1978 in art

none 1978 art Events from the year 1978 in art. Events 27 June – Stitching the Standard by Edmund Leighton is sold at Sotheby's in Belgravia to a private collector.http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.pdf.L11133.html/f/51/L11133-51.pdf Victorian & Edwardian Art Sotheby's 15 November 2011 28 June 2014 24 September 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150924141535/http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.pdf.L11133.html/f/51/L11133-51.pdf dead Awards Archibald Prize: Brett Whiteley – Art, Life and the other thing John Moores Painting Prize - Noel Forster for "A painting in six stages with a silk triangle"https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history/previous-winners-list/noel_forster.aspx Noel Forster - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk 28 November 2018 Works Category:1978 paintings Category:1978 sculptures Vacant Lot of Cabbages 4 January - 21 June Wellington New Zealand.Farrar Sarah 2012-11-02 ‘Vacant lot of cabbages’ documentation enters Te Papa’s archives https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2012/11/02/vacant-lot-of-cabbages-documentation-enters-te-papas-archives/ 2026-08-28 Te Papa’s Blog en-NZ Zdzisław Beksiński – AA78March 2026 Christo and Jeanne Claude - "Wrapped Walk Ways" in Loose Park in Kansas City, MissouriWrapped Walk Ways, Project for Jacob L. Loose Memorial Park, Kansas City, Missouri [right panel] https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.120692.html 2021-09-20 www.nga.gov 1978 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 JumpChristine Ross The aesthetics of disengagement: contemporary art and depression. University of Minnesota Press 2006 9780816645398 10 Michael Heizer – Isolated Mass/Circumflex (Number 2) (land art, Houston, Texas) Bryan Hunt – Big Twist (bronze, Houston, Texas) 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 – Mykhailo Kolodko, Ukrainian/Hungarian sculptorMarch 2026 Deaths 10 January – Gluck, born Hannah Gluckstein, English painter (b. 1895) 19 January – Živko Stojsavljević, Serbian painter (b. 1900). 1 February – Don Freeman, American author, painter and illustrator (b. 1908) 24 February – Alma Thomas, African American abstract expressionist painter (b. 1891). 13 April – Jack Chambers, Canadian artist and filmmaker (b. 1931). 27 April – Ralston Crawford, Canadian-born American painter, lithographer and photographer (b. 1906) 29 April – Yukihiko Yasuda, Japanese painter (b. 1884). 8 May – Duncan Grant, Scottish painter (b. 1885). 21 May – Jo Spier, Dutch artist and illustrator (b. 1900) 31 May – Hannah Höch, German Dada photomontage artist (b. 1889). 13 July Thomas B. Hess, American art editor, writer, and curator (b. 1920) Oliver Messel, English-born stage designer (b. 1904). 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) 30 November – Otto Kallir, Austrian -American art historian, author, publisher, and gallerist (b. 1894)Alessandra Comini A Tribute to Dr Otto Kallir Gustav Klimt--Egon Schiele: In Commemoration of the Achievements of Dr. Otto Kallir Galerie St. Etienne : Crown 1980 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 Category:Years of the 20th century in art Category:1970s in art