Events from the year 1963 in art. Events January 8 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first (and only) time, for a period of four weeks, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. During this time it was viewed by over half a million people. September – The David Mirvish Gallery is opened in Toronto by David Mirvish. November 17 – Museo Bodoniano opens in Parma, Italy. Museum of Contemporary Art (Skopje) opens in Yugoslavia. First Pirelli Calendar (for 1964), photographed by Robert Freeman in Majorca, issued in the United Kingdom. His portrait of The Beatles is used on the cover of their album With the Beatles (released November 22). Awards Archibald Prize: J Carington Smith – Professor James McAuley John Moores Painting Prize – Roger Hilton for "March 1963" Exhibitions Visione e Colore, Palazzo Grassi, Venice Roy Lichtenstein's second solo exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City Morris Louis memorial exhibition, Guggenheim Museum, New York City Works Josef Albers – "Manhattan" for the Pan Am Building in New York City (disassembled and removed in 2000 - recreated from Albers' design specifications in 2019 after the original was determined to be unsalvageable due to asbestos) Liberty Bell (Portland, Oregon) Georg Baselitz – Die große Nacht im Eimer (Museum Ludwig, Cologne) Romare Bearden – Prevalence of Ritual Maurice Boitel – Cadaques M. C. Escher – Möbius Strip II (Red Ants) (woodcut) David Hockney – Domestic Scene, Los Angeles Edward Hopper – Two Comedians Roy Lichtenstein Bratatat! Crying Girl (lithograph) Drowning Girl Hopeless In the Car Okay Hot-Shot, Okay! Torpedo...Los! Varoom! Whaam! (diptych) Woman with Flowered Hat René Magritte – The Difficult Crossing (2nd version) Lewis Morley – Christine Keeler (photograph) John Piper and Patrick Reyntiens – windows at St Andrew's Church, Plymouth Andy Warhol Death in America (screenprint series) Eight Elvises Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I) Orange Disaster #5 Red Car Crash Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) Suicide (Purple Jumping Man) Thirty Are Better Than One White Disaster (White Car Crash 19 Times) David Wynne Christ and Mary Magdalene (bronze castings, Ely Cathedral and Magdalen College, Oxford) Fire Figure (partly gilded aluminium, Lewis's, Hanley, Staffordshire) Reclining Woman (bronzes) The Sisters (bronzes) Sleeping girl (bronzes) Yehudi Menuhin (bronze heads) Births January 20 – Mark Ryden, American painter April 4 – Martin Firrell, French-born British public artist April 20 – Rachel