1983 in art
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The year 1983 in art involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
[edit] Awards
- Archibald Prize: Nigel Thomson - Chandler Coventry
[edit] Works
- The completion of the Christo and Jeanne-Claude environmental artwork, Surrounded Islands. It involved 11 islands being surrounded by 6,500,000 square feet (600,000 m²) of fabric.
[edit] Exhibitions
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- February 24 - Roy Krenkel, illustrator
- July 1 - Buckminster Fuller, architect and designer
- August 18 - Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, art historian
- November 17 - John Russell Harper, art historian
- December 23 - Colin Middleton, Irish painter (b.1910)
- December 25 - Joan Miró, artist, painter, sculptor, printmaker
- date unknown - Edward Wesson, watercolour painter
