1967 in art
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Events from the year 1967 in art, including major exhibitions, artworks, and developments in the global art world.
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.[1]
- September 25 – Gilbert and George first meet while studying sculpture at St Martins School of Art in London.[2]
- 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.[3]
- John Willett publishes Art in a City,[4] 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)
- Sir Anthony Caro - Prairie (sculpture)[5]
- 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
- 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
- Barnett Newman
- Broken Obelisk (sculpture - completed)
- Voice of Fire (painting commissioned for Expo 67 in Montreal). April 28 – October 29 – Expo 67 takes place in Montreal, Canada, as part of the International and Universal Exposition, featuring major contributions in art, architecture, and design, and attracting over 50 million visitors.[6]
- Isamu Noguchi – Sinai (sculpture)
- Pablo Picasso – Chicago Picasso (sculpture)
- Michelangelo Pistoletto – Venus of the Rags, (Assemblage - first version)[7]
- 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)[8]
- January 10 – Charles E. Burchfield, American landscape watercolorist (born 1893)[9]
- January 15 – David Burliuk, Russian avant-garde artists (born 1882)[10]
- January 28 – Ary Stillman, Russian-American representational and abstract painter (born 1891)[11]
- 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)
- April 15 – Veljko Stanojević, Serbian painter (born 1892)[12]
- May 15
- Edward Hopper, American painter and printmaker (born 1882)
- Italo Mus, Italian painter (born 1892)
- Jessie Traill, Australian printmaker (born 1881)[13]
- May 27 – Johannes Itten, Swiss painter (born 1888)
- August 15 – René Magritte, Belgian surrealist painter (born 1898)[14]
- August 30 – Ad Reinhardt, American abstract painter (born 1913)
- September 20 – Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian-born French painter (born 1884)
- October 27 – Marguerite Huré, French stained-glass artist (born 1895)[15]
- 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)
- date unknown
- Hans Siebert von Heister, German painter (born 1888)[16]
See also
References
- ↑ "History of the Metropolitan Cathedral". Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. Archived from the original on 29 January 2009. Retrieved 4 July 2009.
- ↑ "Interview with Gilbert & George". The Daily Telegraph. 28 May 2002.
- ↑ "Legendärer Volksentscheid – Das Picasso-Wunder von Basel". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). 16 March 2013. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
- ↑ John Willett (1967). Art in a City. Methuen.
- ↑ Sight Unseen: Anthony Caro’s Prairie, 1967
- ↑ Berton, Pierre (1967). 1967: The Last Good Year. Toronto: Doubleday Canada. https://www.bie-paris.org/site/en/1967-montreal
- ↑ "'Venus of the Rags', Michelangelo Pistoletto, 1967, 1974".
- ↑ Encyclopedia of Interior Design. Taylor & Francis. 1997. pp. 460–461. ISBN 9781136787584.
- ↑ Schjeldahl, Peter (2010). "Life in a Small Town: Charles Burchfield, homebody modernist". The New Yorker. No. July 5, 2010. Condé Nast. pp. 76–77. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
- ↑ "David Burliuk, Artist, 84; Rites Planned Tomorrow". Newsday (Nassau Edition). Hempstead, NY. January 17, 1967. p. 36. Retrieved March 9, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Richard Teller Hirsch (1972). Ary Stillman, 1891-1967: A Retrospective Exhibition [held At] the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 23-March 26, 1972. Museum of Fine Arts. p. 48.
- ↑ Christoph Wilhelmi (2001). Künstlergruppen im östlichen und südlichen Europa seit 1900: ein Handbuch. Hauswedell. p. 335. ISBN 9783776211016.
- ↑ Lee, Mary Alice (1990). "Traill, Jessie Constance Alicia (1881–1967)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
- ↑ Danchev, Alex; Whitfield, Sarah (2021). Magritte: A Life. Knopf Doubleday. p. 351. ISBN 9780307908193.
- ↑ "The studio collection of Marguerite Huré at the Musée des Années 30 in Boulogne-Billancourt". In Situ. Retrieved 14 March 2026.
- ↑ ULAN