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Contents 1 Events 2 Awards 3 Works 4 Births 5 Deaths 5.1 January to June 5.2 July to December

[edit] Events

• 19 August - Two weeks after it was stolen, the Picasso painting Weeping Woman is found in a locker at the Spencer Street Station in Melbourne, Australia.
• Opening of the Musée d'Orsay (formerly the Gare d'Orsay) in Paris.

[edit] Awards

• Archibald Prize: Davida Allen - Dr John Arthur McKelvey Shera
• Sulman Prize - Wendy Sharpe - Black Sun - Morning and Night
• Turner Prize - Gilbert and George
  • Shortlisted were: Art & Language, Victor Burgin, Derek Jarman, Steven McKenna and Bill Woodrow.

[edit] Works

• John Doubleday - Royal Marines Commando Memorial (Lympstone, England)
• Igor Mitoraj - Heros de Lumiere
• Jamie Wyeth - Kalounna in Frogtown (Terra Foundation for American Art)

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January to June

• 6 March - Georgia O'Keeffe American artist (b.1887).
• 26 April - Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (b.1899).
• 11 May - Henry Plumer McIlhenny, American, art collector, philanthropist and chairman of Philadelphia Art Museum (b.1910).
• 31 May - Jane Frank, American painter, sculptor, mixed media artist and textile artist (b.1918).

[edit] July to December

• 7 April - Cecil King, Irish abstract-minimalist painter (b.1921)
• 22 July - Floyd Gottfredson, American cartoonist (b.1905).
• 31 August - Henry Moore, English artist and sculptor (b.1898)
• 9 September - Albert Malet, French painter (b.1912)
• 12 September
  • Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer and painter (b.1894).
  • Ernst Haas, Austrian photographer (b.1921).
• 11 October - Barker Fairley, English-born Canadian painter, writer, and educator (b.1887).