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List of years in Art

Contents 1 Events 2 Awards 3 Works 4 Exhibitions 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Enrique Tabara obtains an Ecuadorian government scholarship to study in Spain.

[edit] Awards

• Archibald Prize: Ivor Hele - Robert Campbell Esq.

[edit] Works

• John Brack - Collins St., 5 pm
• Carroll Cloar - My Father Was Big as a Tree
• Willem de Kooning - Composition
• Oswaldo Guayasamín - El ataúd blanco
• Jasper Johns - Flag

[edit] Exhibitions

• January 1955 was the opening of the Family of Man exhibition at MOMA NYC.
• Le Mouvement exhibition is held at the Galerie Denise René.

[edit] Births

• 21 January - Jeff Koons, "kitsch" artist.
• 2 February - Madi Phala, South African artist (d.2007).
• 14 March - Beverly K. Effinger, painter.
• 29 July - Dave Stevens, American illustrator and comics artist (d.2008).
• 15 November - Sergey Voychenko, Belarusian artist and designer (d.2004).
• date unknown - Alexander Sokolov, sculptor

[edit] Deaths

• January 7 - Lamorna Birch, painter
• March 16 - Nicolas de Staël, impasto painter
• May 3 - Rudolf Schlichter, painter (b. 1890)
• May 11 - Bradley Walker Tomlin, painter (b. 1899)
• June 1 - Dattilo Rubbo, painter and art teacher (b. 1870)
• June 29 - Max Pechstein, Expressionist artist (b. 1881)
• August 17 - Fernand Léger, artist (b. 1881)
• September 19 - Carl Milles, sculptor
• November 5 - Maurice Utrillo French painter (b. 1883)
• November 29 - Rene Paul Chambellan, sculptor