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Events
- The Turner Prize is awarded for the first time. The winner is Malcolm Morley.
Awards
- Archibald Prize: Keith Looby - Max Gillies
Works
- Felim Egan - Battle of Hercules and Antaeus
- John Doubleday - Statue of Dylan Thomas (Marina, Swansea)
Exhibitions
Births
- 4 May - Joe Simpson, English figurative painter.
Deaths
January to June
- 6 February - Jimmy Ernst, American painter born in Germany (b.1920).
- 12 February - Tom Keating, English art restorer and art faker (b.1917).
- 16 March - John Hoagland, American photographer (b.1947).
- 22 April - Ansel Adams, American photographer (b.1902).
- 19 June - Lee Krasner, American abstract expressionist painter (b.1908).
July to December
- 8 July - Brassaï, Hungarian photographer, sculptor, and filmmaker (b.1899).
- 9 July - Peter Hurd, American artist (b.1904).
- 2 August - Quirino Cristiani, Argentine animation director and cartoonist (b.1896).
- 1 December - Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter (b.1911).
Full date unknown
- Jacques Adnet, French modernist designer, architect and interior designer (b.1900).
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