sculpture, University City of Caracas)
* Francis Bacon
** ''Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X''
** '' Two Figures (1953)''
* John Brack
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** '' The New House''
* Alexander Calder – '' Acoustic Clouds'' (installation, University City of Caracas)
* José Manuel Capuletti - ''Dama en la Playa''
* Edwin Dickinson – '' Ruin at Daphne'' (begun 1943; Metropolitan Museum of Art)
* Dong Xiwen – ''The Founding Ceremony of the Nation'' (original version)
* Jacob Epstein – ''Social Consciousness'' (sculpture group, Philadelphia)
* M. C. Escher – '' Relativity'' (lithograph)
* Barbara Hepworth – ''Hieroglyph'' (sculpture)
* Edward Hopper – ''Office in a Small City'' (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
* Willem de Kooning – ''Woman III''
* L. S. Lowry
** ''Football Ground''
** '' Industrial Landscape''
**
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* René Magritte – ''Golconda''
* Marino Marini – '' Horse and Rider'' (bronze)
* Henri Matisse – '' The Snail'' (colored paper collage)
* Roberto Matta – ''Cercle du Blé (Circle of Wheat)'' (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
* Milton Menasco – '' 'La Troienne' and Her Foals: Eighteen Vignettes and One Painting Together in One Frame for John Whitney''
* Henry Moore – '' Draped Reclining Figure'' (bronze)
* Alexander Phimister Proctor – ''John McLoughlin'' (bronze)
* Jackson Pollock – ''Portrait and a Dream''
* Larry Rivers – ''Washington Crossing the Delaware''
* Mark Rothko – '' No. 61 (Rust and Blue)''
* Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov – '' In the Sun''
* Charles Sheeler – ''Ore Into Iron'' (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Exhibitions

* October – Robert Rauschenberg's ''White Paintings'' are exhibited at Eleanor Ward's Stable Gallery in New York City.

Births

* January 7 – Robert Longo, American painter and sculptor
* January 9 – Javad Alizadeh, Iranian cartoonist and painter
* February 25 – Martin Kippenberger, German artist (d. 1997)
* April 24 – Eric Bogosian, American performance artist
* May 18 – Helen Chadwick, English conceptual artist (d. 1996)
* September 12 – Stephen Sprouse, American fashion designer and artist (d. 2004)
* Full date unknown
** Michael Kenna, English landscape photographer
** Kevin O'Neill, English comic book illustrator
** Marjetica Potrč, Slovenian artist and architect

Deaths

* February 1 – Archibald Nicoll, New Zealand painter (b. 1886)
* February 12 – Uroš Predić, Serbian Realist painter (b. 1857)
* March 23 – Raoul Dufy, French Fauvist painter (b. 1877)
* March 26 – Đorđe Jovanović, Serbian sculptor (b. 1861)
* April 15 – Charles R. Knight, American animal painter (b. 1874)
* April 29
** Moïse Kisling, Polish-born painter (b. 1891)
** Alice Prin ("Kiki de Montparnasse"), French artist, model and entertainer (b. 1901)
* June 23 – Albert Gleizes, French painter (b. 1881)
* September 13 – Mary Brewster Hazelton, American portrait painter (b. 1868)
* September 26 – Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (b. 1895)
* October 2 – John Marin, American modernist painter (b. 1870)
* October 6 – Vera Mukhina, Latvian-born Soviet sculptor (b. 1889)
* October 11 – James Earle Fraser, American sculptor (b. 1876)
* October 21 – Sir Muirhead Bone, British etcher (b. 1876)
* November 30 – Francis Picabia, French painter and poet (b. 1879)
* ''date unknown'' – J. Laurie Wallace, Irish American painter (b.1864)

See also

* 1953 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References

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Years of the 20th century in art
1950s in art