1981 in art

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Contents 1 Events 2 Awards 3 Works 4 Exhibitions 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

[edit] Awards

• Archibald Prize - Eric Smith

[edit] Works

• Tony Cragg - Britain as Seen from the North
• John Doubleday - Statue of Charlie Chaplin (Leicester Square, London)
• Richard Serra - Tilted Arc, Federal Plaza, New York City (dismantled 1989)

[edit] Exhibitions

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

• June 29 - Russell Drysdale, landscape painter
• October 12 - Enzo Plazzotta, sculptor
• November 22 - Corrado Parducci, sculptor
• date unknown - Art Frahm, pin-up artist
• date unknown - Pinchus Kremegne, painter, sculptor and lithographer