1959 in art

Publications

• John Golding – Cubism: a history and an analysis, 1907-1914

Births

• January 17 – Herbert Brandl, Austrian painter (died 2025)
• June 2 – Rineke Dijkstra, Dutch photographer
• August 27 – Juan Fernando Cobo, Colombian artist (died 2024)
• November 11 – Celia Paul, British painter known for self-portraits
• Willie Doherty, Northern Irish visual artist
• Caio Fonseca, American painter
• Peter Lik, Australian-born landscape photographer

Deaths

• January – Eva Frankfurther, German-born British portrait painter, suicide (born 1930)
• January 29 – Winifred Brunton, South African painter and illustrator (born 1880)
• February 26 – Gabrielle Renard, French artist's model (born 1878)
• February 28 – Beatrix Farrand, American landscape architect (born 1872)
• April 9 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architectural pioneer (born 1867)
• May 3 – Renato Birolli, Italian painter (born 1905)
• June 8 – Pietro Canonica, Italian sculptor (born 1869)
• July 6 – George Grosz, German painter, draftsman and caricaturist (born 1893)
• July 17 – Sir Alfred Munnings, English equine painter (born 1878)
• August 5 – Frank Godwin, American illustrator (born 1889)
• August 19 – Sir Jacob Epstein, American-born British sculptor (born 1880)
• August 20 – Alfred Kubin, Austrian illustrator (born 1877)
• August 27 – Tom Purvis, English poster artist (born 1888).
• September 9
• Merric Boyd, Australian painter, sculptor and ceramic artist (born 1888)
• Cathleen Mann, English portrait painter and costume designer (born 1896)
• September 13 – Adrian (Greenberg), Hollywood costume designer (born 1903)
• September 18
• Benjamin Péret, French poet, Dadaist and editor of La Révolution surréaliste (born 1899)
• Adolf Ziegler, German painter and politician (born 1892)
• September 29 – Matthew Smith, English painter (born 1879)
• October 6 – Bernard Berenson, Lithuanian American art historian (born 1865)
• November 15 – Charles Jones, English gardener and photographer (born 1866)
• November 18 – Arkady Shaikhet, Soviet documentary photographer (born 1898)
• November 24 – Stepan Erzia, Mordvin sculptor (born 1876)
• December 9 – Gene Carr, American cartoonist (born 1881)
• December 14
• Lizzy Ansingh, Dutch painter (born 1875)
• Sir Stanley Spencer, English painter (born 1891)

See also

• 1959 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References