1963 in art

Events from the year 1963 in art.

Events

• January 8 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first (and only) time, for a period of four weeks, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. During this time it was viewed by over half a million people.
• September – The David Mirvish Gallery is opened in Toronto by David Mirvish.
• November 17 – Museo Bodoniano opens in Parma, Italy.
• Museum of Contemporary Art (Skopje) opens in Yugoslavia.
• First Pirelli Calendar (for 1964), photographed by Robert Freeman in Mallorca, issued in the United Kingdom. His portrait of The Beatles is used on the cover of their album With the Beatles (released November 22).

Awards

• Archibald Prize: J Carington Smith – Professor James McAuley
• John Moores Painting Prize – Roger Hilton for "March 1963"

Exhibitions

• Visione e Colore, Palazzo Grassi, Venice
• Roy Lichtenstein's second solo exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City
• Morris Louis memorial exhibition, Guggenheim Museum, New York City

Works

• Josef Albers – "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 – Die große Nacht im Eimer (Museum Ludwig, Cologne)
• Romare Bearden – Prevalence of Ritual
• Maurice Boitel – 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 – Möbius Strip II (Red Ants) (woodcut)
• David Hockney – Domestic Scene, Los Angeles
• Edward Hopper – 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 – The Difficult Crossing (2nd version)
• Lewis Morley – ' (photograph)
• John Piper and Patrick Reyntiens – 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)