# 1973 in art

Events from the year 1973 in art.

## Events

* August 25 – Jesús Soto Museum of Modern Art in Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela, designed by Carlos Raúl Villanueva, is opened.
* Alexander Calder is hired by Braniff International Airways to paint a full-size DC-8-62 as a "flying canvas".
* David Hockney begins a 2-year spell living and working in Paris.
* Aristeidis Metallinos begins his career as a sculptor.
* Robert Scull's collection of American Pop and Minimal art is auctioned by Sotheby's in New York City.

## Awards

* Archibald Prize: Janet Dawson – Michael Boddy

## Exhibitions

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

## Works

* Emma Amos – Sandy and Her Husband
* Michael Ayrton – Icarus (sculpture, London)
* Michael Craig-Martin – An Oak Tree (conceptual work)
* Salvador Dalí – Dalí Seen from the Back Painting Gala from the Back Eternalised by Six Virtual Corneas Provisionally Reflected by Six Real Mirrors (stereoscopic painted in duplicate but for a small variation - completed)
* William Eggleston – The Red Ceiling (photograph)
* Ben Enwonwu – Tutu
* Gluck – Credo (Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Light) (completed)
* Barbara Hepworth – Conversation with Magic Stones
* Hipgnosis – The Dark Side of the Moon (album cover)
* David Hockney – The Student: Homage to Picasso (print)
* David Inshaw – The Badminton Game
* Nabil Kanso – Place des Martyres (paintings); Vietnam paintings series (through 1974)
* Frederic Littman – Farewell to Orpheus (bronze, Portland, Oregon)
* Joan Miró – completes series The navigator's hope
* Henry Moore – Large Four Piece Reclining Figure 1972–73 (bronze)
* Mike Parr - Wound By Measurement (performed at Galerie Impact in Lausanne, Switzerland)
* Ivor Roberts-Jones – Statue of Winston Churchill, Parliament Square (bronze, London)
* Dorothea Tanning - Hôtel du Pavot, Chambre 202 (work completed)
* Euan Uglow – Georgia
* Andy Warhol – Man
* 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
* July 28 (possible date) – Banksy, English graffiti artist
* August 18 – Jerome Lagarrigue, French painter and illustrator

### Full date unknown

* Jean-Pierre Canlis, American glass artist.
* Oisín McGann, Irish author and illustrator.
* Rosalind Nashashibi, English Palestinian film artist.
* Charles Pétillon, French photographer and instillation artist

## Deaths
### January to June

* January 17 – Tarsila do Amaral, Brazilian modernist artist (b. 1886).
* March 14 – Chic Young, American cartoonist (b. 1901).
* March 25
** Gerda Höglund, Swedish religious painter (b. 1878).
** Edward Steichen, American photographer, painter and curator (b. 1879).
* April 8 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (b. 1881).
* April 13 – Henry Darger, American outsider artist (b. 1892)
* April 28 – Siri Derkert, Swedish artist, sculptor and political campaigner (b. 1888).
* May 1 – Asger Jorn, Danish artist and essayist (b. 1914).
* May 12 – Edith Tudor Hart, née Suschitzky, Austrian-born photojournalist and communist agent in Britain (b. 1908).
* May 16 – Albert Paris Gütersloh, Austrian painter and writer (b. 1887).
* May 18 – Ronald Ossory Dunlop, Irish author and painter (b. 1894).
* May 21 – Montague Dawson, English maritime painter (b. 1890).

### July to December

* July 20 – Robert Smithson, American artist (b. 1938).
* August 9 – Claude Buckle, English poster artist and watercolourist (b. 1905).
* 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).
* December 16 – Andrej Bicenko, Russian fresco painter and muralist (b. 1886).