1965 in art

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Events

• September – Indica Gallery counterculture bookshop and art gallery opens in London.^[1]
• 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
• Sculptor Barbara Hepworth is created a Dame.^[2]

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Clifton Pugh – R A Henderson

Works

• Yaacov Agam – Double Metamorphosis II
• Lucian Freud – Reflection with Two Children (Self-portrait)
• L. S. Lowry
  • Huddersfield
  • Industrial Scene
• John Petts – Birmingham, Alabama, 16th Street Baptist Church, West Window
• Fairfield Porter – Elizabeth
• David Wynne – Busts of Joan Baez and Oskar Kokoschka

Births

• February 20 – Miriam Mone, Northern Irish fashion designer (d.2007)
• March 9 – Brom, illustrator
• May 20 – Charles Camoin, painter (b. 1879)
• July 9 – Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (d.2006)
• December 16 – Ellen Gallagher, American artist
• date unknown
  • Tacita Dean, English-born visual artist
  • Andrea Fraser, performance artist
  • Andrea Zittel, 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)
• 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

1. Miles, Barry (1998). Many Years From Now. Vintage–Random House. pp. 223–224. ISBN 0-7493-8658-4.
2. "Dame Barbara Hepworth" Britannica. Accessed 18 October 2013