Editing 1992 in art

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Events from the year '''1992 in art'''.

==Events==

*[[16 March]] - British fashion designer [[Alexander McQueen]] shows his first collection, partly inspired by [[The Silence of the Lambs (film)]].
*[[12 October]] – [[Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum]] in [[Madrid]] is opened to the public as a gallery for the private art collection of the Thyssen-Bornemisza family.
*[[31 October]] – [[Kunsthal]] in [[Rotterdam]], designed by [[Rem Koolhaas]], is opened as a gallery for modern art.<ref>[http://www.kunsthal.nl/ Kunsthal official website.]</ref>

==Awards==
*[[Archibald Prize]]: – [[Bryan Westwood]] – ''The Prime Minister'' ([[Paul Keating]])
*[[Turner Prize]]: – [[Grenville Davey]]

==Works==
{{see also|Category:1992 sculptures}}
*[[Magdalena Abakanowicz]] – bronzes
**''Becalmed Beings''
**''[[:File:Puellae.JPG|Puellae]]''
*[[Banksy]] – First [[graffiti]] art (in [[Bristol]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Wright|first=Steve|author2=Jones, Richard|author3=Wyatt, Trevor|title=Banksy's Bristol: Home Sweet Home|publisher=Tangent Books|location=Bath|year=2007|page=32|isbn=978-1-906477-00-4}}</ref>
*[[Bust of Bernardo O'Higgins (Houston)]] (sculpture, Texas)
*[[Muriel Castanis]] – ''[[Ideals (sculpture)|Ideals]]'' (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
*[[Grenville Davey]] – ''Hal''
*[[Anya Gallaccio]] – ''Red on Green''
*[[William Gibson|Gibson]]/[[Dennis Ashbaugh|Ashbaugh]] – ''[[Agrippa (a book of the dead)]]''
*[[Damien Hirst]] – ''[http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hirst-pharmacy-t07187 Pharmacy]'' ([[Installation art|installation]])
*[[Soraida Martinez]] – [[Verdadism]]
*[[Simon Patterson (artist)|Simon Patterson]] – ''[[The Great Bear (lithograph)|The Great Bear]]'' ([[lithograph]])
*[[George Rickey]] – ''[[Cluster of Four Cubes]]'' (sculpture, Washington, D.C.)
*[[James Rosenquist]] – ''Time Dust''
*Brad Rude – ''[[A Donkey, 3 Rocks, and a Bird.]]'' (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
*[[George Segal (artist)|George Segal]] – ''[[:File:George Segal Street Crossing.jpg|Street Crossing]]'' (sculpture)
*[[Jack Vettriano]] – ''[[The Singing Butler]]''
*  [[Christopher Wool]] - "If You"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/christopher-wool-b-1955-if-you-5792515-details.aspx|title = Christopher Wool (B. 1955)}}</ref>

==Exhibitions==
*"Circa [[1492]]: Art in the Age of Exploration" at the [[National Gallery of Art]] in [[Washington D.C.]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/20/arts/art-view-circa-1492-an-enormous-magnificent-muddle.html|title = ART VIEW; 'Circa 1492': An Enormous, Magnificent Muddle|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 20 October 1991|last1 = Kimmelman|first1 = Michael}}</ref>
*[[Edward Delaney]] retrospective – [[Royal Hibernian Academy]].
*[[Richard Hamilton (artist)|Richard Hamilton]] retrospective – [[Tate Gallery]].
*''Sol LeWitt Drawings 1958–1992'' – [[Kunstmuseum Den Haag]] (then known as Gemeentemuseum)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sol LeWitt : drawings, 1958-1992 {{!}} WorldCat.org |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/29667941 |access-date=2025-03-14 |website=search.worldcat.org |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Young British Artists]] – [[Saatchi Gallery]], London (featuring [[Damien Hirst]]'s ''[[The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living]]'').

==Gifts (Bequests)==
*[[Herbert and Dorothy Vogel]] collection given to National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection |url=http://www.nga.gov/press/2008/vogel50x50_a.shtm |publisher=National Gallery of Art |year=2008 |accessdate=2011-07-21 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719090831/http://www.nga.gov/press/2008/vogel50x50_a.shtm |archivedate=19 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Births==
*[[29 January]] – [[George Pocheptsov]], American painter

==Deaths==

===January to June===
*[[6 January]] – [[Richard Mortensen]], Danish painter and educator (b. [[1910 in art|1910]])
*[[27 January]] – [[Isabel Rawsthorne]], English painter and model (b. [[1912 in art|1912]])<ref>{{cite news|last1=Thorpe|first1=Vanessa|title=What's in a surname? The female artists lost to history because they got married|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/feb/13/whats-in-a-surname-the-female-artists-lost-to-history-because-they-got-married|access-date=2021-02-14|work=[[The Guardian]]|location=London|date=2021-02-13}}</ref>
*[[19 February]] – [[Lena Gurr]], [[Americans|American]] [[Painting|painter]] and lithographer (b. [[1897 in art|1897]]).
*[[4 March]] – [[Art Babbitt]], American [[animator]] (b. [[1907 in art|1907]]).
*[[6 March]] – [[Maria Helena Vieira da Silva]], Portuguese-French [[Abstract art|abstract]] painter (b. [[1908 in art|1908]]).
*[[11 April]] – [[Alejandro Obregón]], [[Colombia]]n painter, muralist, sculptor and engraver (b. [[1920 in art|1920]]).
*[[28 April]] – [[Francis Bacon (painter)|Francis Bacon]], Irish-born British [[Figurative art|figurative]] painter (b. [[1909 in art|1909]]).
*[[13 May]] – [[F. E. McWilliam]], Irish [[Sculpture|sculptor]] (b. 1909).
*[[6 June]] – [[Richard Eurich]], English marine painter (b. [[1903 in art|1903]]).
*[[15 June]] – [[Brett Whiteley]], Australian avant-garde artist (b. [[1939 in art|1939]]).
*[[18 June]] – [[Mordecai Ardon]], [[Israel]]i painter (b. [[1896 in art|1896]]).
*[[28 June]] – [[John Piper (artist)|John Piper]], English landscape painter and designer (b. 1903).
*[[30 June]] – [[André Hébuterne]], French painter (b. [[1894 in art|1894]]).
*[[6 July]] – [[Richard Eurich]], English sea- and landscape painter (b. 1903).

===July to December===
*[[7 September]] – [[EQ Nicholson]], [[English people|English]] textile designer and painter (b.[[1908 in art|1908]]).
*[[25 September]] – [[César Manrique]], Spanish artist and architect (b. [[1919 in art|1919]])<ref>[http://www.cesarmanrique.com/biografia_e.htm Biography from Cesar Manrique official website]</ref>
*[[30 October]] – [[Joan Mitchell]], American [[Abstract Expressionist]] [[painting|painter]] (b. [[1925 in art|1925]]).
*[[11 November]] – [[Giulio Carlo Argan]], Italian [[art historian]] and [[politician]] (b. [[1909 in art|1909]]).
*[[27 November]] – [[Ivan Generalić]], [[Croatia]]n [[naïve art]] painter (b. [[1914 in art|1914]])
*[[30 November]] - [[Bernard Lefebvre]], French [[photographer]] (b. [[1906 in art|1906]])<ref>[http://cths.fr/an/prosopo.php?id=100616 Bernard Lefebvre on the site of the Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques] (fr)</ref>
*[[23 December]] – [[Vincent Fourcade]], French [[interior design]]er (b. [[1934 in art|1934]]).
*[[24 December]] – [[Peyo]], Belgian comics artist (b. [[1928 in art|1928]]).

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