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    • Source: 1969 in art

      • Events from the year 1969 in art.


      Events


      January 9 – In Washington, D.C., the Smithsonian Institution displays the art of Winslow Homer for 6 weeks.
      February 2 – Ten paintings are defaced in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
      August 8 – Iain Macmillan photographs the cover picture for The Beatles' album Abbey Road in London.
      October 5 – Monty Python's Flying Circus is broadcast for the first time on BBC Television, with Terry Gilliam's animations.
      October 18 – Caravaggio's Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence (c.1609) is stolen from its frame in the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo, Sicily; it has not been recovered as of 2020.
      November 19 – The Apollo 12 lunar module lands on the Moon with astronaut and artist Alan Bean; American artist Forrest "Frosty" Myers claims to have smuggled the art piece Moon Museum onto a leg of the module which will remain on the surface.
      c. December – The music and performance art collective COUM Transmissions is formed in England by Genesis P-Orridge.
      Late – Andy Warhol, John Wilcock, and Gerard Malanga co-found the magazine Interview.
      Opening of the Oakland Museum of California, designed by Kevin Roche.
      Lyrical Abstraction exhibition debuts at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum marking a significant return to expressivity in American abstract painting. For two years the exhibition travels throughout the U.S. including to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.


      Awards


      Archibald Prize: Ray Crooke – George Johnston
      John Moores Painting Prize - Richard Hamilton and Mary Martin for "Toaster" and "Cross" (respectively)


      Works



      Kenojuak Ashevak – The Owl
      Michael Ayrton – The Arkville Minotaur
      Francis Bacon – Three Studies of Lucian Freud
      Thomas Bass – Australian Seal (bronze, Washington, D.C.)
      Edward Bawden – Victoria tile motif on London Underground's Victoria line
      Fernando Botero - Protestant Family
      Alexander Calder – La Grande Vitesse (sculpture)
      Christo and Jeanne Claude - "Wrapped Coast" in Little Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
      Mai Dantsig – Partisan Ballad
      Helen Frankenthaler – Slice of Stone Itself
      Frank Frazetta – Egyptian Queen
      Milton Glaser - Speed City
      Anna Hyatt Huntington - Equestrian statue of Israel Putnam at Putnam Memorial State Park in Redding, Connecticut (dedicated)
      Allen Jones – Hatstand, Table and Chair (sculptures)
      Ronnie Landfield – Diamond Lake
      André Lufwa - "Batteur de tam-tam"
      Joan Mitchell - Sans Neige
      Kanda Nissho – Snow Farm
      Pablo Picasso- The Kiss
      Enzo Plazzotta – Baigneuse
      Jean-Paul Riopelle – La Joute (public sculptural installation, Montreal)
      Will Roberts – Redberth Village, Pembrokeshire
      Alexander Semionov – Leningrad in the Morning
      Victor Teterin – Sredne-Podjacheskaya Street in Leningrad
      Nikolai Timkov – Russian Winter
      Hans Unger – Oxford Circus and Green Park tile motifs on London Underground's Victoria line


      Exhibitions


      December 30 until March 1, 1970 - Spaces at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (Dan Flavin, Larry Bell, Robert Morris, Franz Erhard Walther, and Pulsa).


      Births


      January 5 – Marilyn Manson, American rock musician and painter
      February 7 – Andrew Micallef, Maltese painter and musician
      July 11 – Abigail McLellan, British painter (d. 2009)
      October 5 – Chantal Joffe, English painter
      November 26 – Kara Walker, African American artist
      date unknown
      Boushra Almutawakel, Yemeni photographer
      Steven Claydon, English sculptor, installation artist and musician
      Invader, French urban artist
      Patricia Martín, Mexican curator


      Deaths


      January 20 – Luigi Del Bianco, Italian-born American sculptor (b. 1892)
      January 29 – Edward Marshall Boehm, American Expressionist sculptor (b. 1913)
      March 14 – Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-born American painter and photographer (b. 1898)
      March 17 – Daniel Vázquez Díaz, Spanish painter (b. 1882)
      May 11 – T. K. Padmini, Keralan feminist painter (b. 1940; d. in childbirth)
      June 12 – Aleksandr Deyneka, Russian painter and sculptor (b. 1899)
      July 5 – Walter Gropius, German-born architect (b. 1883)
      July 9 – Emerik Feješ, Hungarian and Serbian painter (b. 1904)
      July 25 – Otto Dix, German painter and printmaker (b. 1891)
      August – Doris Brabham Hatt, English modernist painter (b. 1890)
      September 15 – Edith Barry, American sculptor, painter, illustrator and designer (b. 1883)
      November 21 – Norman Lindsay, Australian sculptor and cartoonist (born 1879)


      See also


      1969 in fine arts of the Soviet Union


      References

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