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Overview of the events of 1951 in art
Overview of the events of 1951 in art
Events from the year 1951 in art .
April – The Peggy Guggenheim Collection at the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni in Venice is first opened to the public.[1]
May 3 –September 30 – Festival of Britain , based on London 's South Bank .[2] Hugh Casson has assembled a team of young designers and architects to create it.
Festival Star emblem by Abram Games .Royal Festival Hall by Leslie Martin , Peter Moro and Robert Matthew .Dome of Discovery by Ralph Tubbs .Skylon by Philip Powell , Hidalgo Moya and Felix Samuely .Riverside Restaurant, New Schools building and Waterloo entrance tower by Jane Drew with Maxwell Fry .[3]
Sculptures: Youth Advancing by Jacob Epstein ; Reclining Figure: Festival Henry Moore ; Contrapunctal Forms Turning Forms Barbara Hepworth ; The Islanders by Siegfried Charoux ; The Sunbathers Peter Laszlo Peri ; The Industries, Heavy Light and Electricity by Karel Vogel ; Four Seasons Group (reliefs) by F. E. McWilliam ; and a fountain by Eduardo Paolozzi .[4]
Murals by Mary Fedden , Josef Herman and John Tunnard .
Furnishing fabrics and wallpapers by Lucienne Day , notably her screen-printed fabric Calyx
The Arts Council of Great Britain has also commissioned work from Robert Adams , Reg Butler , Lynn Chadwick , Frank Dobson , Karin Jonzen , F. E. McWilliam , Bernard Meadows , Uli Nimptsch and Eduardo Paolozzi. Some is sited in the concurrent open-air exhibition of sculpture in Battersea Park and there is an associated exhibition Sixty Paintings for '51 at the RBA Galleries[4] Black Eyes & Lemonade , organised by Barbara Jones at the Whitechapel Gallery . May 21 – The 9th Street Art Exhibition , otherwise known as the Ninth Street Show, a gathering of a number of notable artists, marks the stepping-out of the postwar New York avant-garde , collectively known as the New York School .September 2 – Unveiling of 'restored' medieval frescoes in the war-damaged St. Mary's Church, Lübeck ; in 1952, Lothar Malskat reveals that most were forged by him.October 9 – American photographer Alice Austen is guest of honor at the first Alice Austen Day on Staten Island following the recent 'rediscovery' of her work.Henri Matisse completes interior decoration of Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence .Exhibitions [ edit ] Publications [ edit ] January 2 – Alexander Pogrebinsky , Ukrainian-American painter and educatorFebruary 4 – Wolfgang Beltracchi , born Fischer, German art forgerFebruary 19 - Jerry Saltz , American art criticApril 16
May 12 – Rosalind Savill , English art historian and curatorMay 19 – Katalin Rényi , Hungarian painter and graphic designer (died 2023)June 2 – Gilbert Baker , American artist (died 2017)June 22 – Humphrey Ocean , born Butler-Bowdon, English painterNovember 17 – Jack Vettriano , Scottish painterdate unknown
February 6 – Frank DuMond , American painter, illustrator and teacher (b. 1865 )April 23 – Charles Keck , American sculptor (b. 1875 )May 11 – Wilfrid de Glehn , English painter (b. 1871 )June 21 – Mary Tannahill , American painter and artist in fabrics (b. 1863 )August 10 – Tony Gaudio , Italian-born cinematographer (b. 1883 )September 1 – Wols , German-born abstract painter and photographer (b. 1913 )September 5 – Mário Eloy , Portuguese Expressionist painter (b. 1900 )September 13 – Arthur Szyk , Polish-born illustrator and political artist (b. 1894 )September 18 – Gelett Burgess , American art critic (b. 1866 )September 26 – Lena Himmelstein , American dress designer (b. 1877 )October 1 – Karel Teige , Czech graphic artist (b. 1900 )November 2 – Ernest Ludvig Ipsen , American portrait painter (b. 1869 )November 15 – Frank Weston Benson , American Impressionist painter (b. 1862 )c. December 25 – Frank Newbould , English poster artist (b. 1887 )
Undated – Louis Legrand , French aquatint engraver (b. 1863 ) See also [ edit ] References [ edit ]
^ Vail, Karole (1998). Peggy Guggenheim: A Celebration 92 . ISBN 0810969149 ^ "King George opens Festival of Britain" . BBC News . 3 May 1951. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-03 .^ Drew, Jane (1976). "The Riverside Restaurant". In Banham, Mary; Hillier, Bevis (eds.). A Tonic to the Nation: The Festival of Britain 1951 . London: Thames & Hudson. p. 103. ^ a b Whiteley, Gillian. "Festival of Britain". Designing Britain 1945-1975 – Art for Social Spaces . ^ a b Folliard, Edward T. "Truman Accepts Italy's Gift of Memorial Bridge Statues." Washington Post. September 27, 1951.
^ a b "Four Italian Bronze Horses Here for Span." Washington Post. June 8, 1951.
^ "Ellsworth Kelly. Colors for a Large Wall. 1951 | MoMA" .^ Sumner, Ann (2003). "Who was Thomas Jones? The life, death and posthumous reputation of Thomas Jones of Pencerrig". In Sumner, Ann; Smith, Greg (eds.). Thomas Jones (1742–1803): An Artist Rediscovered ISBN 9780300099232 ^ "Deborah Luster nga" . National Gallery of Art . Retrieved 24 April 2019 .^ Yung Chang . (1996) Preface to A Visual Diary Archived October 29, 2007, at the Wayback Machine reproduced at redfern-gallery.com. Retrieved 19/03/08.
