1977 in art

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See also: 1976 in art, other events of 1977, 1978 in art, List of years in art

Contents 1 Events 1.1 Awards 2 Exhibitions 3 Works 4 Births 5 Deaths 5.1 Awards

[edit] Events

• Starr Kempf constructs the first of his "wind sculptures".

[edit] Awards

• Archibald Prize: Kevin Connor - Robert Klippel

[edit] Exhibitions

• Retrospective of Valentine Hugo at the Centre Culturel Thibaud de Champagne, Troyes.
• Retrospective of Frida Kahlo at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City.

[edit] Works

• Lucian Freud - Naked Man with Rat
• Ernest Zobole - Landscape at Night
• Robert Sherman - Moses

[edit] Births

• February 8 - Yucef Merhi, New Media Artist

[edit] Deaths

• April 27 - Charles Alston, artist and teacher
• July 27 - Lee Miller, photographer
• August 23 - Naum Gabo, sculptor
• September 23 - John Nash, painter, illustrator and engraver, brother of Paul Nash
• October 20 - Marie-Thérèse Walter, muse of Pablo Picasso and mother of his daughter (suicide)
• November 5 - René Goscinny, co-creator of the Astérix comic strip
• date unknown - Walter Pritchard, stained glass artist
• date unknown - Philip Lindsey Clark, sculptor

[edit] Awards