November 6 - The Turner Prize is awarded for the first time, to Malcolm Morley.
Neue Slowenische Kunst is established.
date unknown - Eric Hebborn admits to art forgery.
An x-ray of Jean-Francois Millet's 1870 painting The Young Shepherdess, in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, reveals an earlier painting previously presumed destroyed, The Captivity of the Jews in Babylon.
Archibald Prize: Keith Looby – Max Gillies
Alberto Burri - Cretto di Burri ("Il Grande Cretto", land art, Gibellina, Sicily, Italy; work begins)
John Doubleday – Statue of Dylan Thomas (Marina, Swansea)
Jean Dubuffet – Monument with Standing Beast (fiberglass sculpture, Chicago Loop)
Felim Egan – Battle of Hercules and Antaeus
Steve Gillman - From Within Shalom (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
Frederick Hart – The Three Soldiers (bronze statue)
Nancy Holt - Dark Star Park, Rosslyn, Virginia
Keith Jellum - Electronic Poet (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
Nabil Kanso – Apocalyptic Riders (diptych)
Lee Kelly - Akbar's Garden (sculpture, Eugene, Oregon)
R. B. Kitaj – Cecil Court, London W.C.2. (The Refugees) (1983-84)
Roy Lichtenstein - Brushstrokes in Flight (sculpture, Columbus, Ohio)
Odd Nerdrum – Iron Law
Gleb Savinov – Nevsky Prospekt
Paul Sutinen - In the Shadow of the Elm (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
May 4 – Joe Simpson, English figurative painter
January 7 – Virgilio Guidi, Italian painter (b. 1891)
February 6
Jimmy Ernst, American painter born in Germany (b.1920)
Ronald Moody, Jamaican-born woodcarver (b.1900)
February 12 – Tom Keating, English art restorer and art faker (b.1917)
March 16 – John Hoagland, American photographer (b.1947)
March 20 – Paule Vézelay, English painter (b.1892)
April 22 – Ansel Adams, American photographer (b.1902)
June 19 – Lee Krasner, American abstract expressionist painter (b. 1908)
July 7 - Dirk Hannema, Dutch museum director and art collector (b. 1895).
July 8 - Brassaï, Hungarian photographer, sculptor, and filmmaker (b. 1899)
July 9 – Peter Hurd, American artist (b.1904)
August 2 – Quirino Cristiani, Argentine animation director and cartoonist (b. 1896).
October 7 - Arnold Akberg, Estonian painter (b. 1894)
December 1 – Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter (b.1911)
Jacques Adnet, French modernist designer, architect and interior designer (b.1900).
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