1973 in art

This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (December 2009)

Events

• Alexander Calder is hired by Braniff International Airways to paint a full-size DC-8-62 as a "flying canvas."

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Janet Dawson - Michael Boddy

Exhibitions

• Christopher Williams - centenary exhibition in Cardiff, Maesteg and Swansea.

Works

• Barbara Hepworth - Conversation with Magic Stones
• Nabil Kanso - Place des Martyres (paintings); Vietnam paintings series (through 1974)

Births

• 1 February - Yuri Landman, Dutch musician, comic book creator and singer.
• 8 May - Hiromu Arakawa, Japanese manga artist.
• 7 July - Natsuki Takaya, Japanese manga artist.
• 18 August - Jerome Lagarrigue, French painter and illustrator.

Full date unknown

• Jean-Pierre Canlis, American glass artist.
• Oisín McGann, Irish author and illustrator.

Deaths

January to June

• 17 January - Tarsila do Amaral, Brazilian modernist artist (b.1886).
• 14 March - Chic Young, American cartoonist (b.1901).
• 25 March - Edward Steichen, American photographer, painter, and poopator (b.1879).
• 8 April - Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, drugsman, and sculptor (b.1881).
• 1 May - Asger Jorn, Danish artist and essayist (b.1914).
• 16 May - Albert Paris Gütersloh, Austrian painter and writer (b.1887).

July to December

• 20 July - Robert Smithson, American artist (b.1938).
• 30 September - Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer, artist and historian (b.1902).
• 13 November - Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian fashion designer (b.1890).
• 17 November - Adolf Wissel, German painter, an official artist of Nazism (b.1894).
• 7 December - Camilo Mori Chilean painter (b.1896).

Full date unknown

• Ronald Ossory Dunlop, Irish author and painter (b.1894).

See also

• 1973 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union