1970 In Art

Events from the year 1970 in art

Events

* January 16 – John Lennon's exhibition of ''Bag One'' at the London Arts Gallery is shut down by Scotland Yard for displaying "erotic lithographs".
* October 26 – Garry Trudeau's comic strip ''Doonesbury'' debuts in approximately two dozen newspapers in the United States.
* November 27 – Bolivian artist Benjamin Mendoza tries to assassinate Pope Paul VI during his visit to Manila.
* Tom Keating admits that a number of watercolours in the style of Samuel Palmer were painted by him.
* Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, the Federal collection of contemporary art, is established in Germany.
* Contemporary Art Museum of Macedonia in Skopje, designed by the "Warsaw Tigers" ( Wacław Kłyszewski, Jerzy Mokrzyński and Eugeniusz Wierzbicki), is built.
* ''Conceptual Art and Conceptual Aspects'', the first dedicated conceptual art exhibition, is mounted at the New York Cultural Center.
* Theodor W. Adorno's book '' Aesthetic Theory'' (''Asthetische Theorie'') is published posthumously in Germany.

Awards

* Archibald Prize: Eric Smith – ''Gruzman – Architect''
* Prix Puvis de Chavannes – Daniel du Janerand

Works

* Gilbert and George – ''The Singing Sculpture'' (performance)
* Barbara Hepworth – ''Family of Man''
* Alvin D. Loving Jr. – ''Cube 27'' (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
* Henry Moore – ''Reclining Figure LH608''
* Kanda Nissho – ''Indoor Landscape''
* Isamu Noguchi – ''Night Wind''
* Victor Pasmore – ''Apollo Pavilion'' (Peterlee, England)
* William Scott – ''Still Life With Orange Note'' (Arts Council of Northern Ireland)
* Aaron Shikler – Official portrait of President John F. Kennedy
* Robert Smithson – ''Spiral Jetty''

Births

* January 17 – Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian-born American animator
* January 22 – Alex Ross, American comic book painter and illustrator
* January 24 – Maria Balshaw, English curator
* February 10 – Peter Richards, British artist and curator
* February 15 – Shepard Fairey, American artist, graphic designer and illustrator
* February 27 – Matthias Lechner, German set designer and art director
* March 12 – Marine Delterme, French actress, painter, sculptor and model
* May 3 – Jeffrey Sebelia, American fashion designer
* May 9 – Damian Loeb, American painter
* May 26 – Nobuhiro Watsuki, Japanese manga artist
* June 1 – Joshua Compston, British gallerist (d.1996)
* July 6 – Grant Bond, American comic book artist and writer
* July 9 – Benoit Pierre Emery, French art director and fashion designer
* August 4 – Pete Abrams, American webcomic writer and illustrator
* August 23 – Ben Eine, né Flynn, English street artist
* November 22 – Aleksander Balos, Polish-born American artist and figurative painter
* ''date unknown''
** Helen Cammock, English artist
** Stéphane Ducret, Swiss contemporary artist
** Emily Jacir, Palestinian artist
** Tomoki Kyoda, Japanese animation director and animator
** Vincent Paronnaud, French comics artist and filmmaker
** David Quinn, Irish artist
** Bosco Sodi, Mexican-born abstract painter

Deaths

* January 27
** Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (born 1908)
** Erich Heckel, German painter and printmaker (born 1883)
* February 25 – Mark Rothko, Latvian-born American painter and printmaker (born 1903)
* February 26 – Ángel María de Rosa, Argentine sculptor and philanthropist (born 1888)
* March 2 – Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Canadian painter (born 1888)
* March 8
** Waldo Peirce, American painter (born 1884)
** Anton Räderscheidt, German painter (born 1892)
* March 22 – Georges Malkine, French Surrealist painter (born 1898)
* April 20 – Robert Laurent, American sculptor (born 1890)
* April 29 – Charles R. Chickering, American illustrator (born 1891)
* May 13 – William Dobell, Australian sculptor and painter (born 1899)
* May 29 – Eva Hesse, German-born American sculptor (born 1936)
* May 31 - Clare Sheridan, English sculptor and author (born 1885)
* June 3 - Roberto Longhi, Italian art historian curator (born 1890)
* June 6
** Camille Bombois, French naïve painter (born 1883)
** Signe Hammarsten-Jansson, Swedish-Finnish graphic artist (born 1882)
* June 27 – Edwin La Dell, British artist (born 1914)
* July 4 – Barnett Newman, American artist (born 1905)
* July 7 – Dame Laura Knight, English Impressionist painter (born 1877)
* July 13 – Lazar Drljača, Serbian painter (born 1883)
* July 30 – Maud Lewis, Canadian folk artist (born 1903)
* November 29 - Walter Stuempfig, American painter (born 1914)
* December 1 – Hermine David, French painter (born 1886)
* December 19 – Stig Blomberg, Swedish sculptor (born 1901)
* ''date unknown'' – Ze'ev Raban, Israeli painter (born 1890)

See also

* 1970 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References

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Years of the 20th century in art
1970s in art