1950s
- 1959 in art - Birth of Caio Fonseca, Death of Frank Lloyd Wright, Sir Jacob Epstein
- 1958 in art - Frank Stella begins black pinstripe paintings
- 1957 in art - Death of Diego Rivera, Jack Butler Yeats
- 1956 in art - Death of Jackson Pollock
- 1955 in art - Death of Fernand Léger, Nicolas de Staël, Bradley Walker Tomlin; Birth of Jeff Koons, Jasper Johns completes Flag, (American Flag Painting)
- 1954 in art - Death of Henri Matisse, André Derain, Frida Kahlo, Birth of David Wojnarowicz
- 1953 in art - Death of John Marin
- 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 - Death of Wols, Birth of Jack Spencer, 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
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