1976 in art

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Events

• Completion of the Cubist-influenced Church of the Holy Trinity, Vienna, by Fritz Wotruba.
• Collection de l'art brut ("Collection of outsider art") established in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Brett Whiteley – Self Portrait in the Studio

Exhibitions

• 21 July – Opening of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, New York. The inaugural exhibition Rooms presents in-situ works and installations by around 80 artists from the United States and abroad.
• Exhibition of color photography by William Eggleston at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Works

See also: Category:1976 paintings and Category:1976 sculptures

• Vito Acconci – The Red Tapes
• Judy Baca and 400 community artists – Great Wall of Los Angeles (mural)
• Francis Bacon – Triptych
• Pye Engström – Efter badet
• Nabil Kanso – Faust (paintings) 1976 through 1979
• R. B. Kitaj – From London
• Henry Moore – Three Piece Reclining Figure Draped (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Robert Ryman – Untitled (pastel and graphite on plexiglas with steel, 126 cm²)
• Jamie Wyeth – Portrait of Andy Warhol

Births

• 4 January – Shiro Amano, Japanese manga artist
• 27 January – Zoriah Miller, American photographer
• 13 February – Martin Sastre, Uruguayan media artist
• 23 November – Joy de Wit, Dutch painter

Deaths

January to March

• 1 February – Hans Richter, German painter, graphic artist, avant-gardist, film-experimenter and producer (b. 1888)
• 2 February – Zlatyu Boyadzhiev, Bulgarian painter (b. 1903)
• 12 February – Charles Jourdan, French fashion designer (b. 1883)
• 18 February – Wallace Berman, American painter and illustrator (b. 1926)
• 23 February – L. S. Lowry, English painter (b. 1887)
• February – Kate Lechmere, English painter associated with the Vorticists and milliner (b. 1887)
• 3 March – Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer (b. 1900)
• 12 March – Jacques Carlu, French architect and designer (b. 1890)
• 22 March – John McLaughlin, American hard-edge painter (b. 1898)
• 25 March – Josef Albers, German artist, mathematician and educator (b. 1888)
• 31 March – Paul Strand, American photographer and filmmaker (b. 1890)

April to June

• 1 April – Max Ernst, German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet (b. 1891).
• 22 April – Stanley Cursiter, Scottish painter and curator (b. 1887).
• 24 April – Mark Tobey, American abstract expressionist painter (b. 1890)
• 11 May – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect and designer (b. 1898)
• 28 May – Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter (b. 1922)
• 24 June – Imogen Cunningham, American photographer (b. 1883)
• 27 June – Albert Dubout, French cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and sculptor (b.1905)

July to December

• 24 July – Afro Basaldella, Italian painter (b. 1912)
• 16 September – Cecil Thomas, English bronze sculptor and medallist (b. 1885)
• 23 September – Anna Zinkeisen, British artist (b. 1901)
• 31 October – Eileen Gray, Irish furniture designer and architect (b. 1878)
• 11 November – Alexander Calder, American sculptor and artist (b. 1898)
• 18 November – Man Ray, American artist and photographer (b. 1890)
• 11 December – Elmyr de Hory, Hungarian-born painter and art forger (b. 1906)
• 31 December – Sándor Bortnyik, Hungarian painter and graphic designer (b. 1893)

Full date unknown

• Mariano Andreu, Spanish painter, enamelling master, sculptor and stage designer (b. 1888)
• François Ozenda, French painter (b. 1923)

See also

• 1976 in fine arts of the Soviet Union