1967 in art

Events from the year 1967 in art.

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.
 * September 25 – Gilbert and George first meet while studying sculpture at St Martins School of Art in London.
 * 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.
 * John Willett publishes Art in a City, 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)
 * 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 (Helsinki)
 * 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
 * Nuclear Energy
 * Two-Piece Reclining Figure No. 9
 * Barnett Newman
 * Broken Obelisk (sculpture - completed)
 * Voice of Fire (painting commissioned for Expo 67 in Montreal)
 * Isamu Noguchi – Sinai (sculpture)
 * Pablo Picasso – Chicago Picasso (sculpture)
 * Michelangelo Pistoletto –
 * Muretto di straci (Rag Wall - assemblage)
 * Venus of the Rags, (Assemblage - first version)
 * 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)
 * January 10 – Charles E. Burchfield, American landscape watercolorist (born 1893)
 * January 15 – David Burliuk, Russian avant-garde artists (born 1882)
 * January 28 – Ary Stillman, Russian-American representational and abstract painter (born 1891)
 * 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)
 * May 15
 * Edward Hopper, American painter and printmaker (born 1882)
 * Italo Mus, Italian painter (born 1892)
 * Jessie Traill, Australian printmaker (born 1881)
 * May 27 – Johannes Itten, Swiss painter (born 1888)
 * August 15 – René Magritte, Belgian surrealist painter (born 1898)
 * August 30 – Ad Reinhardt, American abstract painter (born 1913)
 * September 20 – Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian-born French painter (born 1884)
 * 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)
 * December 26 – Ambrose McCarthy Patterson, Australian painter and printmaker (born 1877)
 * date unknown
 * Marguerite Huré, French stained-glass artist (born 1895)
 * Veljko Stanojević, Serbian painter (born 1892)