# 1974 in art

Events from the year 1974 in art.

## Events

* 26 April – Nineteen Old Master paintings from the Beit collection are stolen from Russborough House in Ireland by a Provisional Irish Republican Army gang including English heiress Rose Dugdale.
* Roy Strong becomes Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
* Hallwalls, a non profit exhibition space and arts organization, is established in a converted ice packing warehouse in Buffalo, New York, by the artists Charles Clough, Robert Longo, Diane Bertolo, Nancy Dwyer, Larry Lundy, Cindy Sherman and Michael Zwack.

## Awards

* Archibald Prize: Sam Fullbrook – Jockey Norman Stephens
* John Moores Painting Prize - Myles Murphy - "Figure with Yellow Foreground"

## Works

* Bruce Beasley – Big Red (sculpture, Eugene, Oregon)
* Salvador Dalí – Nieuw Amsterdam (object/sculpture)
* Judy Dater – Imogen and Twinka at Yosemite (photograph)
* Audrey Flack - Leonardo's Lady (photorealist painting)
* Silvio Gazzaniga – FIFA World Cup Trophy
* David Hockney – Contre-jour in the French style – Against the Day dans le style français
* Nabil Kanso – Vietnam
* Bernard Kirschenbaum – Twist for Max (sculpture)
* Joan Miró
** Hands flying off toward the constellations
** The hope of a condemned Man (series)
* Odd Nerdrum – Liberation
* Enzo Plazzotta – Crucifixion
* Tony Rosenthal – 5 in 1 (steel sculpture, New York City)
* Ruskin Spear – Harold Wilson
* Graham Sutherland – Lord Goodman
* David Wynne – Boy With a Dolphin (bronze, Cheyne Walk, London)
* Meet the Residents (album cover)

## Films

* A Bigger Splash

## Births

* 15 May – Kadir Nelson, African American illustrator.
* 31 May – Adrian Tomine, American cartoonist.
* 16 June – Paul Lee, English artist.
* 1 September – Jhonen Vasquez, American comic book artist, cartoonist and writer.
* 8 November – Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese mangaka.
* 13 November – Kerim Seiler, Swiss artist and architect.
* 7 December – Kang Full, South Korean webcomic artist.

### Full date unknown

* Banksy, English graffiti artist.
* Bogna Burska, Polish playwright and visual artist.
* Amelie Chabannes, French painter and sculptor.
* Luke Jerram, British installation artist.
* Fabrice Lachant, French photographer.
* OSGEMEOS (Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo), Brazilian twin graffiti artists.
* Dulce Pinzon, Mexican-born visual artist.
* Bojan Šarčević, Bosnian-French visual artist.
* Bedwyr Williams, Welsh installation and performance artist.

## Deaths
### January to June

* 19 January – Edward Seago, English painter (b. 1910).
* 30 January – Robert Darwin, English painter and Rector of the Royal College of Art (b. 1910)
* 15 February – Petar Lubarda, Serbian painter (b. 1907).
* 4 March – Adolph Gottlieb, American abstract expressionist painter and sculptor (b. 1903).
* 9 March – Daniel O'Neill, Irish painter (b. 1920).
* 5 April – A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (b. 1882).
* 31 May – Juan Bautista Garcia, Puerto Rican painter (b. 1904).
* 7 June
** Émilie Charmy, French artist (b. 1878)
** Milton Menasco, American painter and art director (b. 1890).
* 22 June – Alain Saint-Ogan, French comics author and artist (b. 1895).
* 30 June – Frank McKelvey, Irish painter (b. 1895).

### July to December

* 9 July – Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French writer and artist (b. 1884).
* 8 August – Charles Wheeler, English sculptor (b. 1892).
* 11 August – Jan Tschichold, German typographer, book designer, teacher and writer (b. 1902).
* August – André Edouard Marty, French artist (b. 1882).
* 8 September – James Swinnerton, American cartoonist and artist (b. 1875).
* 17 September – André Dunoyer de Segonzac, French painter and graphic artist (b. 1884).
* 26 October - William C. Seitz, American art curator (MoMA) and museum director (Rose Art Museum) (b. 1914}.
* 28 October – David Jones, English poet and painter (b. 1895).
* 1 November – František Muzika, Czech avant-garde painter (b. 1900).
* 20 December – Risto Stijović, Serbian sculptor (b. 1894).
* 21 December – James Henry Govier, English painter (b. 1910).
* 25 December – Harry Kernoff, Irish painter (b. 1900).