1979 in art

none July 2022 July 2022 1979 art Events from the year 1979 in art. Events 25 October – Frederic Edwin Church's 1861 painting The Icebergs sells for US$2.5 million at Sotheby's New York, the third-highest amount paid for any painting at auction at this date.The Voyage of The Icebergs: Frederic Church's Arctic Masterpiece Harvey Eleanor Jones Eleanor Jones Harvey 2002 Dallas Museum of Art 978-0-300-09536-4 https://issuu.com/dallasmuseumofart/docs/dma_voyageoftheicebergs 15 November – Art historian and former Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures Anthony Blunt's role as one of the 'Cambridge Five' double agents for the Soviet NKVD during World War II is revealed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.Professor Blunt named as spy Stewart Tendler Ian Bradley The Times London 1979-11-16 1 60476 unknown date The Xing xing ("The Stars Group") of 20 avant-garde Chinese artists (including Ma Desheng, Wang Keping, Huang Rui, Li Shuang, Qu Leilei, Ah Cheng and Ai Weiwei) stage an illegal exhibition outside the National Art Museum of China in Beijing.December 2025 The Bauhaus Archive, designed by Alexander Cvijanović with Hans Bandel after Walter Gropius, is completed in West Berlin, Germany.https://www.bauhaus.de/en/about-us/history/ Our History Bauhaus Archiv Museum 4 April 2026 Awards Archibald Prize: Wes Walters – Portrait of Phillip Adams Works Category:1979 paintings Category:1979 sculptures Michael Andrews – Melanie and Me Swimming Judy Chicago – The Dinner Party (collaborative installation, completed)Judy Chicago https://openlibrary.org/works/OL71797W/The_dinner_party The Dinner Party: A Symbol of our Heritage Anchor 1979 0-385-14567-5 Jenny Holzer – Truisms Lee Kelly – sculptures (Portland, Oregon) Elkhorn Nash Jack Mackie and Charles Greening – Dancer's Series: Steps (bronze, Seattle) Joan Mitchell La Vie en Rose"La Vie en Rose" 1979 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/485705 Met Museum 10 November 2022 Salut Tomhttps://twocoatsofpaint.com/2022/05/sensing-joan-mitchell.html Sensing Joan Mitchell 15 May 2022 Andrzej Pitynski – The Partisans (aluminum sculpture) Enzo Plazzotta – Attitude II (Margot Fonteyn) John Rogers – 118 Modules (sculpture, Portland, Oregon) Michael Snow – Flight Stop (sculpture, Toronto Eaton Centre) Don Wilson – Holon (sculpture, Portland, Oregon) Exhibitions 22 April to 10 June – Special Projects (Scott Belville. John Boone. Andrea Callard. Katherine Carter. Ian Crofts, Lauren Ewing, Heide Fasnicht, Betty Goodwin, Norman Hasselriis, Alan Herman, Jeff (Jeff Russell), and Elaine Reichek) at PS1 in Queens, New York.https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/4114 Special Projects (Spring 1979) | MoMA Births 25 July – Ahmed Mater, Saudi artist date unknown Aideen Barry, Irish multimedia and performance artist Éric Bourdon, French painter and writer Elise Fouin, French designer Deaths 11 January – Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German-born French Art dealer (born 1884) 3 February – Aaron Douglas, American painter (born 1898) 7 February – Charles Tunnicliffe, British wildlife painter (born 1901) 20 March – Jean Charlot, French painter and illustrator (born 1898)https://www.jeancharlot.org/jean-charlot-artist-and-scholar Jean Charlot: Artist and Scholar Karen Thompson 4 April 2026 Jean Charlot Foundation 5 April – Eugène Gabritschevsky, Russian biologist and artist (born 1893) 23 June – Reynolds Stone, English wood engraver (born 1909) 25 June Dave Fleischer, Austrian American animator, film director, and film producer (born 1894) Philippe Halsman, Latvian American portrait photographer (born 1906) 13 July – Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and graphic artist (born 1913) 20 August – Christian Dotremont, Belgian painter and poet (born 1922) 29 August – Ivon Hitchens, English painter (born 1893) 17 September – Paul Maze, French-born English Post-Impressionist painter (born 1887) 8 November – Edward Ardizzone, British writer and illustrator (born 1900) 20 November – Tyra Lundgren, Swedish painter, ceramist, glass and textile designer and writer on art (born 1897) 5 December – Sonia Delaunay, Ukrainian-French artist (born 1885) 23 December – Peggy Guggenheim, American-born art collector (born 1898) date unknown Russell Brockbank, Canadian-born cartoonist (born 1913) Sheila Fell, English painter (born 1931) Awards See also 1979 in fine arts of the Soviet Union References Category:Years of the 20th century in art Category:1970s in art