1960 in art explained

Events from the year 1960 in art.

Events

Bison (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
Alex Katz - Black Dress^[3]
Yves Klein
- Anthropometries of The Blue Epoch (performance art)
- A Leap Into The Void
Alberto Korda – Guerrillero Heroico (photograph of Che Guevara)
Peter Lanyon – Thermal
Rico Lebrun – Genesis^[4]
Morris Louis – Unfurled paintings
Piero Manzoni – Corpo d'aria (artist's multiple)
William McMillan – Lion and Unicorn statues for Kensington Central Library, London
Ivan Meštrović – Immigrant Mother (bronze)
Pablo Picasso – Bust of a Seated Woman (Jacqueline Roque)
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 Cans
Robert Whitman - American Moon (performance)^[5]

February 21 – Isaac Julien, Black British installation artist and filmmaker
March 13 – Joe Ranft, American magician, animation storyboard artist and voice actor (d. 2005)
July 28 – Jon J Muth, American author and illustrator
August 13 – Lorna Simpson, African American photographic and video artist
September – Shaun Greenhalgh, English art forger
September 21 – Maurizio Cattelan, Italian satirical sculptor
October 2 – Joe Sacco, Maltese-born comics journalist
December 22 – Jean-Michel Basquiat, American neo-expressionist painter (suicide 1988)
December 26 – Andrew Graham Dixon, British art historian and broadcaster
date unknown – Ken Currie, British figurative painter

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)
August 8 – Georg Mayer-Marton, Hungarian-British graphic artist (b. 1897)
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)
December 4 - Dean Cornwell - American illustrator, muralist, and painter (b. 1892)
date unknown – Charles Pillet, French sculptor and engraver (b. 1869)

News: Scotland's New Gallery: Modern Painting and Sculpture. The Times. London. 1960-08-05. 11. 54842.
Book: Karl. Ruhrberg. Ingo F.. Walther. Art of the 20th Century. Taschen. 2000. 518. 3-8228-5907-9.
Web site: The Black Dress | Museum Brandhorst .
Davidson . Martha . Spring 1962 . Rico Lebrun Mural at Pomona . . en . 21 . 3 . 143–175 . 10.2307/774410 . 774410.
Web site: Robert Whitman: American Moon | Pace Gallery . 19 January 2024 .