1977 In Art

Events from the year 1977 in art.

Events

* April 19 – Yale Center for British Art gallery, designed by Louis Kahn (died 1974), opens to the public in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
* May 8–24 – Suzanne Lacy's extended performance piece about rape, ''Three Weeks in May'' takes place in Los Angeles.
* September 12 – American poet Robert Lowell dies having suffered a heart attack in the back of a cab in New York City while returning to his ex-wife Elizabeth Hardwick carrying a portrait of his current wife Lady Caroline Blackwood by her first husband Lucian Freud.
* Starr Kempf constructs the first of his "wind sculptures".
* ''documenta'' 6 takes place.
* Douglas Crimp curates "Pictures," featuring Jack Goldstein, Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine and others, at Artists Space in New York.
* Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Iran, designed by Kamran Diba, is inaugurated.

Awards

* Archibald Prize: Kevin Connor – ''Robert Klippel''

Exhibitions

* Retrospective of Valentine Hugo at the Centre Culturel Thibaud de Champagne, Troyes.
* Retrospective of Frida Kahlo at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City.

Works

* Marina Abramović and Ulay – ''Expansion in Space''
* Walter De Maria – ''The Lightning Field'' (land art)
* Lucian Freud – ''Naked Man with Rat''
* Tina Girouard - "Pinwheel" (performance instillation at the New Orleans Museum of Art)
* Gilbert & George – Series of ''Red Morning'' works
* David Hockney –
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* Donald Judd – ''Untitled (Meter Box)''
* Nabil Kanso – '' The Vortices of Wrath (Lebanon 1977)''
* Jacob Lawrence – ''Self-portrait''
* Jacques Lipchitz – '' Bellerophon Taming Pegasus'' (sculpture, New York City)
* Kathleen McCullough – '' Cat in Repose'' (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
* Gordon Matta-Clark – ''Jacob's Ladder''
* Ivan Meštrović – '' Martin Kukučín'' (sculptures)
* Robert Morris – ''Williams Mirrors''
* Maria Prymachenko - ''Two-Headed Chicken''
* David Shepherd – ''Tiger in the Sun''
* Cindy Sherman – ''Untitled Film Stills'' (through 1980)
* C. Talacca – Statue of Simón Bolívar (bronze, Houston, Texas)
* Jean Tinguely – Tinguely Fountain and Carnival Fountain (''Fasnachtsbrunnen'') (both kinetic sculptures in Basel)
* Don Wilson – ''Interlocking Forms'' (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
*Felix de Weldon – Statue of Ty Cobb (bronze, Royston, Georgia)
* Audrey Flack - ''World War II (Vanitas)''

Births

* 8 February – Yucef Merhi, Venezuelan artist, poet and computer programmer.
* 16 April – Florentijn Hofman, Dutch installation artist.
* 14 May – Emeka Ogboh, Nigerian sound and installation artist.
* 5 October – Hugleikur Dagsson, Icelandic cartoonist
* 16 December – Kevin Gillespie, American comic book creator and graphic artist.
* Michael Dean, English sculptor.
* Gregory Halpern, American photographer.

Deaths

* 27 April – Charles Alston, American artist, muralist, and teacher (b. 1907).
* 27 June – Ivan Tabaković, Serbian painter (b. 1898)
* 3 July – Gertrude Abercrombie, American painter (b. 1909).
* 21 July – Lee Miller, American photographer (b. 1907).
* 23 August – Naum Gabo, Russian sculptor (b. 1890).
* 3 September – Gianni Vella, Maltese painter and cartoonist (b. 1885)
* 11 September – Augustus Dunbier, American painter (b. 1888).
* 23 September – John Nash, English painter, illustrator, and engraver (b. 1893).
* 25 September – William McMillan, Scottish sculptor (b. 1887) (victim of assault).
* 20 October – Marie-Thérèse Walter, mistress of Pablo Picasso (b. 1909).
* 4 November – Keith Vaughan, English painter (b. 1912) (suicide).
* 5 November – René Goscinny, French comic book author, editor and humorist (b. 1926).
* 21 December – Seán Keating, Irish romantic-realist painter (b. 1889).

Full date unknown

* Philip Lindsey Clark, English sculptor (b. 1889)
* Pan Yuliang, Chinese-born painter (b. 1899)
* Walter Pritchard, Scottish stained glass artist, muralist and sculptor (b. 1905)

See also

* 1977 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References

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