- 1968 in art
List of years in Art Events
*Chess match between
Marcel Duchamp andJohn Cage takes place at Ryerson Polytechnic,Toronto .Awards
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Archibald Prize :William Pidgeon - "Lloyd Rees"
*Elaine Hamilton wins first prize at the Biennale de Menton, FranceExhibitions
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Eva Hesse - "Chain Polymers", Fischbach Gallery, W. 57th Street, New York City
*Ralph Hotere - "Black Paintings", Auckland,New Zealand Works
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Eduardo Kingman - "Fin de Mascarada"Births
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George Henry Smyth , Northern Irish artistDeaths
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May 21 -Bror Hjorth , sculptor
*May 28 -Kees van Dongen , Fauvist painter (b. 1877)
*July 2 - Sir Hans Heysen, watercolour painter
*October 2 -Marcel Duchamp , influential artist (b. 1887)
*William Conor - Irish painter (b.1881)
*Lee Gatch - painter and mixed-media artist
*Jacob Steinhardt , painter and woodcut artist (b. 1887)
*Michel Kikoine , painter (b. 1892)
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