1960s

Anthony Caro: Sculpture 1960-63 at Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1963 © the artist, Barford Sculptures Ltd

• Starts a welding workshop at St. Martin’s.
  
  
• Caro makes Twenty-Four Hours his first abstract sculpture in steel.

• Completes first polychrome sculpture, Sculpture Seven.
  
  
• Meets American writer Michael Fried.

• One-man exhibition at Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.
  
  
• Teaches at Bennington College, Vermont with painters Jules Olitski, Paul Feeley and Peter Stroud.

• First one-man exhibition in New York at André Emmerich Gallery.
  
  
• Begins producing sculptures in series.

• Selected for the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and awarded the David E. Bright Foundation Prize for best sculptor.

• Retrospective at Kroller-Muller Museum in Netherlands.

• First major retrospective exhibition at Hayward Gallery, London.
  
  
• Moves studio to former piano factory in Camden Town, London. Patrick Cunningham, a welder, becomes Caro’s studio assistant.