1978 in art
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Events from the year 1978 in art.
Events
- 27 June – Stitching the Standard by Edmund Leighton is sold at Sotheby's in Belgravia to a private collector.[1]
Awards
- Archibald Prize: Brett Whiteley – Art, Life and the other thing
- John Moores Painting Prize - Noel Forster for "A painting in six stages with a silk triangle"[2]
Works
- Vacant Lot of Cabbages 4 January - 21 June Wellington New Zealand.[3]
- Zdzisław Beksiński – AA78
- Christo and Jeanne Claude - "Wrapped Walk Ways" in Loose Park in Kansas City, Missouri[4]
- Dan Flavin – untitled (to the real Dan Hill)
- Helen Frankenthaler – Cleveland Symphony Orchestra
- David Gentleman – "Eleanor cross" mural for Charing Cross tube station (London)
- Jack Goldstein – The Jump[5]
- Michael Heizer – Isolated Mass/Circumflex (Number 2) (land art, Houston, Texas)
- Bryan Hunt – Big Twist (bronze, Houston, Texas)
- Nabil Kanso – Hiroshima Nagasaki One-Minute
- Liz Leyh – Concrete Cows (Milton Keynes)
- Odd Nerdrum – The Murder of Andreas Baader
- Dennis Oppenheim – Cobalt Vectors – An Invasion
- Mikhail Savitsky – Partisan Madonna of Minsk
Births
- 19 September – Mykhailo Kolodko, Ukrainian/Hungarian sculptor
Deaths
- 10 January – Gluck, born Hannah Gluckstein, English painter (b. 1895)
- 19 January – Živko Stojsavljević, Serbian painter (b. 1900).
- 1 February – Don Freeman, American author, painter and illustrator (b. 1908)
- 24 February – Alma Thomas, African American abstract expressionist painter (b. 1891).
- 13 April – Jack Chambers, Canadian artist and filmmaker (b. 1931).
- 27 April – Ralston Crawford, Canadian-born American painter, lithographer and photographer (b. 1906)
- 29 April – Yukihiko Yasuda, Japanese painter (b. 1884).
- 8 May – Duncan Grant, Scottish painter (b. 1885).
- 21 May – Jo Spier, Dutch artist and illustrator (b. 1900)
- 31 May – Hannah Höch, German Dada photomontage artist (b. 1889).
- 13 July
- Thomas B. Hess, American art editor, writer, and curator (b. 1920)
- Oliver Messel, English-born stage designer (b. 1904).
- 5 August – Victor Hasselblad, Swedish inventor and photographer (b. 1889).
- 14 August – Nicolas Bentley, British author and illustrator (b. 1907).
- 27 August – Gordon Matta-Clark, American artist (b. 1943).
- 6 November – Harry Bertoia, Italian-born American artist and designer (b. 1915).
- 8 November – Norman Rockwell, American painter and illustrator (b. 1894).
- 20 November – Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter (b. 1888)
- 30 November – Otto Kallir, Austrian -American art historian, author, publisher, and gallerist (b. 1894)[6]
Full date unknown
- Gabriel Hayes, Irish sculptor and coin designer (b.1909).
- Leo Michelson, Latvian-American painter and sculptor (b.1887).
References
- ↑ "Victorian & Edwardian Art" (PDF). Sotheby's. 15 November 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
- ↑ "Noel Forster - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums". Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
- ↑ Farrar, Sarah (2012-11-02). "'Vacant lot of cabbages' documentation enters Te Papa's archives". Te Papa’s Blog. Retrieved 2026-08-28.
- ↑ "Wrapped Walk Ways, Project for Jacob L. Loose Memorial Park, Kansas City, Missouri [right panel]". www.nga.gov. 1978. Retrieved 2021-09-20.
- ↑ Christine Ross (2006). The aesthetics of disengagement: contemporary art and depression. University of Minnesota Press. p. 10. ISBN 9780816645398.
- ↑ Alessandra Comini (1980). "A Tribute to Dr Otto Kallir". Gustav Klimt--Egon Schiele: In Commemoration of the Achievements of Dr. Otto Kallir. Galerie St. Etienne : Crown.