- 1951 in art
List of years in Art Events
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Festival of Britain includes a mural byJohn Tunnard and new buildings designed by a team of architects led byHugh Casson .
*SculptorHenry Moore refuses the offer of aknighthood .
*The9th Street Art Exhibition , otherwise known as theNinth Street Show (May 21-June 10) was the stepping-out of the post warNew York avant-garde , collectively know as theNew York School .Awards
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Archibald Prize :Ivor Hele - "Laurie Thomas"Works
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Alfred Janes - Portrait ofWilliam Grant Murray
*Louis le Brocquy -A Family (painting)
*Willem de Kooning - "Woman I"Births
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April 16 -Pierre Toutain-Dorbec , sculptor
*John Kindness , Northern Irish multi-media artistDeaths
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April 23 -Charles Keck , American sculptor
*May 11 -Wilfrid de Glehn , painter (b. 1871)
*August 10 -Tony Gaudio , Italian photographer
*September -Wols , German painter, photographer
*September 18 -Gelett Burgess , art critic
*September 26 -Lane Bryant , designer
*October 1 -Karel Teige , graphic artist
*Mário Eloy , Expressionist painter
*Ernst Ludvig Ipsen , portrait painter
*Louis Legrand , painter
*Frank Weston Benson , Impressionist painter (b. 1862)
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