- Publishes a selection of his drawings: Sketchbooks. Fernando Zobel
- Is a resident artist at the Rhode Island School of Design where he learns engraving techniques and attends painting, drawing, and architectural classes
- Displays paintings executed in the Philippines in his first individual exhibition in the United States, at Boston's Swetzoff Gallery
- Discovers the works of Mark Rothko as well as photography, which lead him to reconsider his painting: to find his abstract pictorial language
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