1960 in art

Events from the year 1960 in art.

Events

 * August 10 – The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art opens at Inverleith House in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
 * December – The Huysman Gallery is founded in Los Angeles.
 * Launch of Nouveau réalisme movement.
 * The Pace Gallery is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.

Awards

 * Archibald Prize: Judy Cassab – Stanislaus Rapotec
 * Prix de Rome (for painting) – Pierre Carron

Works

 * Bison (stone sculpture, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon)
 * Salvador Dalí – The Ecumenical Council
 * M. C. Escher – Ascending and Descending (lithograph)
 * Alberto Giacometti – bronzes
 * Large Standing Woman I (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston)
 * Monumental Head (Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.)
 * Barbara Hepworth
 * Archaeon
 * Figure for Landscape (bronze)
 * Edward Hopper – Second Story Sunlight
 * M. F. Husain – The Prancing Horse
 * Alex Katz - Black Dress
 * Yves Klein
 * Anthropometries of The Blue Epoch (performance art)
 * A Leap Into The Void
 * Alberto Korda – Guerrillero Heroico (photograph of Che Guevara)
 * Peter Lanyon – Thermal
 * Morris Louis – Unfurled paintings
 * Piero Manzoni – Corpo d'aria (artist's multiple)
 * William McMillan – Lion and Unicorn statues for Kensington Central Library, London
 * Ivan Meštrović – Immigrant Mother (bronze)
 * Pablo Picasso – Bust of a Seated Woman (Jacqueline Roque)
 * Ceri Richards – Cathedrale Engloutie
 * Will Roberts – Woman with Cup of Tea
 * Norman Rockwell – Triple Self-Portrait
 * Jean Tinguely – Homage to New York (self-destroying sculpture)
 * Andy Warhol – Campbell's Soup Cans
 * Robert Whitman - American Moon (performance)

Births

 * February 21 – Isaac Julien, Black British installation artist and filmmaker
 * March 13 – Joe Ranft, American magician, animation storyboard artist and voice actor (d. 2005)
 * July 28 – Jon J Muth, American author and illustrator
 * August 13 – Lorna Simpson, African American photographic and video artist
 * September – Shaun Greenhalgh, English art forger
 * September 21 – Maurizio Cattelan, Italian satirical sculptor
 * October 2 – Joe Sacco, Maltese-born comics journalist
 * December 22 – Jean-Michel Basquiat, American neo-expressionist painter (suicide 1988)
 * December 26 – Andrew Graham Dixon, British art historian and broadcaster
 * date unknown – Ken Currie, British figurative painter

Deaths

 * January 12 – William Adams Delano, American architect (b. 1874)
 * January 16 – Rudulph Evans, American sculptor (b. 1878)
 * February 8 – Hakuyō Fuchikami, Japanese photographer (b. 1889)
 * February 22 – Paul-Émile Borduas, Canadian painter (b. 1905)
 * March 3 – Nina Veselova, Russian painter (b. 1922)
 * March 18 – Alexander V. Kuprin, Russian painter (b. 1880)
 * March 26 – Francisco Goitia, Mexican realist painter (b. 1882)
 * April 13 – Eric Kennington, English sculptor and war artist (b. 1888)
 * May 8 – Hugo Alfvén, Swedish musician and painter (b. 1872)
 * May 16 – Igor Grabar, Russian painter, publisher, and art historian (b. 1871)
 * May 27 – James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator, poster artist (b. 1877)
 * June 6 – Ernest L. Blumenschein, American painter, member of the Taos art colony (b. 1874)
 * August 8 – Georg Mayer-Marton, Hungarian-British graphic artist (b. 1897)
 * September 20 – David Park, American painter (b. 1911)
 * October 22
 * Morgan Dennis, American painter and illustrator (b. 1892)
 * Alexander Matveyev, Russian sculptor (b. 1878)
 * Sreten Stojanović, Serbian sculptor (b. 1898)
 * November 14 – Anne Bonnet, Belgian painter (b. 1908)
 * November 17 – Gene Ahern, American comic-strip artist (b. 1895)
 * November 29 – Fortunato Depero, Italian futurist painter, sculptor, and designer b. 1892)
 * December 4 - Dean Cornwell - American illustrator, muralist, and painter (b. 1892)
 * date unknown – Charles Pillet, French sculptor and engraver (b. 1869)