Events from the year 1980 in art.
Events
Exhibitions
Works
Awards
Deaths
January to June
- January 9 â Joy Adamson, Austria-Kenyan painter and conservationist (b. 1908).
- January 18 â Cecil Beaton, English photographer and stage and costume designer (b. 1904).
- January 20 â William Roberts, painter (b. 1904).
- January 26 â Dolly Rudeman, Dutch graphic designer (b. 1902).
- February 4 â Stojan Aralica, famous Serbian Impressionist painter and academic (b. 1883).
- February 6 â Albert Kotin, Russian-born American Abstract Expressionist artist (b. 1907).
- February 17 â Graham Sutherland, English artist (b. 1903).
- February 22 â Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian artist, poet and playwright (b. 1886).
- March 5 â John Skeaping, English sculptor and equine painter (b. 1901).
- March 18 â Tamara de Lempicka, Polish Art Deco painter (b. 1898).
- April 21
- ýudovÃÂt Fulla, Slovak painter, graphic artist, illustrator, stage designer and art teacher (b. 1902).
- Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and a painter (b. 1928).
- May 15 â Len Lye, New Zealand-born American kinetic sculptor and filmmaker (b. 1901).
- May 16 â Izis Bidermanas, Lithuanian-born photographer (b. 1911).
- June 7 â Philip Guston, Canadian-born American Abstract Expressionist painter and printmaker (b. 1913).
- June 23 â Clyfford Still, American Abstract Expressionist painter (b. 1904).
July to December
Undated
See also
References