1970 in art

Events

*26 October - Garry Trudeau's comic strip "Doonesbury" debuts in approximately two dozen newspapers in the United States.
*27 November - Bolivian artist Benjamin Mendoza tries to assassinate Pope Paul VI during his visit in Manila.

Awards

*Archibald Prize: Eric Smith - "Gruzman - Architect"
*Prix Puvis de Chavannes - Daniel du Janerand

Works

*Barbara Hepworth - "Family of Man"
*Henry Moore - "Reclining Figure LH608"
*Kanda Nissho - "Indoor Landscape"
*Isamu Noguchi - "Night Wind"
*Robert Smithson - "Spiral Jetty"

Births

January to June

*17 January - Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian-born American animator.
*22 January - Alex Ross, American comic book painter, illustrator and plotter.
*15 February - Shepard Fairey, American artist, graphic designer and illustrator.
*27 February - Matthias Lechner, German set designer and art director.
*12 March - Marine Delterme, French actress, painter, sculptor and former model.
*3 May - Jeffrey Sebelia, American fashion designer.
*9 May - Damian Loeb, American painter.
*26 May - Nobuhiro Watsuki, Japanese mangaka.
*1 June - Joshua Compston - British gallerist (d.1996).

July to December

*6 July - Grant Bond, American comic book artist and writer.
*9 July - Benoit Pierre Emery, French art director and fashion designer.
*4 August - Pete Abrams, American webcomic writer and illustrator.
*22 November - Aleksander Balos, Polish-born American artist and figurative painter.

Full date unknown

*Stéphane Ducret, Swiss contemporary artist.
*Emily Jacir, Palestinian artist.
*Tomoki Kyoda, Japanese animation director and animator.
*Vincent Paronnaud, French comics artist and filmmaker.
*David Quinn, Irish artist.

Deaths

January to June

*27 January - Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (b.1908).
*25 February - Mark Rothko, Latvian-born American painter and printmaker (b.1903).
*2 March - Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Canadian painter (b.1888).
*8 March - Waldo Peirce, American painter (b.1884).
*8 March - Anton Räderscheidt, German painter (b.1892).
*13 May - William Dobell, Australian sculptor and painter (b.1899).
*29 May - Eva Hesse, German-born American sculptor (b.1936).
*6 June - Camille Bombois, French naïve painter (b.1883).

July to December

*4 July - Barnett Newman, American artist (b.1905).
*7 July - Laura Knight, English Impressionist painter (b.1877).
*1 December - Hermine David, French painter (b.1886).

Full date unknown

*Robert Laurent, American sculptor (b.1890).
*Georges Malkine, French painter, only painter to sign the Surrealist Manifesto of 1924 (b.1898).