1969 in art

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Events

• October 5 – Monty Python's Flying Circus is broadcast for the first time on BBC Television,^[1] with Terry Gilliam's animations.
• Andy Warhol and Gerard Malanga co-found the magazine, Interview.
• Opening of the Oakland Museum of California.
• Lyrical Abstraction exhibition debuts at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum marking a significant return to expressivity in American abstract painting. For two years the exhibition travels throughout the U.S. including to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Ray Crooke – George Johnston

Works

• Australian Seal, Washington, D.C.
• Kenojuak Ashevak – The Owl
• Michael Ayrton – The Arkville Minotaur
• Francis Bacon – Three Studies of Lucian Freud
• Alexander Calder – La Grande Vitesse (sculpture)
• Mai Dantsig – Partisan Ballad
• Helen Frankenthaler – Slice of Stone Itself
• Allen Jones – Hatstand, Table and Chair (sculptures)
• Ronnie Landfield – Diamond Lake
• Kanda Nissho – Snow Farm
• Enzo Plazzotta – Baigneuse
• Jean-Paul Riopelle – La Joute (public sculptural installation, Montreal)
• Will Roberts – Redberth Village, Pembrokeshire
• Alexander Semionov – Leningrad in the Morning
• Victor Teterin – Sredne-Podjacheskaya street in Leningrad
• Nikolai Timkov – Russian Winter

Births

• January 1 – Marilyn Manson, American rock musician and painter
• date unknown
  • Boushra Almutawakel, Yemeni photographer^[2]
  • Steven Claydon, English sculptor, installation artist and musician
  • Chantal Joffe, English painter
  • Patricia Martín, Mexican curator

Deaths

• January 29 - Edward Marshall Boehm, American Expressionist sculptor (b. 1913)
• March 14 – Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-born American painter and photographer (b. 1898)
• March 17 – Daniel Vázquez Díaz, Spanish painter (b. 1882)
• May 11 – T. K. Padmini, Keralan feminist painter (b. 1940; d. in childbirth)
• July 5 – Walter Gropius, German-born architect (b. 1883)
• July 9 – Emerik Feješ, Hungarian and Serbian painter (b. 1904)
• July 25 – Otto Dix, German painter and printmaker (born 1891)
• September 15 - Edith Barry, US sculptor, painter, illustrator and designer (b. 1883)
• November 21 – Norman Lindsay, Australian sculptor and cartoonist (born 1879)

See also

• 1969 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References

1. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
2. "Boushra Almutawakel, Strata, 2008". School of Oriental and African Studies. Retrieved 18 June 2012.