1960 in art

Events

• August 10 – The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art opens at Inverleith House in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
• December – The Huysman Gallery is founded in Los Angeles.
• Launch of Nouveau réalisme movement.
• The Pace Gallery is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.

  Awards

• Archibald Prize: Judy Cassab – Stanislaus Rapotec
• Prix de Rome – Pierre Carron

  Works

• Bison
• Salvador Dalí – The Ecumenical Council
• M. C. Escher – Ascending and Descending
• Alberto Giacometti – bronzes
• * Large Standing Woman I
• * Monumental Head
• Barbara Hepworth
• * Archaeon
• * Figure for Landscape
• Edward Hopper – '
• M. F. Husain – The Prancing Horse
• Yves Klein
• * Anthropometries of The Blue Epoch
• * A Leap Into The Void
• Alberto Korda – Guerrillero Heroico
• Peter Lanyon – '
• Morris Louis –
• Piero Manzoni – Corpo d'aria
• Ivan Meštrović – Immigrant Mother
• Ceri Richards – Cathedrale Engloutie
• Will Roberts – Woman with Cup of Tea
• Norman Rockwell – Triple Self-Portrait
• Jean Tinguely – Homage to New York
• Andy Warhol – "Campbell's Soup"

  Births

• March 13 – Joe Ranft, American magician, animation storyboard artist and voice actor
• July 28 – Jon J Muth, American author and illustrator
• August 13 – Lorna Simpson, African American photographic and video artist
• September – Shaun Greenhalgh, English art forger
• September 21 – Maurizio Cattelan, Italian satirical sculptor
• October 2 – Joe Sacco, Maltese-born comics journalist
• December 22 – Jean-Michel Basquiat, American artist

  Deaths

• January 12 – William Adams Delano, American architect
• January 16 – Rudulph Evans, American sculptor
• February 8 – Hakuyō Fuchikami, Japanese photographer
• February 22 – Paul-Émile Borduas, Canadian painter
• March 3 – Nina Veselova, Russian painter
• March 18 – Alexander V. Kuprin, Russian painter
• March 26 – Francisco Goitia, Mexican realist painter
• April 13 – Eric Kennington, English sculptor and war artist
• May 8 – Hugo Alfvén, Swedish musician and painter
• May 16 – Igor Grabar, Russian painter, publisher, and art historian
• May 27 – James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator, poster artist
• June 6 – Ernest L. Blumenschein, American painter, member of the Taos art colony
• September 20 – David Park, American painter
• October 22
• * Morgan Dennis, American painter and illustrator
• * Alexander Matveyev, Russian sculptor
• * Sreten Stojanović, Serbian sculptor
• November 14 – Anne Bonnet, Belgian painter
• November 17 – Gene Ahern, American comic-strip artist
• November 29 – Fortunato Depero, Italian futurist painter, sculptor and designer
• date unknown – Charles Pillet, French sculptor and engraver