1960 in art
Events from the year 1960 in art.
Events
- August 10 – The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art opens at Inverleith House in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
- December – The Huysman Gallery is founded in Los Angeles.
- Launch of Nouveau réalisme movement.
- The Pace Gallery is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.
Awards
- Archibald Prize: Judy Cassab – Stanislaus Rapotec
- Prix de Rome – Pierre Carron
Works
Bison- Salvador Dalí – The Ecumenical Council
- M. C. Escher – Ascending and Descending
- Alberto Giacometti – bronzes
- * Large Standing Woman I
- * Monumental Head
- Barbara Hepworth
- * Archaeon
- * Figure for Landscape
- Edward Hopper – '
- M. F. Husain – The Prancing Horse
- Alex Katz - Black Dress
- Yves Klein
- * Anthropometries of The Blue Epoch
- * A Leap Into The Void
- Alberto Korda – Guerrillero Heroico
- Peter Lanyon – '
- Rico Lebrun – Genesis
- Norman Lewis - American Totem
- Morris Louis –
- Piero Manzoni – Corpo d'aria
- William McMillan – Lion and Unicorn statues for Kensington Central Library, London
- Ivan Meštrović – Immigrant Mother
- Pablo Picasso – Bust of a Seated Woman (Jacqueline Roque)
- Ceri Richards – Cathedrale Engloutie
- Will Roberts – Woman with Cup of Tea
- Norman Rockwell – Triple Self-Portrait
- Antoni Tàpies - Cnvas Burned to Matter
- Jean Tinguely – Homage to New York
- Andy Warhol – Campbell's Soup Cans
- Robert Whitman - ''American Moon''
Births
- February 21 – Isaac Julien, Black British installation artist and filmmaker
- March 13 – Joe Ranft, American magician, animation storyboard artist and voice actor
- March – Philip Mould, English art dealer and historian
- July 28 – Jon J Muth, American author and illustrator
- August 13 – Lorna Simpson, African American photographic and video artist
- September – Shaun Greenhalgh, English art forger
- September 21 – Maurizio Cattelan, Italian satirical sculptor
- October 2 – Joe Sacco, Maltese-born comics journalist
- December 22 – Jean-Michel Basquiat, American neo-expressionist painter
- December 26 – Andrew Graham Dixon, British art historian and broadcasterdate unknown – Ken Currie, British figurative painter
Deaths
- January 12 – William Adams Delano, American architect
- January 16 – Rudulph Evans, American sculptor
- February 8 – Hakuyō Fuchikami, Japanese photographer
- February 22 – Paul-Émile Borduas, Canadian painter
- March 3 – Nina Veselova, Russian painter
- March 18 – Alexander V. Kuprin, Russian painter
- March 26 – Francisco Goitia, Mexican realist painter
- April 13 – Eric Kennington, English sculptor and war artist
- May 8 – Hugo Alfvén, Swedish musician and painter
- May 16 – Igor Grabar, Russian painter, publisher, and art historian
- May 27 – James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator, poster artist
- June 6 – Ernest L. Blumenschein, American painter, member of the Taos art colony
- August 8 – Georg Mayer-Marton, Hungarian-British graphic artist
- September 20 – David Park, American painter
- October 22
- * Morgan Dennis, American painter and illustrator
- * Alexander Matveyev, Russian sculptor
- * Sreten Stojanović, Serbian sculptor
- November 14 – Anne Bonnet, Belgian painter
- November 17 – Gene Ahern, American comic-strip artist
- November 29 – Fortunato Depero, Italian futurist painter, sculptor, and designer b. 1892)
- December 4 - Dean Cornwell - American illustrator, muralist, and painter date unknown – Charles Pillet, French sculptor and engraver