1958 in art

Awards

• Archibald Prize: William Edwin Pidgeon – Mr Ray Walker
• Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Allied Arts Medal – Louis Archambault

Events

• April 29 – Alley of Classics, Chișinău, opened in Romania.
• October 15 – At the Goldschmidt sale at Sotheby's in London, a version of Paul Cézanne's The Boy in the Red Vest sells at a new record price for a painting at auction.
• M. C. Escher publishes his illustrated book The Regular Division of the Plane
• Robert Frank publishes his photographic essay The Americans
• Mark Rothko completes forty paintings, the "Seagram murals", for The Four Seasons Restaurant in New York but withdraws from the commission before they are hung there

Exhibitions

• Jean Arp retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City
• Yves Klein, La spécialisation de la sensibilité à l’état matière première en sensibilité picturale stabilisée, Le Vide, Iris Clert Gallery, Paris.
• Constructivist Design at the Galerie Lambert Weyl, Paris

Works

• Edmond Amateis – Polio Hall of Fame in Warm Springs, Georgia
• Zdzisław Beksiński – Untitled
• Paul Cadmus – '
• Salvador Dalí - Meditative Rose
• Jacob Epstein – sculptures
• * Bust of Edward Sydney Woods, Bishop of Lichfield in Lichfield Cathedral
• * St Michael's Victory over the Devil for Coventry Cathedral
• * Trades Union Congress war memorial in Congress House, London
• M. C. Escher – Belvedere
• Marshall Fredericks – The Spirit of Detroit
• Mathias Goeritz, Luis Barragán and Jesús Reyes Ferreira – Torres de Satélite, monument in Ciudad Satélite, Mexico
• Richard Hunt - Hero Construction
• Jasper Johns – Three Flags
• Morris Louis – Russet
• René Magritte – The Listening Room
• S. H. Raza – Paysage
• Mark Rothko
• *Black on Maroon
• *Untitled
• Emil Schumacher – Cadmium
• David Wynne – Teamwork''

Births

• 27 January – Kadri Mälk, Estonian artist and jewelry designer
• 27 February – Max Crivello, Italian artist
• 27 March – Peter Howson, Scottish figurative painter, war artist
• 4 May – Keith Haring, American artist and social activist.
• 8 September – Reiko Terashima, Japanese manga artist and illustrator.
• 23 October – Axel Krause, German painter and graphic artist.
• 5 December – Julio Galán, Mexican artist.
• date unknown
• *Helena Klakocar, Dutch cartoonist
• *Doris Salcedo, Colombian visual artist and sculptor
• *Yoshiteru Otani, Japanese cartoonist
• *Adrian Wiszniewski, Scottish figurative painter

Deaths

• January 28 – Ferenc Helbing, Hungarian painter and lithographer
• January 30 – Jean Crotti, Swiss-born painter
• February 13 – Georges Rouault, French Fauvist and Expressionist painter and stained glass artist
• February 16 – Situ Qiao, Chinese painter
• February 26 – Yokoyama Taikan, Japanese painter
• March 1 – Giacomo Balla, Italian painter
• March 22 – Claire McCardell, American fashion designer
• April 11 – Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter and theatre designer
• May 11 – Lucien Lelong, French fashion designer
• August 12 – André Bauchant, French naïve painter
• August 22 – Ted Sears, American animator
• August 23 – Marlow Moss, English Constructivist artist
• August 24 – Paul Henry, Irish painter
• September 15 – Stephen Bone, English painter
• October 11
• * Maurice de Vlaminck, French Fauvist painter
• * Max Jakob Friedländer, German-born curator and art historian
• November 17 – Frank Cadogan Cowper, English painter and illustrator
• November 30 – Sir Hubert Wilkins, Australian explorer and photographer date unknown
• * Viktor Jansson, Finnish sculptor
• * Sybil Pye, English bookbinder