1974 In Art

Events from the year 1974 in art.

Events

*26 April – Nineteen Old Master paintings from the Beit collection are stolen from Russborough House in Ireland by a Provisional Irish Republican Army gang including English heiress Rose Dugdale.
* Roy Strong becomes Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
* Hallwalls, a non profit exhibition space and arts organization, is established in a converted ice packing warehouse in Buffalo, New York, by the artists Charles Clough, Robert Longo, Diane Bertolo, Nancy Dwyer, Larry Lundy, Cindy Sherman and Michael Zwack.

Awards

* Archibald Prize: Sam Fullbrook - Myles Murphy - "Figure with Yellow Foreground"

Exhibitions

Works

* Bruce Beasley – '' Big Red'' (sculpture, Eugene, Oregon)
* Salvador Dalí – '' Nieuw Amsterdam'' (object/sculpture)
* Judy Dater – '' Imogen and Twinka at Yosemite'' (photograph)
* Silvio Gazzaniga – FIFA World Cup Trophy
* David Hockney –
Contre-jour in the French style – Against the Day dans le style français
'
* Nabil Kanso – ''Vietnam''
* Bernard Kirschenbaum – ''Twist for Max'' (sculpture)
* Joan Miró
** ''Hands flying off toward the constellations''
** ''The hope of a condemned Man'' (series)
* Odd Nerdrum – ''Liberation''
* Enzo Plazzotta – ''Crucifixion''
* Tony Rosenthal – '' 5 in 1'' (steel sculpture, New York City)
* Ruskin Spear –
Harold Wilson
'
* Graham Sutherland –
Lord Goodman
'
* David Wynne – ''Boy With a Dolphin'' (bronze, Cheyne Walk, London)
* ''Meet the Residents'' (album cover)

Films

*A Bigger Splash

Births

*15 May – Kadir Nelson, African American illustrator.
*31 May – Adrian Tomine, American cartoonist.
*16 June – Paul Lee, English artist.
* 1 September – Jhonen Vasquez, American comic book artist, cartoonist and writer.
* 8 November – Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese mangaka.
*13 November – Kerim Seiler, Swiss artist and architect.
*7 December – Kang Full, South Korean webcomic artist.

Full date unknown

* Banksy, English graffiti artist.
* Bogna Burska, Polish playwright and visual artist.
* Amelie Chabannes, French painter and sculptor.
* Luke Jerram, British installation artist.
* Fabrice Lachant, French photographer.
* OSGEMEOS (Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo), Brazilian twin graffiti artists.
* Dulce Pinzon, Mexican-born visual artist.
* Bojan Šarčević, Bosnian-French visual artist.
* Bedwyr Williams, Welsh installation and performance artist.

Deaths

January to June

*19 January – Edward Seago, English painter (b. 1910).
*30 January – Robert Darwin, English painter and Rector of the Royal College of Art (b. 1910)
*15 February – Petar Lubarda, Serbian painter (b. 1907).
*4 March – Adolph Gottlieb, American abstract expressionist painter and sculptor (b. 1903).
*9 March – Daniel O'Neill, Irish painter (b. 1920).
*5 April – A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (b. 1882).
*31 May – Juan Bautista Garcia, Puerto Rican painter (b. 1904).
*7 June
**Émilie Charmy, French artist (b. 1878)
**Milton Menasco, American painter and art director (b. 1890).
*22 June – Alain Saint-Ogan, French comics author and artist (b. 1895).
*30 June – Frank McKelvey, Irish painter (b. 1895).

July to December

*9 July – Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French writer and artist (b. 1884).
*8 August – Charles Wheeler, English sculptor (b. 1892).
*11 August – Jan Tschichold, German typographer, book designer, teacher and writer (b. 1902).
* August – André Edouard Marty, French artist (b. 1882).
*8 September – James Swinnerton, American cartoonist and artist (b. 1875).
* 17 September – André Dunoyer de Segonzac, French painter and graphic artist (b. 1884).
* 28 October – David Jones, English poet and painter (b. 1895).
* 20 December – Risto Stijović, Serbian sculptor (b. 1894).
* 21 December – James Henry Govier, English painter (b. 1910).
*25 December – Harry Kernoff, Irish painter (b. 1900).

See also

* 1974 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union

References

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