# 1960 in art

Events from the year 1960 in art.

## Events

* 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.

## Awards

* Archibald Prize: Judy Cassab – Stanislaus Rapotec
* Prix de Rome (for painting) – Pierre Carron

## Works

* 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
* 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
* 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
* Antoni Tapies - Cnvas Burned to Matter (circa)
* Jean Tinguely – Homage to New York (self-destroying sculpture)
* Andy Warhol – Campbell's Soup Cans
* Robert Whitman - American Moon (performance)

## Births

* 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

## Deaths

* 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)