1961 in art
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[edit] Events
[edit] Awards
- Archibald Prize: William Pidgeon - Rabbi Dr I Porush
[edit] Works
- Jane Frank, Crags and Crevices
- Jasper Johns, Map
[edit] Births
- 26 March - Leigh Bowery, Australian performance artist, club promoter, actor, model and fashion designer (d.1994).
[edit] Full date unknown
- Grenville Davey, Turner Prize-winning sculptor.
[edit] Deaths
- April 7 - Vanessa Bell, English painter and designer
- June 6 - Alfons Karpiński, Polish painter
- July 6 - Cuno Amiet, Swiss painter and sculptor
- August 13 - Mario Sironi, Italian painter (b.1885)
- October 13 - Augustus John, Welsh painter (b. 1878)
- Sir William Reid Dick, sculptor
- December 13 - Grandma Moses, American folk artist (b. 1860)
- Kate Carew, caricaturist (b. 1869)
- Jane Emmet de Glehn American painter (b. 1873)
