1969 in art

List of years in Art

Events

*Andy Warhol and Gerard Malanga co-found the magazine, "Interview".
*Opening of the Oakland Museum of California.
*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

*Archibald Prize: Ray Crooke - "George Johnston"

Works

*Kenojuak Ashevak - "The Owl"
*Helen Frankenthaler - "Slice of Stone Itself"
*Kanda Nissho - "Snow Farm"
*Enzo Plazzotta - "Baigneuse"
*Jean-Paul Riopelle - "La Joute", public sculptural installation, Montreal
*Will Roberts - "Redberth Village, Pembrokeshire"
*Ronnie Landfield - "Diamond Lake"

Births

*November 15 - Francis Di Fronzo, landscape painter

Deaths

*March 14 - Ben Shahn, painter and photographer
*May 11 - T. K. Padmini, feminist painter
*July 5 - Walter Gropius, architect
*July 25 - Otto Dix, painter and printmaker (b. 1891)