# 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, 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.

## 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
** Broken Obelisk (sculpture - completed)
** Voice of Fire (painting commissioned for Expo 67 in Montreal)
* Isamu Noguchi – Sinai (sculpture)
* Pablo Picasso – Chicago Picasso (sculpture)
* Michelangelo Pistoletto –
* Muretto di straci (Rag Wall - assemblage)
* Venus of the Rags, (Assemblage - first version)
* 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)
* Steve Weaver – John Lennon's psychedelic Rolls-Royce
* 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
** Edward Hopper, American painter and printmaker (born 1882)
** Italo Mus, Italian painter (born 1892)
** 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)