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Events from the year
1955 in art
.
Events
January 21
–
O. Winston Link
starts a 5-year personal project to document steam operations on the
Norfolk and Western Railway
in the
United States
using
flash photography
.
January 26
– A trial establishes that the recently "restored" "medieval"
frescoes
in
St. Mary's Church, Lübeck
, are in fact newly painted by
Lothar Malskat
and an associate.
[
1
]
March –
A Photographer's Gallery
is established in
New York City
by
Roy DeCarava
.
May 17
– The
Clark Art Institute
opens to the public in
Williamstown, Massachusetts
.
June 1
– Première of
Billy Wilder
's film of
The Seven Year Itch
featuring an iconic scene of
Marilyn Monroe
standing on a
New York City Subway
grating as
her white dress
(created by
Travilla
) is blown above her knees.
[
2
]
June 27
– Sir
Jacob Epstein
marries
Kathleen Garman
.
October–November –
Nikolaus Pevsner
delivers this year's series of
Reith Lectures
on
The Englishness of English Art
, originally broadcast on
BBC
radio in the UK.
[
3
]
December –
Iris Clert Gallery
opens in the
rue des Beaux-Arts
,
Paris
, and its owner,
Iris Clert
, first meets
Yves Klein
.
date unknown
Marcel Duchamp
becomes a
citizen of the United States
.
Pablo Picasso
finishes painting his
Les Femmes d'Alger
("The Women of Algiers") series (inspired by
Delacroix
), concluding with "
Version O
" which in
2015
will sell at a world record price for a painting at auction.
[
4
]
British
studio potter
Alan Caiger-Smith
establishes
Aldermaston Pottery
in England.
Enrique Tábara
obtains an
Ecuadorian
government scholarship to study in Spain.
Awards
Archibald Prize
:
Ivor Hele
–
Robert Campbell
Esq
.
Works
See also:
Category:1955 sculptures
Michael Andrews
–
Four People Sunbathing
(
Arts Council England
)
Pietro Annigoni
–
Portrait of
Elizabeth II
Balthus
Girls on the Couch
Nude Before a Mirror
John Brack
Collins St., 5 pm
The Car
Edward Burra
–
Izzy Orts
Lucien Clergue
–
Trio des Saltimbanques
(photograph)
Carroll Cloar
–
My Father Was Big as a Tree
Pompeo Coppini
–
Statue of George Washington
(bronze,
University of Texas at Austin
)
Salvador Dalí
–
The Sacrament of the Last Supper
(
National Gallery of Art
,
Washington, D.C.
) (completed)
Ben Enwonwu
–
Anyanwu
(sculpture)
Sir
Jacob Epstein
–
Christ in Majesty
(sculpture for
Llandaff Cathedral
)
M. C. Escher
–
lithographs
Compass Rose (Order and Chaos II)
Convex and Concave
Three Worlds
Alberto Giacometti
Diego
(approximate date)
Grande tête mince
Oswaldo Guayasamín
–
El ataúd blanco
Edward Hopper
–
South Carolina Morning
Jasper Johns
Flag
White Flag
Willem de Kooning
Composition
Woman as Landscape
Woman-Ochre
Lee Krasner
Bald Eagle
Color Totem
L. S. Lowry
(
Tate
collection)
Industrial Landscape
A Young Man
René Magritte
–
The Mysteries of the Horizon
Georg Mayer-Marton
—
Crucifixion
(mosaic and fresco in Roman Catholic Church of Holy Rosary in
Fitton Hill
,
Oldham
, England)
[
5
]
[
6
]
Henry Moore
Upright Motive No. 1: Glenkiln Cross
Wall Relief no. 1
(carved brick, Bouwcentrum,
Rotterdam
)
Sidney Nolan
–
Ned Kelly
Pablo Picasso
–
Don Quixote
(sketch for
Les Lettres Françaises
, August)
Robert Rauschenberg
–
Bantam
Norman Rockwell
–
Marriage License
Mark Rothko
–
Violet Center
Charles Sheeler
–
The Web
Hedda Sterne
–
New York, N.Y., 1955
Exhibitions
January –
The Family of Man
, a
photography
exhibition curated by
Edward Steichen
, opens at the
Museum of Modern Art
,
New York
.
October – First public exhibition of
Yves Klein
's monochrome oil paintings, at Club des Solitaires, Paris.
November 3–December 18 –
Stanley Spencer
: a Retrospective Exhibition
at the
Tate Gallery
, London.
[
7
]
Le Mouvement
at Galerie
Denise René
, Paris, popularizing
kinetic art
.
Exhibition by London members of
Groupe Espace
, organized by
Paule Vézelay
at the
Royal Festival Hall
.
Births
January 15
–
Andreas Gursky
,
German
large format photographer
January 21
–
Jeff Koons
,
American
"kitsch" artist
February 2
–
Madi Phala
,
South African
artist (d.
2007
)
March 10
–
Mark Landis
, American painter and art forger
March 24
–
Beverly K. Effinger
, American painter
April 5
–
Akira Toriyama
, Japanese manga and video game artist (d.
2024
)
May 20
–
Anton Corbijn
, Dutch photographer and videographer
July 29
–
Dave Stevens
, American
illustrator
and
comics
artist (d.
2008
)
August 2
–
PHASE 2
(Lonny Wood), American graffiti artist (d.
2019
)
November 15
–
Sergey Voychenko
,
Belarusian
artist and designer (d.
2004
)
undated
Manasie Akpaliapik
,
Canadian
Inuit
sculptor
Mariana Cook
, American portrait photographer
Miroslav Grčev
,
Macedonian
architect and graphic designer
Jaume Plensa
,
Catalan
sculptor
Rebecca Salter
,
English
printmaker and multimedia abstract artist, President of the Royal Academy
Alexander Sokolov
, sculptor working in Spain
Deaths
January 1
–
Maria Bal
,
Polish
model (b.
1879
)
January 7
–
Lamorna Birch
,
English
painter (b.
1869
)
February 11
–
Olga Khokhlova
,
Russian
-born ballet dancer and estranged wife of
Picasso
(b.
1891
)
March 9
–
Nels N. Alling
, Danish-American sculptor (b.
1861
)
March 13
–
Evie Hone
,
Irish
painter and stained glass artist (b.
1894
)
March 16
–
Nicolas de Staël
, Russian-born
French
impasto
painter (b.
1914
)
May 3
–
Rudolf Schlichter
,
German
painter (b.
1890
)
May 10
–
John Radecki
,
Polish
-born Australian
stained glass
artist (b.
1865
)
May 11
–
Bradley Walker Tomlin
, American painter (b.
1899
)
May 23
–
Auguste Chabaud
, French painter (b.
1882
)
June 1
–
Antonio Dattilo Rubbo
,
Italian
-born
Australian
painter and art teacher (b.
1870
)
June 29
–
Max Pechstein
, German
Expressionist
artist (b.
1881
)
August 17
–
Fernand Léger
, French artist (b. 1881)
September 19
–
Carl Milles
,
Swedish
sculptor (b.
1875
)
September 27
–
Leslie Garland Bolling
,
African American
sculptor (b.
1898
)
November 5
–
Maurice Utrillo
, French painter (b.
1883
)
November 29
–
Rene Paul Chambellan
, American sculptor (b.
1893
)
December 17
–
Dorothea Sharp
, English painter (b.
1874
)
December 19
–
Alexander Lubimov
, Russian artist (b.
1879
)
December 28
–
Olive Edis
, English photographer (b.
1876
)
See also
1955 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
References
^
Keats, Jonathon (February 2012).
"Pious Fraud"
.
Art & Antiques
. Archived from
the original
on 2014-12-03
. Retrieved
2019-10-20
.
^
Filmed on location September 1954.
"The Seven Year Itch (1955)"
.
Rotten Tomatoes
. Archived from
the original
on 2001-04-30
. Retrieved
2012-05-20
.
^
Pevsner, Nikolaus.
"The Englishness of English Art"
.
The Reith Lectures
. BBC Radio 4
. Retrieved
2023-08-26
.
^
"Picasso's Women of Algiers smashes auction record"
.
BBC News
. 2015-05-12
. Retrieved
2015-05-12
.
^
"Hollinwood – Holy Rosary"
.
Taking Stock - Catholic churches of England and Wales
. Retrieved
2020-09-13
.
^
Pepinster, Catherine
(2017-02-26).
"Church closure threatens masterpiece by Jewish artist who fled Nazis"
.
The Observer
. London
. Retrieved
2017-04-02
.
^
"Stanley Spencer: a Retrospective Exhibition"
. Tate Britain
. Retrieved
2012-04-10
.
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