1969 in art

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Events from the year 1969 in art.

## Events

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* 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,[1] 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.[2]
* December 19 \- The exhibition Alvin Loving: Psintings opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City marking the frst solo exhibition given to a black artist in the institution's history.[3]
* 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

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* Archibald Prize: Ray Crooke – George Johnston
* John Moores Painting Prize \- Richard Hamilton and Mary Martin for "Toaster" and "Cross" (respectively)[4][5]

## Works

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See also: Category:1969 paintings and Category:1969 sculptures

* 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[6]
* Mai Dantsig – Partisan Ballad
* Helen Frankenthaler – Slice of Stone Itself
* Frank Frazetta – Egyptian Queen
* Milton Glaser \- Speed City[7]
* 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"[8]
* Joan Mitchell \- Sans Neige[9]
* 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

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* 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).[10]

## Births

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* January 5 – Marilyn Manson, American rock musician and painter
* February 7 – Andrew Micallef, Maltese painter and musician[11]
* 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[12]
* Steven Claydon, English sculptor, installation artist and musician
* Invader, French urban artist
* Patricia Martín, Mexican curator

## Deaths

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* 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

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* 1969 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

## References

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1. ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
2. ^ Allen, Greg (2008-02-28). "The Moon Museum". greg.org: the making of. greg.org. Retrieved 2011-11-07.
3. ^ https://gallery98.org/2019/whitney-museum-of-american-art-alvin-loving-paintings-pamphlet-1970/
4. ^ "Richard Hamilton - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums". Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
5. ^ "Cross by Mary Martin (1907-1969) - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums". Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
6. ^ "Wrapped Coast".
7. ^ "R.I.P Milton Glaser". 28 June 2020.
8. ^ «Le Batteur de tam-tam» de Lufwa, une grande attraction à la Foire Internationale de Kinshasa - Congoforum.be
9. ^ Scott, Chadd. "'Joan Mitchell' Is Everything At San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art". Forbes. Retrieved 2022-01-19.
10. ^ "Spaces - Dec 30, 1969–Mar 1, 1970 - MoMA". www.moma.org.
11. ^ Schiavone, Michael J. (2009). Dictionary of Maltese Biographies Vol. II G-Z. Pietà: Pubblikazzjonijiet Indipendenza. p. 1126\. ISBN 9789993291329.
12. ^ "Boushra Almutawakel, Strata, 2008". School of Oriental and African Studies. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 18 June 2012.

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