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Overview of the events of 1962 in art
Events from the year 1962 in art .
February 6 –
March 4 –
Jane Frank , solo exhibition at the
Corcoran Gallery of Art in
Washington, D.C.
February 7 – Opening of this year's "
Young contemporaries " student exhibition at the RBA Galleries in London at which
David Hockney exhibits his four "Demonstrations of Versatility" (1961): A Grand Procession of Dignitaries in the Semi-Egyptian Style , Swiss Landscape in a Scenic Style (retitled
Flight into Italy - Swiss Landscape
Archived 2016-10-24 at the
Wayback Machine ), Tea Painting in an Illusionistic Style and Figure in a Flat Style .
[1] Hockney first meets
Patrick Procktor at this exhibition and, with
Maurice Agis ,
John Bowstead and
Peter Phillips , Hockney's work is selected for a further exhibition at the
ICA .
February 10
March 15 –
Ansgar Elde and
Jørgen Nash are excluded from the Situationist International.
March 25 –
BBC Television in the United Kingdom broadcasts
Ken Russell 's film Pop Goes the Easel in its
Monitor series, exploring the British
pop art movement.
April 7 – The
Stanley Spencer Gallery opens in
Spencer 's home village of
Cookham , England, to display his work.
April 10 –
Robert Fraser sets up his gallery, specializing in contemporary British art, in the
Mayfair district of London.
May – The
comic book character
The Incredible Hulk , created visually by
Jack Kirby , is introduced.
May–June –
David Smith creates the Voltri series of abstract sculptures (e.g.
Voltri XV ) in Italy.
May 25 – The new
Coventry Cathedral , designed by
Basil Spence , is consecrated in
England ; artworks incorporated include: the exterior sculpture
St Michael's Victory over the Devil by Sir
Jacob Epstein ; the
tapestry
Christ in Glory in the Tetramorph , designed by
Graham Sutherland ; the Mater Dolorosa sculpture by
John Bridgeman ; the Baptistry window by
John Piper and
Patrick Reyntiens ; and the engraved glass Screen of Saints and Angels by
John Hutton .
late June –
Bert Stern begins shooting
The Last Sitting in New York City, the last series of photographs taken of
Marilyn Monroe , originally for
Vogue magazine; later published as a book.
July 9 –
Andy Warhol 's first solo California
gallery exhibition as a
fine artist opens at the
Ferus Gallery ,
Los Angeles ,
California , marking the
West Coast debut of
pop art and featuring his
Campbell's Soup Cans .
[2]
[3]
July 23 – The
Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum is opened in
Cairo .
July 25 – The
Queen's Gallery is opened to the public at
Buckingham Palace , London.
Epstein 's
St Michael's Victory over the Devil at
Coventry Cathedral
August – The
comic book character
Spider-Man , created visually by
Steve Ditko , is introduced.
September 25 – The
Pasadena Art Museum mounts
New Painting of Common Objects , a survey of contemporary American
Pop Art .
[4]
October 23 – "Fifty California Artists" exhibition at
Whitney Museum of American Art , New York, NY. 1962-1963. Catalogue published. Organized by
San Francisco Museum of Art with assistance of
Los Angeles County Museum of Art . Circulated to
Walker Art Center , Minneapolis, MN;
Albright-Knox Art Gallery , Buffalo, NY;
Des Moines Art Center , IA. Notable artists in exhibition include
Elmer Bischoff ,
Bruce Conner ,
Roy De Forest ,
Richard Diebenkorn ,
George Herms ,
John Paul Jones ,
Edward Kienholz ,
Frank Lobdell ,
Nathan Oliveira ,
Ed Moses ,
Lorser Feitelson ,
Helen Lundeberg and
Peter Voulkos .
[5]
October 31 – The
Sidney Janis Gallery mounts International Exhibition of the New Realists , a survey of contemporary American Pop Art and the European
Nouveau Réalisme movement and the first
Pop Art group exhibition in an 'uptown gallery' in
New York City , a rented storefront at 19 W. 57th Street, near the main gallery at 15 E. 57th Street.
Robert Motherwell ,
Mark Rothko ,
Philip Guston and
Adolph Gottlieb quit the Janis Gallery as a protest against the exhibition.
November 14 – The British
General Post Office issues the first
commemorative stamps to be designed by
David Gentleman .
December 14 –
Leonardo da Vinci 's early 16th-century painting the
Mona Lisa is assessed for insurance purposes at US$100 million before touring the United States for several months, the highest insurance value for a painting in history. However, the
Louvre , its owner, chooses to spend the money that would have been spent on the insurance premium on security instead.
Michelangelo Pistoletto begins painting on mirrors.
Ernst Barlach House completed as an art museum in
Hamburg , Germany.
City Hall Museum and Art Gallery established in
Hong Kong .
The
Institute of American Indian Arts is set up in
Santa Fe, New Mexico .
Musashino Art University .
National Art Museum of China opens in
Beijing .
Museo de Arte Español Enrique Larreta inaugurated in
Buenos Aires , Argentina.
The
comic book character
Barbarella , created by
Jean-Claude Forest , is introduced in France.
Frederic Leighton 's painting
Flaming June (
1895 ) is rediscovered in London.
Yves Klein – IKB 191
Natalia Goncharova
January 24 –
André Lhote , French Cubist painter (b.
1885 )
March 19 –
Ethel Sands , American-born English painter (b.
1873 )
March 27 –
Augusta Savage , African American sculptor (b.
1892 )
April 7 –
Mary Cecil Allen , Australian-born American painter (b.
1893 )
April 23 –
Harold Parker , Australian sculptor (b. 1873)
May 13 –
Franz Kline , American abstract expressionist painter (b.
1910 )
May 19 –
Gabriele Münter , German painter (born
1877 )
[7]
May 25 –
Zora Petrović , one of the most significant representatives of
Expressionism of color in
Serbian art between two wars (b.
1894 )
June 6 –
Yves Klein , French painter (b.
1928 )
August 31 –
Frank O. Salisbury , English portrait and official painter (b.
1874 )
September 7 –
Morris Louis , American color field painter (b.
1912 )
October 17 –
Natalia Goncharova , Russian avant-garde artist (b.
1881 )
[8]
December 28 –
Karl Völker , German painter and architect (b.
1889 )
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