1983 in art

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

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[edit] Awards

• Archibald Prize: Nigel Thomson - Chandler Coventry

[edit] Works

• The completion of the Christo and Jeanne-Claude environmental artwork, Surrounded Islands. It involved 11 islands being surrounded by 6,500,000 square feet (600,000 m²) of fabric.

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[edit] Deaths

• February 24 - Roy Krenkel, illustrator
• July 1 - Buckminster Fuller, architect and designer
• August 18 - Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, art historian
• November 17 - John Russell Harper, art historian
• date unknown - Edward Wesson, watercolour painter