1954 in art

List of years in Art

Events

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Awards

*Archibald Prize: Ivor Hele - "Rt Hon R G Menzies, PC, CH, QC, MP"

Exhibitions

*Augustus John at the Royal Academy

Works

*Francis Bacon - "Figure with Meat" (Art Institute of Chicago)
*Franz Kline - "Painting No 2" The Museum of Modern Art
*Willem de Kooning - "Marilyn Monroe"
*Pablo Picasso - "Sylvette"

Exhibitions

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Births

*January 19 - Cindy Sherman, artist, photographer
*March 23 - Kenneth Cole, fashion designer

Deaths

*May 16 - Werner Bischof, photographer (b. 1916)
*May 25 - Robert Capa, photographer (b. 1913)
*June 9 - Alain LeRoy Locke, patron of the arts (b. 1886)
*July 3 - Reginald Marsh, painter (b. 1898)
*July 13 - Frida Kahlo, painter (b. 1907)
*September 8 - André Derain, painter and illustrator (b. 1880)
*November 3 - Henri Matisse, painter, sculptor, printmaker (b. 1869)
*December 23 - René Iché, sculptor (b. 1897)
* Henri Laurens, sculptor (b. 1885)
* Carl Eldh, Swedish painter and sculptor (b. 1873)
* Einar Jónsson, sculptor (b. 1874)