1973 in art

Events from the year 1973 in art.

Events

 * August 25 – Jesús Soto Museum of Modern Art in Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela, designed by Carlos Raúl Villanueva, is opened.
 * Alexander Calder is hired by Braniff International Airways to paint a full-size DC-8-62 as a "flying canvas".
 * David Hockney begins a 2-year spell living and working in Paris.
 * Aristeidis Metallinos begins his career as a sculptor.
 * Robert Scull's collection of American Pop and Minimal art is auctioned by Sotheby's in New York City.

Awards

 * Archibald Prize: Janet Dawson – Michael Boddy

Exhibitions

 * Christopher Williams – centenary exhibition in Cardiff, Maesteg and Swansea.

Works



 * Emma Amos – Sandy and Her Husband
 * Michael Ayrton – Icarus (sculpture, London)
 * Michael Craig-Martin – An Oak Tree (conceptual work)
 * Salvador Dalí – Dalí Seen from the Back Painting Gala from the Back Eternalised by Six Virtual Corneas Provisionally Reflected by Six Real Mirrors (stereoscopic painted in duplicate but for a small variation - completed)
 * William Eggleston – The Red Ceiling (photograph)
 * Ben Enwonwu – Tutu
 * Gluck – Credo (Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Light) (completed)
 * Barbara Hepworth – Conversation with Magic Stones
 * Hipgnosis – The Dark Side of the Moon (album cover)
 * David Hockney – The Student: Homage to Picasso (print)
 * David Inshaw – The Badminton Game
 * Nabil Kanso – Place des Martyres (paintings); Vietnam paintings series (through 1974)
 * Frederic Littman – Farewell to Orpheus (bronze, Portland, Oregon)
 * Joan Miró – completes series The navigator's hope
 * Henry Moore – Large Four Piece Reclining Figure 1972–73 (bronze)
 * Mike Parr - Wound By Measurement (performed at Galerie Impact in Lausanne, Switzerland)
 * Ivor Roberts-Jones – Statue of Winston Churchill, Parliament Square (bronze, London)
 * Dorothea Tanning - Hôtel du Pavot, Chambre 202 (work completed)
 * Euan Uglow – Georgia
 * Andy Warhol – Man
 * David Wynne
 * Embracing Lovers (bronze, Guildhall, London)
 * Girl with a Dolphin (bronze, by Tower Bridge, London)

Births

 * January 29 – Louise Hindsgavl, Danish artist
 * February 1 – Yuri Landman, Dutch musician, comic book creator and singer
 * May 8 – Hiromu Arakawa, Japanese manga artist
 * July 7 – Natsuki Takaya, Japanese manga artist
 * July 28 (possible date) – Banksy, English graffiti artist
 * August 18 – Jerome Lagarrigue, French painter and illustrator

Full date unknown

 * Jean-Pierre Canlis, American glass artist.
 * Oisín McGann, Irish author and illustrator.
 * Rosalind Nashashibi, English Palestinian film artist.
 * Charles Pétillon, French photographer and instillation artist

January to June

 * January 17 – Tarsila do Amaral, Brazilian modernist artist (b. 1886).
 * March 14 – Chic Young, American cartoonist (b. 1901).
 * March 25
 * Gerda Höglund, Swedish religious painter (b. 1878).
 * Edward Steichen, American photographer, painter and curator (b. 1879).
 * April 8 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (b. 1881).
 * April 13 – Henry Darger, American outsider artist (b. 1892)
 * April 28 – Siri Derkert, Swedish artist, sculptor and political campaigner (b. 1888).
 * May 1 – Asger Jorn, Danish artist and essayist (b. 1914).
 * May 12 – Edith Tudor Hart, née Suschitzky, Austrian-born photojournalist and communist agent in Britain (b. 1908).
 * May 16 – Albert Paris Gütersloh, Austrian painter and writer (b. 1887).
 * May 18 – Ronald Ossory Dunlop, Irish author and painter (b. 1894).
 * May 21 – Montague Dawson, English maritime painter (b. 1890).

July to December

 * July 20 – Robert Smithson, American artist (b. 1938).
 * August 9 – Claude Buckle, English poster artist and watercolourist (b. 1905).
 * September 30 – Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer, artist and historian (b. 1902).
 * November 13 – Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian fashion designer (b. 1890).
 * November 17 – Adolf Wissel, German painter, an official artist of Nazism (b. 1894).
 * December 7 – Camilo Mori, Chilean painter (b. 1896).
 * December 13 – Ralph Stackpole, American sculptor, painter, muralist, etcher and art educator (b. 1885).
 * December 16 – Andrej Bicenko, Russian fresco painter and muralist (b. 1886).