1992 In Art

Events from the year 1992 in art.

Events

* 16 March - British fashion designer Alexander McQueen shows his first collection, partly inspired by The Silence of the Lambs (film).
*12 October – Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid is opened to the public as a gallery for the private art collection of the Thyssen-Bornemisza family.
* 31 October – Kunsthal in Rotterdam, designed by Rem Koolhaas, is opened as a gallery for modern art.

Awards

*Archibald Prize: – Bryan Westwood – ''The Prime Minister'' (Paul Keating)
*Turner Prize: – Grenville Davey

Works

*Magdalena Abakanowicz – bronzes
**''Becalmed Beings''
**'' Puellae''
*Banksy – First graffiti art (in Bristol)
* Bust of Bernardo O'Higgins (Houston) (sculpture, Texas)
* Muriel Castanis – '' Ideals'' (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
*Grenville Davey – ''Hal''
*Anya Gallaccio – ''Red on Green''
*Gibson/ Ashbaugh – '' Agrippa (a book of the dead)''
*Damien Hirst –
Pharmacy
' (installation)
*Soraida Martinez – Verdadism
* Simon Patterson – '' The Great Bear'' (lithograph)
*George Rickey – '' Cluster of Four Cubes'' (sculpture, Washington, D.C.)
*James Rosenquist – ''Time Dust''
*Brad Rude – '' A Donkey, 3 Rocks, and a Bird.'' (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
*George Segal – '' Street Crossing'' (sculpture)
*Jack Vettriano – ''The Singing Butler''
* Christopher Wool - "If You"

Exhibitions

*"Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration" at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
*Edward Delaney retrospective – Royal Hibernian Academy.
* Richard Hamilton retrospective – Tate Gallery.
*''Sol LeWitt Drawings 1958–1992'' – Gemeentemuseum Den Haag.
*Young British Artists – Saatchi Gallery, London (featuring Damien Hirst's ''The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living'').

Gifts (Bequests)

*Herbert and Dorothy Vogel collection given to National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Births

*29 January – George Pocheptsov, American painter

Deaths

January to June

*6 January – Richard Mortensen, Danish painter and educator (b. 1910)
*27 January – Isabel Rawsthorne, English painter and model (b. 1912)
*19 February – Lena Gurr, American painter and lithographer (b. 1897).
* 4 March – Art Babbitt, American animator (b. 1907).
*6 March – Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Portuguese-French abstract painter (b. 1908).
* 11 April – Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter, muralist, sculptor and engraver (b. 1920).
*28 April – Francis Bacon, Irish-born British figurative painter (b. 1909).
*13 May – F. E. McWilliam, Irish sculptor (b. 1909).
*6 June – Richard Eurich, English marine painter (b. 1903).
* 15 June – Brett Whiteley, Australian avant-garde artist (b. 1939).
*18 June – Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (b. 1896).
*28 June – John Piper, English landscape painter and designer (b. 1903).
* 30 June – André Hébuterne, French painter (b. 1894).
*6 July – Richard Eurich, English sea- and landscape painter (b. 1903).

July to December

*7 September – EQ Nicholson, English textile designer and painter (b. 1908).
* 25 September – César Manrique, Spanish artist and architect (b. 1919)
*30 October – Joan Mitchell, American Abstract Expressionist painter (b. 1925).
*11 November – Giulio Carlo Argan, Italian art historian and politician (b. 1909).
* 27 November – Ivan Generalić, Croatian naïve art painter (b. 1914)
* 30 November - Bernard Lefebvre, French photographer (b. 1906)Bernard Lefebvre on the site of the Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques
(fr)
* 23 December – Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (b. 1934).
*24 December – Peyo, Belgian comics artist (b. 1928).

References

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