1978 in art

Births

• 19 September – Mykhailo Kolodko, Ukrainian/Hungarian sculptor

Deaths

• 10 January – Gluck, born Hannah Gluckstein, English painter (b. 1895)
• 19 January – Živko Stojsavljević, Serbian painter (b. 1900).
• 1 February – Don Freeman, American author, painter and illustrator (b. 1908)
• 24 February – Alma Thomas, African American abstract expressionist painter (b. 1891).
• 13 April – Jack Chambers, Canadian artist and filmmaker (b. 1931).
• 27 April – Ralston Crawford, Canadian-born American painter, lithographer and photographer (b. 1906)
• 29 April – Yukihiko Yasuda, Japanese painter (b. 1884).
• 8 May – Duncan Grant, Scottish painter (b. 1885).
• 21 May – Jo Spier, Dutch artist and illustrator (b. 1900)
• 31 May – Hannah Höch, German Dada photomontage artist (b. 1889).
• 13 July
• Thomas B. Hess, American art editor, writer, and curator (b. 1920)
• Oliver Messel, English-born stage designer (b. 1904).
• 5 August – Victor Hasselblad, Swedish inventor and photographer (b. 1889).
• 14 August – Nicolas Bentley, British author and illustrator (b. 1907).
• 27 August – Gordon Matta-Clark, American artist (b. 1943).
• 6 November – Harry Bertoia, Italian-born American artist and designer (b. 1915).
• 8 November – Norman Rockwell, American painter and illustrator (b. 1894).
• 20 November – Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter (b. 1888)
• 30 November – Otto Kallir, Austrian -American art historian, author, publisher, and gallerist (b. 1894)

Full date unknown

• Gabriel Hayes, Irish sculptor and coin designer (b.1909).
• Leo Michelson, Latvian-American painter and sculptor (b.1887).

References

See also

• 1978 in fine arts of the Soviet Union