•
1959 in art – Birth of
Caio Fonseca, Death of
Frank Lloyd Wright, Sir
Jacob Epstein •
1958 in art –
Frank Stella begins black
pinstripe paintings; Birth of
Brian O'Connor (artist) and
Don Yeomans •
1957 in art – Death of
Jack Butler Yeats,
Luisa Casati,
Diego Rivera,
David Bomberg Birth of
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun •
1956 in art – Birth of
David D. Stern, Death of
Marie Laurencin,
Jackson Pollock •
1955 in art – Birth of
Beau Dick,
Jeff Koons,
Akira Toriyama; Death of
Fernand Léger,
Nicolas de Staël,
Bradley Walker Tomlin;
Jasper Johns completes
Flag, (American Flag Painting) •
1954 in art – Death of
Henri Matisse,
André Derain,
Frida Kahlo, Birth of
David Wojnarowicz and
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas •
1953 in art – Death of
Raoul Dufy,
John Marin,
Francis Picabia; Birth of
Gidansda Guujaaw •
1952 in art – Jackson Pollock paints
Blue Poles, and
Number Twelve (damaged by fire in the Governors Mansion, Albany, NY in 1961) an influential and large-scale, colorful stain painting that predicts both
Color field painting and
Lyrical abstraction •
1951 in art – Birth of
Richard Hunt and
Joe Nalo; Death of
Wols,
Willem de Kooning paints
Woman I, the
Ninth Street Show of 1951, NYC. A seminal event of
abstract expressionism. •
1950 in art –
Jackson Pollock paints
Autumn Rhythm == 1940s ==