1973 in art

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Events

• Alexander Calder is hired by Braniff International Airways to paint a full-size DC-8-62 as a "flying canvas".
• Aristeidis Metallinos begins his career as a sculptor.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Janet Dawson – Michael Boddy

Exhibitions

• Christopher Williams – centenary exhibition in Cardiff, Maesteg and Swansea.

Works

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David Wynne – Girl with a Dolphin

See also: Category:1973 paintings and Category:1973 sculptures

• William Eggleston – The Red Ceiling (photograph)
• Barbara Hepworth – Conversation with Magic Stones
• Nabil Kanso – Place des Martyres (paintings); Vietnam paintings series (through 1974)
• Joan Miró – completes series The navigator's hope
• Ivor Roberts-Jones – Statue of Winston Churchill, Parliament Square (bronze, London)
• David Wynne
  • Embracing Lovers (bronze, Guildhall, London)
  • Girl with a Dolphin (bronze, by Tower Bridge, London)

Births

• January 29 – Louise Hindsgavl, Danish artist
• February 1 – Yuri Landman, Dutch musician, comic book creator and singer
• May 8 – Hiromu Arakawa, Japanese manga artist
• July 7 – Natsuki Takaya, Japanese manga artist
• August 18 – Jerome Lagarrigue, French painter and illustrator

Full date unknown

• Jean-Pierre Canlis, American glass artist.
• Oisín McGann, Irish author and illustrator.

Deaths

January to June

• January 17 – Tarsila do Amaral, Brazilian modernist artist (b. 1886).
• March 14 – Chic Young, American cartoonist (b. 1901).
• March 25 – Edward Steichen, American photographer, painter and curator (b. 1879).
• April 8 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, draftsman, and sculptor (b. 1881).
• April 28 – Siri Derkert, Swedish artist, sculptor and political campaigner (b. 1888).
• May 1 – Asger Jorn, Danish artist and essayist (b. 1914).
• May 16 – Albert Paris Gütersloh, Austrian painter and writer (b. 1887).

July to December

• July 20 – Robert Smithson, American artist (b. 1938)
• 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)

Full date unknown

• Claude Buckle, English poster artist and watercolourist (b. 1905).
• Ronald Ossory Dunlop, Irish author and painter (b. 1894).

See also

• 1973 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union