1962 in art

List of years in Art

Events

*Feb 6 - Mar 4 - Jane Frank, solo exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery
*February 10 - Ervin Eisch, Lothar Fischer, Dieter Kunzelmann, Renee Nele, Heimrad Prem, Gretel Stadler, Helmut Sturm and Hans-Peter Zimmer are excluded from the Situationist International (SI).
*March 15 - Ansgar Elde and Jørgen Nash are excluded from the Situationist International.
*October 31 the Sidney Janis Gallery mounts "The New Realists" the first Pop Art group exhibition in an uptown gallery in New York City. in a storefront near the gallery at 15 E. 57th Street
*Musashino Art University

Awards

*Archibald Prize: Louis Kahan - "Patrick White"

Works

*Herman Wilhelm Bissen - "Iderstedter Löwe"
*Yves Klein - "Immaterial Pictorial Sensitivity"
*Piero Manzoni - "The Base of the World"
*Henry Moore - "Knife Edge - Two Piece" (Westminster, London)
*Marie Vorobieff - "Homage to Friends from Montparnasse"
*Andy Warhol
**"Marilyn 3 Times"
**"129 DIE IN JET (Plane Crash)"
**"Campbell's Soup Cans"
**"Elvis"
**"Green Coca-Cola Bottles"

Births

*2 March - Pieter van der Werf, conceptual artist.
*2 May - Alexandra Boulat, French photographer (d.2007).

Full date unknown

*Gary Hume, British painter.

Deaths

*January 24 - André Lhote , painter (b. 1885)
*April 23 - Harold Parker, sculptor (b. 1873)
*May 13 - Franz Kline, abstract expressionist painter (b. 1910)
*June 6 - Yves Klein, painter (b. 1928)
*September 7 - Morris Louis, color field painter (b. 1912)
*"date unknown" - Karl Völker, painter and architect (b. 1889)