1977 in art

none November 2016 1977 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.Fryd Vivien Green Suzanne Lacy's Three Weeks in May: Feminist Activist Performance Art as "Expanded Public Pedagogy" NWSA Journal Spring 2007 19 1 23–38 4317229 The Johns Hopkins University Press 201751753 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 Category:1977 paintings Category:1977 sculptures Marina Abramović and Ulay – Expansion in Space Walter De Maria – The Lightning Field (land art) Audrey Flack - Marilyn (Vanitas) Lucian Freud – Naked Man with Rat Tina Girouard - "Pinwheel" (performance installation at the New Orleans Museum of Art)https://thekitchen.org/blog/110 The Kitchen: Tina Girouard: Pinwheel Gilbert & George – Series of Red Morning works David Hockney – My Parents 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 Chickenhttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/28/arts/design/maria-primachenko-paintings-destroyed-ukraine.html Treasured Paintings Burned in Russian Invasion, Ukrainian Officials Say The New York Times 28 February 2022 Stevens Matt David Shepherd – Tiger in the Sun Cindy Sherman – Untitled Film Stills (through 1980) C. Talacca – Bust 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 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). 22 July –Pan Yuliang, Chinese painter (b. 1899) 23 August – Naum Gabo, Russian sculptor (b. 1890). 3 September – Gianni Vella, Maltese painter and cartoonist (b. 1885)Dictionary of Maltese Biographies Vol. 2 G–Z Schiavone Michael J. 2009 Pubblikazzjonijiet Indipendenza 9789993291329 Pietà 1594–1595 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). 31 December – Tore Asplund, Swedish-born American painter (b. 1903). Full date unknown Philip Lindsey Clark, English sculptor (b. 1889) Walter Pritchard, Scottish stained glass artist, muralist and sculptor (b. 1905) See also 1977 in fine arts of the Soviet Union References Category:Years of the 20th century in art Category:1970s in art