1973 in art

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.
Aristeidis Metallinos begins his career as a sculptor.
Robert Scull's collection of American Pop and Minimal art is auctioned by Sotheby's in New York City.

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Emma Amos – Sandy and Her Husband
Michael Ayrton – 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
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 – The Student: Homage to Picasso (print)
David Inshaw – The Badminton Game
Nabil Kanso – Place des Martyres (paintings); Vietnam paintings series (through 1974)
Frederic Littman – Farewell to Orpheus (bronze, Portland, Oregon)
Joan Miró – completes series The navigator's hope
Joan Mitchell - Iva (monumental triptych, Tate Modern
Henry Moore – Large Four Piece Reclining Figure 1972–73 (bronze)
Mike Parr - Wound By Measurement (performed at Galerie Impact in Lausanne, Switzerland)
Ivor Roberts-Jones – Statue of Winston Churchill, Parliament Square (bronze, London)
Dorothea Tanning - Hôtel du Pavot, Chambre 202 (work completed)
Euan Uglow – Georgia
Andy Warhol – Man
David Wynne
Embracing Lovers (bronze, Guildhall, London)
Girl with a Dolphin (bronze, by Tower Bridge, London)

January 17 – Tarsila do Amaral, Brazilian modernist artist (b. 1886).
March 14 – Chic Young, American cartoonist (b. 1901).
March 25
Gerda Höglund, Swedish religious painter (b. 1878).
Edward Steichen, American photographer, painter and curator (b. 1879).
April 8 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (b. 1881).
April 13 – Henry Darger, American outsider artist (b. 1892)
April 28 – Siri Derkert, Swedish artist, sculptor and political campaigner (b. 1888).
May 1 – Asger Jorn, Danish artist and essayist (b. 1914).
May 12 – Edith Tudor Hart, née Suschitzky, Austrian-born photojournalist and communist agent in Britain (b. 1908).
May 16 – Albert Paris Gütersloh, Austrian painter and writer (b. 1887).
May 18 – Ronald Ossory Dunlop, Irish author and painter (b. 1894).
May 21 – Montague Dawson, English maritime painter (b. 1890).

July 20 – Robert Smithson, American artist (b. 1938).
August 9 – Claude Buckle, English poster artist and watercolourist (b. 1905).
September 30 – Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer, artist and historian (b. 1902).
November 13 – Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian fashion designer (b. 1890).
November 17 – Adolf Wissel, German painter, an official artist of Nazism (b. 1894).
December 7 – Camilo Mori, Chilean painter (b. 1896).
December 13 – Ralph Stackpole, American sculptor, painter, muralist, etcher and art educator (b. 1885).
December 16 – Andrej Bicenko, Russian fresco painter and muralist (b. 1886).