Editing 1962 in art

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Events from the year '''1962 in art'''.

==Events==
* [[February 6]]–[[March 4]] – [[Jane Frank]], solo exhibition at the [[Corcoran Gallery of Art]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]
* [[February 7]] – Opening of this year's "[[Young contemporaries]]" student exhibition at the RBA Galleries in London at which [[David Hockney]] exhibits his four "Demonstrations of Versatility" (1961): ''A Grand Procession of Dignitaries in the Semi-Egyptian Style'', ''Swiss Landscape in a Scenic Style'' (retitled ''[http://gg-art.com/news/photoshow/44267l1.html Flight into Italy - Swiss Landscape] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161024233022/http://gg-art.com/news/photoshow/44267l1.html |date=2016-10-24 }}''), ''Tea Painting in an Illusionistic Style'' and ''Figure in a Flat Style''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Tea Painting in an Illusionistic Style|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hockney-tea-painting-in-an-illusionistic-style-t07075|publisher=[[Tate]]|accessdate=2016-10-24}}</ref> Hockney first meets [[Patrick Procktor]] at this exhibition and, with [[Maurice Agis]], [[John Bowstead]] and [[Peter Phillips (artist)|Peter Phillips]], Hockney's work is selected for a further exhibition at the [[Institute of Contemporary Arts|ICA]].
* [[February 10]]
** [[Ervin Eisch]], [[Lothar Fischer]], [[Dieter Kunzelmann]], [[Renee Nele]], [[Heimrad Prem]], [[Gretel Stadler]], [[Helmut Sturm]] and [[Hans-Peter Zimmer]] are excluded from the [[Situationist International]] (SI).
** [[Roy Lichtenstein]]'s first solo exhibition opens at [[Leo Castelli]]'s gallery in New York City, including ''[[Look Mickey]]'', featuring his first employment of [[Ben-Day dots]], [[speech balloon]]s and imagery from [[comics]].
* [[March 15]] – [[Ansgar Elde]] and [[Jørgen Nash]] are excluded from the Situationist International.
* [[March 25]] – [[BBC Television]] in the United Kingdom broadcasts [[Ken Russell]]'s film ''Pop Goes the Easel'' in its ''[[Monitor (UK TV series)|Monitor]]'' series, exploring the British [[pop art]] movement.
* [[April 7]] – The [[Stanley Spencer Gallery]] opens in [[Stanley Spencer|Spencer]]'s home village of [[Cookham]], England, to display his work.
* [[April 10]] – [[Robert Fraser (art dealer)|Robert Fraser]] sets up his gallery, specializing in contemporary British art, in the [[Mayfair]] district of London.
* May – The [[comic book]] character ''[[Hulk|The Incredible Hulk]]'', created visually by [[Jack Kirby]], is introduced.
* May–June – [[David Smith (sculptor)|David Smith]] creates the ''Voltri'' series of abstract sculptures (e.g. ''[[Voltri XV]]'') in Italy.
* [[May 25]] – The new [[Coventry Cathedral]], designed by [[Basil Spence]], is consecrated in [[England]]; artworks incorporated include: the exterior sculpture ''[[St Michael's Victory over the Devil]]'' by Sir [[Jacob Epstein]]; the [[tapestry]] ''[[Christ in Glory in the Tetramorph]]'', designed by [[Graham Sutherland]]; the ''Mater Dolorosa'' sculpture by [[John Bridgeman (sculptor)|John Bridgeman]]; the Baptistry window by [[John Piper (artist)|John Piper]] and [[Patrick Reyntiens]]; and the engraved glass ''Screen of Saints and Angels'' by [[John Hutton (Artist)|John Hutton]].
* late June – [[Bert Stern]] begins shooting ''[[The Last Sitting]]'' in New York City, the last series of photographs taken of [[Marilyn Monroe]], originally for ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'' magazine; later published as a book.
* [[July 9]] – [[Andy Warhol]]'s first solo California [[Art gallery|gallery]] exhibition as a [[fine artist]] opens at the [[Ferus Gallery]], [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], marking the [[West Coast of the United States|West Coast]] debut of [[pop art]] and featuring his ''[[Campbell's Soup Cans]]''.<ref>{{cite book|editor=Livingstone, Marco|title=Pop Art: an International Perspective|publisher=[[Royal Academy of Arts]]|location=London|year=1991|isbn=0-8478-1475-0|page=32}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Lippard|first=Lucy R.|title=Pop Art|location=London|publisher=Thames and Hudson|year=1970|isbn=0-500-20052-1|page=158}}</ref>
* [[July 23]] – The [[Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum]] is opened in [[Cairo]].
* [[July 25]] – The [[Queen's Gallery]] is opened to the public at [[Buckingham Palace]], London.
[[Image:Cathedral St Michaels Victory.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jacob Epstein|Epstein]]'s ''[[St Michael's Victory over the Devil]]'' at [[Coventry Cathedral]]]]
* August – The [[comic book]] character ''[[Spider-Man]]'', created visually by [[Steve Ditko]], is introduced.
* [[September 25]] – The [[Norton Simon Museum|Pasadena Art Museum]] mounts ''[[New Painting of Common Objects]]'', a survey of contemporary American [[Pop Art]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Peter|last=Plagens|authorlink=Peter Plagens|title=Sunshine Muse: Art on the West Coast, 1945-1970|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley|year=2000|page=138|isbn=0-520-22392-6}}</ref>
* [[October 23]] – "Fifty California Artists" exhibition at [[Whitney Museum of American Art]], New York, NY. 1962-1963. Catalogue published. Organized by [[San Francisco Museum of Art]] with assistance of [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]]. Circulated to [[Walker Art Center]], Minneapolis, MN; [[Albright-Knox Art Gallery]], Buffalo, NY; [[Des Moines Art Center]], IA. Notable artists in exhibition include [[Elmer Bischoff]], [[Bruce Conner]], [[Roy De Forest]], [[Richard Diebenkorn]], [[George Herms]], [[John Paul Jones (artist)|John Paul Jones]], [[Edward Kienholz]], [[Frank Lobdell]], [[Nathan Oliveira]], [[Ed Moses (artist)|Ed Moses]], [[Lorser Feitelson]], [[Helen Lundeberg]] and [[Peter Voulkos]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Lloyd|last=Goodrich|authorlink=Lloyd Goodrich|title=Fifty California Artists|publisher=[[San Francisco Museum of Art]]|location=California|year=1962}}</ref>
* [[October 31]] – The [[Sidney Janis|Sidney Janis Gallery]] mounts ''International Exhibition of the New Realists'', a survey of contemporary American Pop Art and the European [[Nouveau Réalisme]] movement and the first [[Pop Art]] group exhibition in an 'uptown gallery' in [[New York City]], a rented storefront at 19 W. 57th Street, near the main gallery at 15 E. 57th Street. [[Robert Motherwell]], [[Mark Rothko]], [[Philip Guston]] and [[Adolph Gottlieb]] quit the Janis Gallery as a protest against the exhibition.
* [[November 14]] – The British [[General Post Office]] issues the first [[commemorative stamp]]s to be designed by [[David Gentleman]].
* [[December 14]] – [[Leonardo da Vinci]]'s early 16th-century painting the ''[[Mona Lisa]]'' is assessed for insurance purposes at US$100&nbsp;million before touring the United States for several months, the highest insurance value for a painting in history. However, the [[Louvre]], its owner, chooses to spend the money that would have been spent on the insurance premium on security instead.
* [[Michelangelo Pistoletto]] begins painting on mirrors.
* [[Ernst Barlach House]] completed as an art museum in [[Hamburg]], Germany.
* [[Hong Kong Museum of Art|City Hall Museum and Art Gallery]] established in [[Hong Kong]].
* The [[Institute of American Indian Arts]] is set up in [[Santa Fe, New Mexico]].
* [[Musashino Art University]].
* [[National Art Museum of China]] opens in [[Beijing]].
* [[Museo de Arte Español Enrique Larreta]] inaugurated in [[Buenos Aires]], Argentina.
* The [[comic book]] character [[Barbarella (comics)|Barbarella]], created by [[Jean-Claude Forest]], is introduced in France.
* [[Frederic Leighton]]'s painting ''[[Flaming June]]'' ([[1895 in art|1895]]) is rediscovered in London.

==Exhibitions==
* ''[[New Painting of Common Objects]]'' (with works by [[Wayne Thiebaud]], [[Roy Lichtenstein]], [[Andy Warhol]], [[Jim Dine]], [[Phillip Hefferton]], [[Joe Goode]], [[Edward Ruscha]], and [[ Robert Dowd (artist)|Robert Dowd]]) at the [[Pasadena Art Museum]] curated by [[Walter Hopps]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nortonsimon.org/about/museum-history/|title = Museum History}}</ref>

==Awards==
* [[Archibald Prize]]: [[Louis Kahan]] – ''[[Patrick White]]''

==Works==
[[File:IKB 191.jpg|thumb|[[Yves Klein]] – ''IKB 191'']]
{{see also|Category:1962 sculptures}}

* [[Billy Apple]] – ''2 Minutes, 33 Seconds'' (sculpture)
* [[Diane Arbus]] – ''[[Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park]]'' (photograph)
* [[Alexander Calder]] – ''[[Sky Hooks]]'' (sculpture)
* [[Anthony Caro]] – ''[[Early One Morning (Caro)|Early One Morning]]'' (painted metal sculpture)
* [[Pietro Consagra]] – ''[[Conversation with the Wind]]'' (steel sculpture)
* [[Jean Dubuffet]] – ''[[:File:20070624 Dubuffet – Court les rues.JPG|Court les rues]]''
* [[Yves Klein]]
** ''[[:File:IKB 191.jpg|IKB 191]]''
** ''Immaterial Pictorial Sensitivity''
* [[Norman Lewis (artist)|Norman Lewis]] - ''Evening Rendezvous''<ref>https://americanart.si.edu/education/oh-freedom/norman-lewis</ref>
* [[Roy Lichtenstein]]
** ''[[Blam (Roy Lichtenstein)|Blam]]''
** ''[[Brattata]]''
** ''[[Golf Ball]]''
** ''[[Jet Pilot (Roy Lichtenstein)|Jet Pilot]]''
** ''[[Kiss II]]''
** ''[[Masterpiece (Roy Lichtenstein)|Masterpiece]]''
** ''[[Portrait of Madame Cézanne (Roy Lichtenstein)|Portrait of Madame Cézanne]]''
* [[L. S. Lowry]] – ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120320070913/http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/print/collectionsandlibrary/object-of-the-month,240,AR.html?action=com.othermedia.webkit.site.UserPreferenceAction&actionToken=altxRZcyophg3&preference=user-size-large Station Approach]''
* Kazuyuki Matsushita and Hideki Shimizu – ''[[International Fountain]]'', Seattle
* [[Henry Moore]] – ''[[Knife Edge Two Piece 1962–65]]''
* [[Otto Muehl]] and followers of [[Viennese Actionism]] – ''[[:de:Die Blutorgel|Die Blutorgel]]'' ([[performance art]])
* [[Isamu Noguchi]] – ''[[Floor Frame]]''
* [[William Roberts (painter)|William Roberts]] – ''[[The Vorticists at the Restaurant de la Tour Eiffel, Spring 1915]]''
* [[David Shepherd (artist)|David Shepherd]] – ''The Wise Old Elephant''
* [[Jeffrey Smart]] – ''[[Cahill Expressway (Smart)|Cahill Expressway]]'' 
* [[Jean Tinguely]] – ''Study for an End of the World No. 2'' (self-destroying sculpture)
* [[Marie Vorobieff]] – ''Homage to Friends from Montparnasse''
* [[Andy Warhol]]
** ''[[Campbell's Soup Cans]]'' (completed)
** ''Coca-Cola (3)''
** ''[[Green Coca-Cola Bottles]]''
** ''Elvis''
** ''[[Marilyn Diptych]]''
** ''Marilyn 3 Times''
** ''129 DIE IN JET (Plane Crash)''
** ''[[Men in Her Life (Painting)|Men in Her Life]]''
* [[David Wynne (sculptor)|David Wynne]]
** The ''Breath of Life'' Column ([[Hammersmith]])
** ''[[John Gielgud]]'' (bronze busts)

==Films==
*[[Pop Goes the Easel (1962 film)|Pop Goes the Easel]] (directed by [[Ken Russell]])

==Births==
* [[13 April]] – [[Chris Riddell]], South African-born English children's book illustrator and political cartoonist
* [[27 April]] – [[Gabriel Orozco]], [[Mexico|Mexican]] visual artist
* [[2 May]] – [[Alexandra Boulat]], [[France|French]] photographer (d. [[2007 in art|2007]])
* [[9 May]] – [[Gary Hume]], English painter
* [[22 May]] – [[Hannah Rothschild (film maker)|Hannah Rothschild]], English art museum board member, documentary film maker, writer and philanthropist
* [[9 July]] – [[Luis Altieri]], Argentine visual artist

==Deaths==
[[Image:Natalia Sergeyevna Goncharova.jpg|thumb|125px|[[Natalia Goncharova]]]]
* [[January 24]] – [[André Lhote]], French Cubist painter (b. [[1885 in art|1885]])
* [[March 19]] – [[Ethel Sands]], American-born English painter (b. [[1873 in art|1873]])
* [[March 27]] – [[Augusta Savage]], African American sculptor (b. [[1892 in art|1892]])
* [[April 7]] – [[Mary Cecil Allen]], Australian-born American painter (b. [[1893 in art|1893]])
* [[April 23]] – [[Harold Parker (sculptor)|Harold Parker]], Australian sculptor (b. 1873)
* [[May 13]] – [[Franz Kline]], American abstract expressionist painter (b. [[1910 in art|1910]])
* [[May 19]] – [[Gabriele Münter]], German painter (born [[1877 in art|1877]])<ref>{{cite book|first=Werner|last=Haftmann|title=Painting In The Twentieth Century|location=London|publisher=Praeger Publishers|year=1966|page=409|isbn=978-0-27588-730-8}}</ref>
* [[May 25]] – [[Zora Petrović]], one of the most significant representatives of [[Expressionism]] of color in [[Serbian art]] between two wars (b. [[1894 in art|1894]])
* [[June 6]] – [[Yves Klein]], French painter (b. [[1928 in art|1928]])
* [[August 2]] – [[Clare Atwood]], English painter (b. [[1866 in art|1866]])
* [[August 31]] – [[Frank O. Salisbury]], English portrait and official painter (b. [[1874 in art|1874]])
* [[September 7]] – [[Morris Louis]], American color field painter (b. [[1912 in art|1912]])
* [[October 17]] – [[Natalia Goncharova]], Russian avant-garde artist (b. [[1881 in art|1881]])<ref>{{cite book|first=Jane A.|last=Sharp|chapter=Natalia Goncharova|editor1-last=Bowlt|editor1-first=John E.|editor2-last=Drutt|editor2-first=Matthew|title=Amazons of the Avant-Garde: Alexandra Exter, Natalia Goncharova, Liubov Popova, Olga Rozanova, Varvara Stepanova, and Nadezhda Udaltsova|date=2000|publisher=Guggenheim Museum|isbn=978-0-89207-225-5|location=New York|page=163|url=https://archive.org/details/amazonsofavantga00exte}}</ref>
* [[December 28]] – [[Karl Völker]], German painter and architect (b. [[1889 in art|1889]])

==See also==
* [[1962 in fine arts of the Soviet Union]]

==References==
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