1972 in art

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Events

• 16 September - Opening of A.I.R. Gallery at 97 Wooster Street, SoHo, New York, the first artist-run, not-for-profit gallery for women artists in the United States.
• September - Release in the United Kingdom of Ken Russell's biographical film about Gaudier-Brzeska, Savage Messiah.
• Costantino Nivola becomes the first non-American member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
• Friedensreich Hundertwasser publishes his architectural manifesto, Your window right - your tree duty.
• Portmeirion Pottery brings out its best-selling "Botanic Garden" design.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Clifton Pugh - The Hon E G Whitlam

Works

• Marcelle Ferron - Untitled stained glass panel at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
• Helen Frankenthaler - Coral Wedge
• Barbara Hepworth - Minoan Head and Assembly of Sea Forms
• Clifton Pugh - Death of a Wombat
• Joan Jonas - Vertical Roll
• Paul McCarthy - Black and White Tapes

Births

• 4 April - Jørgen Larsson, Norwegian musician, sound artist and curator.
• 29 April - Roman Dirge, American comic book artist and magician.
• 12 December - Joel Cahen, Israeli curator, photographer, filmmaker and sound artist.

Full date unknown

• Jules de Balincourt, French painter.
• Gilles Tréhin, French artist and author.

Deaths

January to June

• 19 January - Suzanne Malherbe, French illustrator and designer (b.1892).
• 19 February - Tedd Pierce, American animated cartoon writer, animator and artist (b.1906).
• 13 March - Tony Ray-Jones, English photographer (b.1941).
• 23 March - Cristobal Balenciaga, Spanish fashion designer (b.1895).
• 27 March - M. C. Escher, Dutch graphic artist (b.1898).
• 27 March - Ricco Wassmer, Swiss painter (b.1915).
• 26 April - Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (b.1892).

July to December

• 23 October - Clarice Cliff, English ceramic artist (b.1899).
• 23 December - Norman Clyde, American mountaineer, nature photographer and naturalist (b.1885).
• 24 December - Gisela Richter, English archaeologist and art historian (b.1882).
• 29 December - Joseph Cornell, American artist and sculptor (b.1903).

Full date unknown

• Gerald Curtis Delano, American painter (b.1890).

See also

• 1972 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union