Events from the year 1953 in art. Events November – New building for Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, the first major commission for Louis Kahn, opens. Anthony Blunt's Art and Architecture in France 1500–1700 is published. Yves Klein becomes a master at judo, receiving the rank of yodan (4th dan/degree black-belt) from the Kodokan in Japan. Awards Archibald Prize: Ivor Hele – Sir Henry Simpson Newland, CBE, DSO, MS, FRCS Works Hans Arp – Cloud Shepherd (sculpture, University City of Caracas) Francis Bacon Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X Two Figures (1953) John Brack Men's Wear The New House Alexander Calder – Acoustic Clouds (installation, University City of Caracas) José Manuel Capuletti - Dama en la Playa Edwin Dickinson – Ruin at Daphne (begun 1943; Metropolitan Museum of Art) Dong Xiwen – The Founding Ceremony of the Nation (original version) Jacob Epstein – Social Consciousness (sculpture group, Philadelphia) M. C. Escher – Relativity (lithograph) Barbara Hepworth – Hieroglyph (sculpture) Edward Hopper – Office in a Small City (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Willem de Kooning – Woman III L. S. Lowry Football Ground The Procession passing the Queen Victoria Memorial, Coronation René Magritte – Golconda Marino Marini – Horse and Rider (bronze) Henri Matisse – The Snail (colored paper collage) Roberto Matta – Cercle du Blé (Circle of Wheat) (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) Milton Menasco – 'La Troienne' and Her Foals: Eighteen Vignettes and One Painting Together in One Frame for John Whitney Henry Moore – Draped Reclining Figure (bronze) Alexander Phimister Proctor – John McLoughlin (bronze) Jackson Pollock – Portrait and a Dream Larry Rivers – Washington Crossing the Delaware Mark Rothko – No. 61 (Rust and Blue) Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov – In the Sun Charles Sheeler – Ore Into Iron (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) Exhibitions October – Robert Rauschenberg's White Paintings are exhibited at Eleanor Ward's Stable Gallery in New York City. Births January 7 – Robert Longo, American painter and sculptor January 9 – Javad Alizadeh, Iranian cartoonist and painter February 25 – Martin Kippenberger, German artist (d. 1997) April 24 – Eric Bogosian, American performance artist May 18 – Helen Chadwick, English conceptual artist (d. 1996) September 12 – Stephen Sprouse, American fashion designer and artist (d. 2004) Full date unknown Michael Kenna, English landscape photographer Kevin O'Neill, English comic book illustrator Marjetica Potrč, Slovenian artist and architect Deaths February 1