1978 in art
# 1978 in art

Events from the year 1978 in art.

## Events

* 27 June – Stitching the Standard by Edmund Leighton is sold at Sotheby's in Belgravia to a private collector.

## Awards

* Archibald Prize: Brett Whiteley – Art, Life and the other thing
* John Moores Painting Prize - Noel Forster for "A painting in six stages with a silk triangle"

## Works

* Alicia Austin – Alicia Austin's Age of Dreams
* Zdzisław Beksiński – AA78
* Christo and Jeanne Claude - "Wrapped Walk Ways" in Loose Park in Kansas City, Missouri
* Dan Flavin – untitled (to the real Dan Hill)
* Helen Frankenthaler – Cleveland Symphony Orchestra
* David Gentleman – "Eleanor cross" mural for Charing Cross tube station (London)
* Jack Goldstein – The Jump
* Michael Heizer – Isolated Mass/Circumflex (Number 2) (land art, Houston, Texas)
* Bryan Hunt – Big Twist (bronze, Houston, Texas)
* Nabil Kanso – Hiroshima Nagasaki One-Minute
* Liz Leyh – Concrete Cows (Milton Keynes)
* Odd Nerdrum – The Murder of Andreas Baader
* Dennis Oppenheim – Cobalt Vectors – An Invasion
* Mikhail Savitsky – Partisan Madonna of Minsk

## Births

* 19 September – Russell Ouellett, American artist and therapist.

## Deaths

* 1 January – Don Freeman, American author, painter and illustrator (b. 1908)
* 10 January – Gluck, born Hannah Gluckstein, English painter (b. 1895)
* 19 January – Živko Stojsavljević, Serbian painter (b. 1900).
* 24 February – Alma Thomas, African American abstract expressionist painter (b. 1891).
* 13 April – Jack Chambers, Canadian artist and filmmaker (b. 1931).
* 8 May – Duncan Grant, Scottish painter (b. 1885).
* 31 May – Hannah Höch, German Dada photomontage artist (b. 1889).
* 13 July
   * Thomas B. Hess, American art editor, writer, and curator (b. 1920)
   * Oliver Messel, English-born stage designer (b. 1904).
* 5 August – Victor Hasselblad, Swedish inventor and photographer (b. 1889).
* 14 August – Nicolas Bentley, British author and illustrator (b. 1907).
* 27 August – Gordon Matta-Clark, American artist (b. 1943).
* 6 November – Harry Bertoia, Italian-born American artist and designer (b. 1915).
* 8 November – Norman Rockwell, American painter and illustrator (b. 1894).
* 20 November – Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter (b. 1888).
* 30 November - Otto Kallir, Austrian -American art historian, author, publisher, and gallerist (b. 1894).

### Full date unknown

* Gabriel Hayes, Irish sculptor and coin designer (b.1909).
* Leo Michelson, Latvian-American painter and sculptor (b.1887).
