1973 In Art

Events from the year 1973 in art.

Events

*August 25 – Jesús Soto Museum of Modern Art in Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela, designed by Carlos Raúl Villanueva, is opened.
*Alexander Calder is hired by Braniff International Airways to paint a full-size DC-8-62 as a "flying canvas".
*David Hockney begins a 2-year spell living and working in Paris.
*Aristeidis Metallinos begins his career as a sculptor.
*Robert Scull's collection of American Pop and Minimal art is auctioned by Sotheby's in New York City.

Awards

* Archibald Prize: Janet Dawson – ''Michael Boddy''

Exhibitions

* Christopher Williams – centenary exhibition in Cardiff, Maesteg and Swansea.

Works

* Emma Amos – ''Sandy and Her Husband''
* Michael Ayrton – ''Icarus'' (sculpture, London)
* Michael Craig-Martin – ''An Oak Tree'' (conceptual work)
* Salvador Dalí – '' Dalí Seen from the Back Painting Gala from the Back Externalized by Six Virtual Corneas Provisionally Reflected by Six Real Mirrors'' (stereoscopic painted in duplicate but for a small variation - completed)
* William Eggleston – '' The Red Ceiling'' (photograph)
* Ben Enwonwu – '' Tutu''
* Gluck – ''Credo (Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Light)'' (completed)
* Barbara Hepworth – ''Conversation with Magic Stones''
* David Hockney –
The Student: Homage to Picasso
' (print)
* David Inshaw – '' The Badminton Game''
* Nabil Kanso – ''Place des Martyres (paintings)''; ''Vietnam'' paintings series (through 1974)
* Frederic Littman – '' Farewell to Orpheus'' (bronze, Portland, Oregon)
* Joan Miró – completes series '' The navigator's hope''
* Henry Moore – ''Large Four Piece Reclining Figure 1972–73'' (bronze)
* Ivor Roberts-Jones – Statue of Winston Churchill, Parliament Square (bronze, London)
* Dorothea Tanning - '' Hôtel du Pavot, Chambre 202'' (work completed)
* Euan Uglow –
Georgia
'
* Andy Warhol – ''Man''
* David Wynne
** ''Embracing Lovers'' (bronze, Guildhall, London)
** ''Girl with a Dolphin'' (bronze, by Tower Bridge, London)

Births

*January 29 – Louise Hindsgavl, Danish artist
*February 1 – Yuri Landman, Dutch musician, comic book creator and singer
*May 8 – Hiromu Arakawa, Japanese manga artist
*July 7 – Natsuki Takaya, Japanese manga artist
*July 28 (possible date) – Banksy, English graffiti artist
*August 18 – Jerome Lagarrigue, French painter and illustrator

Full date unknown

* Jean-Pierre Canlis, American glass artist.
* Oisín McGann, Irish author and illustrator.
* Rosalind Nashashibi, English Palestinian film artist.
* Charles Pétillon, French photographer and instillation artist

Deaths

January to June

*January 17 – Tarsila do Amaral, Brazilian modernist artist (b. 1886).
*March 14 – Chic Young, American cartoonist (b. 1901).
*March 25
**Gerda Höglund, Swedish religious painter (b. 1878).
**Edward Steichen, American photographer, painter and curator (b. 1879).
*April 8 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (b. 1881).
*April 28 – Siri Derkert, Swedish artist, sculptor and political campaigner (b. 1888).
*May 1 – Asger Jorn, Danish artist and essayist (b. 1914).
*May 12 – Edith Tudor Hart, née Suschitzky, Austrian-born photojournalist and communist agent in Britain (b. 1908).
*May 16 – Albert Paris Gütersloh, Austrian painter and writer (b. 1887).
*May 18 – Ronald Ossory Dunlop, Irish author and painter (b. 1894).
*May 21 – Montague Dawson, English maritime painter (b. 1890).

July to December

*July 20 – Robert Smithson, American artist (b. 1938).
*August 9 – Claude Buckle, English poster artist and watercolourist (b. 1905).
*September 30 – Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer, artist and historian (b. 1902).
*November 13 – Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian fashion designer (b. 1890).
*November 17 – Adolf Wissel, German painter, an official artist of Nazism (b. 1894).
*December 7 – Camilo Mori, Chilean painter (b. 1896).
*December 13 – Ralph Stackpole, American sculptor, painter, muralist, etcher and art educator (b. 1885).

See also

* 1973 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union

References

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