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Events from the year 1977 in art.

Events

  • April 19 – Yale Center for British Art gallery, designed by Louis Kahn (died 1974), opens to the public in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
  • May 8&ndash;24 – Suzanne Lacy's extended performance piece about rape, Three Weeks in May takes place in Los Angeles.
  • September 12 – American poet Robert Lowell dies having suffered a heart attack in the back of a cab in New York City while returning to his ex-wife Elizabeth Hardwick carrying a portrait of his current wife Lady Caroline Blackwood by her first husband Lucian Freud.
  • Starr Kempf constructs the first of his "wind sculptures".
  • documenta 6 takes place.
  • Douglas Crimp curates "Pictures," featuring Jack Goldstein, Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine and others, at Artists Space in New York.
  • Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Iran, designed by Kamran Diba, is inaugurated.

Awards

  • Archibald Prize: Kevin Connor – Robert Klippel

Exhibitions

  • Retrospective of Valentine Hugo at the Centre Culturel Thibaud de Champagne, Troyes.
  • Retrospective of Frida Kahlo at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City.

Works

  • Marina Abramović and Ulay – Expansion in Space
  • Walter De Maria – The Lightning Field (land art)
  • Audrey Flack - Marilyn (Vanitas)
  • Lucian Freud – Naked Man with Rat
  • Tina Girouard - "Pinwheel" (performance installation at the New Orleans Museum of Art)
  • Gilbert & George – Series of Red Morning works
  • David Hockney – My Parents
  • Donald Judd – Untitled (Meter Box)
  • Nabil Kanso – The Vortices of Wrath (Lebanon 1977)
  • Jacob Lawrence – Self-portrait
  • Jacques Lipchitz – Bellerophon Taming Pegasus (sculpture, New York City)
  • Kathleen McCullough – Cat in Repose (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark – Jacob's Ladder
  • Ivan Meštrović – Martin Kukučín (sculptures)
  • Robert Morris – Williams Mirrors
  • Maria Prymachenko - Two-Headed Chicken
  • David Shepherd – Tiger in the Sun
  • Cindy Sherman – Untitled Film Stills (through 1980)
  • C. Talacca – Bust of Simón Bolívar (bronze, Houston, Texas)
  • Jean Tinguely – Tinguely Fountain and Carnival Fountain (Fasnachtsbrunnen) (both kinetic sculptures in Basel)
  • Don Wilson – Interlocking Forms (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
  • Felix de Weldon – Statue of Ty Cobb (bronze, Royston, Georgia)
  • Audrey Flack - World War II (Vanitas)

Births

  • 8 February – Yucef Merhi, Venezuelan artist, poet and computer programmer.
  • 16 April – Florentijn Hofman, Dutch installation artist.
  • 14 May – Emeka Ogboh, Nigerian sound and installation artist.
  • 5 October – Hugleikur Dagsson, Icelandic cartoonist
  • Michael Dean, English sculptor.
  • Gregory Halpern, American photographer.

Deaths

  • 27 April – Charles Alston, American artist, muralist, and teacher (b. 1907).
  • 27 June – Ivan Tabaković, Serbian painter (b. 1898)
  • 3 July – Gertrude Abercrombie, American painter (b. 1909).
  • 21 July – Lee Miller, American photographer (b. 1907).
  • 22 July –Pan Yuliang, Chinese painter (b. 1899)
  • 23 August – Naum Gabo, Russian sculptor (b. 1890).
  • 3 September – Gianni Vella, Maltese painter and cartoonist (b. 1885)
  • 11 September – Augustus Dunbier, American painter (b. 1888).
  • 23 September – John Nash, English painter, illustrator, and engraver (b. 1893).
  • 25 September – William McMillan, Scottish sculptor (b. 1887) (victim of assault).
  • 20 October – Marie-Thérèse Walter, mistress of Pablo Picasso (b. 1909).
  • 4 November – Keith Vaughan, English painter (b. 1912) (suicide).
  • 5 November – René Goscinny, French comic book author, editor and humorist (b. 1926).
  • 21 December – Seán Keating, Irish romantic-realist painter (b. 1889).
  • 31 December – Tore Asplund, Swedish-born American painter (b. 1903).

Full date unknown

  • Philip Lindsey Clark, English sculptor (b. 1889)
  • Walter Pritchard, Scottish stained glass artist, muralist and sculptor (b. 1905)

See also

  • 1977 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References