Events from the year 1978 in art.
Events
Awards
Works
Births
Deaths
- 10 January â Gluck, born Hannah Gluckstein, English painter (b. 1895)
- 19 January â Ã
½ivko StojsavljeviÃÂ, Serbian painter (b. 1900).
- 1 February â Don Freeman, American author, painter and illustrator (b. 1908)
- 24 February â Alma Thomas, African American abstract expressionist painter (b. 1891).
- 13 April â Jack Chambers, Canadian artist and filmmaker (b. 1931).
- 27 April â Ralston Crawford, Canadian-born American painter, lithographer and photographer (b. 1906)
- 29 April â Yukihiko Yasuda, Japanese painter (b. 1884).
- 8 May â Duncan Grant, Scottish painter (b. 1885).
- 21 May â Jo Spier, Dutch artist and illustrator (b. 1900)
- 31 May â 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 â Victor Hasselblad, Swedish inventor and photographer (b. 1889).
- 14 August â Nicolas Bentley, British author and illustrator (b. 1907).
- 27 August â Gordon Matta-Clark, American artist (b. 1943).
- 6 November â Harry Bertoia, Italian-born American artist and designer (b. 1915).
- 8 November â Norman Rockwell, American painter and illustrator (b. 1894).
- 20 November â Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter (b. 1888)
- 30 November â Otto Kallir, Austrian -American art historian, author, publisher, and gallerist (b. 1894)
Full date unknown
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