- 1959 in art
List of years in Art Events
Andre Breton asksSalvador Dalí ,Joan Miró ,Enrique Tábara , andEugenio Granell to represent Spain by exhibiting some of their works in the "Homage to Surrealism Exhibition" celebrating the Fortieth Anniversary of Surrealism.Awards
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Archibald Prize :William Dobell - "Dr Edward MacMahon"Works
*Salvador Dalí - "
The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus "
*Ivan Generalić - "The Deer Wedding"
*Lee Krasner - "Cool White"Births
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Caio Fonseca Deaths
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February 26 -Gabrielle Renard , artist's model
*April 9 -Frank Lloyd Wright , architect, innovator
*May 3 -Renato Birolli , painter
*July 6 -George Grosz , painter and draftsman
*August 19 -Jacob Epstein , sculptor (b. 1880)
*August 20 -Alfred Kubin , illustrator
*September 9 -Merric Boyd , painter, sculptor and ceramic artist
*September 13 - Adrian, Hollywood costume designer
*September 18 -Benjamin Péret , editor of "La Révolution surréaliste "
*September 18 -Adolf Ziegler , German painter and politician (b. 1892)
*November 15 - Charles Jones, photographer
*December 9 - Gene Carr, cartoonist
*December 14 -Stanley Spencer , painterDate unknown:
*Winifred Brunton , painter
*Stepan Erzya , sculptor
*Beatrix Farrand , landscape architect
*Frank Godwin , illustrator
*Toma Rosandić , sculptor
* Matthew Smith, painter
*Pietro Canonica , sculptor (b. 1869)
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