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Peggy Guggenheim Louis Ribak Douglas MacAgy The New Yorker critic opens her gallery has his first solo and Beatrice is appointed Robert Coates coins of This Century exhibition at Mandelman the director of the term “Abstract in . the Art of This move to Taos. the California .” Century Gallery. School of Fine and oversees The Los Alamos a progressive Dorothy Miller’s Laboratory (later faculty that Fourteen Americans the Los Alamos includes Clyfford opens at the National Laboratory) Still, Richard Museum of Modern is established in Diebenkorn, Art, NYC. The New Mexico. Edward Corbett, exhibition includes Clay Spohn, and Ben L. Culwell. Robert McChesney, as well as visiting Eulalia Emetaz professors such as opens the modern . gallery La Galeria Escondida in Taos, which will features many of the contemporary artists in Taos and Albuquerque. a timeline

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Jackson Pollock The Jonson Gallery, Diebenkorn pursues Edward Corbett Dord Fitz opens a Jackson Pollock Congress approves creates his first creates a series of named for artist his Master of Fine and Clay Spohn publishes modern gallery teaches at the publishes his dies in a car crash visits Amarillo at creation of drip . highly expressive Raymond Jonson, Arts degree at move to Taos, and “The American in Amarillo. Colorado Springs landmark essay in East Hampton, the invitation of the National black and white opens at the the University of Robert McChesney Action Painters” Fine Arts Center. “American-Type New York. artist and gallery Aeronautics Eugene Bavinger pictures that have University of New New Mexico. Rita visits that in ARTnews. ,” in owner Dord Fitz. and Space joins the OU School loose, ‘all-over’ Mexico, providing Deanin Abbey and same year. . Administration, of Art faculty. Over compositions. a forum for Charles Littler are The Soviet Union replacing the the next decade, contemporary art. fellow students. creates Mountains Jermayne launches Sputnik 1. National Advisory Mark Rothko paints the faculty will and Sea, her first MacAgy, formerly Committee for his first pictures Emerson Woelffer major “stain” Aeronautics. include John Eighteen Abstract the curator of the Richard Stout using luminous joins the faculty painting, which O’Neil, Duayne Expressionists sign California Palace returns to rectangles of of the Colorado influences the Elaine de Kooning Hatchett, and Jim a letter (printed of the Legion of after study at the color. He banishes Springs Fine emergence of a accepts a Visiting Henkle. in the New York Honor, arrives in Art Institute of figures entirely; his Arts Center. second generation Professorship at Times) to the Houston to direct Chicago. Over compositions are of Abstract the University of Metropolitan the Contemporary the next decade, defined by soft- Charles Truett Expressionists. New Mexico. Her Museum, New Arts Association. he will be part of edged blocks of Williams begins a vital modernist students include colors, which seem York, accusing it of visiting Taos William Conger being “notoriously community that to float on fields of regularly during Dorothy Miller’s includes Jack and William stained color. hostile to the decade. Fifteen Americans Vaughn Howard. advanced art.” Boynton, Dorothy opens at the Hood, Leila Museum of When Jermayne Budget cuts at the McConnell, and , NYC. MacAgy’s California School Dick Wray. The exhibition contract at the of Fine Arts force includes Contemporary the departure Edward Corbett. Arts Association of numerous is not renewed, faculty over the Dominique de next two years, Jack Boynton visits Menil arranges for including Clyfford Taos and returns her to chair the art Still, Richard regularly until 1956. department at the Diebenkorn, University of Edward Corbett, Taos Painting: St. Thomas. Clay Spohn, and Yesterday and Robert McChesney. Today opens at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and features Corbett, Mandelman, Ribak, and Spohn. 1959 1960 1961 1965 1968 1969

Douglas MacAgy Jack Boynton James Johnson John O’Neil, Stanley Kubrick’s Apollo 11 lands accepts the begins a two- Sweeney is director of the 2001: A Space on the moon. directorship of the year tenure at the appointed the OU School of Odyssey Museum of California School director of the Art since 1951, is released. Contemporary Art. of Fine Arts. Museum of Fine accepts the Arts, Houston. directorship of Duayne Hatchett the art program begins visiting The Lyndon at Rice University. Charles Williams B. Johnson in Fort Worth Space Center regularly, until the is completed in latter’s death Houston. in 1966.