Editing 1973 in art

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Events from the year '''1973 in art'''.

==Events==
*[[August 25]] – [[Jesús Soto Museum of Modern Art]] in [[Ciudad Bolívar]], Venezuela, designed by [[Carlos Raúl Villanueva]], is opened.
*[[Alexander Calder]] is hired by [[Braniff International Airways]] to paint a full-size DC-8-62 as a "flying canvas".
*[[David Hockney]] begins a 2-year spell living and working in Paris.<ref>{{cite book|first=Martin|last=Gayford|title=Spring Cannot be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy|location=London|publisher=Thames & Hudson|year=2021|isbn=978-0-500-09436-5}}</ref>
*[[Aristeidis Metallinos]] begins his career as a sculptor.<ref>Giannis M. Maris (1978) "Βιογραφικό - Αριστείδης Ζαχ. Μεταλληνός", in ''Απάνθισμα Γραμμάτων και Τεχνών'', Athens, pp.&nbsp;611–617.</ref>
*[[Robert Scull]]'s collection of American [[Pop art|Pop]] and [[Minimalism (visual arts)|Minimal]] art is auctioned by [[Sotheby's]] in New York City.

==Awards==
* [[Archibald Prize]]: [[Janet Dawson]] – ''Michael Boddy''

==Exhibitions==
* [[Christopher Williams (Welsh artist)|Christopher Williams]] – centenary exhibition in [[Cardiff]], [[Maesteg]] and [[Swansea]].

==Works==
[[File:Girl with a dolphin in London, spring 2013 (1).JPG|thumb|[[David Wynne (sculptor)|David Wynne]] – ''Girl with a Dolphin'']]
{{see also|Category:1973 paintings|Category:1973 sculptures}}

* [[Emma Amos (painter)|Emma Amos]] – ''[[Sandy and Her Husband]]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.culturetype.com/2018/06/20/cleveland-museum-of-art-has-acquired-a-significant-painting-by-emma-amos/|title = Cleveland Museum of Art Has Acquired a Significant Painting by Emma Amos| date=20 June 2018 }}</ref>
* [[Michael Ayrton]] – ''[[Icarus (sculpture)|Icarus]]'' (sculpture, London)
* [[Michael Craig-Martin]] – ''[[An Oak Tree]]'' (conceptual work)
* [[Salvador Dalí]] – ''[[Dalí Seen from the Back Painting Gala from the Back Eternalised by Six Virtual Corneas Provisionally Reflected by Six Real Mirrors]]'' ([[stereoscopic]] painted in duplicate but for a small variation - completed)
* [[William Eggleston]] – ''[[The Red Ceiling]]'' (photograph)
* [[Ben Enwonwu]] – ''[[Tutu (painting)|Tutu]]''
* [[Gluck (painter)|Gluck]] – ''Credo (Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Light)'' (completed)
* [[Barbara Hepworth]] – ''Conversation with Magic Stones''
* [[Hipgnosis]] – ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon]]'' (album cover)
* [[David Hockney]] – ''[https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw03171/David-Hockney-The-Student---Homage-to-Picasso The Student: Homage to Picasso]'' (print)
* [[David Inshaw]] – ''[[The Badminton Game]]''
* [[Nabil Kanso]] – ''[[Place des Martyres (paintings)]]''; ''[[Vietnam (Kanso)|Vietnam]]'' paintings series (through 1974)
* Frederic Littman  – ''[[Farewell to Orpheus]]'' (bronze, Portland, Oregon)
* [[Joan Miró]] – completes series ''[[The navigator's hope]]''
* [[Joan Mitchell]] - ''[[Iva (painting)|Iva]]'' (monumental triptych, [[Tate Modern]]<ref name=Guard25>{{cite news|last=Addley|first=Esther|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/apr/03/tate-modern-given-joan-mitchell-works-in-biggest-donation-since-1969-jorge-m-perez|archive-url=|title=Tate Modern given Joan Mitchell work in biggest donation since 1969|date=3 April 2025|work=[[The Guardian]]|accessdate=3 April 2025|archivedate=}}</ref>
* [[Henry Moore]] – ''[[Large Four Piece Reclining Figure 1972–73]]'' (bronze)
* [[Mike Parr]] - ''Wound By Measurement'' (performed at Galerie Impact in [[Lausanne, Switzerland]])<ref>{{Cite web |last=McKenzie |first=Janet |title=Mike Parr – interview: 'I was a performance artist with one arm. The problem of visibility, the visual, was loaded completely differently' |url=https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/mike-parr-interview-drawing-performance-art-joseph-beuys |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=www.studiointernational.com |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Ivor Roberts-Jones]] – [[Statue of Winston Churchill, Parliament Square]] (bronze, London)
* [[Dorothea Tanning]] - ''[[:File:Dorothea Tanning, "Hotel de Pavot," 1970-73.jpg|Hôtel du Pavot, Chambre 202]]'' (work completed)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/dorothea-tanning/exhibition-guide | title=Dorothea Tanning }}</ref>
* [[Euan Uglow]] – ''[https://www.artuk.org/discover/artworks/georgia-176961 Georgia]''
* [[Andy Warhol]] – ''Man''
* [[David Wynne (sculptor)|David Wynne]]
** ''Embracing Lovers'' (bronze, [[Guildhall, London]])
** ''Girl with a Dolphin'' (bronze, by [[Tower Bridge]], London)

==Births==
*[[January 29]] – [[Louise Hindsgavl]], Danish artist<ref> Trine Ross. [http://politiken.dk/kultur/kunst/ECE2325106/porcelaensfigurer-viser-de-mindre-paene-sider-af-os-selv/ "Porcelænsfigurer viser de mindre pæne sider af os selv"]. ''Politiken: Kultur''</ref>
*[[February 1]] – [[Yuri Landman]], [[Netherlands|Dutch]] musician, [[comic book creator]] and singer
*[[May 8]] – [[Hiromu Arakawa]], Japanese [[Mangaka|manga artist]]
*[[July 7]] – [[Natsuki Takaya]], Japanese [[Mangaka|manga artist]]
*[[July 28]] (possible date) – [[Banksy]], English graffiti artist
*[[August 18]] – [[Jerome Lagarrigue]], French painter and illustrator

===Full date unknown===
* [[Jean-Pierre Canlis]], American [[glass art]]ist.
* [[Oisín McGann]], Irish author and illustrator.
* [[Rosalind Nashashibi]], English Palestinian film artist.
* [[Charles Pétillon]], French photographer and instillation artist

==Deaths==
===January to June===
*[[January 17]] – [[Tarsila do Amaral]], [[Brazil]]ian modernist artist (b. [[1886 in art|1886]]).<ref>{{cite journal|last=Damian|first=Carol|year=1999|title=Tarsila Do Amaral: Art and Environmental Concerns of a Brazilian Modernist|journal=[[Woman's Art Journal]]|volume=20|issue=1|pages=3–7|doi=10.2307/1358838|jstor=1358838}}</ref>
*[[March 14]] – [[Chic Young]], American [[cartoonist]] (b. [[1901 in art|1901]]).
*[[March 25]]
**[[Gerda Höglund]], [[Swedes|Swedish]] religious painter (b. [[1878 in art|1878]]).
**[[Edward Steichen]], American [[Photography|photographer]], painter and curator (b. [[1879 in art|1879]]).
*[[April 8]] – [[Pablo Picasso]], Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (b. [[1881 in art|1881]]).
*[[April 13]] – [[Henry Darger]], American [[outsider art]]ist (b. [[1892 in art|1892]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Michael Bonesteel|title=Henry Darger: Art and Selected Writings|publisher=Random House Incorporated|year=2000|isbn=9780847822843|page=13}}</ref>
*[[April 28]] – [[Siri Derkert]], Swedish artist, sculptor and political campaigner (b. [[1888 in art|1888]]).
*[[May 1]] – [[Asger Jorn]], Danish artist and essayist (b. [[1914 in art|1914]]).
*[[May 12]] – [[Edith Tudor Hart]], née Suschitzky, Austrian-born photojournalist and communist agent in Britain (b. [[1908 in art|1908]]).
*[[May 16]] – [[Albert Paris Gütersloh]], Austrian painter and writer (b. [[1887 in art|1887]]).
*[[May 18]] – [[Ronald Ossory Dunlop]], Irish author and painter (b. [[1894 in art|1894]]).
*[[May 21]] – [[Montague Dawson]], English maritime painter (b. [[1890 in art|1890]]).

===July to December===
*[[July 20]] – [[Robert Smithson]], American artist (b. [[1938 in art|1938]]).
*[[August 9]] – [[Claude Buckle]], English poster artist and watercolourist (b. [[1905 in art|1905]]).
*[[September 30]]  – [[Peter Pitseolak]], [[Inuit]] photographer, artist and historian (b. [[1902 in art|1902]]).
*[[November 13]] – [[Elsa Schiaparelli]], Italian [[fashion designer]] (b. [[1890 in art|1890]]).
*[[November 17]] – [[Adolf Wissel]], German [[Painting|painter]], an official artist of [[Nazism]] (b. [[1894 in art|1894]]).
*[[December 7]] – [[Camilo Mori]], [[Chile]]an painter (b. [[1896 in art|1896]]).
*[[December 13]] – [[Ralph Stackpole]], American sculptor, painter, muralist, etcher and art educator (b. [[1885 in art|1885]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.askart.com/AskART/artist.aspx?artist=2126 |publisher=AskART |title=Ralph Ward Stackpole (1885–1973)|year=2000–2010 |accessdate=April 23, 2010}}</ref>
*[[December 16]] – [[Andrej Bicenko]], Russian fresco painter and muralist (b. [[1886 in art|1886]]).

==See also==
* [[1973 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union]]

==References==
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