1955 in art

List of years in Art

Events

*Enrique Tabara obtains an Ecuadorian government scholarship to study in Spain.

Awards

*Archibald Prize: Ivor Hele - "Robert Campbell Esq".

Works

*Carroll Cloar - "My Father Was Big as a Tree"
*Willem de Kooning - "Composition"
*Oswaldo Guayasamín - "El ataúd blanco"
*Jasper Johns - "Flag"

Exhibitions

*January 1955 was the opening of the Family of Man exhibition at MOMA NYC.
*"Le Mouvement" exhibition is held at the Galerie Denise René.

Births

*21 January - Jeff Koons, "kitsch" artist.
*2 February - Madi Phala, South African artist (d.2007).
*14 March - Beverly K. Effinger, painter.
*29 July - Dave Stevens, American illustrator and comics artist (d.2008).
*15 November - Sergey Voychenko, Belarusian artist and designer (d.2004).

Full date unknown

*Alexander Sokolov, sculptor.

Deaths

*March 16 - Nicolas de Staël
*June 29 - Max Pechstein, Expressionist artist (b. 1881)
*August 17 - Fernand Léger, artist (b. 1881)
*September 19 - Carl Milles, sculptor
*November 5 - Maurice Utrillo French painter (b. 1883)
*November 29 - Rene Paul Chambellan, sculptor
* Lamorna Birch, painter
* Dattilo Rubbo, painter and art teacher (b. 1870)
* Rudolf Schlichter, painter (b. 1890)