1970 in art

Events

• October 26 - Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury debuts in approximately two dozen newspapers in the United States.
• November 27 - Bolivian artist Benjamin Mendoza tries to assassinate Pope Paul VI during his visit to Manila.
• Tom Keating admits that a number of watercolours in the style of Samuel Palmer were painted by him.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Eric Smith - Gruzman - Architect
• Prix Puvis de Chavannes - Daniel du Janerand

Works

• Gilbert and George - The Singing Sculpture (performance)^[1]
• Barbara Hepworth - Family of Man
• Alvin D. Loving Jr. - Cube 27 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
• Henry Moore - Reclining Figure LH608
• Kanda Nissho - Indoor Landscape
• Isamu Noguchi - Night Wind
• Victor Pasmore - Apollo Pavilion (Peterlee, England)
• William Scott - Still Life With Orange Note (Arts Council of Northern Ireland)
• Robert Smithson - Spiral Jetty

Births

• January 17 - Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian-born American animator.
• January 22 - Alex Ross, American comic book painter and illustrator
• February 10 - Peter Richards, artist and curator
• February 15 - Shepard Fairey, American artist, graphic designer and illustrator.
• February 27 - Matthias Lechner, German set designer and art director.
• March 12 - Marine Delterme, French actress, painter, sculptor and former model.
• May 3 - Jeffrey Sebelia, American fashion designer.
• May 9 - Damian Loeb, American painter.
• May 26 - Nobuhiro Watsuki, Japanese manga artist.
• June 1 - Joshua Compston - British gallerist (d.1996).
• July 6 - Grant Bond, American comic book artist and writer.
• July 9 - Benoit Pierre Emery, French art director and fashion designer.
• August 4 - Pete Abrams, American webcomic writer and illustrator.
• November 22 - Aleksander Balos, Polish-born American artist and figurative painter.
• date unknown
  • Stéphane Ducret, Swiss contemporary artist.
  • Emily Jacir, Palestinian artist.
  • Tomoki Kyoda, Japanese animation director and animator.
  • Vincent Paronnaud, French comics artist and filmmaker.
  • David Quinn, Irish artist.

Deaths

• January 27 - Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (born 1908)
• February 25 - Mark Rothko, Latvian-born American painter and printmaker (born 1903)
• February 26 - Ángel María de Rosa, Argentine sculptor and philanthropist (born 1888)
• March 2 - Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Canadian painter (born 1888)
• March 8
  • Waldo Peirce, American painter (born 1884)
  • Anton Räderscheidt, German painter (born 1892)
• March 22 - Georges Malkine, French painter, only painter to sign the Surrealist Manifesto of 1924 (born 1898)
• April 20 - Robert Laurent, American sculptor (born 1890)
• May 13 - William Dobell, Australian sculptor and painter (born 1899)
• May 29 - Eva Hesse, German-born American sculptor (born 1936)
• June 6 - Camille Bombois, French naïve painter (born 1883)
• July 4 - Barnett Newman, American artist (born 1905)
• July 7 - Laura Knight, English Impressionist painter (born 1877)
• November 29 - Walter Stuempfig, American painter (born 1914)
• December 1 - Hermine David, French painter (born 1886)
• December 19 - Stig Blomberg, Swedish sculptor (born 1901)
• date unknown - Ze'ev Raban, Israeli painter (born 1890)

See also

• 1970 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References