Editing Timeline of art (section)

== 1970s ==
* '''[[1979 in art]]''' – Death of  [[Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler]], [[Nelson Rockefeller]], [[Norman Lewis (artist)|Norman Lewis]], [[Sonia Delaunay]], [[Peggy Guggenheim]], 
* '''[[1978 in art]]''' – Death of [[Thomas B. Hess]], [[Norman Rockwell]], [[Giorgio de Chirico]], [[Otto Kallir]]
* '''[[1977 in art]]''' – Death of [[Charles Alston]], [[Gertrude Abercrombie]], [[Lee Miller]], [[Naum Gabo]]. [[Centre Pompidou]] opens
* '''[[1976 in art]]''' – Birth of [[Jay Simeon]]; Death of [[Max Ernst]], [[Alexander Calder]], [[Paul Strand]], [[Mark Tobey]], [[Josef Albers]], [[Man Ray]], [[Imogen Cunningham]], [[Edward Burra]]
* '''[[1975 in art]]''' – Birth of [[Alick Tipoti]]; Death of [[Thomas Hart Benton (painter)|Thomas Hart Benton]], [[Walker Evans]], [[Barbara Hepworth]]
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* '''[[1974 in art]]''' – Death of [[Adolph Gottlieb]], [[William C. Seitz]], For the first time in art history, the [[chemogram]] invented by [[Josef H. Neumann]] closed the separation of the painterly background and the photographic layer in a symbiosis of painting and real photographic perspective. 
* '''[[1973 in art]]''' – Death of [[Pablo Picasso]], [[Edward Steichen]], [[Stanton Macdonald-Wright]], [[Robert Smithson]]; the first [[Whitney Biennial]]
* '''[[1972 in art]]''' – Death of [[M. C. Escher]], [[Joseph Cornell]], [[Enrico Baj]] creates ''[[The Funeral of the Anarchist Pinelli]]''
* '''[[1971 in art]]''' – Death of [[I. Rice Pereira]]
* '''[[1970 in art]]''' – Birth of [[Jenny Saville]]; Death of [[Rita Angus]], [[Mark Rothko]], [[Fritz Ascher]], [[Eva Hesse]], [[Roberto Longhi]],  [[Barnett Newman]]