Timeline of Art - 1960s

1960s

• 1969 in art - Death of Otto Dix, Ben Shahn, Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, first Lyrical Abstraction exhibition at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum marking a significant return to expressivity in painting
• 1968 in art - Death of Marcel Duchamp, Kees van Dongen. Birth of John Trobaugh
• 1967 in art - Death of Edward Hopper, René Magritte, Ad Reinhardt
• 1966 in art - Death of Alberto Giacometti, Hans Hofmann, The second New York City Armory Show 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering sponsored by E.A.T. - Experiments in Art and Technology.
• 1965 in art - Death of Milton Avery, David Smith (sculptor), Le Corbusier, Birth of Damien Hirst
• 1964 in art - Death of Giorgio Morandi, Stuart Davis
• 1963 in art - Death of Georges Braque, Birth of Jon Coffelt, Marco Evaristti, Rachel Whiteread
• 1962 in art - Death of Morris Louis, Franz Kline, Yves Klein, Birth of John Currin, Gary Hume, International exhibition of The New Realists in New York
• 1961 in art - Death of Grandma Moses, Augustus John; Birth of Thomas Tulis
• 1960 in art - Death of David Park, Birth of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Makoto Fujimura, as public interest in Abstract expressionism wanes, Color Field painting, Hard-edge painting, and Minimalism become increasingly popular