Editing Timeline of art (section)

== 1950s ==
* '''[[1959 in art]]''' – Birth of [[Caio Fonseca]], Death of [[Frank Lloyd Wright]], Sir [[Jacob Epstein]]
* '''[[1958 in art]]''' – [[Frank Stella]] begins black [[pinstripe]] paintings; Birth of [[Brian O'Connor (artist)]] and [[Don Yeomans]]
* '''[[1957 in art]]''' – Death of  [[Jack Butler Yeats]], [[Luisa Casati]], [[Diego Rivera]], [[David Bomberg]] Birth of [[Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun]]
* '''[[1956 in art]]''' – Birth of [[David D. Stern]], Death of [[Marie Laurencin]], [[Jackson Pollock]]
* '''[[1955 in art]]''' – Birth of [[Beau Dick]], [[Jeff Koons]], [[Akira Toriyama]]; Death of [[Fernand Léger]], [[Nicolas de Staël]], [[Bradley Walker Tomlin]]; [[Jasper Johns]] completes ''[[Flag (painting)|Flag]]'', (American Flag Painting)
* '''[[1954 in art]]''' – Death of [[Henri Matisse]], [[André Derain]], [[Frida Kahlo]], Birth of [[David Wojnarowicz]] and [[Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas]]
* '''[[1953 in art]]''' – Death of [[Raoul Dufy]], [[John Marin]], [[Francis Picabia]]; Birth of [[Gidansda Guujaaw]]
* '''[[1952 in art]]''' – Jackson Pollock paints ''[[Blue Poles]]'', and ''Number Twelve'' (damaged by fire in the Governors Mansion, Albany, NY in 1961) an influential and large-scale, colorful stain painting that predicts both [[Color field]] painting and [[Lyrical abstraction]]
* '''[[1951 in art]]''' – Birth of [[Richard Hunt (artist)|Richard Hunt]] and [[Joe Nalo]]; Death of [[Wols]], [[Willem de Kooning]] paints ''Woman I,''  the [[Ninth Street Show]] of 1951, NYC. A seminal event of [[abstract expressionism]].
* '''[[1950 in art]]''' – [[Jackson Pollock]] paints ''Autumn Rhythm'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20061021213144/http://www.sissa.it/~fonte/New%20York%20City/Arte%20Contemporanea/HPIM0177.JPG]