Events from the year 1963 in art.
Events
Awards
Exhibitions
Works
- Josef Albers â "Manhattan" for the Pan Am Building in New York City (disassembled and removed in 2000 - recreated from Albers' design specifications in 2019 after the original was determined to be unsalvageable due to asbestos)
- Liberty Bell (Portland, Oregon)
- Georg Baselitz â Die groÃÂe Nacht im Eimer (Museum Ludwig, Cologne)
- Romare Bearden â Prevalence of Ritual
- Maurice Boitel â Cadaques
- Stuart Davis - Contranuities
- Donald De Lue = Rocket Thrower (bronze sculpture created for the 1964 World's Fair in and then permanently installed in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, New York)
- Melvin Edwards - Lynch Fragments (sculpture series)
- M. C. Escher â Möbius Strip II (Red Ants) (woodcut)
- David Hockney â Domestic Scene, Los Angeles
- Edward Hopper â Two Comedians
- Roy Lichtenstein
- Bratatat!
- Crying Girl (lithograph)
- Drowning Girl
- Hopeless
- In the Car
- Okay Hot-Shot, Okay!
- Torpedo...Los!
- Varoom!
- Whaam! (diptych)
- Woman with Flowered Hat
- René Magritte â The Difficult Crossing (2nd version)
- Lewis Morley â ' (photograph)
- John Piper and Patrick Reyntiens â windows at St Andrew's Church, Plymouth
- Andy Warhol
- Death in America (screenprint series)
- Eight Elvises
- Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I)
- Orange Disaster #5
- Red Car Crash
- Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)
- Suicide (Purple Jumping Man)
- Thirty Are Better Than One
- White Disaster (White Car Crash 19 Times)
- David Wynne
- Christ and Mary Magdalene (bronze castings, Ely Cathedral and Magdalen College, Oxford)
- Fire Figure (partly gilded aluminium, Lewis's, Hanley, Staffordshire)
- Reclining Woman (bronzes)
- The Sisters (bronzes)
- Sleeping girl (bronzes)
- Yehudi Menuhin (bronze heads)
Births
- January 20 â Mark Ryden, American painter
- April 4 â Martin Firrell, French-born British public artist
- April 20 â Dame Rachel Whiteread, English sculptor
- May 16 â Jon Coffelt, American painter, sculptor and book artist
- May 31 â Wesley Willis, American artist and musician (d. 2003)
- June 24 â Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (d. 2007)
- July 20 â Ciruelo Cabral, Argentine fantasy artist
- August 16 â Stevenson Magloire, painter of the School of Saint Soleil (d. 1994)
- October 6 - Romero Britto, Brazilian artist
- date unknown
- Marco Evaristti, Chilean sculptor
- Anya Gallaccio, British installation artist
- Sophie Ryder, English sculptor
- Bob and Roberta Smith (Patrick Brill), English slogan painter
Deaths
- February 3 â Piero Manzoni, Italian artist (b. 1933)
- February 8 â Fortunino Matania, Italian-born illustrator and war artist (b. 1881)
- February 14 â Hilda Vëka, Latvian painter (born 1897)
- February 27 â Vladimir Konashevich, Russian graphic artist (b. 1888).
- March 1 â Felice Casorati, Italian painter (b. 1883)
- June 9 â Jacques Villon, French Cubist painter and printmaker (b. 1875)
- June 20 â Manuel Benedito, Spanish painter (b. 1875)
- July 16 â Antonio Donghi, Italian painter (b. 1897)
- July 23 â Aleksandr Gerasimov, Soviet socialist realist painter (b. 1881)
- August 11 â Alois Arnegger, Austrian painter (b. 1879)
- August 16 â Joan Eardley, British painter (b. 1921)
- August 31 â Georges Braque, French painter and sculptor (b. 1882)
- September 11 â Suzanne Duchamp, French Dadaist painter and sister of Marcel Duchamp (b. 1889)
- September 19 â David Low, New Zealand-born editorial cartoonist (b. 1891)
- October 20 â Everett Warner, American impressionist painter and printmaker (b. 1877)
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References