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Events

  • Chess match between Marcel Duchamp
    Marcel Duchamp
    Marcel Duchamp was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Considered by some to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art...

     and John Cage
    John Cage
    John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde...

     takes place at Ryerson Polytechnic, Toronto
    Toronto
    Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

    .

Awards

  • Archibald Prize
    Archibald Prize
    The Archibald Prize is regarded as the most important portraiture prize in Australia. It was first awarded in 1921 after a bequest from J. F. Archibald, the editor of The Bulletin who died in 1919...

    : William Edwin Pidgeon
    William Pidgeon
    William Edwin Pidgeon, aka Bill Pidgeon and WEP, was an Australian painter who won the Archibald Prize three times....

     - Lloyd Rees
  • Elaine Hamilton
    Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal
    Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal, , professionally known as Elaine Hamilton, was an internationally known American abstract painter and muralist born near Catonsville, Maryland...

     wins first prize at the Biennale de Menton, France

Exhibitions

  • Eva Hesse
    Eva Hesse
    Eva Hesse , was a German-born American sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. -Early life:Hesse was born into a family of observant Jews in Hamburg, Germany...

     - Chain Polymers, Fischbach Gallery, W. 57th Street, New York City
  • Ralph Hotere
    Ralph Hotere
    Hone Papita Raukura "Ralph" Hotere is a New Zealand artist of Māori descent . He was born in Mitimiti, Northland and He is widely regarded as one of New Zealand's most important living artists...

     - Black Paintings, Auckland, New Zealand
    New Zealand
    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...


Works

  • Eduardo Kingman
    Eduardo Kingman
    Eduardo Kingman was one of Ecuador's greatest artists of the 20th century, among the art circles of other master artists such as Oswaldo Guayasamin and Camilo Egas.-Background:...

     - Fin de Mascarada
  • Robert Motherwell
    Robert Motherwell
    Robert Motherwell American painter, printmaker and editor. He was one of the youngest of the New York School , which also included Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Philip Guston....

     - Open #23 (Currently exhibited at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
    The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the largest museums in the United States, attracting over one million visitors a year. It contains over 450,000 works of art, making it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Americas...

    , loaned by Graham Gund
    Graham Gund
    Graham de Conde Gund is an American architect and the president of the Gund Partnership, an American architecture firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and founded by Gund in 1971...

    )

Births

  • December 23 - Manuel Rivera-Ortiz
    Manuel Rivera-Ortiz
    Manuel Rivera-Ortiz is an American documentary photographer of Puerto Rican descent, the author of several photographic collections and the recipient of a number of awards. He is best known for his documentary photographs of people's living conditions in less developed countries...

    , documentary photographer
  • George Henry Smyth
    George Henry Smyth
    George H Smyth is an artist born in Ardglass, County Down, Northern Ireland.-Background:George H. Smyth was born in Ardglass in 1968. His father was a talented water-colourist. Before entering Art College, he had produced art work for Irish rock band Therapy?...

    , Northern Irish artist
  • July 23 - Paulo Henrique (choreographer), Portuguese multidisciplinary artist

Deaths

  • February 11 - Jacob Steinhardt
    Jacob Steinhardt
    Jacob Steinhardt was an Israeli painter and woodcut artist.-Biography:Jacob Steinhardt was born in Żerków, Germany . He attended the School of Art in Berlin in 1906, then studied painting with Louis Corinth and engraving with Hermann Struck in 1907...

    , painter and woodcut artist (b. 1887
    1887 in art
    -Events:* Walter Crane illustrates "The Architecture of Art" .* Charles Lang Freer’s first Asian art purchase is a painted Japanese fan....

    )
  • May 21 - Bror Hjorth
    Bror Hjorth
    Bror Hjorth was a Swedish artist. Hjorth was one of Sweden’s best-known sculptors and painters, and was professor of art at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm from 1949 to 1959. On completion of his studies, he lived in Uppsala, where he built his studio home in Kåbo, now the...

    , sculptor
  • May 28 - Kees van Dongen
    Kees van Dongen
    Cornelis Theodorus Maria van Dongen , usually known as Kees van Dongen or just Van Dongen, was a Dutch painter and one of the Fauves. He gained a reputation for his sensuous, at times garish, portraits....

    , Fauvist painter (b. 1877
    1877 in art
    -Works:-Paintings:*Frederick Arthur Bridgman - The Funeral Procession of a Mummy on the Nile*Gustave Caillebotte - Rue de Paris; Temps de pluie...

    )
  • July 2 - Sir Hans Heysen
    Hans Heysen
    Sir Hans Heysen, OBE was a well-known German Australian artist. He was particularly recognized for his watercolours of the Australian bush. He won the Wynne Prize for landscape painting a record nine times.-Biography:...

    , watercolour painter
  • October 2 - Marcel Duchamp
    Marcel Duchamp
    Marcel Duchamp was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Considered by some to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art...

    , influential artist (b. 1887
    1887 in art
    -Events:* Walter Crane illustrates "The Architecture of Art" .* Charles Lang Freer’s first Asian art purchase is a painted Japanese fan....

    )
  • November 4 - Michel Kikoine
    Michel Kikoine
    Michel Kikoine , was a French painter of Jewish-Belarusian origin.- Life :Kikoine was born in Rechytsa, Belarus. The son of a Jewish banker in the small southeastern town of Gomel, he was barely into his teens when he began studying at "Kruger's School of Drawing" in Minsk. There he met Chaim...

    , painter (b. 1892
    1892 in art
    -Events:* May - The Brotherhood of The Linked Ring is founded by Henry Peach Robinson in England to promote photography as a fine art.-Paintings:*John Collier - Lilith*James Ensor - Man of Sorrows...

    )
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    • William Conor
      William Conor
      William Conor OBE was a Belfast, Northern Ireland born artist.Celebrated for his warm and sympathetic portrayals of working-class life in Ulster, William Conor studied at the Government School of Design in Belfast in the 1890s...

       - Irish painter (b.1881
      1881 in art
      -Events:*The Société des Artistes Français is established, with William-Adolphe Bouguereau as its first president.-Works:*Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The Tepidarium*Marie Bashkirtseff - The Studio...

      )
    • Lee Gatch
      Lee Gatch
      Lee Gatch , an American artist, was born in a rural community near Baltimore. He graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in the early 1920s and then studied in Europe for a few years before returning to the United States...

       - painter and mixed-media artist
    • Orovida Camille Pissarro
      Orovida Camille Pissarro
      Orovida Pissarro , known for most of her life as Orovida, was a British painter and etcher. She was part of a family of artists, including her father Lucien Pissarro and grandfather, the Impressionist Camille Pissarro....

      , English painter and etcher (b. 1893
      1893 in art
      -Events:*May 1 - The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, opens to the public in Chicago, USA, with a Romanesque statue of Columbia overlooking the man-made lake...

      )
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