Editing 1990 in art

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[[File:London_-_Peter's_Hill_-_Carter_Lane_-_National_Firefighters_Memorial_'Blitz'_1990_by_John_William_Mills_-_View_North.jpg | thumb | right | alt=A northern perspective of Peter’s Hill from Carter Lane depicts a 1990 sculpture by John William Mills, titled “Blitz”. It is also the National Firefighter’s Memorial. | National Firefighters Memorial by John Williams Mills]]
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Events from the year '''1990 in art'''.

==Events==
*[[18 March ]] – [[Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft]]: Twelve paintings, collectively worth from $100 to $300 million, are stolen from the [[Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum]] in [[Boston, Massachusetts]] by two thieves posing as police officers. This is the largest [[art theft]] in United States history and the largest-value theft of private property in world history, and the paintings ({{As of|2019|lc=on}}) have not been recovered.
*[[6 April]] – [[Robert Mapplethorpe]]'s "The Perfect Moment" show of nude and homosexual photographs opens at the Cincinnati Contemporary Art Centre, in spite of accusations of indecency by [[Citizens for Community Values]].
*[[15 May]] – ''[[Portrait of Doctor Gachet]]'' by [[Vincent van Gogh]] is sold for a record [[List of most expensive paintings|$82.5 million]].
*[[East Side Gallery]], 105 paintings by 129 artists from 20 countries, is painted on the east side of the [[Berlin Wall]] in Germany following its abandonment. It includes [[Dmitri Vrubel]]'s ''[[My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love]]'' and Birgit Kinder's ''[[:File:Berlin Wall Trabant grafitti.jpg|Test the Best]]'' (renamed ''Test the Rest'' after restoration).
*[[John Keane (artist)|John Keane]] is commissioned by the British [[Imperial War Museum]] as an official [[war artist]] in the [[Gulf War]].<ref>{{cite web|title=John Keane (1954-)|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp59339&role=art|publisher=[[National Portrait Gallery, London]]|accessdate=2012-01-14}}</ref>

==Exhibitions==
*''[[British Art Show]]'' at [[Hayward Gallery]] includes work by [[Young British Artists]]
*''[[Jim Gary|Jim Gary's Twentieth Century Dinosaurs]]'' opened on April 12, 1990, the only solo exhibition by a sculptor at the [[Smithsonian Institution]]'s [[National Museum of Natural History]] in Washington, D.C., that drew a record number of visitors to the museum

==Works==
{{see also|Category:1990 sculptures}}

* [[Arman]] - ''[[Hope for Peace Monument]]'' (sculpture in [[Yarze]], [[Lebanon]])
* [[Eduardo Chillida]] - ''Peine Del Viento XVII'' –
* Robert Coburn - ''[[Bell Circles II]]'' (sound installation, Portland, Oregon) – 
* [[Elisabeth Frink]] - ''Desert Quartet'' (sculpture, [[Worthing]], [[England]]) –
* [[Douglas Gordon]] - ''Meaning and Location''
* [[Damien Hirst]] - ''A Thousand Years''
* [[Howard Hodgkin]] - ''After Degas''<ref>{{Citation |last=Hodgkin |first=Howard |title=After Degas |date=1990 |url=https://www.artic.edu/artworks/219265/after-degas |access-date=2024-08-20}}</ref>
* [[Tadeusz Kantor]] - ''September Defeat'' 
* [[Lee Kelly]] with Michael Stirling - ''[[Friendship Circle (sculpture)|Friendship Circle]]'' (installation, Portland, Oregon) – 
* Eric Larsen - [[Packy mural]] (Portland, Oregon) – 
* Patrick Morelli - ''[[Behold (statue)|Behold]]'' (statue, Atlanta, Georgia) – 
* Victor Salmones - ''[[Cancer, There Is Hope]]'' (bronze, Houston, Texas)
*[[Shamim Sikder]] - ''[[Shoparjito Shadhinota]]'' (En: Self Earned Freedom) at [[Dhaka University]] in [[Dhaka]], Bangladesh 
*[[Rachel Whiteread]] - ''Ghost'' – 
* [[Sue Williamson]] - ''For Thirty Years Next to His Heart'' (Forty-nine photocopies in artist-designed frames)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/collection/works/95117|title = Sue Williamson. For Thirty Years Next to His Heart. 1990 &#124; MoMA}}</ref>

==Awards==
*[[Turner Prize]] – No prize was offered because of lack of sponsorship.

==Films==
*[[Vincent and Me]]

==Deaths==
===January–June===
*January – [[Daniel du Janerand]], French painter , sad and devastating death(b. [[1919 in art|1919]])
*[[15 January]] - [[Henrietta Berk]], 81. American painter (b. [[1919 in art|1919]])
*[[22 January]] – [[Roman Vishniac]], [[Russian-American]] [[photographer]] (b. [[1897 in art|1897]])
*[[15 February]] – [[Norman Parkinson]], [[English people|English]] fashion photographer (b. [[1913 in art|1913]])
*[[16 February]] – [[Keith Haring]], American artist and social activist (b. [[1958 in art|1958]])
*[[15 March]] – [[Jim Ede]], English art collector (b. [[1895 in art|1895]])
*[[21 April]] – [[Romain de Tirtoff]], Russian-born French [[artist]] and designer (b. [[1892 in art|1892]])
*May – [[Fuller Potter]], American [[abstract expressionism|Abstract expressionist]] artist (b. [[1910 in art|1910]])
*[[30 June]] – [[Jacques Lob]], French [[comic book creator]] (b. [[1932 in art|1932]])

===July–December===
*[[18 July]] – [[Yves Chaland]], French [[cartoonist]] (b. [[1957 in art|1957]])
*[[23 July]] – [[Pierre Gandon]], French illustrator and engraver of [[postage stamp]]s (b. [[1899 in art|1899]])
*[[25 July]] – [[Leonard Bahr]], American portrait and mural [[Painting|painter]] (b. [[1905 in art|1905]])
*[[14 October]] – [[Clifton Pugh]], Australian artist (b. [[1924 in art|1924]])
*[[26 October]] – [[Joan Brown]], American figurative painter (b. [[1938 in art|1938]])
*[[7 December]] – [[Jean Paul Lemieux]], Canadian-American painter (b. [[1904 in art|1904]]) 
*[[8 December]] – [[Tadeusz Kantor]], Polish painter, [[Assemblage (art)|assemblage]] artist, set designer and [[theatre director]] (b. [[1915 in art|1915]])
*[[23 December]] – [[Serge Danot]], French animator (b. [[1931 in art|1931]])
*[[28 December]] – [[Ed van der Elsken]], Dutch photographer (b. [[1925 in art|1925]])
*[[29 December]] – [[David Piper (curator)|David Piper]], English curator and novelist (b. [[1918 in art|1918]])

== See also ==
* [[1990 in fine arts of the Soviet Union]]

==References==
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