List of years in Art

Events

• Constantine Andreou moves to France, having received a scholarship from the French government.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: William Dargie - Lt-General The Hon Edmund Herring, KBC, DSO, MC, ED

Exhibitions

Works

• David Alfaro Siqueiros - El Coronelazo
• Elizabeth Shoumatoff - Unfinished portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt

Births

• 8 March - Anselm Kiefer, sculptor.
• 14 June - Jörg Immendorff, German painter, sculptor, stage designer and art professor (d.2007).
• 28 July - Jim Davis, cartoonist, creator of "Garfield".
• 18 August - Brummbaer, digital artist.
• 27 September - Jack Goldstein, Canadian-born American performance and conceptual artist turned painter (d.2003).

Full date unknown

• Joseph Kosuth, conceptual artist.
• Barbara Kruger, photographer, graphic artist and sculptor.
• Suzanne Lacy, installations, video and performance artist.
• Catherine Leroy, French photographer (d.2006).
• Paul McCarthy, sculptor, installation artist and video artist.
• Sean Scully, painter.
• Peter Reginato, sculptor.
• Susan Rothenberg, painter.
• Daisy Youngblood, ceramic artist and sculptor.
• Robert Bishop, bondage artist.
• Frank Johnston, graphic artist.

Deaths

• February 14 - Didier Bonvitesse, painter and sculptor
• April 22 - Käthe Kollwitz, painter, lithographer and sculptor
• October 31 - Ignacio Zuloaga, painter
• Lilian Mary Mayer, portrait painter
• Agbonbiofe Adeshina, sculptor
• Alexander Stirling Calder, sculptor (b. 1870)
• Josef ?apek, painter (b. 1887)
• Franklin Carmichael, painter (b. 1890)

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