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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 8–24 – 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 instillation 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).
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).
= Full date unknown
=Philip Lindsey Clark, English sculptor (b. 1889)
Pan Yuliang, Chinese-born painter (b. 1899)
Walter Pritchard, Scottish stained glass artist, muralist and sculptor (b. 1905)
See also
1977 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
References
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