Events from the year 1973 in art.
Events
Awards
Exhibitions
Works
- Emma Amos â Sandy and Her Husband
- Michael Ayrton â Icarus (sculpture, London)
- Michael Craig-Martin â An Oak Tree (conceptual work)
- Salvador Dalàâ DalàSeen 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 â The Red Ceiling (photograph)
- Ben Enwonwu â Tutu
- Gluck â Credo (Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Light) (completed)
- Barbara Hepworth â Conversation with Magic Stones
- Hipgnosis â The Dark Side of the Moon (album cover)
- David Hockney â The Student: Homage to Picasso (print)
- David Inshaw â The Badminton Game
- Nabil Kanso â Place des Martyres (paintings); Vietnam paintings series (through 1974)
- Frederic Littman â Farewell to Orpheus (bronze, Portland, Oregon)
- Joan Miró â completes series The navigator's hope
- Joan Mitchell - Iva (monumental triptych, Tate Modern
- Henry Moore â Large Four Piece Reclining Figure 1972âÂÂ73 (bronze)
- Mike Parr - Wound By Measurement (performed at Galerie Impact in Lausanne, Switzerland)
- Ivor Roberts-Jones â Statue of Winston Churchill, Parliament Square (bronze, London)
- Dorothea Tanning - ' (work completed)
- Euan Uglow â Georgia
- Andy Warhol â Man
- David Wynne
- Embracing Lovers (bronze, Guildhall, London)
- Girl with a Dolphin (bronze, by Tower Bridge, London)
Births
Full date unknown
Deaths
January to June
- January 17 â Tarsila do Amaral, Brazilian modernist artist (b. 1886).
- March 14 â 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 â Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (b. 1881).
- April 13 â Henry Darger, American outsider artist (b. 1892)
- April 28 â Siri Derkert, Swedish artist, sculptor and political campaigner (b. 1888).
- May 1 â Asger Jorn, Danish artist and essayist (b. 1914).
- May 12 â Edith Tudor Hart, née Suschitzky, Austrian-born photojournalist and communist agent in Britain (b. 1908).
- May 16 â Albert Paris Gütersloh, Austrian painter and writer (b. 1887).
- May 18 â Ronald Ossory Dunlop, Irish author and painter (b. 1894).
- May 21 â Montague Dawson, English maritime painter (b. 1890).
July to December
- July 20 â Robert Smithson, American artist (b. 1938).
- August 9 â Claude Buckle, English poster artist and watercolourist (b. 1905).
- September 30 â Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer, artist and historian (b. 1902).
- November 13 â Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian fashion designer (b. 1890).
- November 17 â Adolf Wissel, German painter, an official artist of Nazism (b. 1894).
- December 7 â Camilo Mori, Chilean painter (b. 1896).
- December 13 â Ralph Stackpole, American sculptor, painter, muralist, etcher and art educator (b. 1885).
- December 16 â Andrej Bicenko, Russian fresco painter and muralist (b. 1886).
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