1965 in art

The year 1965 in art involved some significant events and new works.

Events

• March 19 – A record price of 760,000 guineas is paid at Christie's London auction house for Rembrandt's painting Titus.
• May – Avant-garde artists Marta Minujín and Rubén Santantonín present La Menesunda in Buenos Aires, one of the first installations in art history.^[1]
• September – Indica Gallery counterculture bookshop and art gallery opens in London.^[2]
• October 7 – Release in the United States of the biographical film The Agony and the Ecstasy with Charlton Heston portraying Michelangelo.
• December – Max's Kansas City nightclub opens in New York City; it quickly became a hangout of choice for artists and sculptors of the New York School and other members of the avante-garde.
• British sculptor Barbara Hepworth is created a Dame.^[3]

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Clifton Pugh – R A Henderson
• John Moores Painting Prize - Michael Tyzack for " Alesso 'B' "^[4]

Films

• The Agony and the Ecstasy

Works

• Yaacov Agam – Double Metamorphosis II
• Mark di Suvero – Bunyon's Chess (sculpture, Seattle)
• Lucian Freud – Reflection with Two Children (Self-portrait)
• L. S. Lowry
  • Huddersfield
  • Industrial Scene
• Roman Opałka – 1965 /1 – ∞
• John Petts – Birmingham, Alabama, 16th Street Baptist Church, West Window
• Fairfield Porter – Elizabeth
• James Rosenquist – F-111
• David Wynne – Busts of Joan Baez and Oskar Kokoschka
• John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial (Portland, Oregon)

Births

• February 20 – Miriam Mone, Northern Irish fashion designer (died 2007)
• March 9 – Brom, American illustrator
• July 9 – Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (died 2006)
• December 16 – Ellen Gallagher, American artist
• date unknown
  • Hurvin Anderson, English painter
  • Tacita Dean, English-born visual artist
  • Andrea Fraser, American performance artist
  • Elizabeth Peyton, American portrait painter
  • Jessica Voorsanger, American-born visual artist
  • Andrea Zittel, American installation artist and sculptor

Deaths

• January 3 – Milton Avery, American painter (born 1885)
• January 7 – Anne Redpath, Scottish still life painter (born 1895)
• January 27 – Abraham Walkowitz, American painter working in the Modernist style (born 1878)
• February 18 – Yevgeny Charushin, Russian graphic artists (born 1901)
• February 24 – Frank H. Mason, English marine and poster painter (born 1875)
• May 7 – Charles Sheeler, American modernist painter and photographer (born 1883)
• May 19 – Albin Polasek, Czech American sculptor (born 1879)
• May 20 – Charles Camoin, French Fauvist painter (born 1879)
• June 14 – Zoltán Kemény, Hungarian Swiss sculptor (born 1907)
• June 21 – Piotr Buchkin, Russian painter and graphic artist (born 1886)
• June 26 – G. David Thompson, American industrialist and collector of modern art (born 1899)
• August 27 – Le Corbusier, Swiss-born French architect and painter (born 1887)
• October 19 – Edward Willis Redfield, American landscape painter (born 1869)
• date unknown – George Barker, American painter (born 1882)

See also

• 1965 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References