1980 in art
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[edit] Events
- Pablo Picasso Retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, May 1980 through September 1980. The largest and most complete Picasso exhibition ever held in the United States.
[edit] Works
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January to June
- 18 January - Cecil Beaton, English photographer and stage and costume designer (b.1904).
- 6 February - Albert Kotin, Russian-born American Abstract Expressionist artist (b.1907).
- 17 February - Graham Sutherland, English artist (b.1903).
- 22 February - Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian artist, poet and playwright (b.1886).
- 5 March - John Skeaping, English sculptor and equine painter (b.1901).
- 18 March - Tamara de Lempicka, Polish Art Deco painter (b.1898).
- 21 April - Ľudovít Fulla, Slovak painter, graphic artist, illustrator, stage designer and art teacher (b.1902).
- 21 April - Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and a painter (b.1928).
- 7 June - Philip Guston, Canadian painter and printmaker (b.1913).
- 23 June - Clyfford Still, American Abstract Expressionist painter (b.1904).
[edit] July to December
- July - Robert Brackman, Ukrainian-born American artist and teacher (b.1898).
- 26 August - Tex Avery, American animator, cartoonist, and director (b.1908).
- 14 September - Maxwell Bates, Canadian architect and expressionist painter (b.1906).
- 22 November - Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator (b.1901).
- 26 December - Tony Smith, American sculptor, visual artist and theorist on art (b.1912).
