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Events

• Alexander Calder is hired by Braniff International Airways to paint a full-size DC-8-62 as a "flying canvas."
• The first Whitney Biennial.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Janet Dawson - Michael Boddy

Exhibitions

• Christopher Williams - centenary exhibition in Cardiff, Maesteg and Swansea.

Works

• Barbara Hepworth - Conversation with Magic Stones

Births

• 1 February - Yuri Landman, Dutch musician, comic book creator and singer.
• 8 May - Hiromu Arakawa, Japanese mangaka.
• 7 July - Natsuki Takaya, Japanese mangaka.
• 18 August - Jerome Lagarrigue, French painter and illustrator.

Full date unknown

• Jean-Pierre Canlis, American glass artist.
• Oisín McGann, Irish author and illustrator.

Deaths

January to June

• 17 January - Tarsila do Amaral, Brazilian modernist artist (b.1886).
• 14 March - Chic Young, American cartoonist (b.1901).
• 25 March - Edward Steichen, American photographer, painter, and curator (b.1879).
• 8 April - Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor (b.1881).
• 1 May - Asger Jorn, Danish artist and essayist (b.1914).
• 16 May - Albert Paris Gütersloh, Austrian painter and writer (b.1887).

July to December

• 20 July - Robert Smithson, American artist (b.1938).
• 30 September - Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer, artist and historian (b.1902).
• 13 November - Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian fashion designer (b.1890).
• 17 November - Adolf Wissel, German painter, an official artist of Nazism (b.1894).
• 7 December - Camilo Mori Chilean painter (b.1896).

Full date unknown

• Ronald Ossory Dunlop, Irish author and painter (b.1894).