1969 in art
Events
- January 9 – In Washington, D.C., the Smithsonian Institution displays the art of Winslow Homer for 6 weeks.
- February 2 – Ten paintings are defaced in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- August 8 – Iain Macmillan photographs the cover picture for The Beatles' album Abbey Road in London.
- October 5 – Monty Python's Flying Circus is broadcast for the first time on BBC Television,[1] with Terry Gilliam's animations.
- October 18 – Caravaggio's Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence (c.1609) is stolen from its frame in the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo, Sicily; it has not been recovered as of 2020.
- November 19 – The Apollo 12 lunar module lands on the moon; American artist Forrest "Frosty" Myers claims to have smuggled the art piece Moon Museum onto a leg of the module which will remain on the surface.[2]
- c. December – The music and performance art collective COUM Transmissions is formed in England by Genesis P-Orridge.
- Late – Andy Warhol, John Wilcock, and Gerard Malanga co-found the magazine Interview.
- Opening of the Oakland Museum of California, designed by Kevin Roche.
- Lyrical Abstraction exhibition debuts at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum marking a significant return to expressivity in American abstract painting. For two years the exhibition travels throughout the U.S. including to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
Awards
- Archibald Prize: Ray Crooke – George Johnston
- John Moores Painting Prize - Richard Hamilton and Mary Martin for "Toaster" and "Cross" (respectively)[3][4]
Works
- Kenojuak Ashevak – The Owl
- Michael Ayrton – The Arkville Minotaur
- Francis Bacon – Three Studies of Lucian Freud
- Thomas Bass – Australian Seal (bronze, Washington, D.C.)
- Fernando Botero - Protestant Family
- Alexander Calder – La Grande Vitesse (sculpture)
- Christo and Jeanne Claude - "Wrapped Coast" in Little Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia[5]
- Mai Dantsig – Partisan Ballad
- Helen Frankenthaler – Slice of Stone Itself
- Allen Jones – Hatstand, Table and Chair (sculptures)
- Ronnie Landfield – Diamond Lake
- André Lufwa - "Batteur de tam-tam"[6]
- Kanda Nissho – Snow Farm
- Enzo Plazzotta – Baigneuse
- Jean-Paul Riopelle – La Joute (public sculptural installation, Montreal)
- Will Roberts – Redberth Village, Pembrokeshire
- Alexander Semionov – Leningrad in the Morning
- Victor Teterin – Sredne-Podjacheskaya Street in Leningrad
- Nikolai Timkov – Russian Winter
Births
- January 5 – Marilyn Manson, American rock musician and painter
- February 7 – Andrew Micallef, Maltese painter and musician[7]
- July 11 – Abigail McLellan, British painter (d. 2009)
- October 5 – Chantal Joffe, English painter
- November 26 – Kara Walker, African American artist
- date unknown
- Boushra Almutawakel, Yemeni photographer[8]
- Steven Claydon, English sculptor, installation artist and musician
- Invader, French urban artist
- Patricia Martín, Mexican curator
Deaths
- January 29 – Edward Marshall Boehm, American Expressionist sculptor (b. 1913)
- March 14 – Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-born American painter and photographer (b. 1898)
- March 17 – Daniel Vázquez Díaz, Spanish painter (b. 1882)
- May 11 – T. K. Padmini, Keralan feminist painter (b. 1940; d. in childbirth)
- July 5 – Walter Gropius, German-born architect (b. 1883)
- July 9 – Emerik Feješ, Hungarian and Serbian painter (b. 1904)
- July 25 – Otto Dix, German painter and printmaker (b. 1891)
- August – Doris Brabham Hatt, English modernist painter (b. 1890)
- September 15 – Edith Barry, American sculptor, painter, illustrator and designer (b. 1883)
- November 21 – Norman Lindsay, Australian sculptor and cartoonist (born 1879)
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References
- Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- Allen, Greg (2008-02-28). "The Moon Museum". greg.org: the making of. greg.org. Retrieved 2011-11-07.
- "Richard Hamilton - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums". Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
- "Cross by Mary Martin (1907-1969) - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums". Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
- https://www.nga.gov/research/library/imagecollections/features/christo-jeanne-claude/wrapped-coast.html
- https://www.congoforum.be/fr/2006/05/%c2%able-batteur-de-tam-tam%c2%bb-de-lufwa-une-grande-attraction-la-foire-internationale-de-kinshasa/
- Schiavone, Michael J. (2009). Dictionary of Maltese Biographies Vol. II G-Z. Pietà: Pubblikazzjonijiet Indipendenza. p. 1126. ISBN 9789993291329.
- "Boushra Almutawakel, Strata, 2008". School of Oriental and African Studies. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
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