1978 in art

Events

Awards

*Archibald Prize: Brett Whiteley - "Art, Life and the other thing"

Works

*Dan Flavin - "untitled (to the real Dan Hill)"
*Helen Frankenthaler - "Cleveland Symphony Orchestra"
*Jack Goldstein - "The Jump"
*Liz Leyh - "Concrete Cows", "Milton Keynes"
*Dennis Oppenheim - "Cobalt Vectors - An Invasion"

Births

Deaths

*13 April - Jack Chambers, Canadian artist and filmmaker (b.1931).
*8 May - Duncan Grant, Scottish painter (b.1885).
*5 August - Victor Hasselblad, Swedish inventor and photographer (b.1906).
*14 August - Nicolas Bentley, British author and illustrator (b.1907).
*6 November - Harry Bertoia, Italian-born American artist and designer (b.1915).
*8 November - Norman Rockwell, American painter and illustrator (b.1894).
*20 November - Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter (b.1888).

Full date unknown

*Gabriel Hayes, Irish sculptor and coin designer (b.1909).
*Leo Michelson, Latvian-American painter and sculptor (b.1887).