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Overview of the events of 1961 in art
Events from the year 1961 in art.
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March 9 –
Jo Ractliffe, South African photographer
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March 26 –
Leigh Bowery,
Australian
performance artist,
club promoter, actor, model and
fashion designer (d.
1994)
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April 28 –
Grenville Davey, English sculptor, winner of the
Turner Prize
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August 12 –
Karsten Schubert, German-born London art dealer (d.
2019)
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September 21 –
Kurt Jackson, English landscape painter
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October 24 –
Lita Cabellut, Spanish painter
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January 30 –
John Duncan Fergusson, Scottish Colourist painter (b.
1874)
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February 11 –
Kate Carew, American caricaturist (b.
1869)
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February 20 –
Jane Emmet de Glehn, American painter (b.
1873)
- March –
Stanley Royle, English post-impressionist landscape painter (b.
1888)
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April 7 –
Vanessa Bell, English painter and designer (b.
1879)
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April 20 –
Ado Vabbe, Estonian painter (b.
1892)
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June 6 –
Alfons Karpiński, Polish painter (b.
1875)
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July 6 –
Cuno Amiet, Swiss painter and sculptor (b.
1868)
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July 12 –
Iva Despić-Simonović, Croatian sculptor (b.
1891)
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August 3 –
Hilda Rix Nicholas,
Australian painter (b.
1884)
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August 13 –
Mario Sironi, Italian painter (b.
1885)
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October 1 – Sir
William Reid Dick, Scottish sculptor (b.
1879)
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October 7 –
Duilio Barnabè, Italian painter (b.
1914)
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October 13 –
Augustus John, Welsh painter (b.
1878)
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December 9 –
Kosta Hakman,
Serbian painter (b.
1899)
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December 13 –
Grandma Moses, American folk artist (b.
1860)
- Full date unknown –
Albert Swinden, English-born American painter (b.
1901)