1981 in art

Events from the year 1981 in art. == Events == 10 September – Picasso's painting Guernica is returned from New York to Madrid. unknown date – Blek le Rat begins his stencil graffiti art in Paris. == Awards == Archibald Prize: Eric Smith – Rudy Komon == Exhibitions == 9 June – Black Art an'done opens at Wolverhampton Art Gallery in the UK. == Works == Tony Cragg – Britain as Seen from the North John Doubleday – Statue of Charlie Chaplin (Leicester Square, London) Don Eckland – Emergence (bronze, Eugene, Oregon) Bryan Hunt – Arch Falls (bronze, Houston, Texas) Nabil Kanso – Dreamvision series of paintings completed Ellsworth Kelly – Curve XXIV (sculpture, Seattle) Carlo Maria Mariani – The Constellation of Leo Ana Mendieta Maroya (Esculturas Rupestres) (executed in caves in Cuba) Odd Nerdrum – Twilight Helmut Newton – Sie kommen! ("They're coming!", photographic diptych; published in French Vogue, November) Richard Serra – Tilted Arc, Federal Plaza, New York City (dismantled 1989) Andy Warhol – Myths series Aubrey Williams – Shostakovich series of paintings completed == Births == 15 April – Seth Wulsin, American artist 19 April – Saskia de Brauw, Dutch model and artist 4 November – Paul Tucker, Canadian visual artist and graphic novel and webcomic illustrator 20 November – Scott Hutchison, Scottish singer, songwriter, guitarist, and visual artist (d. 2018) == Deaths == 19 January – Francesca Woodman, 22, American photographer 4 April – Isaac Frenkel Frenel, Israeli French painter and sculptor (b. 1899) 8 May – Grethe Jürgens, German painter (b. 1899) 25 May – Armando de Armas Romero, Cuban painter (b. 1914) 28 May – Jean Paul Slusser, painter, designer, art critic, professor, and director of the University of Michigan Museum of Art (b. 1886) 16 June – Hans Coper, German-born English studio potter (b. 1920) 19 June – Lotte Reiniger, German silhouette animator and film director (b.1899) 29 June – Russell Drysdale, Australian artist (b. 1912) 8 July – Isaac Soyer, Russian-born American painter, (b. 1902) 16 July – John E. Berninger, American landscape painter (b. 1896) 7 September – Christy Brown, Irish author, painter and poet (b. 1932) 12 October – Enzo Plazzotta, Italian-born British sculptor (b. 1921) 13 October – Antonio Berni, Argentine painter (b. 1905) 20 October – Annot, German painter (b. 1894). 23 October – Reg Butler, English sculptor (b. 1913) 17 November – Nano Reid, Irish painter (b. 1905) 22 November – Corrado Parducci, Italian-American architectural sculptor (b. 1900) 5 December - Max Spivak - 74, American muralist (b. 1901) 28 December – Bram van Velde, Dutch painter (b. 1895) === Full date unknown === Hubert Davis, American artist (b.1902). Art Frahm, American pin-up and advertising artist (b.1907). Pinchus Kremegne, Belarusian sculptor, painter and lithographer (b.1890). == See also == 1981 in fine arts of the Soviet Union == References ==