1953 in art

Events

November – New building for Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, the first major commission for Louis Kahn, opens.
Anthony Blunt's Art and Architecture in France 1500–1700 is published.
Yves Klein becomes a master at judo, receiving the rank of yodan (4th dan/degree black-belt) from the Kodokan in Japan.

Births

January 7 – Robert Longo, American painter and sculptor
January 9 – Javad Alizadeh, Iranian cartoonist and painter
February 25 – Martin Kippenberger, German artist (d. 1997)
April 24 – Eric Bogosian, American performance artist
May 18 – Helen Chadwick, English conceptual artist (d. 1996)
September 12 – Stephen Sprouse, American fashion designer and artist (d. 2004)
Full date unknown
- Steven Campbell, Scottish figurative painter (d. 2007)
- Michael Kenna, English landscape photographer
- Kevin O'Neill, English comic book illustrator
- Marjetica Potrč, Slovenian artist and architect

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February 1 – Archibald Nicoll, New Zealand painter (b. 1886)^[3]
February 12 – Uroš Predić, Serbian Realist painter (b. 1857)
March 23 – Raoul Dufy, French Fauvist painter (b. 1877)
March 26 – Đorđe Jovanović, Serbian sculptor (b. 1861)
April 15 – Charles R. Knight, American animal painter (b. 1874)
April 29
- Moïse Kisling, Polish-born painter (b. 1891)
- Alice Prin ("Kiki de Montparnasse"), French artist, model and entertainer (b. 1901)
June 23 – Albert Gleizes, French painter (b. 1881)
September 13 – Mary Brewster Hazelton, American portrait painter (b. 1868)
September 26 – Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (b. 1895)
October 2 – John Marin, American modernist painter (b. 1870)
October 6 – Vera Mukhina, Latvian-born Soviet sculptor (b. 1889)
October 11 – James Earle Fraser, American sculptor (b. 1876)
October 21 – Sir Muirhead Bone, British etcher (b. 1876)
November 30 – Francis Picabia, French painter and poet (b. 1879)
date unknown – J. Laurie Wallace, Irish American painter (b.1864)

Events