1961 - Art

Art

Painting: Still Life with Lamp Light by Pablo Picasso; Blue II by Joan Miró; New Madrid by Frank Stella; Delta Nu by Morris Louis; The Golden Wall by Hans Hofmann; The Italians by Lexington, Va.,-born painter Cy Twombly (Edwin Parker Twombley Jr.), 33; Switchsky's Syntax by Stuart Davis; Words (ink on paper mounted on canvas) and Galleries (ink on paper) by Agnes Martin; Rigger by Robert Rauschenberg; Kiss (acrylic on linen) and Movement in Squares (tempera on board) by London-born Op Art painter Bridget (Louisa) Riley, 30, who has been working at the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency. Vanessa Bell dies at her English country home April 7 at age 81; Max Weber at Great Neck, Long Island, October 4 at age 80; Augustus John at Fordingbridge, Hampshire, October 31 at age 83; Grandma Moses at Hoosick Falls, N.Y., December 13 at age 101.

Sculpture: Magic Base (any person or thing is to be considered art as long as it rests on this base), Base of the World, bread rolls covered with kaolin, and Line 1,000 Meters Long by Piero Manzoni; Mountain King by Joseph Beuys; Single Form (September) (wood) by Barbara Hepworth; Noland's Blues by David Smith; Man at a Table (plaster of paris molded from a live model) by Bronx, N.Y.-born sculptor George Segal, 36, who began working with plaster casts and chicken wire in 1960 after one of his students at Rutgers brought him a large quantity of medical scrim used by physicians to make casts for broken bones; Cigarette by South Orange, N.J.-born New York architect-turned-sculptor Anthony Peter "Tony" Smith, 49, who will establish a reputation with his minimalist style; Box with Sound of Its Own Making by Kansas City-born minimalist sculptor Robert Morris, 30; Five Hot Dogs by Arizona-born still-life pop artist Wayne Thibaud, 41, a former cartoonist and advertising artist who since 1959 has been chairman of Sacramento City College's art department; Katharine Cornell (bust) by Melvina Hoffman, now 66 (the actress is now 63).

The Barnes Collection opens to the public after extensive litigation. Housed in the Merion, Pa., mansion that the late Argyrol co-inventor Albert C. Barnes built in 1905, it includes 180 paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 60 by Henri Matisse, 59 by Paul Cézanne, 35 by Pablo Picasso, and more than a thousand works by other artists.