1958 in art

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Events from the year 1958 in art.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: William Edwin Pidgeon – Mr Ray Walker^[1]
• Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Allied Arts Medal – Louis Archambault

Events

• October 15 – At the Goldschmidt sale at Sotheby's in London, a version of Paul Cézanne's The Boy in the Red Vest sells at a new record price for a painting at auction.
• M. C. Escher publishes his illustrated book The Regular Division of the Plane
• Robert Frank publishes his photographic essay The Americans (in Paris)
• The Four Seasons Restaurant in New York
  but withdraws from the commission before they are hung there

• Jean Arp retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City
• Yves Klein, La spécialisation de la sensibilité à l’état matière première en sensibilité picturale stabilisée, Le Vide ("The Specialization of Sensibility in the Raw Material State into Stabilized Pictorial Sensibility, The Void"), Iris Clert Gallery, Paris.
• Constructivist Design at the Galerie Lambert Weyl, Paris

Works

• Edmond Amateis – Polio Hall of Fame in Warm Springs, Georgia
• Zdzisław Beksiński – Untitled
• Paul Cadmus – Night in Bologna^[2]
• Salvador Dalí - Meditative Rose^[3]
• Jacob Epstein – sculptures
  • Bust of Edward Sydney Woods, Bishop of Lichfield in Lichfield Cathedral
  • St Michael's Victory over the Devil for Coventry Cathedral
  • Trades Union Congress war memorial in Congress House, London
• lithograph
  )
• Marshall Fredericks – The Spirit of Detroit (bronze)
• Mathias Goeritz, Luis Barragán and Jesús Reyes Ferreira – Torres de Satélite, monument in Ciudad Satélite, Mexico
• Richard Hunt - Hero Construction^[4]
• Jasper Johns – Three Flags
• Morris Louis – Russet
• René Magritte – The Listening Room (second version)
• S. H. Raza – Paysage
• Mark Rothko
  • Black on Maroon
  • Untitled (Black on Maroon)'^[5]
• Emil Schumacher – Cadmium
• David Wynne – Teamwork (sculpture)

Births

• 27 January – Kadri Mälk
  , Estonian artist and jewelry designer
• 27 February – Max Crivello
  , Italian artist
• 27 March – Peter Howson, Scottish
  figurative painter, war artist
• 4 May – Keith Haring, American artist and social activist (d.1990).^[6]
• 8 September – Reiko Terashima, Japanese
  manga artist and illustrator.
• 23 October – Axel Krause
  , German painter and graphic artist.
• 5 December – Julio Galán, Mexican artist (d.2006
  ).
• date unknown
  • Helena Klakocar, Dutch cartoonist
  • Doris Salcedo, Colombian visual artist and sculptor
  • Yoshiteru Otani, Japanese cartoonist
  • Adrian Wiszniewski, Scottish figurative painter

Deaths

• January 28 – Ferenc Helbing, Hungarian painter and lithographer (b. 1870)
• January 30 – Jean Crotti, Swiss-born painter (b. 1878)
• February 13 – Georges Rouault, French Fauvist and Expressionist painter and stained glass artist (b. 1871)
• February 16 – Situ Qiao, Chinese painter (b. 1902)
• February 26 – Yokoyama Taikan, Japanese painter (b. 1868)
• March 1 – Giacomo Balla, Italian painter (b. 1871)
• March 22 – Claire McCardell, American fashion designer (b. 1905)^[7]
• April 11 – Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter and theatre designer (b. 1875)
• May 11 – Lucien Lelong, French fashion designer (b. 1889)
• August 12 – André Bauchant, French naïve painter (b. 1873)
• August 22 – Ted Sears, American animator (b. 1900)
• August 23 – Marlow Moss, English Constructivist artist (b. 1889)
• August 24 – Paul Henry, Irish painter (b. 1876)
• September 15 – Stephen Bone, English painter (b. 1904)
• October 11
  • Maurice de Vlaminck, French Fauvist painter (b. 1876)
  • Max Jakob Friedländer, German-born curator and art historian (b. 1867)
• November 17 – Frank Cadogan Cowper, English painter and illustrator (b. 1877)
• November 30 – Sir Hubert Wilkins, Australian explorer and photographer (b. 1888)
• date unknown
  • Viktor Jansson, Finnish sculptor (b. 1886)
  • Sybil Pye, English bookbinder (b. 1879)

See also

• 1958 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union

References