1967 In Art

Events from the year 1967 in art.

Events

* May 14 – Dedication of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral in England, designed by Frederick Gibberd, with stained glass by John Piper, Patrick Reyntiens and Margaret Traherne and a bronze crucifix by Elisabeth Frink.
* September 25 – Gilbert and George first meet while studying sculpture at St Martins School of Art in London.
* December 17 – 1967 Basel Picasso paintings purchase referendum: The people of Basel (Switzerland) vote to purchase two paintings by Picasso to retain them in the Kunstmuseum Basel.
* John Willett publishes ''Art in a City'',London: Methuen. a pioneering sociological study of art in a single city, Liverpool.
* Foundation of the Project Arts Centre, Dublin.
* The Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels is established in Higashimatsuyama, Saitama, Japan, as a permanent home for ''The Hiroshima Panels''.

Awards

Exhibitions

* February 28–May 7 – ''New Documents'' photography exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York curated by John Szarkowski and featuring the work of Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand.
* September–October – ''Im Spazio'' ("The Space of Thoughts") at the Galleria La Bertesca, Genoa, Italy, curated by Germano Celant and introducing Arte Povera.

Works

* Diane Arbus – ''Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967'' (photograph)
* Francis Bacon – '' Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne Standing in a Street in Soho''
* Sargis Baghdasaryan – ''We Are Our Mountains'' (sculpture)
* Max Bill – ''Rhythm in Space'' (sculpture)
* Peter Blake with Jann Haworth – '' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'' (collage for record album cover)
* Salvador Dalí – ''Tuna Fishing''
* Edward Delaney – ''Wolfe Tone'' (bronze statue)
* Jose de Rivera – ''Infinity'' (sculpture)
* Dušan Džamonja – ''Monument to the Revolution of the people of Moslavina''
* Milton Glaser – ''Dylan'' (poster)
* Barbara Hepworth – ''Two Forms (Orkney)'' (slate sculpture)
* Eila Hiltunen – Sibelius Monument (Helsinki)
* David Hockney – ''A Bigger Splash''
* Richard Long – ''A Line Made by Walking'' (land art)
* Timothy Malone – '' Corten Steel Sculpture''
* Joan Miró – '' The Caress of a Bird'' (sculpture)
* Henry Moore – sculptures
** ''Nuclear Energy''
** ''Two-Piece Reclining Figure No. 9''
* Barnett Newman – ''Voice of Fire''
* Isamu Noguchi – ''Sinai'' (sculpture)
* Pablo Picasso – ''Chicago Picasso'' (sculpture)
* Michelangelo Pistoletto – ''Muretto di straci'' ("Rag Wall", assemblage)
* Faith Ringgold – '' The American People Series #18: The Flag is Bleeding''
* Faith Ringgold – '' The American People Series #20: Die''
* Norman Rockwell – ''Russian Schoolroom''
* Kenneth Snelson – ''Six Number Two'' (sculpture)
* Mark di Suvero – '' Are Years What? (for Marianne Moore)'' (sculpture)
* Yevgeny Vuchetich – ''The Motherland Calls'' (sculpture)
* Andy Warhol
** '' Big Electric Chair''
** ''I, a Man'' (film)
* James Wines – '' Three Bronze Discs'' (sculpture)
* David Wynne – ''Bird Fountains'' (Ambassador College, Pasadena, California)

Births

* January 1 – Spencer Tunick, American photographer
* March 4 – Sam Taylor-Johnson, born Samantha Taylor-Wood, English-born film director, photographer and visual artist
*March 10 – Tim Pitsiulak, Inuk artist
* December 15 – David Černý, sculptor associated with Prague
* ''date unknown''
** Olafur Eliasson, Danish-Icelandic installation artist
** Andy Taylor, Australian painter and printmaker

Deaths

* January 8 – Josef Frank, Austrian-born Swedish architect and designer (born 1885)
* January 10 – Charles E. Burchfield, American landscape watercolorist (born 1893)
* January 15 – David Burliuk, Russian avant-garde artists (born 1882)
* January 28 – Ary Stillman, Russian-American representational and abstract painter (born 1891)
* January 31 – Oscar Fischinger, German born American animator, filmmaker and painter (born 1900)
* February 17 – Nancy Cox-McCormack, American portrait sculptor (born 1885)
* March 31 – Jefto Perić, Serbian painter (born 1895)
* May 15 – Jessie Traill, Australian printmaker (born 1881)
* May 27 – Johannes Itten, Swiss painter (born 1888)
* August 15 – René Magritte, Belgian surrealist painter (born 1898)
* August 30 – Ad Reinhardt, American abstract painter (born 1913)
* September 20 – Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian-born French painter (born 1884)
* November 21 – Vladimir Lebedev, Russian painter and graphic artist (born 1891)
* November 22 – Pavel Korin, Russian painter (born 1892)
* December 12 – Mac Raboy, American illustrator (born 1914)
* December 26 – Ambrose McCarthy Patterson, Australian painter and printmaker (born 1877)
* ''date unknown''
** Marguerite Huré, French stained glass artist (born 1895)
** Veljko Stanojević, Serbian painter (born 1892)

See also

* 1967 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References

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Years of the 20th century in art
1960s in art