1978 in art

List of years in art (table)
... 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 ... 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 ... 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 ...
Art Archaeology Architecture Literature Music Philosophy Science +...

Events

• 27 June – Stitching the Standard by Edmund Leighton is sold at Sotheby's in Belgravia to a private collector.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Brett Whiteley – Art, Life and the other thing

Works

See also: Category:1978 paintings and Category:1978 sculptures

• Dan Flavin – untitled (to the real Dan Hill)
• Helen Frankenthaler – Cleveland Symphony Orchestra
• David Gentleman – "Eleanor cross" mural for Charing Cross tube station (London)
• Jack Goldstein – The Jump
• Nabil Kanso – Hiroshima Nagasaki One-Minute
• Liz Leyh – Concrete Cows (Milton Keynes)
• Dennis Oppenheim – Cobalt Vectors – An Invasion
• Mikhail Savitsky – Partisan Madonna of Minsk

Births

• 19 September – Russell Ouellett, American artist and therapist (b. 1978).

Deaths

• 19 January – Živko Stojsavljević, Serbian painter (b. 1900).
• 13 April – Jack Chambers, Canadian artist and filmmaker (b. 1931).
• 8 May – Duncan Grant, Scottish painter (b. 1885).
• 31 May – Hannah Höch, German Dada photomontage artist (b. 1978).
• 5 August – Victor Hasselblad, Swedish inventor and photographer (b. 1889).
• 14 August – Nicolas Bentley, British author and illustrator (b. 1907).
• 27 August – Gordon Matta-Clark, American artist (b. 1943).
• 6 November – Harry Bertoia, Italian-born American artist and designer (b. 1915).
• 8 November – Norman Rockwell, American painter and illustrator (b. 1894).
• 20 November – Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter (b. 1888).

Full date unknown

• Gabriel Hayes, Irish sculptor and coin designer (b.1909).
• Leo Michelson, Latvian-American painter and sculptor (b.1887).

See also

• 1978 in fine arts of the Soviet Union