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Contents 1 Events 2 Awards 3 Works 4 Exhibitions 5 Births 6 Deaths 6.1 January to June 6.2 July to December 6.3 Full date unknown

[edit] Events

• The Turner Prize is awarded for the first time. The winner is Malcolm Morley.

[edit] Awards

• Archibald Prize: Keith Looby - Max Gillies

[edit] Works

• Felim Egan - Battle of Hercules and Antaeus
• John Doubleday - Statue of Dylan Thomas (Marina, Swansea)

[edit] Exhibitions

[edit] Births

• 4 May - Joe Simpson, English figurative painter.

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January to June

• 6 February - Jimmy Ernst, American painter born in Germany (b.1920).
• 12 February - Tom Keating, English art restorer and art faker (b.1917).
• 16 March - John Hoagland, American photographer (b.1947).
• 22 April - Ansel Adams, American photographer (b.1902).
• 19 June - Lee Krasner, American abstract expressionist painter (b.1908).

[edit] July to December

• 8 July - Brassaï, Hungarian photographer, sculptor, and filmmaker (b.1899).
• 9 July - Peter Hurd, American artist (b.1904).
• 2 August - Quirino Cristiani, Argentine animation director and cartoonist (b.1896).
• 1 December - Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter (b.1911).

[edit] Full date unknown

• Jacques Adnet, French modernist designer, architect and interior designer (b.1900).