1978 in art

Events

• 27 June – Stitching the Standard by Edmund Leighton is sold at Sotheby's in Belgravia to a private collector.^[1]

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Brett Whiteley – Art, Life and the other thing

Works

• Big Twist, Houston, Texas
• Isolated Mass/Circumflex (Number 2), Houston, Texas
• Dan Flavin – untitled (to the real Dan Hill)
• Helen Frankenthaler – Cleveland Symphony Orchestra
• David Gentleman – "Eleanor cross" mural for Charing Cross tube station (London)
• Jack Goldstein – The Jump
• Nabil Kanso – Hiroshima Nagasaki One-Minute
• Liz Leyh – Concrete Cows (Milton Keynes)
• Odd Nerdrum – The Murder of Andreas Baader
• Dennis Oppenheim – Cobalt Vectors – An Invasion
• Mikhail Savitsky – Partisan Madonna of Minsk

Births

• 19 September – Russell Ouellett, American artist and therapist (b. 1978).

Deaths

• 19 January – Živko Stojsavljević, Serbian painter (b. 1900).
• 13 April – Jack Chambers, Canadian artist and filmmaker (b. 1931).
• 8 May – Duncan Grant, Scottish painter (b. 1885).
• 31 May – Hannah Höch, German Dada photomontage artist (b. 1978).
• 5 August – Victor Hasselblad, Swedish inventor and photographer (b. 1889).
• 14 August – Nicolas Bentley, British author and illustrator (b. 1907).
• 27 August – Gordon Matta-Clark, American artist (b. 1943).
• 6 November – Harry Bertoia, Italian-born American artist and designer (b. 1915).
• 8 November – Norman Rockwell, American painter and illustrator (b. 1894).
• 20 November – Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter (b. 1888).

Full date unknown

• Gabriel Hayes, Irish sculptor and coin designer (b.1909).
• Leo Michelson, Latvian-American painter and sculptor (b.1887).

References

See also

• 1978 in fine arts of the Soviet Union